The story of a rich, half-Japanese beauty in Batavia and her tempestuous divorce from a cold, tough colonial official. Leonard Blusse's new book is...for the light it casts on love and life on a colonial frontier, the most illuminating since 'The Cheese and the Worms'.

The story of a rich, half-Japanese beauty in Batavia and her tempestuous divorce from a cold, tough colonial official. Leonard Blusse's new book is...for the light it casts on love and life on a colonial frontier, the most illuminating since 'The Cheese and the Worms'.

The story of a rich, half-Japanese beauty in Batavia and her tempestuous divorce from a cold, tough colonial official. Leonard Blusse's new book is...for the light it casts on love and life on a colonial frontier, the most illuminating since 'The Cheese and the Worms'.

司马辽太郎，（1923～1996年），日本历史小说家。生于大阪。原名福田定一，其笔名乃取自“远不及司马迁之太郎”之意。1943年毕业于大阪外语学院蒙语系，1946年入京都新日本新闻社，丽年后任产经新闻社记者，同时发表作品。1961年开始专业作家的生活。司马的小说，把历史上推动生产力向前发展的人物放在革新与守旧势力尖锐斗争的环境中，从各方面来歌颂他们的“励精图治”和“文治武功”。多卷本历史小说代表作《龙马行进》，叙述十九世纪六十年代明治维新从酝酿到胜利的全过程，反映了封建社会没落时期的黑暗政治以及错综复杂的阶级矛盾和斗争，赞扬进步阶层的反抗精神和变革愿望。司马善于以历史事件构成波澜壮阔的艺术画面，并采用多线索推进的写法，叙述长达数十年的历史，前因后果比较清晰。在他的小说中，经常以冷静、理性的历史观来审查主观的、非理性的意识形态。因此，有人称他的历史小说...(展开全部)

"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of ar...(展开全部)

The Dutch are 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. So wrote the English ambassador to the Dutch Republic, Sir William Temple, in 1673. Maarten Prak offers a lively and innovative history of the Dutch Golden Age, charting its political, social, economic and cultural history through chapters that range from the introduction of the tulip ...(展开全部)