Border of Water and Ice explores the significance of the Yalu River as a strategic border between Korea and Manchuria (Northeast China) during a period of Japanese imperial expansion into the region. The Yalu's seasonal patterns of freezing, thawing, and flooding shaped colonial efforts to control who and what could cross the border. Joseph Seeley shows how the unpredictable mo...(展开全部)

For centuries, some of the world's largest empires fought for sovereignty over the resources of Northeast Asia. This compelling analysis of the region's environmental history examines the interplay of climate and competing imperial interests in a vibrant - and violent - cultural narrative. Families that settled this borderland reaped its riches while at the mercy of an unforgiv...(展开全部)

For centuries, some of the world's largest empires fought for sovereignty over the resources of Northeast Asia. This compelling analysis of the region's environmental history examines the interplay of climate and competing imperial interests in a vibrant - and violent - cultural narrative. Families that settled this borderland reaped its riches while at the mercy of an unforgiv...(展开全部)

In Intimate Empire Nayoung Aimee Kwon examines intimate cultural encounters between Korea and Japan during the colonial era and their postcolonial disavowal. After the Japanese empire’s collapse in 1945, new nation-centered histories in Korea and Japan actively erased these once ubiquitous cultural interactions that neither side wanted to remember. Kwon reconsiders these imper...(展开全部)

Nayoung Aimee Kwon is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. These sprawling empires encompassed not only rainforests, deserts, and savannahs but also some of the world’s most magnificent rivers, lakes, marshes, and seas. Liquid Empire tells the story of how the waters of the colonial world shap...(展开全部)

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. These sprawling empires encompassed not only rainforests, deserts, and savannahs but also some of the world’s most magnificent rivers, lakes, marshes, and seas. Liquid Empire tells the story of how the waters of the colonial world shap...(展开全部)

托马斯·克莱顿·沃尔夫(1900—1938)出生于北卡罗来纳州一个石匠家庭。自幼酷爱阅读与幻想，二十岁毕业于北卡罗来纳州立大学，进入哈佛研究院学习戏剧，获英国文学硕士学位，并在纽约大学任教。一丸二九年，他凭自传体小说《天使，望故乡》蜚声文坛，被认为是最有前途的美国小．说家。一九三五年《时间与河流》出版，成为畅销书。仅三年后，沃尔夫便因病去世。他的大量遗藕经编辑出版，成为另两部长篇小说《蛛网与磐石》和《你不能再回家》，短篇小说集《从死亡到早晨》，以及一部未完成的杂集《远山》。沃尔夫的自传体小说围绕作者的生平经历与感受形成了一个整体。从出生开始写起，一直到主人公以成名作家的身份重回故乡为止，重现了作者本人充溅孤独、幻想、思索与渴望的一生。