Spanning the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries and examining maritime trading relations, political interactions, overland Chinese expansion and Chinese commerce in Southeast Asia, this book will appeal to historians of China and Southeast Asia.

In this book, Sherman Cochran reconsiders the nature and role of consumer culture in the spread of cultural globalization. He moves beyond traditional debates over Western influence on non-Western cultures to examine the points where Chinese entrepreneurs and Chinese-owned businesses interacted with consumers. Focusing on the marketing of medicine, he shows how Chinese construc...(展开全部)

Is the process of state building a unilateral, national venture, or is it something more collaborative, taking place in the interstices between adjoining countries? To answer this question, Asymmetrical Neighbors takes a comparative look at the state building process along China, Myanmar, and Thailand's common borderland area. It shows that the variations in state building amon...(展开全部)

Is the process of state building a unilateral, national venture, or is it something more collaborative, taking place in the interstices between adjoining countries? To answer this question, Asymmetrical Neighbors takes a comparative look at the state building process along China, Myanmar, and Thailand's common borderland area. It shows that the variations in state building amon...(展开全部)

This concise, updated edition of the award-winning "A Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia" (Princeton, 2000) is the most comprehensive, compact guide to this magnificent bird-rich region. It is a complete field and reference guide to the birds of Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. It also covers a wide range of species found in the ...(展开全部)

书稿原作者为贝尼特·肯珀斯，翻译稿由广西文物保护与考古研究所研究员、二级教授谢光茂提供。 谢光茂，广西文物保护与考古研究所研究员、二级教授。1985年毕业于厦门大学考古学专业。曾主持多项重要考古发掘，其中，2002年主持的广西革新桥新石器时代遗址发掘被评为当年“中国十大考古新发现”。在国内外发表学术论文、报告等60余篇，出版著作（含译著）9种。曾应邀到美、法、德、俄、日、韩等十多个国家和地区参加国际学术会议或进行学术访问。现为广西文物保护与考古研究所信息资料研究室主任，广西师范大学兼职教授、硕士研究生导师。

In Imperial Gateway, Seiji Shirane explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan's empire from 1895 to the end of the Second World War. Challenging understandings of empire that focus on bilateral relations between metropole and colonial periphery, Shirane uncovers a half-century of dynamic relations between Japa...(展开全部)