The groundbreaking account of U.S. clandestine efforts to use Southeast Asian Buddhism to advance Washington’s anticommunist goals during the Cold War How did the U.S. government make use of a “Buddhist policy” in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that the state should not meddle with religion? To answer this question, Eugene Ford delved deep int...(展开全部)

The groundbreaking account of U.S. clandestine efforts to use Southeast Asian Buddhism to advance Washington’s anticommunist goals during the Cold War How did the U.S. government make use of a “Buddhist policy” in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that the state should not meddle with religion? To answer this question, Eugene Ford delved deep int...(展开全部)

The historiography of the Cold War has long been dominated by American motivations and concerns, with Southeast Asian perspectives largely confined to the Indochina wars and Indonesia under Sukarno. Southeast Asia’s Cold War corrects this situation by examining the international politics of the region from within rather than without. It provides an up-to-date, coherent narrativ...(展开全部)

The Cold War stayed cold in Europe but it was hot in Asia. Its legacy lives on in the region. In none of the three dominant historiographical paradigms: orthodox, revisionist and post-revisionist, does Asia, or the rest of the Third World, figure with much significance. What happens to these narratives if we put them to the test in Asia? This volume argues that attention to wha...(展开全部)

The Cold War stayed cold in Europe but it was hot in Asia. Its legacy lives on in the region. In none of the three dominant historiographical paradigms: orthodox, revisionist and post-revisionist, does Asia, or the rest of the Third World, figure with much significance. What happens to these narratives if we put them to the test in Asia? This volume argues that attention to wha...(展开全部)

Chinese cuisine has had a deep impact on culinary traditions in Southeast Asia, where the lack of certain ingredients and access to new ingredients along with the culinary knowledge of local people led Chinese migrants to modify traditional dishes and to invent new foods. This process brought the cuisine of southern China, considered by some writers to be "the finest in the wor...(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。

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。