The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and Republican China range from botanists to ethnographers to missionaries. Although a diverse lot, all believed in objective, progressive, and universally valid science; a close association between scientific and humanistic knowledge; a lack of conflict between...(展开全部)

How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. China’s land borders, shared with fourteen other nations, are the world’s longest. Like all borders, they are not just lines on a map but also spaces whose histories and futures are defined by their frontier status. An ambitious appraisal of China’s borderlands, S...(展开全部)

How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. China’s land borders, shared with fourteen other nations, are the world’s longest. Like all borders, they are not just lines on a map but also spaces whose histories and futures are defined by their frontier status. An ambitious appraisal of China’s borderlands, S...(展开全部)

In this book, David Bello offers a new and radical interpretation of how China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644–1911), relied on the interrelationship between ecology and ethnicity to incorporate the country's far-flung borderlands into the dynasty's expanding empire. The dynasty tried to manage the sustainable survival and compatibility of discrete borderland ethnic regimes in M...(展开全部)

In this book, David Bello offers a new and radical interpretation of how China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644–1911), relied on the interrelationship between ecology and ethnicity to incorporate the country's far-flung borderlands into the dynasty's expanding empire. The dynasty tried to manage the sustainable survival and compatibility of discrete borderland ethnic regimes in M...(展开全部)

Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands engages with the evolving historiography around the concept of belonging in the Russian and Ottoman empires. The contributors to this book argue that the popular notion that empires do not care about belonging is simplistic and wrong. Chapters address numerous and varied dimensions of belonging in multiethnic territories of the O...(展开全部)

Relations between the Qing empire and its Tibetan borderlands in western Sichuan underwent major changes during the decades between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. In eastern Tibet or Kham, a region straddling western Sichuan and central Tibet that traditionally had been under the rule of hereditary chieftains, the Qing state mounted a vigorous campaign of conquest ...(展开全部)

Relations between the Qing empire and its Tibetan borderlands in western Sichuan underwent major changes during the decades between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. In eastern Tibet or Kham, a region straddling western Sichuan and central Tibet that traditionally had been under the rule of hereditary chieftains, the Qing state mounted a vigorous campaign of conquest ...(展开全部)

What does it mean to be Taiwanese? This question sits at the heart of Taiwan’s modern history and its place in the world. In contrast to the prevailing scholarly focus on Taiwan after 1987, Becoming Taiwanese examines the important first era in the history of Taiwanese identity construction during the early twentieth century, in the place that served as the crucible for the for...(展开全部)

作者簡介 羅賓森Michael F. Robinson 美國哈特福德大學（University of Hartford）歷史系教授。研究領域為「探險」在科學與文化領域中的角色。其作品《最冷的大熔爐：北極探險與美國文化》（The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture）榮獲二ＯＯ八年「美國科學史論壇獎」（起於一八九八年，鼓勵跨領域的科學史交流）。 羅賓森致力於推廣科學、歷史、探險之間的討論，經營網站以促進跨界對話：https://timetoeatthedogs.com 譯者簡介 梁永安 國立臺灣大學人類學學士、哲學碩士，目前為專業翻譯者，完成約近百本譯著，譯有《李維史陀：實驗室裡的詩人》、《老年之書》、《文化與抵抗》、《帕德嫩之謎》等書。