First published in 1926, this classic survey, which includes nearly 250 photographs, examines the traditional farming methods of the densely populated lands of China, Korea and Japan and shows how fertility can be maintained over many centuries through conserving and utilizing natural resources. In the Introduction, the author notes: `The United States as yet a nation of but fe...(展开全部)

F．H．金，威斯康星大学的农业物理学教授，曾任美国农业部土壤局局长，被称为美国土壤物理学之父。他是多部农业作品的作者，如，《土地》、《灌溉与排水》、《农业物理学》以及《住宅、乡村学校以及马厩的通风系统》。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

该书是1996年在美国加州大学圣迭哥学区举办的“前近代儒家文化与中日韩妇女”国际学术研讨会的精选文集，由熟悉中日韩三国儒家文化与社会性别的3名专家联合主编。据编者在该书的导论中所称，本书的目的是为观察东亚社会的历史开辟一个新的领域和新途径。因为以往的模式总是把亚洲妇女看作是儒家父权制的牺牲品；而该书所要揭示的，无论是“妇女”还是“儒家传统”都不是固定不变的范畴，书中所录的每一篇文章都在还原女性的主体性和历史的复杂性，揭示出前近代中日韩妇女如何由她们所生活其中的文化所建构，形成其主体的进程和她们在特定历史情境下的生活情景，她们既不是被动的牺牲品，也不是儒教的叛逆者，而是具有能动性的与她们所处的文化环境进行磋商较量的主体——既接受主流官方的观念也反抗某些不利于生存的方面。每篇文章基本上做到用社会性别范畴考察分析妇女的历史处境，展现了中日韩三国妇女丰富多彩...(展开全部)

When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature because of the centuries-long cultural exchanges in the region. As modernization profoundly destabilized cultural norms, they ventured to create new literature for the new era. Satoru Hashimoto offers a novel way of understanding the ...(展开全部)

When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature because of the centuries-long cultural exchanges in the region. As modernization profoundly destabilized cultural norms, they ventured to create new literature for the new era. Satoru Hashimoto offers a novel way of understanding the ...(展开全部)

With 234 superb color plates, and more than 950 color maps, Birds of East Asia makes it easy to identify all of the region's species. The first single-volume field guide for eastern Asia, the book covers major islands including Japan and Taiwan, as well as the Asian continent from Kamchatka to the Korean Peninsula. The region's major bird families are presented and distinct spe...(展开全部)

With 234 superb color plates, and more than 950 color maps, Birds of East Asia makes it easy to identify all of the region's species. The first single-volume field guide for eastern Asia, the book covers major islands including Japan and Taiwan, as well as the Asian continent from Kamchatka to the Korean Peninsula. The region's major bird families are presented and distinct spe...(展开全部)

马里乌斯·詹森（Marius Jansen, 1922-2000），哈佛大学博士，普林斯顿大学荣誉教授，日本史、中日关系史专家。1969年创立普林斯顿大学东亚研究系，并担任首任主任。1999年成为首位获得日本文化功劳者称号的外国人。《剑桥日本史》主编，代表作有《日本人与 孙中山》 （1954）、《坂本龙马与明治维新》（1961）、《日本人的世界观》（1975）、《日本和中国：从战争到和平，1894—1972》（1975）、《德川时代与中国文化》（1992）、《现代日本的形成》（2000）等。 柳立言，普林斯顿大学博士，中研院历史语言研究所研究员，研究方向为宋代法律和社会史，著作包括《宋代的宗教、身分与司法》《宋代的家庭和法律》等。

Long recognized as an authority on Japanese history, Marius Jansen synthesizes a lifetime of scholarship in this landmark book. Bringing together the series of Brown and Haley lectures delivered in 1975 at the University of Puget Sound, Japan and Its World continues to be a source of insight for anyone interested in the changing ideas the Japanese have had of themselves, the Un...(展开全部)