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)

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)

The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a number of topics through a variety of theoretical, comparative, and postcolonial perspectives, painting a complex and nuanced ...(展开全部)

Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint. Telling the story of a quintessential Chinese culture that spread uniformly from the administrative heartland to the previously untamed periphery, official records have largely ignored the local histories of the country conquered peoples, preserved for generations in the form of oral tradition through myths, le...(展开全部)

Challenging the conventional wisdom of Western environmental historians, this book examines the correlations between economic and environmental changes in the southern imperial Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (a region historically known as Lingnan, "South of the Mountains") from 1400 to 1850. Marks discusses the impact of population growth on land use patterns, the ...(展开全部)

Review "...this is a landmark book that deserves, and will undoubtedly receive, a wide readership." Journal of Interdisciplinary History "Few historical studies feature animals in their titles. We gain insight, however, from turning human-centered history around because animals, earth, water, and climate all strongly affect human daily life. One of the special merits of Robert ...(展开全部)

1984年12月史蒂夫·麦凯瑞（Steve McCurry）在巴基斯坦难民营中拍下了那幅著名的照片《阿富汗少女》。1985年6月号的《国家地理》用这张照片做了封面，全世界都知道了这位名叫莎巴特·古拉的"阿富汗少女"。 "Lard Ganash是孟卖的智慧与生活之神，每年在他9月份生日之时，总会吸引几百万人聚集到这里参加这个快乐的圣典。当我跑过去想给游行队伍拍照时，一个孩子的表情完全改变了，他好奇地望着相机的镜头，并做出动作让我拍照，所以我就毫不犹豫地按下了快门。"----史蒂夫·麦凯瑞 www.lommo.cn

Why are the region's richest countries such as Malaysia riddled with corruption? Why do Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines harbour unresolved violent insurgencies? How do deepening religious divisions in Indonesia and Malaysia and China's growing influence affect the region and the rest of the world? Thought-provoking and eye-opening, Blood and Silk is an accessible, persona...(展开全部)

Nearly half a century ago, the economic historian Harold Innis pointed out that the geographical limits of empires were determined by communications and that, historically, advances in the technologies of transport and communications have enabled empires to grow. This power of communications was demonstrated when Japanese Emperor Hirohito's radio speech announcing Japan's surre...(展开全部)