Reconstructions of Jesus occurred in Asia long before the Western search for the historical Jesus began in earnest. This enterprise sprang up in seventh-century China and seventeenth-century India, encouraged by the patronage and openness of the Chinese and Indian imperial courts. While the Western quest was largely a Protestant preoccupation, in Asia the search was marked by i...(展开全部)

Money in Asia examines two chronic problems that faced early modern monetary economies in East, South, and Southeast Asia: The inability to provide sufficient amounts of small currencies to facilitate local economic transactions and to control currency depreciation. The studies in this volume analyze the social and economic consequences of small currency scarcity and devaluatio...(展开全部)

Money in Asia examines two chronic problems that faced early modern monetary economies in East, South, and Southeast Asia: The inability to provide sufficient amounts of small currencies to facilitate local economic transactions and to control currency depreciation. The studies in this volume analyze the social and economic consequences of small currency scarcity and devaluatio...(展开全部)

The teachings of Jesus, their differences with those of his contemporaries, and their representation in modern Christian churches are discussed from the point of view of an unbiased historian

In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warranting little examination, as the power and profits it afforded to the slaver made it a convention pursued unreflectively. Slavery in medieval East Asia shared with the West the commonpl...(展开全部)

In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warranting little examination, as the power and profits it afforded to the slaver made it a convention pursued unreflectively. Slavery in medieval East Asia shared with the West the commonpl...(展开全部)

Brutalism East: majestic concrete meets ornament and color in the revelatory world of Soviet Asian architecture Soviet Asia explores the Soviet modernist architecture of Central Asia. Italian photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego crossed the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, documenting buildings constructed from the 1950s un...(展开全部)

迄今为止，拉尔夫・伊利斯已经出版了两个系列涉及考古学和神学主题的普及型专著，分别是《透特――宇宙的建筑师》和《K2――导解众神》、《耶稣――最后的法老》和《大风暴与出埃及》。这两套书甫一面市即轰动学界，震惊世人。特别在《耶稣――最后的法治》一书中，拉尔夫伊利斯以其丰富的神学、埃及学、犹太学、考古学、语言学和天文学知识，对《圣经》做出了大胆的全新诠释，惊世骇俗地勾勒出一幅背离正史的生动画卷，令人耳目一新，启迪无限思维。在《圣经》影响深远厚重的欧美国家里，此书以其巨大的冲击力当之无愧地成为了上榜畅销书，并引发了重新认识西方宗教本质和起源的风潮。2002年底，伊利斯更是集中最新考古发现的成果，发表了400页的史诗般作品《所罗门―示巴女王之鹰》，它重写了《圣经》的和世俗的历史，被称为是有史以来出版的观点最激进、结论最惊人的《圣经》历史专著。

A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central Asia in World History, Peter B. Golden provid...(展开全部)

Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia explores the long relationship between Buddhism and the state in premodern times and seeks to counter the modern, secularist notion that Buddhism, as a religion, is inherently apolitical. By revealing the methods by which members of Buddhist communities across premodern East Asia related to imperial rule, this volume offers case studies of how B...(展开全部)