Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the Sino-Burmese, people of Chinese descent who identify with and choose to remain in Burma/Myanmar, and an illumination of twenty-first-century Burma during its emergence from decades of military-imposed isolation. This spatial ethnography examines how the Sino-Burmese have lived in between states, cognizant of the ins...(展开全部)

Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the Sino-Burmese, people of Chinese descent who identify with and choose to remain in Burma/Myanmar, and an illumination of twenty-first-century Burma during its emergence from decades of military-imposed isolation. This spatial ethnography examines how the Sino-Burmese have lived in between states, cognizant of the ins...(展开全部)

Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the Sino-Burmese, people of Chinese descent who identify with and choose to remain in Burma/Myanmar, and an illumination of twenty-first-century Burma during its emergence from decades of military-imposed isolation. This spatial ethnography examines how the Sino-Burmese have lived in between states, cognizant of the ins...(展开全部)

托马斯·本德(Thomas Bender)，全球史研究的主要倡导者，美国知名历史学家，纽约大学(NYU)校席教授，纽约大学国际高等研究中心负责人，研究涉及文化史、思想史、城市史等领域，是美国当代富有影响的历史学家之一。 除本书外，著有《纽约智识》(New York Intellect，1987)、《未完成的城市》(The Unfinished City，2002)、《在全球化时代反思美国史》(Rethinking American History in a Global Age，2002)等。曾荣获弗雷德里克·杰克逊·特纳奖(Frederick Jackson Turner Prize)，盖蒂、洛克菲勒和古根海姆基金会奖。

托马斯·本德(Thomas Bender)，全球史研究的主要倡导者，美国知名历史学家，纽约大学(NYU)校席教授，纽约大学国际高等研究中心负责人，研究涉及文化史、思想史、城市史等领域，是美国当代富有影响的历史学家之一。 除本书外，著有《纽约智识》(New York Intellect，1987)、《未完成的城市》(The Unfinished City，2002)、《在全球化时代反思美国史》(Rethinking American History in a Global Age，2002)等。曾荣获弗雷德里克·杰克逊·特纳奖(Frederick Jackson Turner Prize)，盖蒂、洛克菲勒和古根海姆基金会奖。

作者簡介 菲利普‧馬斯登Philip Marsden 被譽為英國旅行文學界的優秀年輕作家。著作有：《遙遠的國度：衣索匹亞之旅》(A Far Country: Travels in Ethiopia) 、《尋找聖靈戰士：俄羅斯東正教倖存史》(The Spirits-Wrestler)，及1994年獲得英國「毛姆獎」的《交會的所在：追尋亞美尼亞人的蹤跡》 (The Crossing Place: A Journey among the Armenians)、小說《布朗司基宅》 (Bronski House) 等書。現居住於英格蘭西南部的康瓦耳郡 (Cornwall)。 譯者簡介 鄭明華 一九五八年生，輔仁大學英文系畢業。曾任職華視〈海棠風情〉節目企畫、採訪及總撰稿，以及《大地地理》雜誌資深撰述、總編輯。著作有小說《私奔》。譯作：《再會，西貢》、《西班牙》...(展开全部)

In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila—a place that previously had existed only in fiction—had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet Autonomous Region have been the sites of numerous state projects of tourism development and nature conservation,...(展开全部)

In recent years the spatial turn in literary and cultural studies has opened up new ways of looking at the interactions among writers, readers, texts, and places. Geocriticism offers a timely new approach, and Geocritical Explorations presents an array of concrete examples and readings, which also reveal the broad range of geocritical practices. Representing various areas of li...(展开全部)

Despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Thailand―or Siam, as it was formerly known―has succeeded in transforming itself into a rival modern nation-state over the last two centuries. Recent historiography has placed progress―or lack thereof―toward Western-style liberal democracy at the center of Thailand's narrative, but that vi...(展开全部)