Leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalization and diaspora. Ang reflects upon tensions between `Asia' and `the West' at a national and global level, and considers the disparate meanings of `Chineseness' in the contemporary world.

This book brings together the most important articles of the late Joseph F. Fletcher (1934–84), a scholar widely acclaimed for the breadth and brilliance of his historical thought and for his almost unequalled linguistic competence. Fletcher’s mastery of the major languages and historical traditions of East Asia, the Middle East and Europe gave him a unique ability to trace...(展开全部)

周蕾（Rey Chow），出生于香港，在美国斯坦福大学先后获得硕士、博士学位，曾任教于美国明尼苏达大学与布朗大学，现为美国杜克大学 Firor Scott 文学教授，为华裔文化研究领域最重要的学者之一。研究领域为：现代中国文学，当代女性主义理论，中国电影，后殖民理论，文化研究。

周蕾（Rey Chow），出生于香港，在美国斯坦福大学先后获得硕士、博士学位，曾任教于美国明尼苏达大学，现为美国布朗大学Andrew Mellon人文学讲座教授，为华裔文化研究领域最重要的学者之一。研究领域为：现代中国文学，当代女性主义理论，中国电影，后殖民理论，文化研究。

周蕾（Rey Chow），出生于香港，在美国斯坦福大学先后获得硕士、博士学位，曾任教于美国明尼苏达大学与布朗大学，现为美国杜克大学 Firor Scott 文学教授，为华裔文化研究领域最重要的学者之一。研究领域为：现代中国文学，当代女性主义理论，中国电影，后殖民理论，文化研究。

This proceedings book presents the first-ever cross-disciplinary analysis of 16th–20th century South, East, and Southeast Asian cartography. The central theme of the conference was the mutual influence of Western and Asian cartographic traditions, and the focus was on points of contact between Western and Asian cartographic history. Geographically, the topics were limited to So...(展开全部)

One of the most striking phenomena in the recent history of China is the large number of Chinese youths who went abroad to study. Each year, from the beginning of this century, hun­ dreds and then thousands of young men and women broke away from the confines of their own culture and immersed themselves for a few years of study in the modernizing worlds of Japan, the United Stat...(展开全部)

Mention of the American West usually evokes images of rough and tumble cowboys, ranchers, and outlaws. In contrast, "The" Not "So Wild, Wild West" casts America's frontier history in a new framework that emphasizes the creation of institutions, both formal and informal, that facilitated cooperation rather than conflict. Rather than describing the frontier as a place where heroe...(展开全部)

Noted political and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek and contemporary Chinese scholars share the challenge of reconciling barely compatible if not contradictory ideas. China’s radical assumption of both socialist and capitalist ideologies as well as its increasing economic and political prominence make it a crucial subject for theorizing about global modernity. This issue offers ...(展开全部)

Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning and sometimes settling, during their voyages. These ventures have taken place by land and by sea, over mountains and across deserts, linking China with vast stretches of Southeast Asia in a broad, mercantile embrace. Chinese Circulations provides an unprecedented overview of this trade, its scope, diver...(展开全部)