Production, Distribution and Appreciation: New Aspects of East Asian Lacquer Ware, edited by Patricia Frick and Annette Kieser, focuses on various aspects of East Asian lacquer art ranging from the 2nd century BC to the 17th century. Recent excavations in China, the distribution of lacquer objects throughout the Eurasian region, the significance of lacquer ware in everyday life...(展开全部)

In the early 1960s, fewer than five percent of Japanese owned automobiles, China’s per capita income was among the lowest in Asia, and living standards in South Korea’s rural areas were on par with some of the world’s poorest countries. Today, these are three of the most powerful economies on earth. Dwight Perkins grapples with both the contemporary and historical causes and co...(展开全部)

East Asian literatures are famous for celebrating the beauties of nature and depicting people as intimately connected with the natural world. But in fact, because the region has a long history of transforming and exploiting nature, much of the fiction and poetry in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages portrays people as damaging everything from small woodlands to the ent...(展开全部)

Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire explores the experiences of the enigmatic and controversial King Gongmin of Goryeo, Wang Gi, as he navigated the upheavals of the mid-fourteenth century, including the collapse of the Mongol Empire and the rise of its successors in West, Central, and East Asia. Drawing on a wealth of Korean and Chinese sources and integrating East Asian a...(展开全部)

Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire explores the experiences of the enigmatic and controversial King Gongmin of Goryeo, Wang Gi, as he navigated the upheavals of the mid-fourteenth century, including the collapse of the Mongol Empire and the rise of its successors in West, Central, and East Asia. Drawing on a wealth of Korean and Chinese sources and integrating East Asian a...(展开全部)

探索既神秘又富爭議性的 #高麗 恭愍王，王顓的生涯，14世紀 #蒙古 帝國崩壞，其後繼者在西亞、中亞與東亞興起，王顓在時代巨變中領導國家，應對自如。魯大維（David M. Robinson，美國柯蓋德大學何鴻毅家族基金講座亞洲研究暨歷史學教授）取材自中韓兩國史料，融合東亞與西方對此一主題的學術成果，藉由研究東亞君主恭愍王的一生，思考14世紀獨一無二的最大規模地緣政治變革。他將眼光放在王顓的動機，而非當時其他國際強權，以理解帝國的盛衰興亡，為這段歷史提供嶄新的觀點。故，本書使讀者對高麗、蒙古與中國歷史有更細緻的體會，對歐亞大陸整體的合縱聯合有更明晰的瞭解。

In this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the case of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in northeast China from 1932-1945, to explore how such antinomies as imperialism and nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality and exploitation interacted in the post-World War I period. His study of Manchukuo, which had a population of 40 million and was...(展开全部)

In this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the case of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in northeast China from 1932-1945, to explore how such antinomies as imperialism and nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality and exploitation interacted in the post-World War I period. His study of Manchukuo, which had a population of 40 million and was...(展开全部)