The “Global” and the “Local” in Early Modern and Modern East Asia presents a unique set of historical perspectives by scholars from two important universities in the East Asian region—The University of Tokyo (Tōdai) and Fudan University, along with East Asian Studies scholars from Princeton University. Two of the essays address the international leanings in the histories of the...(展开全部)

The “Global” and the “Local” in Early Modern and Modern East Asia presents a unique set of historical perspectives by scholars from two important universities in the East Asian region—The University of Tokyo (Tōdai) and Fudan University, along with East Asian Studies scholars from Princeton University. Two of the essays address the international leanings in the histories of the...(展开全部)

This book is about the progress, migration, and impact of the Manchu written language. A key characteristic of Manchu is that it could be read by speakers of other languages without those speakers' ever hearing it spoken. This is a book in intellectual history, cultural history, and the history of language.

This book is about the progress, migration, and impact of the Manchu written language. A key characteristic of Manchu is that it could be read by speakers of other languages without those speakers' ever hearing it spoken. This is a book in intellectual history, cultural history, and the history of language.

In this wide-ranging and often controversial book, Robert Drews examines the question of the origins of man's relations with the horse. He questions the belief that on the Eurasian steppes men were riding in battle as early as 4000 BC, and suggests that it was not until around 900 BC that men anywhere - whether in the Near East and the Aegean or on the steppes of Asia - were p...(展开全部)

A collection of papers on the history of Christianity along the Silk Road and in pre-modern China, pushing back the frontier of knowledge in a fast developing new area of research. The diffusion of Christianity along the Silk Road from Iraq and Iran to China in the premodern era has attracted scholarly attention in the West since the discovery of the famous Xian (Nestorian) Mon...(展开全部)

译者：伊斯梅尔.马金鹏，1913年出生于山东济南，考入济南木家车门清真寺私立达成师范学校念经、念书六年，是马松亭阿訇教授《古兰经》的第一批学生。学习期间生活艰苦，每天吃穆斯林大著捐助的两顿小米稀粥、玉米饼面子和一两根水盐萝卜。毕业时已能背诵11卷《古兰经》，毕业后由一名捐助者善意的“赛哇布”，被派往埃及爱资哈尔大学深造。1950年出任上海福佑路清真寺教长，1953年任北京大学阿拉伯语教研室讲师、副教授，从事阿语教学翻译六十年，做过周恩来总理阿语翻译。精研包括《膳食指南》在内的阿文典籍何止万册，译作有《伊本.白图泰游记》等二十部。1989年七十六岁开始根据埃及阿拉伯文《古兰经学》要求，选用《古兰经》注释范本《泰伯雷注释》、《贝达威注释》、《耐赛菲注释》、《两哲俩伦丁注释》译注《古兰经》。每天清晨先诵读，然后伏案翻译，历时十年，与疾病搏斗中用心血浇注《<...(展开全部)

译者：伊斯梅尔.马金鹏，1913年出生于山东济南，考入济南木家车门清真寺私立达成师范学校念经、念书六年，是马松亭阿訇教授《古兰经》的第一批学生。学习期间生活艰苦，每天吃穆斯林大著捐助的两顿小米稀粥、玉米饼面子和一两根水盐萝卜。毕业时已能背诵11卷《古兰经》，毕业后由一名捐助者善意的“赛哇布”，被派往埃及爱资哈尔大学深造。1950年出任上海福佑路清真寺教长，1953年任北京大学阿拉伯语教研室讲师、副教授，从事阿语教学翻译六十年，做过周恩来总理阿语翻译。精研包括《膳食指南》在内的阿文典籍何止万册，译作有《伊本.白图泰游记》等二十部。1989年七十六岁开始根据埃及阿拉伯文《古兰经学》要求，选用《古兰经》注释范本《泰伯雷注释》、《贝达威注释》、《耐赛菲注释》、《两哲俩伦丁注释》译注《古兰经》。每天清晨先诵读，然后伏案翻译，历时十年，与疾病搏斗中用心血浇注《<...(展开全部)

In What Makes Civilization?, archaeologist David Wengrow provides a vivid new account of the 'birth of civilization' in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (today's Iraq). These two regions, where many foundations of modern life were laid, are usually treated in isolation. Now, they are brought together within a unified history of how people first created cities, kingdoms, and monume...(展开全部)