A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's most exciting new writers: The Harmony Silk Factory is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth century Malaysia. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnn...(展开全部)

欧大旭。他生于台北，长成于马来西亚，先后受教于吉隆坡的一所天主教学校及英国剑桥大学。

Conrad, Maugham, and Burgess have shaped our perceptions of Malaysia. Now, with The Harmony Silk Factory, we have an authentic Malaysian voice that remaps this literary landscape. Through his examination of a mysterious and larger than life character-hero or traitor?-Tash Aw gives us an exquisitely written look into another culture at a moment of crisis.

"The majority of the Silk Road routes passed through the Eurasian Steppe, whose nomadic peoples were participants and mediators in its economic and cultural exchanges. Until now, the origins of these routes and relationships have not been examined in great detail. In The Prehistory of the Silk Road, E. E. Kuzmina, renowned Russian archaeologist, looks at the history of this cru...(展开全部)

In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history and remains the only history of the Silk Road to recon...(展开全部)

In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Linking Europe, India, and the Far East, the route passed through many countries and many settlements, from the splendid city of Samarkand to tiny desert hamlets. Susan Whitfield creates a ri...(展开全部)

Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with another captivating portrait through the experience of things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road—those who made them, carried them, recei...(展开全部)

Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with another captivating portrait through the experience of things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road—those who made them, carried them, recei...(展开全部)

《黑太阳》的故事始于最后一艘“太空播种计划”飞船即将离开地球之际。这艘量子飞船将带着最后一群冒险家以波态的方式跨越广漠的宇宙星空，直到遇到足够大的引力使它恢复为正常的物态。人们原本想通过“太空播种计划”将文明的火种洒遍星宇，可是这一伟大计划的倡导者――太空播种组织，却已经被妄自尊大的赫尔曼・斯特克和他庸俗的助手欣奇弄得一塌糊涂。发射场外，一群极端环境保护主义者想方设法阻止飞船升空。他们卖通飞船的安检主管吉那斯・罗克，在飞船上安装了一枚炸弹。 然而，并不是所有人都想终止“太空播种计划”。卡洛斯・蒙德拉贡，一个年轻的墨西哥非法移民，计算机高手，怀着他的星际旅行之梦潜入飞船，成了一名偷渡者。斯特克和欣奇在飞船起飞的最后几分钟接管了飞船。飞船发射升空，罗克的炸弹也被拆除。不知过了多少时间，量子飞船在一个已经死亡的恒星附近恢复成常态。醒来的人们发现，这颗恒星只...(展开全部)