What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the connections between international law, modern warfare, and comparative grammar--and their influence on the shaping of the modern world in Eastern and Western terms. The Clash of Empires ...(展开全部)

What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the connections between international law, modern warfare, and comparative grammar--and their influence on the shaping of the modern world in Eastern and Western terms. The Clash of Empires ...(展开全部)

What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the connections between international law, modern warfare, and comparative grammar--and their influence on the shaping of the modern world in Eastern and Western terms. The Clash of Empires ...(展开全部)

The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the way for China's first modern global era. In 1368, Ali Humayun Akhtar maps China's ascendance from the embassies of Admiral Zheng He to the arrival of Europe...(展开全部)

This is a rich and broadranging account of the Asia-Pacific campaigns of WWII. Drawing on recently released documents in US and British archives, Douglas Ford explores why the belligerents in the Pacific war fought the way that they did. This book focuses not only on the battlefield level, but also provides a perspective from the military high command, government, and non-comba...(展开全部)

滕华睿，现为美国哥伦比亚大学语言文化系助理教授。他的研究领域是二十世纪汉藏关系史，以及西藏与基于汉地的满清帝国之关系。藏传佛教在这些历史关系中扮演的角色对他的研究至关重要。他从一九九零年起就研究中国和西藏问题，并多次前往当地考察。 “过去半个世纪里发生的事件使许多人得出这样的结论：西藏和中国的关系一直以互相猜疑和怨愤为特点。然而，正如滕华睿在这令人印象深刻的研究中所记述的一样，直到二十世纪初两个民族之间仍然存在着紧密联系的网络：汉僧在藏传佛教寺庙学习，班禅喇嘛进行密宗仪式以保护中国不受日本的侵略。如果过去实际上是一个序幕，我们仔细阅读滕华睿所讲述的精彩故事会获益匪浅。”— Donald S. Lopez, 密歇根大学，Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West 的作者。 “滕华睿在对...(展开全部)

滕华睿，现为美国哥伦比亚大学语言文化系助理教授。他的研究领域是二十世纪汉藏关系史，以及西藏与基于汉地的满清帝国之关系。藏传佛教在这些历史关系中扮演的角色对他的研究至关重要。他从一九九零年起就研究中国和西藏问题，并多次前往当地考察。 “过去半个世纪里发生的事件使许多人得出这样的结论：西藏和中国的关系一直以互相猜疑和怨愤为特点。然而，正如滕华睿在这令人印象深刻的研究中所记述的一样，直到二十世纪初两个民族之间仍然存在着紧密联系的网络：汉僧在藏传佛教寺庙学习，班禅喇嘛进行密宗仪式以保护中国不受日本的侵略。如果过去实际上是一个序幕，我们仔细阅读滕华睿所讲述的精彩故事会获益匪浅。”— Donald S. Lopez, 密歇根大学，Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West 的作者。 “滕华睿在对...(展开全部)

维克多•塞巴斯蒂安 记者。 著有： 《十二天：1956年革命》（TWELVE DAYS: REVOLUTION 1956 ），Weidenfeld, 2006 《1989年革命》（REVOLUTION 1989: FALL OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE），W&N, 2009

维克多•塞巴斯蒂安 记者。 著有： 《十二天：1956年革命》（TWELVE DAYS: REVOLUTION 1956 ），Weidenfeld, 2006 《1989年革命》（REVOLUTION 1989: FALL OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE），W&N, 2009

Making Religion, Making the State combines cutting-edge perspectives on religion with rich empirical data to offer a challenging new argument about the politics of religion in modern China. The volume goes beyond extant portrayals of the opposition of state and religion to emphasize their mutual constitution. With chapters written by experts on Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholic...(展开全部)