This book examines the emergence of imperial state in East Asia during the period ca. 400 BCE–200 CE as a network-based process, showing how the geography of early interregional contacts south of the Yangzi River informed the directions of Sinitic state expansion. Drawing from an extensive collection of sources including transmitted textual records, archaeological evidence, exc...(展开全部)

This book examines the emergence of imperial state in East Asia during the period ca. 400 BCE–200 CE as a network-based process, showing how the geography of early interregional contacts south of the Yangzi River informed the directions of Sinitic state expansion. Drawing from an extensive collection of sources including transmitted textual records, archaeological evidence, exc...(展开全部)

【亞洲與戰後日本：去帝國、公民行動與國家認同】 戰爭、敗北與帝國的崩解觸動了戰後日本社會的各方面，深刻地形塑日本人如何重構國家認同，重新與亞洲人接觸。「美國」提供了一個從戰災中再興的願景，「亞洲」卻暴露出戰爭罪行的創傷與種族責任的折磨。潛藏在戰後日本復興陰影裡的，是後帝國時代的幽靈，它的作祟使這個國家的精神復原變得既複雜又錯亂。 《亞洲與戰後日本：去帝國、公民行動與國家認同》（Asia and Postwar Japan: Deimperialization, Civic Activism, and National Identity）檢視1945年至21世紀初期的日本去帝國化。聚焦於進步派的行動者與知識份子的思想與作為，他們致力克服關於「亞洲」的刻板印象，對抗後帝國責任帶來的影響，形成新的區域團結與亞洲想像。Simon Avenell（澳洲國立大學...(展开全部)

When Emperor Hirohito announced defeat in a radio broadcast on 15th August 1945, Japan was not merely a nation; it was a colossal empire stretching from the tip of Alaska to the fringes of Australia grown out of a colonial ideology that continued to pervade East Asian society for years after the end of the Second World War. In Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repat...(展开全部)

Introduction This book examines the history of a military expedition the Japanese government sent to southern Taiwan in 1874, in the context of Japan’s subordination to Western powers in the unequal treaty system in East Asia. It argues that events on the ground in Taiwan show the Japanese government intended to establish colonies in southern and eastern Taiwan, and justified i...(展开全部)

This major new study uses vivid accounts of encounters between Chinese and Japanese people living at the margins of empire to elucidate Sino-Japanese relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each chapter explores mobility in East Asia through the histories of often ignored categories of people, including trafficked children, peddlers, 'abducted' women and a fe...(展开全部)

While scholars of East Asia have often focused on the significance of culture and Confucianism for economic growth, this book examines the affective or emotional dimension of capitalist development in the region. Here, affect is defined as felt quality that gives meaning and imagination to social, political, and economic processes, and as this work demonstrates, it can provide ...(展开全部)

This volume is the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars and provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in their Chinese, Korean, and Japanese contexts from the first few centuries of the common era right up to the present.--Publisher.

史蒂文·加尔珀恩曾在美国国务院历史文献办公室担任历史学家， 之后成为⼀名中东问题分析师。