This book examines the military collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty to a combination of foreign and domestic foes. The Ming’s defeat was a highly surprising development, not least because as recently as in the 1590s the Ming had managed to defeat a Japanese force considered to be perhaps the most formidable of its day when the latter attempted to subjugate Korea en-route to a plan...(展开全部)

This book examines the military collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty to a combination of foreign and domestic foes. The Ming’s defeat was a highly surprising development, not least because as recently as in the 1590s the Ming had managed to defeat a Japanese force considered to be perhaps the most formidable of its day when the latter attempted to subjugate Korea en-route to a plan...(展开全部)

威廉•奥多姆，美军中将，曾任美国国家安全局局长，于1988年退休，2008年因心脏病在美国去世。布热津斯基认为作者是美国的首席苏联军事问题专家。

In this text, a United States Army officer and scholar traces the rise and fall of the Soviet military, arguing that it had a far greater impact on Soviet politics and economic development than was perceived in the West. The author asserts that Gorbachev saw that shrinking the military and the military-industrial sector of the economy was essential for fully implementing perest...(展开全部)

"The traveling exhibition "Power and Glory: Court Arts of China's Ming Dynasty" opens at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco on Friday, June 27, 2008. The excellent catalog is organized by medium, with sections on gold, lacquer and porcelain." - The New York Times Ming vases have been long regarded as the epitome of priceless beauty. Exploring the grandeur of the last native...(展开全部)

"The traveling exhibition "Power and Glory: Court Arts of China's Ming Dynasty" opens at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco on Friday, June 27, 2008. The excellent catalog is organized by medium, with sections on gold, lacquer and porcelain." - The New York Times Ming vases have been long regarded as the epitome of priceless beauty. Exploring the grandeur of the last native...(展开全部)

蔡石山（Shih-shan Henry Tsai），享誉国际的历史学者，美国俄勒冈大学历史学博士，曾执教于台湾大学、美国加州大学洛杉矶与伯克利分校、阿肯色大学等，曾任美国阿肯色大学历史系教授兼亚洲研究中心主任。著有《明代的女人》《永乐大帝》等。

In the Later Han period the region covered by the modern provinces of Gansu, southern Ningxia, eastern Qinghai, northern Sichuan, and western Shaanxi, was a porous frontier zone between the Chinese regimes and their inner Asian neighbours, not fully incorporated into the Chinese realm until the first century BCE. Not surprisingly the region had a large concentration of men of m...(展开全部)

In the Later Han period the region covered by the modern provinces of Gansu, southern Ningxia, eastern Qinghai, northern Sichuan, and western Shaanxi, was a porous frontier zone between the Chinese regimes and their inner Asian neighbours, not fully incorporated into the Chinese realm until the first century BCE. Not surprisingly the region had a large concentration of men of m...(展开全部)