Time is basic to human consciousness and action, yet paradoxically historians rarely ask how it is understood, manipulated, recorded, or lived. Cataclysmic events in particular disrupt and realign the dynamics of temporality among people. For historians, the temporal effects of such events on large polities such as empires--the power projections of which always involve the dict...(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)

East to East describes a journey from Eastern Europe to China, bringing together work made over an extended period of time. Klavdij Sluban's use of deep blacks and backlit silhouettes imbues his work with a highly individual photographic style. These powerful images are remarkably moody and atmospheric. Published simultaneously in six countries in six languages. Klavdij Slub...(展开全部)

With essays by Monica Bethe, Mary M Dusenbury, Shih-shan Susan Huang, Ikumi Kaminishi, Guolong Lai, Richard Laursen, Liu Jian and Zhao Feng, Chika Mouri, Park Ah-rim, Hillary Pedersen, Lisa Shekede and Su Bomin, Sim Yeon-ok and Lee Seonyong, Tanaka Yoko, and Zhao Feng and Long Bo Color was a critical element in East Asian life and thought, but its importance has been largely ov...(展开全部)

Science and Confucian Statecraft in East Asia explores science and technology as practiced in the governments of premodern China and Korea. Contrary to the stereotypical image of East Asian bureaucracy as a generally negative force having hindered free enquiries and scientific progress, this volume offers a more nuanced picture of how science and technology was deployed in the ...(展开全部)

In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warranting little examination, as the power and profits it afforded to the slaver made it a convention pursued unreflectively. Slavery in medieval East Asia shared with the West the commonpl...(展开全部)

马克·布拉齐尔（Mark Brazil）， 苏格兰斯特灵大学博士，经验丰富的野外鸟类学家。著有《东亚鸟类野外手册》（Birds of East Asia），以及《日本观鸟指南》（ A Birdwatcher's Guide to Japan）、《日本鸟类》（The Birds of Japan）和《大天鹅》（The Whooper Swan）等。

马克·布拉齐尔（Mark Brazil）， 苏格兰斯特灵大学博士，经验丰富的野外鸟类学家。著有《东亚鸟类野外手册》（Birds of East Asia），以及《日本观鸟指南》（ A Birdwatcher's Guide to Japan）、《日本鸟类》（The Birds of Japan）和《大天鹅》（The Whooper Swan）等。

Playwriting in many forms flourished during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Shorter theatrical genres in particular offered playwrights opportunities for experimentation with both dramatic form and social critique. Despite their originality and wit, these short plays have been overshadowed by the lengthy masterpieces of the southern drama tradition. A Topsy-Turvy World ...(展开全部)