Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes on the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to China and Korea. The early centuries of the Abbasid era witnessed a substantial n...(展开全部)

In The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China, twelve scholars examine how knowledge, things and people moved within, and between, the East and the West from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The collection starts by looking at the ways and means that knowledge circulated, first in Europe, but then beyond to India and China. It engages the kno...(展开全部)

In The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China, twelve scholars examine how knowledge, things and people moved within, and between, the East and the West from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The collection starts by looking at the ways and means that knowledge circulated, first in Europe, but then beyond to India and China. It engages the kno...(展开全部)

Peter van der Veer is director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, and a Distinguished Professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His books include Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain (Princeton) and Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India.

While pre-modernity is often considered to be the 'time' of non-European regions and modernity is seen as belonging to the West, this book seeks to transcend the temporal bifurcation of that world history into 'pre-modern' and 'modern', as well as question its geographical split into two irreconcilable trajectories: the European and the non-European. The book examines shared ex...(展开全部)

This pathbreaking study provides the first comprehensive examination of India-China interactions in the broader contexts of Asian and world history. By focusing on material exchanges, transmissions of knowledge and technologies, networks of exchange during the colonial period, and little-known facets of interactions between the Republic of India and the People's Republic of Chi...(展开全部)

For many years, China and India have been powerfully shaped by both transnational and subnational circulatory forces. This edited volume explores these local and global influences as they play out in the contemporary era. The analysis focuses on four intersecting topics: labor relations; legal reform and rights protest; public goods provision; and transnational migration and in...(展开全部)

作者簡介 吳丹敏Thant Myint-U 1966年生於紐約的緬甸家庭，祖父為聯合國第一任亞洲出身的秘書長吳丹。畢業於哈佛及劍橋大學，目前是作家與文化保存工作者。三次出任聯合國維和任務，並擔任政治事務部門的政策規劃主管。現任仰光文化遺產信託主席，2012至2016年間出任緬甸國家經濟與社會顧問委員會成員，並擔任緬甸和平中心特別顧問。2013年吳丹敏獲美國外交政策雜誌選為「一百大全球領導思想家」，2015年獲頒日本的「福岡亞洲文化獎」。 著有三本作品：《現代緬甸的成型》（The Making of Modern Burma）、《失落足跡之河：個人的緬甸史》（The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma）及本書。本書更入選2012年亞洲協會伯納德．舒瓦茲獎決選。 譯者簡介 張毓如 清華...(展开全部)

作者簡介 吳丹敏Thant Myint-U 1966年生於紐約的緬甸家庭，祖父為聯合國第一任亞洲出身的秘書長吳丹。畢業於哈佛及劍橋大學，目前是作家與文化保存工作者。三次出任聯合國維和任務，並擔任政治事務部門的政策規劃主管。現任仰光文化遺產信託主席，2012至2016年間出任緬甸國家經濟與社會顧問委員會成員，並擔任緬甸和平中心特別顧問。2013年吳丹敏獲美國外交政策雜誌選為「一百大全球領導思想家」，2015年獲頒日本的「福岡亞洲文化獎」。 著有三本作品：《現代緬甸的成型》（The Making of Modern Burma）、《失落足跡之河：個人的緬甸史》（The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma）及本書。本書更入選2012年亞洲協會伯納德．舒瓦茲獎決選。 譯者簡介 張毓如 清華...(展开全部)