During the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East, from the Ottoman Empire and India to China and Japan. Here is the acc...(展开全部)

From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and monsters, of silk and spices shipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away. By the twentieth century much of Asia might have come under Western rule after centuries of warfare, but its ...(展开全部)

亚当•克卢洛（Adam Clulow） 澳大利亚蒙纳士大学历史系副教授。日本新潟大学东亚研究专业硕士，美国哥伦比亚大学日本历史专业博士，专门研究近代早期亚洲历史，涉及东亚和东南亚地区的思想文化与商品的跨国流通，特别关注荷兰东印度公司的早期历史及其与亚洲各地区的互动。在《世界历史杂志》《日本文化志丛》等颇具影响力的期刊上发表众多主题的文章。本书是他的第一本著作，荣获杰里·本特利世界史奖（Jerry Bentley Prize）、欧洲扩展与全球互动论坛2015年图书奖（Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction 2015 Book Prize）、澳大利亚历史协会颁发的W. K. 汉考克奖（W. K. Hancock Prize from the Australian Historical Asso...(展开全部)

亚当•克卢洛（Adam Clulow） 澳大利亚蒙纳士大学历史系副教授。日本新潟大学东亚研究专业硕士，美国哥伦比亚大学日本历史专业博士，专门研究近代早期亚洲历史，涉及东亚和东南亚地区的思想文化与商品的跨国流通，特别关注荷兰东印度公司的早期历史及其与亚洲各地区的互动。在《世界历史杂志》《日本文化志丛》等颇具影响力的期刊上发表众多主题的文章。本书是他的第一本著作，荣获杰里·本特利世界史奖（Jerry Bentley Prize）、欧洲扩展与全球互动论坛2015年图书奖（Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction 2015 Book Prize）、澳大利亚历史协会颁发的W. K. 汉考克奖（W. K. Hancock Prize from the Australian Historical Asso...(展开全部)

Coping with the Future: Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia offers insights into various techniques of divination, their evolution, and their assessment. The contributions cover the period from the earliest documents on East Asian mantic arts to their appearance in the present time. The volume reflects the pervasive manifestations of divination in literature, reli...(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.

This text provides a historical, scientific, and cultural framework for the basic elements of mathematics characteristic of a typical college curriculum. Designed for students with a solid background in high school mathematics, it features nine chapters that range from number theory to applications. 1983 edition.

Mobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia's political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm. Through a comparison of Taiwan (1950s–1970s), South Korea (1950s–1970s), and China (1980s–2000s), Kristen E. Looney shows that different types of development outcomes—imp...(展开全部)