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.

As the Imperial Japanese Army swept across China and South Asia at World War II's outset, closing all of China's seaports, more than 200,000 Chinese laborers embarked on a seemingly impossible task: to cut a 700-mile overland route -- the Burma Road -- from the southwest Chinese city of Kunming to Lashio, Burma. But when Burma fell in 1942, the Burma Road was severed. As the fi...(展开全部)

In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life's questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how ...(展开全部)

This book explores the Central Asian element in the formation of the civilization of Mughal India, focusing on the 16th and 17th centuries. The culture of the Mughal Empire is seen to be a composite of indigenous and foreign elements, many of which originated, like the Mughal rulers themselves, in Central Asia.

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 1943 , in the middle of World War II, the Allies renounced the unequal treaties, Chiang Kai-shek wrote China's Destiny and met with Roosevelt and Churchill at Cairo, and Mme Chiang made her memorable trip to the United States.

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)

Bertil and Hseng Noung Lintner, and their baby daughter, born enroute, spent one and a half years traveling through northern and eastern Burma, from 1985-87. Throughout their account, they describe, with rare and deep insight, the struggle by northern Burma’s ethnic groups against brutal Burmese army rule, and record the decline and fall of the Communist Party of Burma. During ...(展开全部)

作者簡介 柏提爾．林納Bertil Lintner 瑞典記者、作家與緬甸問題專家，專研亞洲局勢近四十年。曾任《遠東經濟評論》緬甸特派員，目前為《瑞典日報》及丹麥《Politiken雜誌》亞洲特派員，報導與分析作品常見於《紐約時報》、《華爾街日報》及《亞洲時報》網路版。林納在二○○四年關於北韓的傑出報導，讓他獲得亞洲出版人協會獎。此外林納在緬甸、印度東北、寮國及中國雲南區域耕耘近四十年，以深入蹲點報導，爬梳區域安全、政治叛亂、族群衝突與組織犯罪之間盤根錯節的脈絡。 完成本書跋涉穿越緬北的十八個月行程之前，柏提爾就曾花費數月時間，多次採訪緬甸武裝反抗團體。一九八一年的採訪中，他認識了當時為撣邦軍密碼員的森倫士官長。他們在一九八三年結婚，目前住在泰國清邁。 相關著作:《中國的印度戰爭：世界屋脊上的衝突，亞洲兩大區域強權的角力》 譯者簡介 林玉菁 紐約市立大...(展开全部)