A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central Asia in World History, Peter B. Golden provid...(展开全部)

Peter B. Golden is Professor Emeritus of History and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program, Rutgers University.

斯坦因，原籍匈牙利，是一名犹太人，1904年入英国籍。考古学家、艺术史家、语言学家、地理学家和探险家，国际敦煌学开山鼻祖之一。他是今天英国与印度所藏敦煌与中亚文物的主要搜集者，也是最早的研究者与公布者之一。他的许多著作至今仍是敦煌吐鲁番学研究者的案边必备之书。曾经分别于1900-1901年、1906-1908年、1913-1916年、1930-1931年进行了著名的四次中亚考察，考察重点是中国的新疆和甘肃，所发现的敦煌吐鲁番文物及其他中亚文物是今天国际敦煌学研究的重要资料。

[美]威廉·凯莱赫·斯托里（William Kelleher Storey），曾任哈佛大学写作教师，现任美国米尔萨普斯学院历史学教授兼文理学院桑德森讲席教授，曾被美国教育促进与支持委员会和卡内基教学促进基金会联合授予“全州年度教授”荣誉。

林恩·亨特是美国加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校杰出的研究型教授，曾任美国历史学会主席。她著作等身，包括《人权的发明》《历史的真相》等。目前她定居于洛杉矶。

Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written. George Orwell wrote that “history is written by the winners.” Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written from a viewpoint but that viewpoints change, sometimes radically. The history of workers, women, and minorities challenge...(展开全部)

Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written. George Orwell wrote that “history is written by the winners.” Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written from a viewpoint but that viewpoints change, sometimes radically. The history of workers, women, and minorities challenge...(展开全部)

Illusion and Disillusionment: Travel Writing in the Modern Age seeks to understand, expand, and challenge the boundaries of the modern travelogue across several literary traditions. Through an engaging cast of characters—China-bound missionaries, an Indo-Persian diplomat, a Turkish exile in India, a French schoolteacher touring America, Arab students in Moscow, a Japanese woman...(展开全部)

In recent years, scholars have successfully challenged the perception that Chinese civilization, especially in its early phase, existed in isolation with little or no influence from other regions of the world. Similarly, the passive role of Chinese dynasties in their interactions with neighboring societies, emphasized in earlier studies, also has come under serious scrutiny. Ta...(展开全部)