The Mongol Empire changed the world, but early chronicles of its conquests, written from regional perspectives and widely dispersed, could not convey its far-reaching significance. The Khan and the ……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Schonebaum
出版社: University of Washington Press
発売日: 2026年04月28日
Explores the relationship between fantastical literature and scientific inquiry
What did early modern Chinese readers believe about dragons, thunder, or fate, and where did they learn it? Observing ……続きを見る
著者:He Li
出版社: State University of New York Press
発売日: 2025年11月01日
The first English-language study of Chinese scholars' perspectives on China's quest for democracy.
History teaches us that profound transformations are not shaped by ideas alone but are impossible w……続きを見る
An illuminating account of how early medicine in Greece and China perceived the human body
Winner of the William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine
The true structure a……続きを見る
著者:Olivia Cheung
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2025年10月01日
This book reconstructs the factional-ideological conflicts surrounding socialist transformation and political reform in China that were played out through ‘factional model-making’, a norm-bound mech……続きを見る
The Chinese state uses cultural heritage as a source of power by linking it to political and economic goals, but heritage discourse has at the same time encouraged new actors to appropriate the disc……続きを見る
This book, full of quantitative evidence and limited-circulation archives, details manufacturing and the beginnings of industrialisation in China from 1644 to 1911. It thoroughly examines the interi……続きを見る
著者:Christian Pee
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2025年10月01日
In the eleventh century, the cities of the Song Empire (960-1279) emerged into writing. Literati in prior centuries had looked away from crowded streets, but literati in the eleventh century found b……続きを見る
From the mid-nineteenth-century Hui rebellions, which challenged centralised state control, to the early-twentieth-century revolutions, which led to Yunnan’s decades-long independence, local actors ……続きを見る
Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire brings the studies of institutions, labour, and material cultures to bear on the history of science and tech……続きを見る