wired - China 4

In thirteenth-century China, a Daoist monk named Gao Daokuan (1195-1277) composed a series of illustrated poems and accompanying verse commentary known as the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures. In this a……続きを見る

"Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Holocaust by Derek Pua, is not for the faint of heart. It is, however, for anyone wanting to more clearly understand the extent of Imperial Japanese war crimes. This b……続きを見る

This narrative history of the Tibetan Empire in Central Asia from about A.D. 600 to 866 depicts the struggles of the great Tibetan, Turkic, Arab, and Chinese powers for dominance over the Silk Road ……続きを見る

Sun Tzu's The Art Of War, the oldest military treatise in the world, translated from the Chinese, with introduction and critical notes by Lionel Giles. Chapters; Laying Plans, Waging War, Attack By ……続きを見る

An authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China’s growing power poses and how it must be confronted "Timely and thought-provoking. . . . An unsparing analysis of how Washingto……続きを見る

In Harold Edward Bindloss's novel, 'The Gold Trail,' readers are transported to the rugged and untamed world of the Canadian wilderness during the gold rush era. The book is a masterful blend of adv……続きを見る

A variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (960–1279)ーmedical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotesーdepict women who were considered peculiar because their sexual bodies did n……続きを見る

Sources in Chinese History, now in its second edition, has been updated to include re-translations of over a third of the documents. It also incorporates nearly 40 new sources that work to familiari……続きを見る

中國三部曲 THE CHINA TRILOGY 隨著中國全球影響力與日俱増，我們既須探究其內涵，更需要積極尋找更有意義的客觀切入點，纔能深入理解其未來前景。 本系列將透過兩千年、四百年、一百年之不同長度視野，由「大歷史……続きを見る

"Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Holocaust by Derek Pua, is not for the faint of heart. It is, however, for anyone wanting to more clearly understand the extent of Imperial Japanese war crimes. This b……続きを見る

From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth century George Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to C……続きを見る

In the final decades of the Manchu Qing dynasty in China, technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, telegraph, and photography were both new and foreign. In The Stone and the Wireless Shaoling……続きを見る

Dynamite on the Tropic of Cancer is the radical, explosive retelling of the first decade of the 'Father of Modern China' Dr Sun Yatsen’s globally shaped formation as a professional revolutionist, an……続きを見る

After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that ……続きを見る

The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creati……続きを見る

In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamenta……続きを見る

Relations among the United States, Taiwan, and China challenge policymakers, international relations specialists, and a concerned public to examine their assumptions about security, sovereignty, and……続きを見る

Although Christianity has been a minority religion in Chinese societies, Christians have been powerful catalysts of social activism in seeking to establish democracy and rule of law in mainland Chin……続きを見る

In Cina e in Giappone, tradizionalmente bere una tazza di tè era un'occasione per contemplare, meditare ed elevare la mente e lo spirito. Il famoso traduttore William Scott Wilson distilla ciò che è……続きを見る

The monk Tangseng and his disciple, the short-tempered Monkey King Sun Wukong, begin their multi-year journey to retrieve Buddhist scriptures from Thunderclap Mountain in India. They first encounter……続きを見る

When a young girl's life is torn apart by the terror and fear of a new communist government, she has to learn to survive within its harsh confines. As she grows, so does her understanding and her ha……続きを見る

Argues that developments in biomedicine in China should be at the center of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the periphery Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedi……続きを見る

Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transfe……続きを見る

China is huge. China is growing more powerful. Yet China remains a great mystery to most people in the West. This contemporary history, based on the latest scholarly research, offers a balanced pers……続きを見る

Geschiedenis van Suriname, geschreven door J. Wolbers, is een meesterwerk dat de uitgebreide geschiedenis van Suriname verkent. Het boek is geschreven in een gedetailleerde en informatieve stijl, wa……続きを見る

This open access book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society since Liberation in 1949, and why poverty alleviation measu……続きを見る

An American Interest Book of the Year “Readers will not find a shrewder analysis as to why the Chinese act as they do.” ーRobert D. Kaplan “An outstanding contribution to our understanding of that m……続きを見る

Making sense of nature in one of the world’s most contested borderlands. According to Chinese government reports, hundreds of plague-infected rodents fell from the skies over Gannan county on an Apr……続きを見る

H. Bedford-Jones' 'The Wilderness Trail' is a gripping tale of survival and adventure set against the backdrop of the untamed American frontier. With vivid descriptions of the rugged landscapes and ……続きを見る

Animals play crucial roles in Buddhist thought and practice. However, many symbolically or culturally significant animals found in India, where Buddhism originated, do not inhabit China, to which Bu……続きを見る