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This book provides an authoritative account of the first significant overseas diplomatic missions and forays made by Indian civil servants. It recounts the key events in the formative decades of Ind……続きを見る

This book explores the lives and social histories of Indians soldiers who fought in the First World War. It focuses on their motivations, experiences, and lives after returning from service in Europ……続きを見る

By the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies, in particular Taiwan and Korea, had expressed their loyalty to the empire by volunteering to join the army. W……続きを見る

Japanese Studies has provided a fertile space for non-Eurocentric analysis for a number of reasons. It has been embroiled in the long-running internal debate over the so-called Nihonjinron, revolvin……続きを見る

◎第一本站在台灣人立場，以台灣史觀濃縮概述的台灣島史 ◎戒嚴時期的島內禁書，讓海外台灣人「一面哭一面讀」的真史 所謂台灣人歷史，就是台灣人在追求自己的自由和幸福而奮鬥的過程 對台灣人來說，歷史真相經常是……続きを見る

By expanding the definition of "epistle" to include any writing that addresses the intended receiver directly, JaHyun Kim Haboush introduces readers to the rich epistolary practice of Chos?n Korea. ……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern ageーby the author featured……続きを見る

As Adam M. McKeown demonstrates, the push for increased border control and identity documentation is the continuation of more than 150 years of globalization. Not only are modern passports and natio……続きを見る

During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Chinggis Khan and his heirs established the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world, extending from Korea to Hungary and from Iraq, Tibe……続きを見る

Enigmatic, Eminence grise, the 'power behind the throne' – these phrases sum up Zhou Enlai's long and varied, but always pivotal, political career in the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s to 19……続きを見る

本書乃潘國鍵博士研究公元三世紀至六世紀亞洲草原民族活動的最後著作。其中闡述了吐谷渾之種裔、成族及其初期歷史。全文影印自潘博士於九二年及九三年寫作時的手稿。稿本現藏多倫多大學鄭裕彤東亞圖書館。 作者簡……続きを見る

The phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical ……続きを見る

This book provides an in-depth and thematic analysis of socially engaged art in Mainland China, exploring its critical responses to and creative interventions in China’s top-down, pro-urban, and pro……続きを見る

Despite the longevity of animation and its significance within the history of cinema, film theorists have focused on live-action motion pictures and largely ignored hand-drawn and computer-generated……続きを見る

Japan’s Household Registration System (koseki seido) is an extremely powerful state instrument, and is socially entrenched with a long history of population governance, social control and the mainte……続きを見る

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. At some point, every child is warned to remain mindful of the company kept. The idea beh……続きを見る

搭電車去大稻埕拜城隍、去安平看夕陽 在現代的城市街道中走一趟電車夢之旅 本書特色： ◎「進入平行時空，神遊在擁有電車的次元中」 ◎作者蒐集大量文字、圖片史料，。以詳實的資料、考據來建構這場電車幻夢，帶領讀……続きを見る

《曠世奇源》 明朝末年﹐大明王朝戰亂不斷﹐天災頻繁﹐欠麥不收。詭奇異常的混亂氣候﹐使得千里雨雹大如雞卵﹐損傷田稼牆屋﹐擊斃人畜。洪流横象的大水﹐沖毀了村莊﹐並有饑疫大起﹐甚至還有飛蝗食麥淨空﹐社會秩……続きを見る

In 1964, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a momentous policy decision. In response to rising tensions with the United States and Soviet Union, a top-secret massive military industrial complex ……続きを見る

A Representation of Nationhood in the Museum examines how the National Museum of Korea, as a national repository of material culture and the state’s premier exhibition facility, has shaped and been ……続きを見る

難得一見的海南島二戰回憶 　　海南島的大小與臺灣相當，如同八田與一所說的，「就像漂浮在水上的馬鈴薯」。這座位於中國最南端的島嶼有「東方夏威夷」之稱，是熱門的觀光勝地。然而，在這個現代化的形象背後，海……続きを見る

Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China is not simply a survey of sixteenth-century images, but rather, a thorough and thoughtful examination of visual culture in China's Ming Dynasty, one that……続きを見る

一座城市，總少不了公園 都市叢林中的唯一緑地，誕生於台灣不過120多年 ●1932年一張市區計畫圖，揭開臺北邁向現代化之路 ●從圓山公園開始，追索17座公園的百年歷史變遷 ●溜狗、運動、漫步、沉思之餘，那些你需要知……続きを見る

Nomads and Commissars: Mongolia Revisited, which was first published in 1962, provides a lively description of modern-day Mongolia, combined with historical material. Beginning with a geographical d……続きを見る

Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam - distinct……続きを見る

Robert Irwin's authoritative introduction to the fourth volume of The New Cambridge History of Islam offers a panoramic vision of Islamic culture from its origins to around 1800. The introductory ch……続きを見る

The controversy over official state-approved history textbooks in Japan, which omit or play down many episodes of Japan’s occupation of neighbouring countries during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945)……続きを見る

The most celebrated work by one of Japan's master literary stylists, Evening Clouds is a book filled with delicate images of ordinary life, richly and precisely observed. A family moves into a new h……続きを見る

A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from deep in the countryside of eastern Japan to the capital. Forty years later, with the long account of that journey as a foundati……続きを見る

George F. Kennan is well known as the preeminent American expert on the Soviet Union during the Cold War and the author of the doctrine of containment. In Mr. X and the Pacific, Paul J. Heer chronic……続きを見る