This volume provides the first comparative survey of the relations between the two most active book worlds in Eurasia between 1450 and 1850. Prominent scholars in book history explore different appr……続きを見る
Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia - not only China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, but also societies that no longer e……続きを見る
In the failed East African state of Somalia, piracy has become a dominant factor in the economy. Bordering one of the world's busiest waterwayswith steady traffic coming and going through the Suez C……続きを見る
A book of commentaries on The Dragon-Wisdom Cards Of Ancient China, being the teachings which explain and reveal the hidden messages behind the The Tao (the ancient Chinese spiritual teaching which ……続きを見る
著者:Beverley Hooper
出版社: Hong Kong University Press
発売日: 2018年01月25日
Foreigners under Mao: Western Lives in China, 19491976 is a pioneering study of the Western community during the turbulent Mao era. Based largely on personal interviews, memoirs, private letters, an……続きを見る
It has intrigued many that, unlike Hong Kong, Macau avoided direct Japanese wartime occupation albeit being caught up in the vortex of the wider global conflict. Geoffrey Gunn and an international g……続きを見る
著者:Tony Banham
出版社: Hong Kong University Press
発売日: 2018年01月25日
In July 1940, the wives and children of British families in Hong Kong, military and civilian, were compulsorily evacuated, following a plan created by the Hong Kong government in 1939. That plan foc……続きを見る
著者:Song-Chuan Chen
出版社: Hong Kong University Press
発売日: 2018年01月25日
Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defence of British national honour, and……続きを見る
Cross-cultural relations are spatial relations. Enclave to Urbanity is the first book in English that examines how the architecture and the urban landscape of Guangzhou framed the relations between ……続きを見る
One has to marvel at the tremendous material progress of China under the New China concept. The sweeping skyscrapers, the architectural creations of the Olympics and space successes are a wonder to ……続きを見る
Widow of Que-Moy weaves the romance and tragedy of two young lovers on Que-Moy, an island adjacent to Mainland China, during the tumultuous confrontations between Chiang Kai-Sheks nationalist regime……続きを見る
Herein the writer discusses the present rise of China from looking at a specific critical statement made by Sun Tzu in his ancient treatise The Art of War. The writer builds on this one particular q……続きを見る
The eighteen missionaries who traveled to Shansi were dedicated, pious, hard-working clerics. Ernest Atwater; the young minister Francis Ward Davis and his wife Lydia; Charles Wesley Price and his f……続きを見る
Chinese practices related to ancestors have long been the subject of conflicting interpretations. These practices are rooted in the lived experience of practitioners, and therefore need to be consid……続きを見る
The Western Roman Empire collapsed more than 1500 years ago, while the Eastern Roman Empire survived for almost a thousand more years. When the west collapsed, no one questioned why. It was simply t……続きを見る
The United States has been the worlds dominant super power for the last 70 years. It sets the rules for international relations and seeks to maintain the status quo. That situation is changing. Chin……続きを見る
Huaian born Zhou Enlai was contemporary Chinas greatest statesman, spymaster and negotiator - the one Henry Kissinger could not out-negotiate. The Peoples Republic of China would not exist today wit……続きを見る
This historically accurate educational series on China for Children continues with a look at some of the most famous leaders of Chinas past. From the first emperor who was buried in a city of clay a……続きを見る
All peoples have their share of brutal rulers. The longer their history, the more numerous such notorious rulers they have inevitably witnessed, and the greater the diversity of their pitiless behav……続きを見る
Hacia el ao 2000, Colombia se encontraba al borde del abismo. Tres grupos armados sembraban el terror a lo largo y ancho del pas. Tendra el Gobierno alguna posibilidad de derrotar los grupos armados……続きを見る
Different cultures and civilizations have different perception of a history context and ideas. The Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato, Demosthenes, Aristotle, etc. shaped Western thought, Western lo……続きを見る
At the entrance of The Field Museum’s Cyrus Tang Hall of China, two Chinese stone guardian lions stand tall, gazing down intently at approaching visitors. One lion’s paw rests upon a decorated ball ……続きを見る
La transición de China ha estado llena de éxitos en el campo de la economía. En estos últimos años se convirtió en la segunda economía del mundo. La combinación de formas mercantiles muy poderosas, ……続きを見る
The book documents the atrocities committed against the Southern Mongolians by the Chinese in a massive genocide campaign throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. The two-volume book is the first ……続きを見る