This open access book presents a new translation, interpretation and analysis of selected passages from the so-called Mohist Canon, a Chinese text from ca. 300 BCE, and discusses the role of the tex……続きを見る
William of Rubruck (circa 1220 – 1293) was a Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer. His account is one of the masterpieces of medieval geographical literature comparable to that of Marco Polo. ……続きを見る
著者:William Dalrymple
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年09月18日
William Dalrymple’s award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across Marco Polo’s 700-year-old route from Jerusalem to Xanadu, t……続きを見る
This new book is the first full account, inside or outside government, of China’s efforts to acquire foreign technology.
Based on primary sources and meticulously researched, the book lays bare Chin……続きを見る
Recent attention to historical, geographic, and class differences in the studies of women and gender in China has expanded our understanding of the diversity and complexity of gendered China. Nevert……続きを見る
著者:William Kinmond
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2017年10月06日
In 1949 the bamboo curtain clattered down over one-fifth of the people of the world. In one sudden twist of history, a vast community that had been militarily and politically allied with the West wa……続きを見る
When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction of Western medicine, as well as with the interactio……続きを見る
著者:William Griffis
出版社: Charles River Editors
発売日: 2018年06月24日
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
China's Story is a concise history of China written in the early 20th century.
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This collection of essays represents current research in modern (post-1800) Chinese history. All contributors are former students of Professor C. Martin Wilbur, one of the great names in the China f……続きを見る
A Short View of the Laws Now Subsisting with Respect to the Powers of the East India Company' offers an in-depth exploration of the legal, political, and economic frameworks surrounding one of the m……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
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
著者:William N. Brown
出版社: Springer Nature Singapore
発売日: 2022年05月01日
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
"Smith may have been America's greatest tiger hunter." -Ohmy News, April 18, 2007
"When I first learned the truth about the Chinese tigers, that they were all man-eaters and lived in caves, nothing ……続きを見る
著者:William N. Brown
出版社: Springer Nature Singapore
発売日: 2023年01月18日
This open access book explores the past and present of Quanzhou (Zayton) and the rich diversity and tolerance that kindled Quanzhou’s innovativeness and helped it prosper both commercially and cultu……続きを見る
著者:William Han
出版社: Earnshaw Books Ltd
発売日: 2022年10月04日
In 2015, footloose lawyer and screenwriter William Han set out to travel the ancient Silk Road from China to Europe, following the footsteps of a Chinese explorer who tried to make contact with the ……続きを見る
William Bradford's 'Of Plymouth Plantation' meticulously documents the trials and triumphs of the Pilgrims as they make their way to the New World and establish the Plymouth colony. Written in a str……続きを見る
An Essential History of China: Why it Matters to Americans is exactly what the title says. In 150 pages, it reviews the ancient and dynastic history of China to provide a perspective about the depth……続きを見る
William Henry Whitmore's 'A Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., Governor of New England, New York and Virginia, &c., &c' provides a detailed account of the life and actions of Sir Edmund Andros, a pr……続きを見る
More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China's revolutionary process of rural reform and social ……続きを見る
The rise of China presents a long-term challenge to the world not only economically, but politically and culturally. Callahan meets this challenge in China: The Pessoptimist Nation by using new Chin……続きを見る
This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into ……続きを見る
More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton’s Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China’s revolutionary process of rural reform and social ……続きを見る
In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure. He settled near the market town of Gaodianzi, Sic……続きを見る
During the early twentieth century, Shanghai was the center of China's new media culture. Described by the modernist writer Mu Shiying as "transplanted from Europe" and “paved with shadows,” for man……続きを見る
In Chinese Economic Statecraft, William J. Norris introduces an innovative theory that pinpoints how states employ economic tools of national power to pursue their strategic objectives. Norris shows……続きを見る
This is a record of adventures, and of achievements in the face of supposedly insuperable obstacles, which is thrilling by reason of the size and color and significance of the events.
Tibet and espe……続きを見る