The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History

Thomas T Allsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• From antiquity to the nineteenth century, the royal hunt was a vital component of the political cultures of the Middle East, India, Central Asia, and ... Lees meer

China in the Early Bronze Age

Robert L Thorp

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• China in the Early Bronze Age Shang Civilization Robert L. Thorp "Thorp has packed a massive amount of information in a concise and easily accessible ... Lees meer

The Blacks of Premodern China

Don J Wyatt

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• Premodern Chinese described a great variety of the peoples they encountered as "black." The earliest and most frequent of these encounters were with t... Lees meer

Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages

Sanping Chen

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Mi... Lees meer

The Buddha's Footprint

Johan Elverskog

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• A corrective to the contemporary idea that Buddhism has always been an environmentally friendly religion In the current popular imagination, Buddhism ... Lees meer

Gu Hongming's Eccentric Chinese Odyssey

Chunmei Du

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• Known for his ultraconservatism and eccentricity, Gu Hongming (1857-1928) remains one of the most controversial figures in modern Chinese intellectual... Lees meer

India in the Chinese Imagination

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• India and China dominate the Asian continent but are separated by formidable geographic barriers and language differences. For many centuries, most of... Lees meer

Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China

E N Anderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• Chinese food is one of the most recognizable and widely consumed cuisines in the world. Almost no town on earth is without a Chinese restaurant of som... Lees meer

The Prehistory of the Silk Road

E E Kuzmina

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• In ancient and medieval times, the Silk Road was of great importance to the transport of peoples, goods, and ideas between the East and the West. A va... Lees meer

Ethnic Identity in Tang China

Marc S Abramson

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• Ethnic Identity in Tang China is the first work in any language to explore comprehensively the construction of ethnicity during the dynasty that reign... Lees meer

Asian Medicine and Globalization

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• Medical systems function in specific cultural contexts. It is common to speak of the medicine of China, Japan, India, and other nation-states. Yet alm... Lees meer

The Birth of Orientalism

Urs App

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• Modern Orientalism is not a brainchild of nineteenth-century European imperialists and colonialists, but, as Urs App demonstrates, was born in the eig... Lees meer

Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road

Johan Elverskog

• Paperback | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction ... Lees meer

The Writing on the Wall

William C Hannas

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• Students in Japan, China, and Korea are among the world's top performers on standardized math and science tests. The nations of East Asia are also lea... Lees meer

Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China

C Pierce Salguero

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• The transmission of Buddhism from India to China was one of the most significant cross-cultural exchanges in the premodern world. This cultural encoun... Lees meer

Manchuria Under Japanese Dominion

Shin'ichi Yamamuro

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• From 1932 until the end of World War II, the Japanese established and maintained by bloody rule a puppet regime in the Chinese region of Manchuria. Th... Lees meer

The Teleology of the Modern Nation-State

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• Japan and China did not begin to emerge as unified political entities until the nineteenth century. Yet scholars and politicians persistently refer to... Lees meer

The Steppe and the Sea

Thomas T Allsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• In 1221, in what we now call Turkmenistan, a captive held by Mongol soldiers confessed that she had swallowed her pearls in order to safeguard them. S... Lees meer

The Tongking Gulf Through History

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• Since 2005, a series of significant developments has been unfolding in the area of the Tongking Gulf under the rubric of an ambitious project called "... Lees meer

The Early Modern Travels of Manchu

Mårten Söderblom Saarela

• Hardcover | Engels | Encounters with Asia
• A linguistic and historical study of the Manchu script in the early modern world Manchu was a language first written down as part of the Qing state-bu... Lees meer