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Part 1: The Pre-Islamic Period
Edited with an Introduction by Valerie Hansen
YALE UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) This is the first of two two-volume collections by top scholars in their field on the history of the Silk Road. This collection’s main focus is the first millennium CE when the Silk Road trade was at its height.
Most of the entries are organized chronologically and geographically, concentrating on the sites (like Niya and Loulan) which flourished in the third and fourth centuries, then Turfan and Samarkand (5... |
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Pak Chiwon
KEY FEATURE(S) This is the first translation into English of the eighteenth-century Korean masterpiece entitled Yorha ilgi (‘The Jehol Diary’) by Pak Chiwon (1737-1805). The original text was written in classical Chinese and is a notoriously difficult work to translate.
Pak Chiwon diarises the experiences of his remarkable overland journey on horseback from the northern border region of Korea to China’s imperial summer residence in Jehol. Having been commanded by Kin... |
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(Paperback)
Brian Burke-Gaffney
NAGASAKI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCE
KEY FEATURE(S) Long overdue, this important first full-length account in English of the history of Japan’s first foreign settlement, which for centuries was the country’s only ‘front door’ to the outside world, will be widely welcomed. Following the opening of Japan’s ports in 1859, Nagasaki rapidly became one of Japan’s leading industrial centres, which including shipbuilding, but, other than the history surrounding the atomic bombing of August 1945, in the post-war period, it has been largely overshadowed by interest in the Meiji settlements of Kobe and Yokohama.
The value of the work is reinforced by a 32-page colour plate section which includes some rarely-seen images, as well as an 8-page Bibliography. The author is a full-time professor in the Institute of... |
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(Hardback)
Brian Burke-Gaffney
NAGASAKI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCE
KEY FEATURE(S) Long overdue, this important first full-length account in English of the history of Japan’s first foreign settlement, which for centuries was the country’s only ‘front door’ to the outside world, will be widely welcomed. Following the opening of Japan’s ports in 1859, Nagasaki rapidly became one of Japan’s leading industrial centres, which including shipbuilding, but, other than the history surrounding the atomic bombing of August 1945, in the post-war period, it has been largely overshadowed by interest in the Meiji settlements of Kobe and Yokohama.
The value of the work is reinforced by a 32-page colour plate section which includes some rarely-seen images, as well as an 8-page Bibliography. The author is a full-time professor in the Institute of... |
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Michael Dillon
UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
By the early twentieth century, decades of conflict and underinvestment had ruined the Chinese economy and attempts by the Guomindang Nationalists to develop industry and trade had hardly begun when J... |
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Michael Dillon
UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
Islam has had a presence in China since the earliest years of the religion, initially with the sojourner populations of traders and diplomats from the heartland of the Islamic world on the periphery o... |
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David Sneath
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
KEY FEATURE(S) A significant aspect of this work is the emphasis on source materials, many being translated from Mongolian and other languages for the first time. The source material and other articles are all fully contextualized and situated by introductory material by the volume’s editors.
This is the first work in English to bring together significant articles in Mongolian studies in one place, which will be widely welcomed by scholars and researchers in this field. This essential ref... |
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F. H. King
KEY FEATURE(S) First published in 1926, this classic survey examines the traditional farming methods of the densely populated lands of China, Korea and Japan and shows how fertility can be maintained over many centuries through conserving and utilising natural resources.
Markets: Conservation, East Asian History.
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Images and Texts
Ann Fielding
KEY FEATURE(S) This is the first study to examine the effect the Mogols had on Western imagination and the world beyond Christendom. It focuses on images and texts that have been hidden in plain sight for centuries.
In the early thirteenth century, the Mongols who were causing turmoil throughout the known world, were perceived as an Other that Westerners could neither dominate, nor pretend to understand, a people... |
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Edward H. House
KEY FEATURE(S) First published in Boston in 1881 and rarely available today, Japanese Episodes reveals House as a writer, commentator and observer of things Japanese at his best and was to inspire Lafcadio Hearn in the same pursuit twenty years later.
Formerly a reporter for the New York Tribune, House was a respected journalist in the United States, and though later he became a paid apologist for the Japanese state in many of his writings, sought ... |
