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A History of the Vietnamese
A groundbreaking, comprehensive history of Vietnam from the earliest times to the present day.
The Historical Roots of Technical Communication in the Chinese Tradition
This book traces Chinese technical communication from its beginnings, investigating how it began and the major factors that shaped its practice. It also looks at the major philosophical and historical traditions in Chinese technical communication, and how historical and philosophical threads play out in contemporary Chinese technical communication practice. In considering such issues, the book gives attention to some of the major classical Chinese texts, but treats them as artefacts of technical communication. It explores the roots of Chinese technical communication, reviews traditional philosophy that has shaped such practice, discusses the key links in the history of Chinese technical communication, and recounts historical roots and contemporary practice side by side. It provides the reader with compelling perspectives on the historical roots of Chinese technical communication.
The Colonial 'civilizing Process' in Dutch Formosa
Focusing on Formosan agency in the encounter with Dutch colonialism and Chinese encroachment, this book reveals a fascinating picture of Taiwan in the early modern era.
Three Mountains and Seven Rivers
Three mountains and the seven rivers is a collection of 56 essays to felicitate the sixtieth birthday of Doctor Musashi Techikawa, Professor at Aichi gakuin University in Nagoya. This volume consist of thirteen Sections; (1) Ancient Geography, (2) Buddhism, (3) Madhyamika, (4) Iconography, (5) Jainism, (6) Logic, (7) Poetics, (9) Social Practice, (10) Tibetan Themes, (11) Vedanta and Mimamsa, (12) Samkhya and Yoga and (13) Tantrism. these saetions throw new light on enduring themes in Indian studies as well as raises fresh issues.
The European Canton Trade 1723
This critically-commented source edition contains the commercial directions, merchant diary and naval log of four East India Company ships, which sailed from London to Canton, China in 1723, as well as the travelogue of another contemporary trader who sailed from Ostend. It highlights the roles of cooperation and competition in shaping the relations between these and other European companies as well as the everyday lives of European merchants and mariners. The edition thus sheds new light on the history of the East Indies trade during the eighteenth century and its role in encouraging early modern globalization.
A Passion for China
This wide-ranging collection of essays is a must-read for all those who take an interest the field of the humanities in and on China.
創価大学国際仏敎学高等硏究所年報
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The Evolution of Chinese Filiality
This unique book brings a fresh interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of ancient Chinese history, creating a historical model for the emergence of cultural mainstays by applying recent dramatic findings in the fields of neuroscience and cultural evolution. The centrality in Chinese culture of a deep reverence for the lives of preceding generations, filial piety, is conventionally attributed to Confucius (551-479 B.C.), who viewed hierarchical family relations as foundational for social order. Here, Porter argues that Confucian conceptions of filiality themselves evolved from a systemized set of behaviors and thoughts, a mental structure, which descended from a specific Neolithic mindset...
王的莊稼：從農業發展到中國第一個王朝的政治生態學
榮獲美國歷史學會詹姆斯‧亨利‧布雷斯特德獎（James Henry Breasted Prize） 第一部西方科學視角的早期中國環境史專書 國在山河破！自然生態對人類發出的深沉吶喊， 重新思索「農業」是否為人類生存最好的選擇？ 人類從狩獵採集到農耕養殖，是自然演進？或人為操弄？ 人類是眾多動物中的區區一種，竟發展為支配所有物種？ 本書從早期中國的環境生態著手，探究地理環境、國家戰爭、社會制度，王權如何讓多元生態系轉為單一生態系？如何讓「以農立國」的概念深植人心？ 農業的發展帶來政治權力的拓展？ 勞動力增加促...
