Featuring over 450 archival photographs and line drawings, Chinese Dress traces the evolution of Chinese clothing from court and formal costumes to the fashions of modern China. A comprehensive and sumptuously illustrated book, Chinese Dress is the essential reference for costume historians, fashion designers and co...

This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum sla...

This book examines the practices of contesting evidence in democratically constituted knowledge societies. It provides a multifaceted view of the processes and conditions of evidence criticism and how they determine the dynamics of de- and re-stabilization of evidence. Evidence is an essential resource for establish...

Please note that this is a Chinese language edition. A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profou...

中澳建交五十週年，雙方關係降至最冰點 當習近平統治下的新中國將澳洲記者全面清零，下一個要清除的是什麼？ 　　二〇二〇年九月三日，中國公安深夜突襲史密斯在上海的住處，官僚化地朗誦完公文後請他在中文紙本上畫押簽名，恐懼爬上史密斯的背脊，因為幾天前才接到澳洲大使館建議他回國的訊息。公安稱他是國安調查的利益關係人，禁止他出境...

If the United States is really the 'Land of the Free' where anyone can become president, you would expect that the American presidents [George Washington to Joe Biden] would express that genetic diversity. This has not been the case. The presidents of the United States are as much a royal dynasty as anything in Euro...

The ancient traditions of Japan hold profound lessons that continue to shape its culture today. This comprehensive work delves deeply into the folklore that has informed Japanese spirituality, values, and way of life for centuries. Within these pages, you will encounter a pantheon of kami spirits, shape-shifting fox...

As discussed on Coast To Coast AM! What if there were a place on earth that matched Plato's description of Atlantis to a scientifically proven 99.32% accuracy? What if multiple historical documents corroborate the location? What if NASA satellite images were found that provided undeniable visual evidence? These are ...

This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical linkages to contemporary Caribbean theories of creoli...

This edited collection challenges and re-imagines what is ‘heritage’ in Britain as a globalised, vernacular, cosmopolitan ‘post-nation’. It takes its inspiration from the foundational work of public intellectual Stuart Hall (1932–2014). Hall was instrumental in calling out embedded elitist conceptions of ‘The Herita...

This book looks at the history of the EU’s trade negotiations with China from 1975 to 2019 from a distinctive perspective – the EU as a linkage power. The author explains how the EU through linkage strategies speaks with one voice, overcomes its weakness in military capabilities and translates its non-military capab...

「我一直記住セン天増說的話，他要我活著，要我把真相說出來，這是我的使命，也是同志賦予我此生的任務。」 ◎追尋泰源事件完整真相 ◎訴說台灣轉型正義落實的曲折歷程 ▋本書是政治受難前輩蔡寛裕的口述歷史訪談紀錄。 蔡寛裕先生，在1950、60年代台灣白色恐怖最レイ害的時期，曾兩度因案入獄，坐監長達十三年，對於蘇東啟案等政治案件及相關人...

他贏了戰爭，卻輸了江山；贏了政治，卻輸了歷史。 他的一生究竟是失敗還是勝利？ ★【中文版獨步全球 無刪改搶先面世！】★ 中國近代史專家潘佐夫最新鉅作，最權威的蔣介石傳記 揭露蔣介石神祕、複雜、矛盾的真實面貌 蔣介石ーー一個失敗的勝利者，也是勝利的失敗者， 他雖勝猶敗，又在敗中求勝， 打贏二次世界大戰，卻輸掉國共內戰； 長期在臺...

Burmese Days is set in 1920s imperial Burma, in the fictional district of Kyauktada, based on Kathar (formerly spelled Katha), a town where Orwell served. It is a thinly-veiled tale from the waning days of British colonialism when Burma was ruled from Delhi as a part of British India–a portrait of the dark side of t...

This Open Access book provides a comprehensive analysis of political reforms in Japan since the 1990s, emphasizing the role of ideas in shaping their goals and outcomes. For more than fifteen years following the collapse of Japan’s economic bubble, politicians, business people and academics tackled a range of instit...

More than 30 years ago, 24th Infantry Division soldiers answered the call of their Nation and went to war, first in Panama during Operation Just Cause to capture General Manuel Noriega and then in the Middle East during Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein. It was the 24th IDs...