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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “chunming wu”
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  • The Prehistoric Maritime Frontier of Southeast China

    Indigenous Bai Yue and Their Oceanic Dispersal

    by Chunming Wu ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book presents multidisciplinary research on the cultural history, ethnic connectivity, and oceanic transportation of the ancient Indigenous Bai Yue (百越) in the prehistoric maritime region of southeast China and southeast Asia. In this maritime Frontier of China, historical documents demonstrate the development of the “barbarian” Bai Yue and Island Yi (岛夷) and their cultural ... Read more

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  • Prehistoric Maritime Cultures and Seafaring in East Asia

    Edited by Chunming Wu, Barry Vladimir Rolett ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on prehistoric East Asian maritime cultures that pre-dated the Maritime Silk Road, the "Four Seas" and "Four Oceans" navigation system recorded in historical documents of ancient China. Origins of the Maritime Silk Road can be traced to prosperous Neolithic and Metal Age maritime-oriented cultures dispersed along the coastlines of prehistoric China and Southeast Asia.The topics ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region

    A Maritime Archaeological Perspective

    Edited by Chunming Wu ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents the proceedings of the international academic workshop on “Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Maritime Archaeological Perspective” held from June 21-23, 2013 at Harvard University campus and organized by Harvard-Yenching Institute. It includes high-quality papers focusing on the historical shipwrecks investigated by underwater archaeologists from Eastern Asian, ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

  • Archaeology of Manila Galleon Seaports and Early Maritime Globalization

    Edited by Chunming Wu, Roberto Junco Sanchez, Miao Liu ...
    Series Book 2 - The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation
    This book focuses on the archaeological and historical research on the seaport heritage of galleon navigation in Asia-Pacific region. It reconstructs the Manila Galleons’ era of early maritime globalization, established and operated by Spanish navigators from the 16th to 19th centuries. The galleons sailed across the Pacific via the hub seaports and trade centers of Manila in the Philippines and ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

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  • The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

    by James C. Scott ...
    For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge ... Read more

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  • The Retreat of the Elephants

    An Environmental History of China

    by Mark Elvin ...
    The eminent China scholar delivers a landmark study of Chinese culture's relationship to the natural environment across thousands of years of history.Spanning the three millennia for which there are written records, The Retreat of the Elephants is the first comprehensive environmental history of China. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources ... Read more

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  • A Record of Cambodia

    The Land and Its People

    by Zhou Daguan, Peter Harris (Translator) ...
    Translated, with an introduction and notes, by Peter HarrisOnly one person has given us a first-hand account of the civilization of Angkor. This is the Chinese envoy, Zhou Daguan, who visited Angkor in 1296–97 and wrote A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People after his return to China. To this day, Zhou’s description of the royal palace, sacred buildings, women, traders, slaves, hill people, ... Read more

    $19.98 USD

  • Atlas

    The Archaeology of an Imaginary City

    by Kai-cheung Dung ...
    Translated by Kai-cheung Dung, Anders Hansson, Bonnie McDougall ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Set in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), Atlas is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. Divided into four sections—"Theory," "The City," "Streets," and "Signs"—the novel reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing real-world scenarios with purely ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • China

    A New Cultural History

    by Cho-yun Hsu ...
    Series series Masters of Chinese Studies
    An internationally recognized authority on Chinese history and a leading innovator in its telling, Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese culture. Unlike most historians, Hsu resists centering his narrative on China's political evolution, focusing instead on the country's cultural sphere and its encounters with successive waves of globalization. Beginning long before China's ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia

    The Eclectic Architecture of Sojourners and Settlers

    by Ronald G. Knapp ...
    Featuring over 350 beautiful photographs, Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia captures the architectural heritage of a vibrant community.The multiple Chinese migrations from southeastern China to Southeast Asia have had important implications for both regions. In Southeast Asia this influence can be seen in the architecturally eclectic homes these migrants and their descendants built as they became ... Read more

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  • The Yellow River

    A Natural and Unnatural History

    by Ruth Mostern ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    A three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscapeFrom Neolithic times to the present day, the Yellow River and its watershed have both shaped and been shaped by human society. Using the Yellow River to illustrate the long-term effects of environmentally significant human activity, Ruth Mostern unravels the long history of the ... Read more

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  • Archaeology of East Asia

    The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan

    by Gina L. Barnes ...
    Archaeology of East Asia constitutes an introduction to social and political development from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times. It takes a regional view across China, Korea, Japan and their peripheries that is unbounded by modern state lines. This viewpoint emphasizes how the region drew on indigenous developments and exterior stimuli to produce agricultural technologies, craft ... Read more

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