Bronze Age Maritime and Warrior Dynamics in Island East Asia

Recent interdisciplinary studies, combining scientific techniques such as ancient DNA analysis with humanistic re-evaluations of the transcultural value of bronze, have presented archaeologists with a fresh view of the Bronze Age in Europe. The new research emphasises long-distance connectivities and political decentralisation. 'Bronzisation' is discussed as a type of proto-globalisation. In th…

Island fantasia :imagining subjects on the military frontline between China a…

The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move…

The prehistoric maritime frontier of Southeast China :indigenous Bai Yue and …

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ISBN/ISSN

9789811640797

Collation

xxiii, 264 pg; ill.

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931.01 THE

Chinese Circulation :Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia

Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning and sometimes settling, during their voyages. These ventures have taken place by land and by sea, over mountains and across deserts, linking China with vast stretches of Southeast Asia in a broad, mercantile embrace. Chinese Circulations provides an unprecedented overview of this trade, its scope, diversity, and complex…

The prehistoric maritime frontier of Southeast China :indigenous Bai Yue and …

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9789811640797

Collation

xxiii, 264 pg; ill.

Series Title

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Call Number

931.01 THE