Regional History

15 books

Ancient History of Central Asia cover
Rating 4.2
Ancient History of Central Asia 费耐生 Luminaire Books · 2024 This book is the last monograph by the American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian studies Richard N. Frye (1920–2014), originally titled The Herita…
Rural Society in Central Prefecture During the Tang Dynasty cover
Rural Society in Central Prefecture During the Tang Dynasty Liu Xingyun Gansu People's Publishing House · 2007 We are used to knowing the Tang dynasty through the palaces of Chang'an, the wards and markets of Luoyang, and the famous lines of its poets; yet what…
Studies in East Asian Regional History and the Silk Road cover
Rating 4.0
Studies in East Asian Regional History and the Silk Road 魏志江 / 张晓刚 / 陈奉林 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2025 East Asian Regional History and Silk Road Studies is the proceedings of this conference, compiled from selected papers. The 22 papers included in the …
Notes on the Fenland with A Description of the Shippea Man cover
Rating 2.9
Notes on the Fenland with A Description of the Shippea Man Hughes, Thomas McKenny, 1832-1917 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Oregon Territory, Its History and Discovery cover
Rating 3.0
The Oregon Territory, Its History and Discovery Twiss, Travers, 1809-1897 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
A Historical Study of the Formation of the East Asian World (New Edition) cover
Rating 4.1
A Historical Study of the Formation of the East Asian World (New Edition) 韩昇 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 This book will undoubtedly play a very important role in helping Chinese readers understand the history of the formation of the East Asian world. It n…
Craft Inheritance: A Study of the Salt Industry and Local Society of the Lancang River cover
Rating 3.7
Craft Inheritance: A Study of the Salt Industry and Local Society of the Lancang River 李何春 Jinan University Press · 2025 Centered on salt—a substance closely tied to human survival and daily life—this book offers a comprehensive analysis of salt production in the Lancang…
An Environmental History of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region cover
Rating 4.0
An Environmental History of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region 孙冬虎 / Li Cheng / 吴文涛 / 高福美 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2025 Environmental History of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region is the final output of a National Social Science Fund project of the same name. Treating Bei…
Jinan Historiography (Volume 27) cover
Rating 3.2
Jinan Historiography (Volume 27) 马建春 Jinan University Press · 2025 This volume collects 19 papers, including “A Study of the Spread and Influence of Three Kingdoms Stories in Vietnam,” “Contested Frontiers and the Rec…
The Mount Wutai Region from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China: A Study of Temple Fairs and Village Life cover
Rating 3.2
The Mount Wutai Region from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China: A Study of Temple Fairs and Village Life 赵新平 The Commercial Press · 2023 This book takes temple fairs and village life in the Mount Wutai region from the Ming and Qing dynasties to the Republic of China as its subject, plac…
East China in the Changing Situation of the War of Resistance cover
Rating 4.0
East China in the Changing Situation of the War of Resistance 吴敏超 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2023 East China during the upheavals of the War of Resistance was in a complex situation where the frontal battlefield and the behind-enemy-lines battlefie…
Cultivating Literature cover
Rating 2.7
Cultivating Literature Anonymous The Commercial Press · 2020 Xiuwen was successively part of Liangzhou, Jingzhou, and the Yelang kingdom in the pre-Qin period. From the Qin and Han onward, it belonged in turn to…
Borrowing the Topic to Elaborate (Books and People Series) cover
Rating 3.8
Borrowing the Topic to Elaborate (Books and People Series) Liu Zhiwei Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2019 This collection of 27 prefaces, postscripts, and book reviews distills the author's many years of reading and scholarly reflection. Although each essa…
Ming-Qing Huizhou Merchants and Social Change in Huaiyang (Revised Edition) cover
Rating 4.4
Ming-Qing Huizhou Merchants and Social Change in Huaiyang (Revised Edition) Wang Zhenzhong SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 Apart from some technical handling of the original text (such as correcting obvious errors in quotations and expression), the revised edition of Merch…
Chaozhou Studies Series: Lineage and Society in Chaoshan since the Sixteenth Century cover
Rating 4.1
Chaozhou Studies Series: Lineage and Society in Chaoshan since the Sixteenth Century 黄挺 Jinan University Press · 2016 This book is a collection of the author's papers on lineage and traditional rural culture in Chaoshan. Organized by topic, it helps readers gain an in…