A Narrative of Cultural Encounter in Southern China

A Narrative of Cultural Encounter in Southern ChinaUsing a local land reclamation project of the later eighth century, this book explores the interaction between a local culture of the southeast coast and the Sinitic culture of the north.

A counter-touristic guide to one of the world’s fastest developing megacities

The essays are rooted in medieval literature but frequently range beyond the confines of the Middle Ages

wills and deathbeds

The Orchard Keeper

This book examines the way homosexuality snaked through expert discourse in Soviet courts

during that brief but dangerous period of nuclear history

and cartography

urbanization and sustainability

Taken together or separately

Academically informed but written for a general audience

a novel national defence force of the Second World War composed of civilians who served as part-time soldiers: it questions accounts of the force and the war

Friendship