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The Ming Emperor Yongle
The reign of Emperor Yongle, or “Perpetual Happiness,” was one of the most dramatic and significant in Chinese history. It began with civil war an...
Historical Encounters with the East and the West
For centuries the island of Taiwan, 100 miles off the Asian mainland, has been a crossroads for traders and settlers, pirates and military schemers fr...
This book is the first on Chinese eunuchs in English and presents a comprehensive picture of the role that they played in the Ming dynasty, 1368-1644....
How have the Chinese fared in America? What motivated them to come here in the nineteenth century? How were they received by native Americans? These a...
The book is an account of Taiwan's evolving national consciousness told through the biography of its former President Lee Teng-hui - the central figur...
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Examines the development of the Tenant Union between 1924 and 1934, and it during the 1940s and 1950s, which saw the end of Japanese rule, arrival of ...