Författare: Brook Timothy Brook

Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning. Sacred Mandates, edited by Timothy Brook, …

In this critical darling Vermeer’s captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing–were transformed in the 17th century, when the worl …

From the author of the award-winning Vermeer’s Hat, a historical detective story decoding a long-forgotten link between seventeenth century Europe and China.Timothy Brook’s award-winning Vermeer’s Ha …

The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire-a millennium and a half in the making-was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been be …

Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. In a bold new w …

Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we …

After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that s …

The Tang dynasty is often called China’s "golden age, " a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed liter …

In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West.The Great Qing was the s …

After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that s …

The Tang dynasty is often called China’s "golden age, " a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed liter …

In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental …