Empires of Panic is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and managed across different colonial, imperial, and post-imperial settings—from early nineteenth-cen
The Business of Culture examines the rise of Chinese "cultural entrepreneurs," businesspeople who risked financial well-being and reputation by investing in multiple cultural enterprises in the late n
本書是Globalization: A Short History的中文版，是精而簡地討論全球化的入門讀物。全球化被認為是最近數十年才出現的現象，但本書作者卻認為全球化並不是嶄新時代的來臨，而僅僅是歷史洪流中演變過程的一部分。作者指出早於7-8個世紀前，全球化已藉著大型貿易活動奠下根基，而中國在元代或以前與中東甚至北非地區相當繁盛的貿易，亦為一例。本書把全球化的歷史從古到今分為四個階段，分別是(1
In December 1846, the Keying, a Chinese junk purchased by British investors, set sail from Hong Kong for London. Named after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner who had signed away Hong Kong to the Brit
Royal Navy submarine HMS Poseidon sank in collision with a freighter during routine exercises in 1931 off the Chinese coast. Thirty of its fifty-six-man crew scrambled out of the hatches as it went do
