Experience dramatic mountain vistas and karst caves with China's most famous travel writer Xu Xiake stands as China's most distinguished traveler and travel writer, whose extensive journeys through Ming-dynasty China offer a unique window into the era's geography, history, and cultural traditions. This new, fully annotated English translation of ......
Experience dramatic mountain vistas and karst caves with China's most famous travel writer Xu Xiake stands as China's most distinguished traveler and travel writer, whose extensive journeys through Ming-dynasty China offer a unique window into the era's geography, history, and cultural traditions. This new, fully annotated English translation of ......
Reveals the limits and exclusions of defining desire as universal Compulsory sexuality--where sexual desire is seen as fundamental to human experience--not only pervades popular culture but is foundational to scientific research. Through a sharp intersectional lens, Kristina Gupta's Acing Science interrogates a wide range of scientific studies, ......
Reveals the limits and exclusions of defining desire as universal Compulsory sexuality--where sexual desire is seen as fundamental to human experience--not only pervades popular culture but is foundational to scientific research. Through a sharp intersectional lens, Kristina Gupta's Acing Science interrogates a wide range of scientific studies, ......
Curiosity and Common Knowledge in Early Modern China
Explores the relationship between fantastical literature and scientific inquiry What did early modern Chinese readers believe about dragons, thunder, or fate, and where did they learn it? Observing the Unseen explores how literate and marginally literate people in China between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries investigated the invisible, ......
Curiosity and Common Knowledge in Early Modern China
Explores the relationship between fantastical literature and scientific inquiry What did early modern Chinese readers believe about dragons, thunder, or fate, and where did they learn it? Observing the Unseen explores how literate and marginally literate people in China between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries investigated the invisible, ......
How migrants imagined a country through their acts of return What does it mean to go back home, especially when "home" is shaped by conquest, labor, and longing? This question has animated the experiences of global migrants displaced by imperialism, capital, and the nation-states that have sought to manage their movements for their own political ......
How migrants imagined a country through their acts of return What does it mean to go back home, especially when "home" is shaped by conquest, labor, and longing? This question has animated the experiences of global migrants displaced by imperialism, capital, and the nation-states that have sought to manage their movements for their own political ......
The rediscovery of an important American surrealist painter Elsa Thoresen (1906-1994), born in Minnesota to Norwegian immigrant parents, studied at the School of Arts and Crafts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo and at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. After marrying Danish artist Vilhelm Bjerke Petersen in 1935, she began working in a ......
