Subverting Borders

Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific explores the making and consumption of conflict-related heritage throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Contributing to a growing literature on ‘difficult heritage’, this collection advances our understanding of how places of pain, shame, oppression, and trauma have been appropriated and refashioned as ‘heritage’ in a number of societies in contemporary East and Southeast Asia and Oceania. The authors analyse how the repackaging of difficult pasts as heritage can serve either to reinforce borders, transcend them, or even achieve both simultaneously, depending on the political agendas that inform the heritage-making process. They also examine the ways in which these processes respond to colonialism, decolonization, and nationalism. The volume shows how efforts to preserve various sites of ‘difficult heritage’ can involve the construction of new borders in the mind between what is commemorated and what is often deliberately obscured or forgotten. Tak

Carlo Urbani was an infective disease specialist with a beaming career, one of the most experienced in the world. He has received the Nobel Peace Prize as a national president of Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, MSF). On March 29, Urbani, ironically as the very first doctor discovering Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), was killed by the mysterious virus in a remote hospital of the Far East. Doctor Without Borders: Portrait of Carlo Urbani documents his remarkable life stories by including contents of manuscripts, interviews, and letters, in an attempt to honor Urbani’s memories in every way possible.

Do you know why there have been so many problems in various parts of the world? In furtherance of their colonial interests, British politicians from time to time wrote national borders for other peoples. They did so in the Balkans, in Africa and in the Middle East. They even drew the border between China and India. Such borders were very often not based on the conditions on the ground. This sowed the seeds of future conflicts. Open your eyes and be open-minded, learn history from different perspectives. Hear the other side, reflect on our own position, independent thinking, say no to double standard. What have we learnt from history? The Great Flood of Yahweh killed almost all living things (including the lovely boys and girls in China). Is this not genocide? In the Conquest of Canaan, did Yahweh not instruct his Chosen People to embark on genocide? Are these really consistent with the all-loving Christian God? God must have been very upset by so many people claiming to be Christia

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Taiwan to Launch The National Park service A New Journey in Conservation and Sustainable development Special Theme Steadfast Steps Respond to the Land's Gentle Calls Tracing the Establishment of the National Park Service Cover Story Let’s Protect the Mother Earth Together! Everyone's National Parks! Finding the Way to Harmonious Coexistence through Co-governance Conservation without Borders Transnational and Transregional Efforts to Protect the Environment and Ecology Bridging the Cultural Gap The Ongoing Practice of Cultural Inheritance and Transmission

In this ground-breaking, posthumous study, the late Lo Jung-pang discusses the geographic, political, and commercial factors that led to the emergence of seapower and a navy under the Ming. While Zheng He and his seven expeditions have received some scholarly attention, few understand the long history of maritime engagement which provided the nautical and technical background for these voyages. The evolution of this maritime engagement and its extension into the Indian Ocean is the focus of Lo’s still-timely and highly significant work. In addition to detailing the rise of the Ming navy and its extraordinary accomplishments, Lo also examines some of the factors that led to the end of China’s first great maritime era: Why did China suddenly seem to turn away from the seas? Were the military defeats in Annam and on the northern borders significant in this? Or were financial pressures key? Empire in the Western Ocean represents the most comprehensive and insightful English-language trea

痛苦無法避免、快樂可以選擇 本書已翻譯17種版本，全球銷量3,000,000冊，僅在美國Amazon, Barnes&Noble及Borders三大網路書店的銷量已逾1,000,000冊 「這是一種享受。」……這是一部很棒的作品，你可以從任意一章開始，到任意一章結束。 作者為我們對待家庭生活、為人處事等諸多方面提供了多種輕鬆幽默的戰略戰術。尤其讀完第九章時，我幾乎樂得難以自控。而本書的第六章，即「發掘你笑的潛力」——更為我們提供了重新審視生活的角度，讓人們看到了生活的輕鬆、幽默、光亮的一面。我真為此書拍案叫絕！——John Gray約翰．葛瑞（暢銷書《男人來自火星．女人來自金星》作者）

1849年加州興起淘金熱，數以萬計的華人苦力從中國廣東四平、台山一帶登船出海，航向遙遠的地平線，長途漫漫來到美洲「金山」，他們的故事成為亞裔美國的傳奇，他們的血汗建造美國的跨洲鐵路，他們變成湯亭亭(Maxine Hong Kingston)筆下的「金山勇士」，他們就是今日亞裔美國的始祖。 1882年排華法案之後，日本人、韓國人相繼來到美國，成為東亞勞工輸美的先河。1898年菲律賓群島被美國佔領，菲律賓人變成最早的境外亞美人。其後1950年代的韓戰，1960年代的越戰造成無數韓裔、越裔兒童或被收養或經逃難來到美國。回顧十九、二十世紀的亞洲與美國，亞/美之間充斥離散、戰爭與殖民。 亞美文學在台灣從早期單德興、何文敬主編的專書(1994, 1996)，其後張瓊惠、張錦忠(2001)、李秀娟(2006)、王智明(2012)等編輯專刊，近二十年已然綠樹成蔭，論述有成，這段歷史說明了亞美文學在臺灣的建制化，也展現了臺灣學術與全球接軌的枝蔓。本書收錄的十二篇論文，分別從不同的角度論述亞洲與美國「破碎國境」(porous borders)之間的跨越、往返、滲透與交疊，章節結構依地理分為四輯：華美文學、日美文學、韓美與越美文學、馬美與菲美文學。 本書特色 1.亞美文學研究領域的重要參考書。 2.第一本收錄華裔、日本、韓國、菲律賓、馬來西亞與越南裔亞美文學論文的專書，為亞美文學在臺灣更添新葉。