Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

D.シャンボー編　アジアにおける国際関係　第3版
Shambaugh, David (ed.), International Relations of Asia. 3rd ed. (Asia in World Politics) 466 pp. 2022:6 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <674-965>
ISBN 978-1-5381-6284-2 hard ¥29,537.- (税込) US$ 137.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5381-6285-9 paper ¥11,211.- (税込) US$ 52.00 *

As the world's most vital region, Asia embodies explosive economic growth, diverse political systems, vibrant societies, modernizing militaries, cutting-edge technologies, rich cultural traditions amid globalization, and strategic competition among major powers. As a result, international relations in Asia are evolving rapidly. In this fully updated and expanded volume, leading scholars offer the most current and definitive analysis available of Asia's regional relationships. They set developments in Asia in theoretical context, assess the role of leading external and regional powers, and consider the importance of subregional actors and linkages. Students and policy practitioners alike will find this book invaluable for understanding politics in contemporary Asia.

M.J.グリーン他著　インド・太平洋地域において民主的なパートナーシップを促進する
Green, Michael J. / Szechenyi, Nicholas / Fodale, Hannah, Enhancing Democratic Partnership in the Indo-Pacific Region. (CSIS Reports) 78 pp. 2022:3 (Center for Strategic & International Studies, US) <674-950>
ISBN 978-1-5381-4047-5 paper ¥10,348.- (税込) US$ 48.00 *

This study builds on a report CSIS published in 2020 on ways the United States can partner with allies and partners to enhance democratic partnership in the Indo-Pacific region. This follow-on effort includes case studies on the democracy support efforts of Australia, Japan, India, Indonesia, South Korea, and Taiwan; comparisons of democracy support strategies; data on official development assistance (ODA) funding related to democracy broadly defined; and recommendations for ways the United States can coordinate democracy support initiatives in the region with like-minded partners as well as regional networks and institutions.

Fahimi, Miriam / Flatschart, Elmar / Schaffar, W. (eds.), State and Statehood in the Global South: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies. 245 pp. 2022:4 (Springer, GW) <674-877>
ISBN 978-3-030-93999-1 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book focuses on critical approaches to the state and state theory in the Global South. In light of the reemergence of the post-colonial and peripheral state as a crucial institution and actor in the 21st century's capitalist world-system, the book examines the nature, functions and development dynamics of the state in the periphery, as well as its constituting interests and struggles. Drawing on the works of Poulantzas and Gramsci, dependency and world-systems theory, as well as the regulation school and the German Ableitungsdebatte, stategraphy and critical realism, it analyzes the development of different theoretical perspectives on the state, elaborates on their theoretical, ontological and epistemological presuppositions, and illustrates their methodological, practical and ethical implications. The book is divided into three parts, the first of which provides an overview of recent global capitalist developments and challenges for state theory andlays the theoretical, ontological and hermeneutic foundation for studies of the state and statehood in the Global South. In turn, the second part introduces readers to different schools of state theory, including critical theory and materialism, as well as approaches derived from postcolonial, anthropological, and feminist thought. Lastly, the third part presents various empirical studies, highlighting concrete methodological and practical experiences of conducting critical state theory.

Chang, Wen-Chen / Loper, K. / Malagodi, M. et al. (eds.), Gender, Sexuality and Constitutionalism in Asia. (Constitutionalism in Asia) 240 pp. 2024 (Hart, UK) <674-615>
ISBN 978-1-5099-4191-9 hard ¥25,641.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

This book analyses the equal citizenship claims of women and sexual and gender diverse people across several Asian jurisdictions. The volume examines the rich diversity of constitutional responses to sex, gender and sexuality in the region from a comparative perspective. Leading comparative constitutional law scholars identify 'opportunity structures' to explain the uneven advancement of gender equality through constitutional litigation and consider a combination of variables which shape the diverging trajectories of the jurisdictions in this study. The authors also embed the relevant constitutional and legal developments in their historical, political and social contexts. This deep contextual understanding of the relationship between sex, gender, sexuality and constitutionalism greatly enriches the analysis. The case studies reflect a variety of constitutional structures, institutional designs and contextual dynamics which may advance or impede developments with respect to sex, gender and sexuality. As a whole, the chapters further an understanding of the constitutional domain as a fruitful site for advancing gender equality and the rights of sexual and gender diverse people. The jurisdictions covered represent all Asian sub-regions including: East Asia (Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea), South East Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia), and South Asia (India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). The introductory framework chapter situates these insights from the region within the broader global context of the evolution of gender constitutionalism.

Alfers, Laura / Chen, Marty / Plagerson, Sophie, Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. 256 pp. 2022:6 (E. Elgar, UK) <674-392>
ISBN 978-1-83910-805-1 hard ¥28,205.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00 *

Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South draws on the accounts of informal workers, who represent over 60 per cent of the global workforce, to advocate for radically new conceptualizations of state-society, capital-labour and state-capital-labour relations, illustrating how current social contracts may be considered inadequate, irrelevant or unjust.Bridging social contract theories, both mainstream and critical, and the experiences of informal workers - self-employed, wage employed and sub-contracted - this book sheds light on how many existing social contract models stigmatize informal workers and do not offer legal or social protection. Instead of ideologically driven 'top-down' calls to revitalize the social contract, it advocates for 'bottom-up' initiatives focused on the demands of the working poor in the informal economy.With a wealth of cross-national evidence, as well as promising case studies, this timely and thought-provoking book will prove vital for scholars and researchers of informal workers and of state-capital-labour relations; and for policy makers negotiating new social contracts.

Hewamanne, Sandya / Yadav, Smytta (eds.), The Political Economy of Post-COVID Life and Work in the Global South: Pandemic and Precarity. (International Political Economy Series) X, 190 pp. 2022:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <674-395>
ISBN 978-3-030-93227-5 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book covers various case studies that cross-compare dichotomies of welfare and economic gains in economies of the global south and how they impact citizens as workers. It reflects on how the reorganization of the developmental state is different than in the past (before the pandemic and lockdown) and how it responds to global challenges while also dealing with limited resources and an unregulated informal economy. It investigates whether the developmental state model in late industrializing economies is still an effective development strategy in terms of governance, institution building, industrial policy, and welfare in the post- pandemic recovery efforts. Using the cases of Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil, the authors look at how COVID-19 has significantly affected worker conditions and safety hazards, as well as the ability to hold local managers and global companies accountable for upholding national occupational health standards in such conditions. The authors bring together the voices of workers, activists, and health officials to discuss the conditions of possibility for ensuring occupational health standards. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, such a discussion, in fact, becomes one about ensuring life over death.

Thomas, David / Chesworth, John A. (eds.), Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 19: Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America (1800-1914). (Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History 47) 1000 pp. 2022:6 (Brill, NE) <674-257>
ISBN 978-90-04-47167-2 hard ¥58,614.- (税込) EUR 249.00 *

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History19 (CMR 19), covering Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean in the period 1800-1914, is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and the main body of detailed entries. These treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. They provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous new and leading scholars, CMR 19, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section Editors: Ines Asceric-Todd, Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabe Pons, Jaco Beyers, Emanuele Colombo, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanislaw Grodz, Alan Guenther, Vincenzo Lavenia, Arely Medina, Diego Melo Carrasco, Alain Messaoudi, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Charles Ramsey, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Cornelia Soldat, Charles Tieszen, Carsten Walbiner, Catherina Wenzel

Westcott, Stephen P., Armed Coexistence: The Dynamics of the Intractable Sino-Indian Border Dispute. (Politics of South Asia) 301 pp. 2022 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <674-1011>
ISBN 978-981-16-7449-5 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *
ISBN 978-981-16-7452-5 paper ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book is the first to comprehensively explore the origins and reasons behind the Sino-Indian border dispute's intractability. Utilising an array of accurate maps, tables, archival and scholarly research, this book shows how an ambiguous frontier became a contested border and how it has become relatively pacified yet remaining unresolved. Unlike previous examinations, however, this book also provides a theoretically based explanation as to why it is so difficult for an interstate border dispute to be resolved. By examining a wide range of salient actors, from state leaders to the individual governing organisations to the State itself, it is shown that it is usually in their interest to maintain the status quo rather than seek some form of resolution, thereby ensuring that the border dispute remains intractable. With both China and India shaping up to be major powers throughout the twenty-first century, a detailed examination of the major issue of contention between them is more pertinent now than ever.

J.エイデルマン他編　第三世界の発明－戦後のグローバル・サウスのための自由の探求
Adelman, Jeremy / Prakash, Gyan (eds.), Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South. (Histories of Internationalism) 256 pp. 2022:11 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <674-1013>
ISBN 978-1-350-26815-9 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

This open access book explores the ways in which the global south reimagined the future world order at the end of the Second World War, and the cultural and intellectual breakthroughs that these new narratives created. The end of the Second World War and the eclipse of empires brought a wave of efforts to reimagine the future world order. When nation states emerging from colonial rule met at Bandung to chart alternative destinies and challenge global inequalities, they hoped to create a less hierarchical, more pluralistic and more distributive world. This volume considers the alternative visions put forth by the third world at the close of WWII to recover their world-changing aspirations as well as its cultural and intellectual breakthroughs.Demonstrating how the invention of the third world sought to create new institutions of solidarity, new expressions and alternative narratives to the imperial ones that they had inherited, this book reveals how writers, artists, musicians and photographers created networks to circulate and exchange these ideas. Exploring these ideas put forth from various regions of the global south, the chapters trace their search for new meanings of freedom, self-determination and the promise of development. Out of this moment came efforts in the south to create new histories of global relations, icons and genres, and placed the promises of decolonization and struggles for social and racial justice at the centre of global history.Showing how efforts to remake the world intersected with and altered the trajectories of the global Cold War, Inventing the Third World discusses how this conflict existed outside of the traditional east-west framework and offers an insight into a radically different 'global cultural cold war'. It shows that the Cold War era was marked by attempts to bring about a different world order that would achieve global racial, social justice and a different kind of peace.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open Access was funded by Princeton University, USA.

Anas, Omair (ed.), Turkey's Asia Relations. X, 240 pp. 2022:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <674-1015>
ISBN 978-3-030-93514-6 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book explores shifts in Turkey's foreign policy and the relevance of Turkey's reconnect offensive with Asia. With the end of the Cold War, Turkey and the West had lost the mutuality of interests and threat perceptions, particularly towards Russia. Western countries are now occupied by the rise of China and are in search of new allies in the Asia Pacific. Turkey is left in its region to deal with Russia and crises that are primary outcomes of Western failures in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Azerbaijan, and Qatar. In the absence of its Western allies, Turkey engaged with Russia alone to deconflict and stabilise Syria, Libya, and Azerbaijan. Turkey's ruling conservative AK Party, however, had won elections from 2002 to 2012 on a strong pro-EU and pro-West agenda. Now, it is talking about ‘strategic autonomy’, ‘multidimensionalism’, ‘diversification’, or ‘the world is bigger than five’. The new foreign policy gestures are underpinned by the rise of the domestic defence industry, nationalist politics at home, and increased trade relations with key Asian economies, China, India, and Indonesia. At an international level, the ruling party has instrumentalised strong criticism of the West for injustice and neglect of the Turkish, Muslim, Islamic, and non-western world. Although this reminds of the history of Turkey's failed quests to shift from a West-centric foreign policy to an unknown direction, the book argues that Turkey's reconnect with Asia is rather to complement and strengthen its relations with the West.

Baillargeon, David / Taylor, Jeremy E. (eds.), Spatial Histories of Occupation: Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia. 264 pp. 2022:4 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <674-1016>
ISBN 978-1-350-25260-8 hard ¥25,641.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

This open access book explores how different spatial geographies emerged, adapted or were transformed in various occupied and colonial settings around Asia, showing how the experiences of those living under occupation shaped and was shaped by new interpretations and typologies of 'space'. With case studies across South, Southeast and East Asia and through a variety of disciplinary perspectives, Spatial Histories of Occupation adopts a trans-Asian comparative approach to show how the experiences of occupation and colonialism shifted under particular spatial typologies, particularly in urban, maritime and rural settings.Revealing the similarities, differences and connections that existed between and across different spaces of foreign occupation and colonialism in modern Asian history, this book shows how a focus on historical geography and 'space' can revise our broader categories and conceptualisations related to occupation; be it under colonial, wartime or Cold War powers.The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The European Research Council.

Boshier, Carol Ann, Forgotten Voices of the British Empire: How Knowledge was Created and Curated in Colonial India and Burma. 312 pp. 2022:2 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <674-1017>
ISBN 978-1-5381-5988-0 hard ¥28,459.- (税込) US$ 132.00 *

This study investigates the contribution made by outsiders in accumulating knowledge from the days of the East India Company until the early twentieth century, when photography became an important tool for recording information. It focuses on heterogeneous voices on the periphery, who interacted with the indigenous population to produce knowledge in original or unexpected ways that extended beyond the limits prescribed by the term 'colonial.' Largely unrecognized today, their endeavors to satisfy their own intellectual curiosity, or improve their material circumstances, produced a perspective on colonial life that stripped away conventions; where their ordinary everyday experiences sometimes became extraordinary, as they forged new networks throughout the subcontinent and beyond its frontiers. Their journeys and experiences offer a discursive historical construct as significant as official reports, censuses, and surveys, and contribute towards our understanding of the diverse creative processes through which intellectual histories of the colonial state were constructed.

Buskens, Leon / Witkam, Jan Just et al. (eds.), Scholarship in Action: Essays on the Life and Work of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936). (The History of Oriental Studies 12) 884 pp. 2022:1 (Brill, NE) <674-1018>
ISBN 978-90-04-51359-4 hard ¥35,074.- (税込) EUR 149.00

The Dutch scholar Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) was one of the most famous orientalists of his time. He acquired early fame through his daring research in Mecca in 1884-85, masterly narrated in two books and accompanied by two portfolios of photographs. As an adviser to the colonial government in the Dutch East Indies from 1889 until 1906, he was on horseback during campaigns of "pacification" and published extensively on Indonesian cultures and languages. Meanwhile he successively married two Sundanese women with whom he had several children. In 1906 he became a professor in Leiden and promoted together with colleagues abroad the study of modern Islam, meant to be useful for colonial purposes. Despite his considerable scholarly, political, and cultural influence in the first decades of the twentieth century, nowadays Snouck Hurgronje has been almost forgotten outside a small circle of specialists, since he mainly published in Dutch and German. The contributors to this volume each offer new insights about this enigmatic scholar and political actor who might be considered a classic proponent of "orientalism." Their detailed studies of his life and work challenge us to reconsider common views of the history of the study of Islam in European academia and encourage a more nuanced "post-orientalist" approach with ample attention for cooperation, exchange, and hybridization. Contributors:

アジアにおける強制収容所
Cribb, Robert / Twomey, C. / Wilson, S. (eds.), Detention Camps in Asia: The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asian History. (Social Sciences in Asia 41) 368 pp. 2022:7 (Brill, NE) <674-1020>
ISBN 978-90-04-47172-6 hard ¥30,602.- (税込) EUR 130.00

Why have Asian states - colonial and independent - imprisoned people on a massive scale in detention camps? How have detainees experienced the long months and years of captivity? And what does the creation of camps and the segregation of people in them mean for society as a whole? This ambitious book surveys the systems of detention camps set up in Asia from the beginning of the 20th century in The Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Malaya, Myanmar (Burma), Vietnam, Timor, Korea and China.

Indrawan, Mochamad / Luzar, J. B. / Hanna, H. et al. (eds.), Civic Engagement in Asia: Transformative Learning for a Sustainable Future. 212 pp. 2022:4 (Springer, GW) <674-1024>
ISBN 978-981-16-9383-0 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book confronts issues relating to climate change and sustainable development innovations in Asia, with attention to key issues and applications in terms of advocacy, governance, citizen science, tradition, faith, leadership, and education. With contributions by 31 leading thinkers from countries in Asia, the book presents issues and poses potential solutions for sustainable development, responding to questions relating to problems prioritized by non-state actors for civic engagement. It also puts forward key strategies and methods used for civic engagement. Drawing from diverse sets of practical and scholarly experience and expertise in geographical and social arenas, authors draw from real-time engagement with specific peoples, often associated with civil society organizations, and conduct an exploration of the essential issue of what the world means in the context of different cultures, thus constructively fusing the two key themes of ecology and anthropology. In doing so, this book enables new ways of thinking about human relationships with nature, relating rich and diverse examples of transformative learning. Co-published with Indonesian press OBOR, this is a vital collection for practitioners and researchers working in areas of ecology, sustainable development, human ecology, governance, geography, environmental science and post-neoliberal economics, particularly in an Asian context. "Civic Engagement in Asia weaves together a set of fascinating stories and examples of sustainable development practice told from the perspectives of non-state actors. Written by a set of top scholars and activists from around the region, it will be an informative read for all those who feel a sense of urgency around the environmental, social, and economic transformations taking place across Asia today" - Celia Lowe, Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle

Kidd, Sophia, Culture Paves The New Silk Roads. (Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics) 239 pp. 2022:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <674-1025>
ISBN 978-981-16-8573-6 hard ¥21,182.- (税込) EUR 89.99

This book approaches Silk Road studies from within the microcosm of China's Southwest avant-garde arts sector in order to approach the macrocosm of China's cultural heritage and creative industry influence worldwide. While reading China's cultural hegemony and its attendant ideologies as 'shaping' memory and history throughout New Silk Road regions, the book includes new regional research from within China's borders, as well as throughout New Silk Road regions. With twenty years of experience in China, Sophia G. Kidd fills a void in discussions of the New Silk Roads (NSR) which fail to underscore the importance of the initiative's people-to-people component. Cultural diplomacy aids cooperation between New Silk Road Regions by reducing 'cultural discount' of Chinese cultural exports, i.e., ideas and values, creating a shift of geo-cultural thinking to come. This book will prove illuminating for students of the arts and soft power in greater China.

岡美穂子編　海域の東アジアにおける戦争と交易
Oka, Mihoko (ed.), War and Trade in Maritime East Asia. (Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History) 282 pp. 2022:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <674-1027>
ISBN 978-981-16-7368-9 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book is divided into two parts. One is the state of trade in East Asia before and after the collapse of the tributary system to the Ming Dynasty, and the other is the war of aggression in which Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Japan sent a large number of troops to the Korean Peninsula with a view of conquering China at the end of the sixteenth century. With regard to East Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the contributors in this book share a problem awareness in terms of using trade and war as subjects to clarify multi-ethnic, borderless, and multilayered situations. Although there are many chapters related to Japan, this book tries to grasp the interaction between Japan as a region of East Asia and neighboring countries from a global perspective, not the one singular national history.

Ramirez, Susan Elizabeth, In Praise of the Ancestors: Names, Identity, and Memory in Africa and the Americas. (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies) 248 pp. 2022:6 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <674-1028>
ISBN 978-1-4962-3025-6 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4962-3147-5 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Apart from collective memories of lived experiences, much of the modern world's historical sense comes from written sources stored in the archives of the world, and some scholars in the not-so-distant past have described unlettered civilizations as "peoples without history." In Praise of the Ancestors is a revisionist interpretation of early colonial accounts that reveal incongruities in accepted knowledge about three Native groups. Susan Elizabeth Ramirez reevaluates three case studies of oral traditions using positional inheritance-a system in which names and titles are inherited from one generation by another and thereby contribute to the formation of collective memories and a group identity. Ramirez begins by examining positional inheritance and perpetual kinship among the Kazembes in central Africa from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Next, her analysis moves to the Native groups of the Iroquois Confederation and their practice of using names to memorialize remarkable leaders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Finally, Ramirez surveys naming practices of the Andeans, based on sixteenth-century manuscript sources and later testimonies found in Spanish and Andean archives, questioning colonial narratives by documenting the use of this alternative system of memory perpetuation, which was initially unrecognized by the Spaniards. In the process of reexamining the histories of Native peoples on three continents, Ramirez broaches a wider issue: namely, understanding of the nature of knowledge as fundamental to understanding and evaluating the knowledge itself.

Szechenyi, Nicholas / Green, Michael J. (eds.), Asianism and Universalism: The Evolution of Norms and Power in Modern Asia. (CSIS Reports) 44 pp. 2021:9 (Center for Strategic & International Studies, US) <674-1030>
ISBN 978-1-4422-8099-1 paper ¥10,995.- (税込) US$ 51.00 *

This collection of essays addresses the interplay of democratic norms and cultural identity within Asia. The overall question for the volume is how the dueling identities of Asianism (regional exceptionalism) and universalism (democratic norms) are shaping state discourse and behavior in Asia. This is based on a dialogue of scholars organized by CSIS to examine national perspectives on Asianism and universalism across the region, as well as the role of regional democracies in developing a common understanding of rules and norms as the foundation for a more stable regional order. The introduction provides context for these normative debates in the region and addresses the potential to prioritize democracy promotion in foreign policy strategy as segue to essays analyzing normative debates in Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia, and the United States.

尖閣諸島をめぐる主権へのアプローチ－琉球と沖縄の視点
Wong, Tin, Approaching Sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands: From the Perspectives of Ryukyu and Okinawa. (China Academic Library) 439 pp. 2022:4 (Springer, GW) <674-1033>
ISBN 978-981-16-6545-5 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book discusses the sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands from the perspectives of Ryukyu and Okinawa. Written in chronological order, the book has 13 chapters featuring 121 documents and maps. The first 12 chapters explain, based on detailed historical facts on the Diaoyu Islands, the rise and decline of the Ryukyu Kingdom and the historical roles of China, Japan, and the United States in the history of the kingdom. The final chapter is an overview of the Sino-Ryukyuan, Japan-Ryukyuan and US-Ryukyuan relations, and further clarifies the issue of ownership of the Diaoyu Islands and their strategic position. The book demonstrates that Ryukyu did not have sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands, refutes Japan's claim that these islands were a part of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and reveals the causes and consequences of the Sino-Japanese conflicts created by the United States. The book examines the 500-year friendship between China and Ryukyu, recounting moving stories. Lastly, citing ancient documents and more, the books proves that the Ryukyus never owned the Diaoyu Islands and that these islands belong to China.

Ziaka, Angeliki / Fu, Zhiming (Hrsg.), The Silk Roads between China and Oman: Networks of Communication and Transmission of Ibadi Knowledge. (Studies on Ibadism and Oman 16) 245 S. 2022:1 (Olms, GW) <674-1034>
ISBN 978-3-487-15913-3 hard ¥13,653.- (税込) EUR 58.00

The "Silk Roads", through the many engraved paths of communication, by land and sea over the centuries, brought China, the Arabian Peninsula and Oman close. The 9th Conference on Iba?i Studies held at Peking University (PKU) in September (17?19) 2018, entitled "China and the World: Development and Cooperation from the Perspective of the Belt and Road Initiative. Diachronic and Cross ? Border Transmission of Ibadi Knowledge", tried precisely to highlight the paths of relations and the spread of knowledge between these two worlds, although by definition different, but which for many centuries have been contributors in various communications, commercial and cultural networks. The project, both old and new, brings back the issue of the geographical connection of China and the Arab world, a connection of cultural, religious, commercial and economic benefit. How to reconcile the various meetings of the long and varied communications between China and the Arabian Peninsula, between China and Oman? This was the biggest challenge of the conference, from which this volume delivers the accumulated knowledge to the general and specialized readers.****************The "Silk Roads", through the many engraved paths of communication, by land and sea over the centuries, brought China, the Arabian Peninsula and Oman close. The 9th Conference on Iba?i Studies held at Peking University (PKU) in September (17?19) 2018, entitled "China and the World: Development and Cooperation from the Perspective of the Belt and Road Initiative. Diachronic and Cross ? Border Transmission of Ibadi Knowledge", tried precisely to highlight the paths of relations and the spread of knowledge between these two worlds, although by definition different, but which for many centuries have been contributors in various communications, commercial and cultural networks. The project, both old and new, brings back the issue of the geographical connection of China and the Arab world, a connection of cultural, religious, commercial and economic benefit. How to reconcile the various meetings of the long and varied communications between China and the Arabian Peninsula, between China and Oman? This was the biggest challenge of the conference, from which this volume delivers the accumulated knowledge to the general and specialized readers.