On the fringes of the harmonious society Tibetans and Uyghurs in socialist China

Buddhist and Islamic orders in southern Asia comparative perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Sufis and sangha in motion : toward a comparative study of religious orders and networks in southern Asia / Anne M. …”

Land use impacts on climate

Table of Contents: “…Additive threats from pathogens, climate and land-use change for global amphibian diversity -- Advances in observation and estimation of land use impacts on climate changes: improved data, upgraded models, and case studies -- Effect of land use and climate change on runoff in the Dongjiang basin of South China -- Scenario-based impact assessment of land use/cover and climate changes on watershed hydrology in Heihe River basin of Northwest China -- Systematic modeling of impacts of land use and land cover changes on regional climate: a review -- Analysis of climate and land use changes impacts on land degradation in the North China plain -- Impact of land use change on the local climate over the Tibetan Plateau -- An agent-based reasoning of impacts of regional climate changes on land use changes in the three-rover headwaters region of China -- Critical studies of integrating land-use induced effects on climate regulation services into impact assessment for human well-being…”

Imperial China and its southern neighbours

Table of Contents: “…-- Dragon Boats and Serpent Prows: Naval Warfare and the Political Culture of Chinas Southern Borderlands -- Inventing Traditions in Fifteenth-Century Vietnam -- Epidemics, Trade, and Local Worship in Vietnam, Leizhou Peninsula, and Hainan Island -- Southeast Asian Primary Products and Their Impact on Chinese Material Culture in the Tenth to Seventeenth Centuries -- New Evidence on the History of Sino-Arabic Relations: A Study of Yang Liangyao's Embassy to the Abbasid Caliphate -- The Peacock's Gallbladder: An Example of Tibetan Influence in Late Imperial China -- Transformation of the Yunnanese Community along the Sino-Burma Border During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- How the North Tried to Pacify the South Through Ritual Practices: On the Origins of the Guan Suo Opera in the Nineteenth Century -- Realms within Realms of Radiance, Or, Can Heaven Have Two Sons? …”