Article: The diary of a Manchu soldier in seventeenth-century China; my service in the army.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Di Cosmo, Nicola Ancient China and Its Enemies: the ...
History: Review of New Books;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... University of Canterbury historian Nicola Di Cosmo explores the cultural and political relations ... from 900 to 100 B.C. Along the way, Di Cosmo offers several interesting new interpretations ... though his approach is much broader than Di Cosmo's. Although the book is intended for ...

Article: Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm: China in Tigers'Jaws.(Brief ...
The Historian;  June 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... forces in the city of Changshu, to the scholar who, obedient to his pregnant wife's injunctions, watched hidden while a Manchu soldier savagely beat her and began to drag her off, or the beautiful Chinese widow who eventually consented to become the consort ...

Article: Hero, plot wobble in `Drunken Master'.(FREETIME)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  October 20, 2000 ;     559 words ... ... ginseng root into an English diplomat's luggage to avoid paying the duty. Retrieving it during the journey, he runs into a Manchu soldier rifling through the foreigner's trunks. The English are stripping China of its cultural treasures, and the soldier ...

Article: HAWTHORNE BAR FERMENTS COMMUNITY SPIRIT
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  July 17, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... something back to the community. Vincent Di Cosmo, who with his brothers Peter, Philip ... members of the community recently. It was Di Cosmo's way of saying thanks to the community ... and to the people in the community," Di Cosmo said. "A lot of bars and restaurants ...

Article: In France, a Tilt at Microsoft Academic Accuses U.S. Firm of ...
International Herald Tribune;  November 4, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Europe and stifle competition. Robert Di Cosmo, a researcher and teacher at the prestigious ... France, Marc Chardon, who accused Mr. Di Cosmo of doing little more than ''relaying ... circulating on the Internet.'' Mr. Di Cosmo, co-author of a recent book called ...

Article: Iron age society and chronology in South-east Kazakhstan. ...
Antiquity;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... into Western Asia (Pulleyblank 1970; Di Cosmo 1994). The term Saka is used to denote ... first half of the first millennium AD (Di Cosmo 1994; Moshkova 1992). The use of these ... Iron Age in this region of the world (Di Cosmo 1994). During the Soviet period, the ...

Article: Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History.(Warfare in ...
Journal of World History;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... History (500-1800). Edited by NICOLA DI COSMO. Leiden: Brill, 2002. 456 + vii pp ... After an effective introduction by Nicola Di Cosmo presenting the major themes, there are ... in the late thirteenth century. Nicola Di Cosmo demonstrates the role of political strategy ...