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This book examines the emergence of imperial state in East Asia during the period ca. 400 BCE-200 CE as a network-based process, showing how the geography of early interregional contacts south of the Yangzi River informed the directions of Sinitic state expansion.

The author lived in the Portuguese colony of Macau when she was little. Through her childhood memories, it is possible to get a glimpse of the social and cultural facets of Macau in the 50s and 60s.

The Rising Sons: China's Imperial Succession & The Art of War recollects 2,000 years of China's history by examining how some of its most representative imperial rulers seized power by applying tactics and strategies from Sun Tzu's The Art of War. This volume brings together tales of the nine princes of the Qin to Qing dynasties who rose to power through their cunning wit and prowess at psychological warfare. Brimming in equal measure with narrative interest and analytical insight, this book is as much a page turner about human greed, ambition and its capacity for cruelty as it is a treatise on power dynamics and court politics.

本書揭示了古代晚期到中世紀早期歐洲族群演化的真實版本，內容囊括從古代希臘到20世紀南非長達兩千多年的歷史。浪漫主義政治哲學、“科學的”歷史學、印歐語文學和民族考古學等看似中立客觀的學術工具共同創造了濫用和曲解歷史的民族主義史學，為族群民族主義的發展提供了歷史依據。書中， 格裡不僅考證了古典晚期和中世紀早期歐洲的族群演化，還闡述了民族主義史學在1800至1900年形成的過程及其產生的災難性影響。作者以廣闊的學術視野和巧妙深刻的論證，向公眾展示了歷史的複雜性和變動性。