138.Contemporary China is not only a succession of traditional China but also an innovative pioneering country advancing with the trend. At the social transitional period, China is facing the future with a brand new posture. The book gives a comprehensive and concise introduction to the formation of a multinational country and its culture, the struggle and development of the country in modern times, the history from the founding of New China to the...

Ventotene, a small island located in the Tyrrhenian sea, hosts the ruins of a large Roman villa dated to the Augustan age where many women related to imperial families were exiled and enclosed. This volume offers an introduction to the roman antiquities of Ventotene and is the first of a series of thematic monographs dedicated to the island.