A Chinese Physician is the portrait of a 16th century medical writer and clinical practitioner. Three methodologies - loosely termed socio-economic/biographic, textual analysis, and gender analysis - and a variety of sources, from hagiographical biographies to medical case histories, are used to tell three very different but complementary stories about what it was to practise m...(展开全部)

伍连德（Wu Lien-teh，1879-1960），祖籍广东台山，生于槟榔屿。剑桥大学医学博士。1908年归国任天津陆军军医学堂帮办，1910-1911年为防治鼠疫出任东三省防疫总医官，扑灭了鼠疫大流行。1937年返回马来亚，定居怡保行医为业。主要著作有《肺鼠疫论述》《鼠疫概论》《霍乱概论》《中国医史》等。 译者简介： 程光胜， 1958年毕业于北京大学生物系，中国科学院微生物研究所研究员，曾任中国微生物学会秘书长。编著有《显微镜下的生命世界》《小生物，大世界》《方心芳传》等。 马学博，哈尔滨医科大学医史学教研室副研究员，主要从事东北近代防疫史研究。 王丽凤，新加坡电视制作人，美国印第安纳大学大众传播系毕业。电视纪录片《伍连德博士传》的总导演、总监制。

The Laozi has been translated into Western languages hundreds of times over the past two hundred years. It has become the book of Chinese philosophy most widely appreciated for its philosophical depth and lyrical form. Nevertheless, very little attention has been paid to the way in which this book was read in China. This book introduces the reader to a highly sophisticated Chin...(展开全部)

Centering on five life stories by Chinese women activists born just after the turn of this century, this first history of Chinese May Fourth feminism disrupts the Chinese Communist Party's master narrative of Chinese women's liberation, reconfigures the history of the Chinese Enlightenment from a gender perspective, and addresses the question of how feminism engendered social c...(展开全部)

Wang Zheng is an Affiliated Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. Wang's work in English includes the coediting of From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society by Fei Xiaotong (California, 1992).

Centering on five life stories by Chinese women activists born just after the turn of this century, this first history of Chinese May Fourth feminism disrupts the Chinese Communist Party's master narrative of Chinese women's liberation, reconfigures the history of the Chinese Enlightenment from a gender perspective, and addresses the question of how feminism engendered social c...(展开全部)

In recent decades various versions of Chinese medicine have begun to be widely practised in western countries, and the academic study of the subject is now well established. However, there are still few scholarly monographs that describe the history of Chinese medicine and there are none at all on the medieval period. The collection presented here is an example of the kind of i...(展开全部)

"The Blue Mountain" is the first novel by one of Israel's most important and acclaimed contemporary writers and as with all his writing is a virtuoso example of Shalev's skill as a storyteller. Published to outstanding reviews all over the world, its publication in Britain re-affirms his reputation as a major international writer. Set in a small rural village prior to the creat...(展开全部)

Presenting the commentary of the third-century sage Wang Bi, this book provides a Chinese way of reading the Daodejing, one which will surprise Western readers.

In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition—all concerning stones endowed with magical properties—Jing Wang develops a monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore. Wang’s thorough and systematic comparison of these classic works illuminates the various tellings of the stone story and provides new insight into major t...(展开全部)