本杰明·艾尔曼（Benjamin A. Elman）1946年出生。1968年获美国汉密尔顿学院学士学位，1980年获宾夕法尼亚大学东方学博士学位。1992-1997年任加州大学洛杉矶分校历史系学术副主席，1992-1999年任该校《中国科学》杂志编审，1997-1999年任该校中国研究中心主任。1999-2001年，艾尔曼作为梅隆访问教授在普林斯顿高等研究院从事传统中国文明研究。2002年，正式出任普林斯顿大学东亚系和历史系教授。他的教学和研究领域包括：中国思想与文化史，1000-1900年：中华帝国晚期科技史，1600-1930年；中日文化学术交流史，1600-1850年。艾尔曼教授著述颇丰，著作主要有：《从理学到朴学：中华帝国晚期的思想与社会变化面面观》（1984年第1版，2001年第2版）、《经学、政治和宗族：中华帝国晚期常州今文学派研究》（...(展开全部)

【作者介绍】 许倬云，1930年生，江苏无锡人，1962年获美国芝加哥大学博士学位，先后执教于台湾大学、美国匹兹堡大学，其间多次受聘为香港中文大学、美国夏威夷大学、美国杜克大学、香港科技大学讲座教授。1986年荣任美国人文学社荣誉会士。学贯中西的史学耆宿，精通中国上古史、 文化史、社会史，熟悉西方历史及其理论与思想，擅长利用不同学科的视角和方法来研究历史，尤其是考察中国的历史与文化；不囿于书斋，时时心怀天下，关心中国文化的发展与走向。代表著作有《西周史》《汉代农业》《中国古代社会史论》《万古江河》《我者与他者》《说中国》等。 【作者自述】 我写这本书就是要给大家一个可读的东西，我不要再去记录朝代、皇帝、祖国的光荣，我要摆开看，老百姓过日子怎么样，老百姓怎么想。我的书里没有一个英雄人物。我希望把引导读者进入一个包含中国，却超越中国的新的人类社会。 我讲...(展开全部)

Why is our sense of smell so under-appreciated? We tend to think of smell as a vestigial remnant of our pre-human past, doomed to gradual extinction, and we go to great lengths to eliminate smells from our environment, suppressing body odour, bad breath and other smells. Living in a relatively odour-free environment has numbed us to the importance that smells have always had in...(展开全部)

Written by one of the most distinguished experts on China’s economic and business history, China and Capitalism provides a highly original and at the same time clear and readable approach to understanding the development of business in China from 1500 to the 1990s. David Faure then uses the picture he has assembled to shed new light on the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese bu...(展开全部)

In this multidimensional analysis, Benjamin A. Elman uses over a thousand newly available examination records from the Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, 1315-1904, to explore the social, political, and cultural dimensions of the civil examination system, one of the most important institutions in Chinese history. For over five hundred years, the most important positions within t...(展开全部)

In this multidimensional analysis, Benjamin A. Elman uses over a thousand newly available examination records from the Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, 1315-1904, to explore the social, political, and cultural dimensions of the civil examination system, one of the most important institutions in Chinese history. For over five hundred years, the most important positions within t...(展开全部)

In this vivid and highly original reading of recent Chinese history, Xuelei Huang documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese life from the High Qing through to the Mao period. Utilising interdisciplinary methodology and critically engaging with scholarship in the expanding fields of sensory and smell studies, she shows how this period of tumultuous change in ...(展开全部)

This volume outlines the origins of a wide range of disciplines including astronomy, agricultural science, medicine, physics, chemistry, and natural history. It provides an overview of China’s history of science and technology, which can be traced back to the pre-Qin times when the arts had free expression and the schools of thought were unrestricted. It also includes a glossar...(展开全部)

A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern China In Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, a time of profound sociopolitical changes. Wang draws on a vast range of previously under...(展开全部)