The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between the present day state and society in China. This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines this relationship and argues that contrary to previous scholarship, it was radical ...(展开全部)

罗威廉（William T.Rowe），美国约翰霍普金斯大学历史系教授，东亚研究中心主任，当代美国最有影响的汉学家之一。主要研究方向为东亚史、城市社会史。代表作有《救世——陈宏谋与十八世纪中国的精英意识 》、《红雨——一个中国县域七个世纪的暴力史》。

罗威廉（William T.Rowe），美国约翰霍普金斯大学历史系教授，东亚研究中心主任，当代美国最有影响的汉学家之一。主要研究方向为东亚史、城市社会史。代表作有《救世——陈宏谋与十八世纪中国的精英意识 》、《红雨——一个中国县域七个世纪的暴力史》。

China's sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an unprecedented explosion in the production and circulation of woodblock-printed books. What can surviving traces of that era's print culture reveal about the makers and consumers of these books? Home and the World addresses this question by carefully examining a wide range of late Ming books, considering them not merely as texts...(展开全部)

China's sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an unprecedented explosion in the production and circulation of woodblock-printed books. What can surviving traces of that era's print culture reveal about the makers and consumers of these books? Home and the World addresses this question by carefully examining a wide range of late Ming books, considering them not merely as texts...(展开全部)

First published in French in Saigon in 1956, this classic work integrates the study of Buddhist doctrine with the study of Chinese society from the fifth to the tenth centuries.