In this book, Jonathan Spence tells the story of a man called John Hu, who accompanied a French missionary returning from Canton to France in 1722. Jonathan Spence has written several books including, "The Gates of Heavenly Peace" and "The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci".

In this book, Jonathan Spence tells the story of a man called John Hu, who accompanied a French missionary returning from Canton to France in 1722. Jonathan Spence has written several books including, "The Gates of Heavenly Peace" and "The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci".

《禅是一枝花》是胡兰成上世纪七十年代后期在台湾居留期间对禅宗第一奇书《碧岩录》中一百则公案的逐一解明。八百多年来，中国的文学家和思想家们一直都想解明宋代《碧岩录》，直到胡兰成，才做成了这番事业。此书对于中国禅宗思想的理解，有着巨大的作用。可被视为中国禅学的一件大事。书中表哥、哥哥、妹妹等其实都是胡兰成自己的化身，如满天花雨，无处不在。书中的解读当然仍是胡的文学整体观念的的一部分，我们可以把它看成一部“禅解”的《今生今世》，亦无不可。 我读禅宗的书，直觉地知道禅非创自达摩，禅自是中国的思想，非印所有。胡适对中国的旧学有两大功绩：一是《红楼梦》作者考证，又一即是关于禅的考证。《碧岩录》至今在日本被奉为禅宗第一书。此书是北宋时奉化雪窦寺重显禅师的颂公案百则，晚也一辈的圜悟禅师加上垂示、著语、评唱。近年台湾的中国文坛忽流行言禅，虽初缘疏浅，亦是一机一会，我所...(展开全部)

《禅是一枝花》是胡兰成上世纪七十年代后期在台湾居留期间对禅宗第一奇书《碧岩录》中一百则公案的逐一解明。八百多年来，中国的文学家和思想家们一直都想解明宋代《碧岩录》，直到胡兰成，才做成了这番事业。此书对于中国禅宗思想的理解，有着巨大的作用。可被视为中国禅学的一件大事。书中表哥、哥哥、妹妹等其实都是胡兰成自己的化身，如满天花雨，无处不在。书中的解读当然仍是胡的文学整体观念的的一部分，我们可以把它看成一部“禅解”的《今生今世》，亦无不可。 我读禅宗的书，直觉地知道禅非创自达摩，禅自是中国的思想，非印所有。胡适对中国的旧学有两大功绩：一是《红楼梦》作者考证，又一即是关于禅的考证。《碧岩录》至今在日本被奉为禅宗第一书。此书是北宋时奉化雪窦寺重显禅师的颂公案百则，晚也一辈的圜悟禅师加上垂示、著语、评唱。近年台湾的中国文坛忽流行言禅，虽初缘疏浅，亦是一机一会，我所...(展开全部)

A biography of a prototypical "renaissance man": scientist, philosopher, journalist, and politician.

Lu Ling (1921-94) was one of modern China's most intensely psychological writers, foregrounding in his many novels and short stories the narrative representation of consciousness and the individual psyche. His mentor Hu Feng (1902-85), a leftist literary theorist, was a leading proponent of the subjective view of literature, who asserted an active and dynamic role for the self ...(展开全部)

中文版为江苏人民出版社的《胡适与中国的文艺复兴：中国革命中的自由主义》。

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminat...(展开全部)

Why is mystery so compelling? What draws us to the unknown? Jonah Lehrer sets out to answer these questions in a vividly entertaining and surprisingly profound journey through the science of suspense. He finds that nothing can capture a person’s attention as strongly as mystery, and that mystery is the key principle in how humans view and understand the world. Whenever patterns...(展开全部)