The present volume is based on two scholarly gatherings organized by the Center of the Art of East Asia, Dept. of Art History, at the University of Chicago to explore this theme in great detail. The conference papers, and now these resulting essays, offer new insights into this phenomenon, its philosophies, technologies, and the individual involved in represening the past in Ch...(展开全部)

The present volume is based on two scholarly gatherings organized by the Center of the Art of East Asia, Dept. of Art History, at the University of Chicago to explore this theme in great detail. The conference papers, and now these resulting essays, offer new insights into this phenomenon, its philosophies, technologies, and the individual involved in represening the past in Ch...(展开全部)

A satisfactory comprehensive history of the social and economic development of pre-modern China, the largest country in the world in terms of population, and with a documentary record covering three millennia, is still far from possible. The present work is only an attempt to disengage the major themes that seem to be of relevance to our understanding of China today. In particu...(展开全部)

伊懋可（Mark Elvin，1938— ），剑桥大学博士，澳大利亚国立大学历史系荣休教授，当代著名历史学家。主要研究领域为：中国经济史、文化史、环境史。代表作有：《中国的历史之路》（另译《中国历史的模式》）、《大象的退却》等。

A satisfactory comprehensive history of the social and economic development of pre-modern China, the largest country in the world in terms of population, and with a documentary record covering three millennia, is still far from possible. The present work is only an attempt to disengage the major themes that seem to be of relevance to our understanding of China today. In particu...(展开全部)

In this celebrated work, Raphael Samuel takes issue with the claim that our obsession with heritage is a symptom of national decay. Instead, he argues that we live in an expanding historical culture, one which is newly alert to the evidence of the visual and altogether more pluralist than earlier versions of the national past.

Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused and lead to misunderstanding. History is used to justify religious movemen...(展开全部)

China has an age-old zoomorphic tradition. The First Emperor was famously said to have had the heart of a tiger and a wolf. The names o f foreign tribes were traditionally written with characters that included animal radicals. Splendidly illustrated with works ranging from Bronze Age vessels to twentieth-century conceptual pieces, this volume is a wide-ranging look at zoomorphi...(展开全部)