"A Thousand Miles of Dreams" is an evocative and intimate biography of two Chinese sisters who took very different paths in their quest to be independent women. Ling Shuhao arrived in Cleveland in 1925 to study medicine in the middle of a U.S. crackdown on Chinese immigrant communities, and her effort to assimilate began. She became an American named Amy, while her sister Ling ...(展开全部)

*For the bibliography mentioned in the book, click here. A Thousand Miles of Dreams is an evocative and intimate biography of two Chinese sisters who took very different paths in their quests to be independent women. Ling Shuhao arrived in Cleveland in 1925 to study medicine in the middle of a U.S. crackdown on Chinese immigrant communities, and her effort to assimilate began. ...(展开全部)

This book is a rare feat: seldom is an art history--much less an ambitious, 400-page chronicle of one of the great cultural achievements of the last three millennia--as much a delight for the amateur lover of art as it is indispensable for the student of the field. Written by three eminent specialists in the United States and three in China, Three Thousand Years of Chinese Pain...(展开全部)

An illustrated and comprehensive account of the history of Chinese painting from prehistoric times to the 21st century. It should be of interest to students and general readers who wish to gain an in-depth knowledge of Chinese painting.

This book is a rare feat: seldom is an art history--much less an ambitious, 400-page chronicle of one of the great cultural achievements of the last three millennia--as much a delight for the amateur lover of art as it is indispensable for the student of the field. Written by three eminent specialists in the United States and three in China, Three Thousand Years of Chinese Pain...(展开全部)

An illustrated and comprehensive account of the history of Chinese painting from prehistoric times to the 21st century. It should be of interest to students and general readers who wish to gain an in-depth knowledge of Chinese painting.

This new edition includes a lengthy foreword by Slavoj Zizek, entitled "Why is Wagner worth saving?" Richard Wagner's works are among the most controversial in the history of European music—because of their powerful aesthetic qualities and, in wider political terms, because of their eventual assimilation into the official culture of the Third Reich. This concise syno...(展开全部)

Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe's most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner's oeuvre with patent musical dexterity, Adorno sheds light on a nineteenth-century bourgeois figure whose operas betray the social gestures and high-culture fantasies that helped plant the seeds of the...(展开全部)

The classical defence of, and arguments for, belief in God have not proved completely satisfactory, particularly in the perspective of modern times, and in the Gifford Lectures for 1983-4, given at the University of St Andrews, Professor Macquarrie puts forward an alternative. He calls his approach 'dialectical theism': dialectical, to indicate that he seeks to avoid the onesid...(展开全部)

什么是人？什么是人性？ 为什么有些人“灭绝人性”，有些人“人格高尚”？ “做人”很难，人生艰辛；无人不犯错，无人不生病，无人无苦楚，无人不死亡——那么，亿万苍生，千百年来，为何还要乐此不疲，努力“做人”？ 所有这些难题，有无数的人做了无数回答；也有无数的人并不在意，或不满意那些回答。 这本书给出的回答，肯定值得你注意，肯定值得你思考；至少，它会让你对这些问题再次产生兴趣，重新进行思考。 作者探索人性难题时的不惧繁难，分析人生处境时的透彻精辟；他对已有种种理论的了然于胸，对各派神学、哲学的取精用宏……使得此书成了我见过的全面、深刻、罪有启发性的探索人性的杰作。 ——何光沪（中国人民大学教授） （麦奎利）那耐心的心智工作，是同他人格的虔诚和谦卑不可分割的，他的榜样，一直都是许多人的灯塔！ ——罗万·威廉斯（Rowan Williams，剑桥大学教授，前坎...(展开全部)