Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore their intrinsic conceptual complexity and historical specificity. The twelve...(展开全部)

With contributions by Bo Songnian, Jonathan Hay, David G. Johnson, Ni Yibin, Mei Mei Rado, and Wu Hung Writing in the early nineteenth century, the French traveler and cleric Abbé Huc exclaimed: “There is, perhaps, not a people in the world who carry so far their taste and passion for theatrical entertainments as the Chinese.” Although the spectacle of this theater is well kno...(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)

'Once in a while a manuscript stops you in your tracks...What we are offered here is no recovering of old ground but a step change in perspectives on "body matters" that is both innovative and of fundamental importance to anyone working on this sociological terrain...This text is groundbreaking and simply has to be read' - Acta Sociologica 'this is Shilling at his creative be...(展开全部)

巫鸿（Wu Hung） 著名美术史家、批评家、策展人，芝加哥大学教授。 1963年考入中央美术学院美术史系学习。1972—1978年任职于故宫博物院书画组、金石组。1978年重返中央美术学院美术史系攻读硕士学位。1980—1987年就读于哈佛大学，获美术史与人类学双重博士学位。随即在哈佛大学美术史系任教，于1994年获终身教授职位，同年受聘主持芝加哥大学亚洲艺术教学，执“斯德本特殊贡献教授”讲席。2002年建立东亚艺术研究中心并任主任，兼任该校斯玛特美术馆顾问策展人。2008年成为美国国家文理学院终身院士，并获美国美术家联合会美术史教学特殊贡献奖，成为大陆赴美学者获得这两项荣誉的第一人。 其著作包括对中国古代、现代艺术以及美术史理论和方法的多项研究，古代美术史方面的代表作有《武梁祠：中国古代画像艺术的思想性》（1989）、《中国古代艺术与建筑中的“纪...(展开全部)

This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. Leading scholar of Chinese art Wu Hung shows how the story of ruins in China is different from but connected to "ruin culture" in the West. He investigates indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their vis...(展开全部)

巫鸿（Wu Hung） 著名美术史家、批评家、策展人，芝加哥大学教授。 1963年考入中央美术学院美术史系学习。1972—1978年任职于故宫博物院书画组、金石组。1978年重返中央美术学院美术史系攻读硕士学位。1980—1987年就读于哈佛大学，获美术史与人类学双重博士学位。随即在哈佛大学美术史系任教，于1994年获终身教授职位，同年受聘主持芝加哥大学亚洲艺术教学，执“斯德本特殊贡献教授”讲席。2002年建立东亚艺术研究中心并任主任，兼任该校斯玛特美术馆顾问策展人。2008年成为美国国家文理学院终身院士，并获美国美术家联合会美术史教学特殊贡献奖，成为大陆赴美学者获得这两项荣誉的第一人。 其著作包括对中国古代、现代艺术以及美术史理论和方法的多项研究，古代美术史方面的代表作有《武梁祠：中国古代画像艺术的思想性》（1989）、《中国古代艺术与建筑中的“纪...(展开全部)

The spirit of adventure is at the heart of Jonathan Spence's widely acclaimed scholarship on the modern history of China. This vitality, fleshed out with deep research and attired in elegant style, has drawn countless readers to subjects otherwise approachable only by experts. Through eight books, from the story of the early eighteenth century Manchu bondservant Ts'ao Yin to hi...(展开全部)

Moving images are used as diagnostic tools and locational devices every day in hospitals, clinics, and laboratories. But how and when did they come to be established and accepted sources of knowledge about the body in medical culture? How are the specialized techniques and codes of these imaging techniques determined, and whose bodies are studied, diagnosed, and treated with th...(展开全部)

杜朴（Robert L. Thorp），早期中国艺术领域的权威学者，华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校艺术史和考古系荣休教授，著述丰硕。杜朴博士除了在远东广泛游历和参加田野考察工作外，还合作策划了几个重要的展览，并受邀在多个以中国艺术收藏著称的美国博物馆做讲座。 文以诚 （Richard Ellis Vinograd），著名的中国画研究专家，1995 年起任斯坦福大学艺术和艺术史系主任。他是晚期中国（宋代至今）艺术领域备受尊崇的学者，著有《自我的界限：1600-1900 的中国肖像画》，在许多重要刊物上发表过文章和书评。文以诚博士经常受邀以演讲者、评审或研讨者的身份出席有关中国艺术与文化的会议和论坛。