张邦梅，张幼仪的侄孙女。出生于波士顿，毕业哈佛大学东亚研究系，主修中国文学；哥伦比亚大学法律硕士，曾于纽约担任律师

After long afternoons spent with her great-aunt Yu-i, Pang-Mei, a first-generation Chinese-American, paints this unforgettable saga of a woman, born in Shanghai at the turn of the century to a well-to-do family, who continually defied the expectations of her class and culture. ‘In China, a woman is nothing,’ began Yu-i over tea and dumplings. ‘This is the first lesson I w...(展开全部)

"In China, a woman is nothing." Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture. Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Chang Yu-i's life is marked by a ser...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly One of the best known, most torturous examples of fashionable alteration is Chinese foot binding. In Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet, Barnard College history professor Dorothy Ko looks at the making and wearing of lotus shoes, the footwear for women with bound feet. Along the way she discredits some simplistic popular notions about foot binding a...(展开全部)

In Every Step a Lotus, Dorothy Ko embarks on a fascinating exploration of the practice of footbinding in China, explaining its origins, purpose, and spread before the nineteenth century. She uses women's own voices to reconstruct the inner chambers of a Chinese house where women with bound feet lived and worked. Focusing on the material aspects of footbinding and shoemaking--th...(展开全部)

Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a status, or even sexual, symbol by showing that it was an undeniably effective way to get even ve...(展开全部)

劳拉·宝森，加拿大麦吉尔大学人类学荣休教授，著有《中国女性和农村发展：云南禄村六十年的变迁》（2002）。 葛希芝，美国中密歇根大学人类学荣休教授，著有《四川的缠足与女性劳动》（2015）、《中国马达——“小资本主义”的一千年》（1996）。

What is landscape? How does it differ from 'land'? Does landscape always imply something to be pictured, a scene? When and why did we begin to cherish images of nature? What is 'nature'? Is it everything that isn't art, or artefact? This book explores many fascinating issues raised by the great range of ideas and images of the natural world in Western art since the Renaissance....(展开全部)

What is landscape? How does it differ from 'land'? Does landscape always imply something to be pictured, a scene? When and why did we begin to cherish images of nature? What is 'nature'? Is it everything that isn't art, or artefact? This book explores many fascinating issues raised by the great range of ideas and images of the natural world in Western art since the Renaissance....(展开全部)

肯·鲍曼现居美国新墨西哥州的圣达菲，曾从事演艺工作长达十年，在影视剧中出镜。他已创作过四部小说，还身兼出版商、图书设计师等职。 读库御宅学团队引进的“头目战”（Boss Fight Books）书系诞生于美国，每本书均专注于对一部经典游戏作品的台前幕后进行详尽分析解读，执笔者多为业内资深人士。