文以诚（Richard Vinograd），美国斯坦福大学艺术史系主任、教授，著名的中国画研究专家，主攻方向为明代艺术史。博士论文主要论述王蒙的《青卞隐居图》及其绘画风格的演变。著有《二十世纪山水画研究文集》（上海书画出版社）、《中国艺术和文化》。

17世纪初至19世纪末期，在重商主义思想的影响下，垄断贸易公司成了西方经济生活中的宠儿，成了西方进行海外探险、远洋航行并进行海外殖民和贸易的“主要手段之一”，其足迹和影响几乎遍及全世界。这些垄断贸易公司及其领导者?在社会大动荡的独特历史背景下，抓住了给予他们的机会，并利用它去影响世界，由商业贸易实体转变成政治实体，在两个世界里牢牢地站稳了脚跟，他们争取到了真正属于他们自己的市场。

17世纪初至19世纪末期，在重商主义思想的影响下，垄断贸易公司成了西方经济生活中的宠儿，成了西方进行海外探险、远洋航行并进行海外殖民和贸易的“主要手段之一”，其足迹和影响几乎遍及全世界。这些垄断贸易公司及其领导者?在社会大动荡的独特历史背景下，抓住了给予他们的机会，并利用它去影响世界，由商业贸易实体转变成政治实体，在两个世界里牢牢地站稳了脚跟，他们争取到了真正属于他们自己的市场。

Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world, as told by Steven Bown, .Canada's Simon Winchester. (Globe and Mail). Through the Age of Heroic Commerce, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life merchant kings ruled vast tracts of the globe and expanded their far-flung monopolies t...(展开全部)

Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern world, as told by Steven Bown, .Canada's Simon Winchester. (Globe and Mail). Through the Age of Heroic Commerce, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life merchant kings ruled vast tracts of the globe and expanded their far-flung monopolies t...(展开全部)

This is the first anthology ever devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as the Edo or the Tokugawa, one of the most creative epochs of Japanese culture. This anthology, which will be of vital interest to anyone involved in this era, includes not only fiction, poetry, and drama, but also essays, treatises, literary cri...(展开全部)

This comprehensive volume integrates the history of late imperial China with the history of education over three centuries, revealing the significance of education in Chinese social, political, and intellectual life. A collaboration between social and intellectual historians, these fifteen essays provide the most wide-ranging study in English on China's education in the centuri...(展开全部)

This comprehensive volume integrates the history of late imperial China with the history of education over three centuries, revealing the significance of education in Chinese social, political, and intellectual life. A collaboration between social and intellectual historians, these fifteen essays provide the most wide-ranging study in English on China's education in the centuri...(展开全部)

The self as a subject is one of the most fascinating and fruitful of artistic enterprises. From the 15th century to today, this collection brings together some of the best examples of self-portraiture to explore the genre’s evolution over the centuries as well as the enduring questions of selfhood and self-representation that have besieged human experience for centuries before ...(展开全部)

The Making of the Modern Chinese State: 1600–1950 offers an historical analysis of the formation of the modern Chinese state from the mid-17th century to the mid-20th century, providing refreshing and provocative interpretations on almost every major issue regarding modern China’s development. The book explores why today’s China is unlike any other nation-states in size and str...(展开全部)