This book takes three social groups—literati, scholar-officials, and merchants—as the framework for discussing the political, socioeconomic, and cultural forces that coalesced and reinforced one another to influence and facilitate change in Ming China’s lower Yangzi delta. It follows the region’s political ties with the state and commercial links with external markets. The boo...(展开全部)

卜正民（Timothy Brook），1951年生，享誉世界汉学界的史学大家，师从孔飞力教授，毕业于美国哈佛大学，历任多伦多大学、斯坦福大学等校教授，英国牛津大学邵氏汉学教授，美国亚洲学会前任会长。现为加拿大英属哥伦比亚大学圣约翰学院历史系教授，兼圣约翰神学院院长。学术视野广阔，主要从事亚洲历史和文化的研究，研究领域涉及明代社会和文化史、“二战”时期日本在中国的占领等。 主编六卷本“哈佛中国史”丛书，并撰写其中第5卷《挣扎的帝国：元与明》，首次从气候这一环境史的新视角解读元明两大帝国的兴衰，呈现出第一个连贯的生态历史。 已翻译为中文的作品多达十几种，在海峡两岸拥有庞大的读者群。其他主要代表作品有：《秩序的沦陷》、《杀千刀》、《纵乐的困惑》、《明代的国家与社会》、《维梅尔的帽子》等。其中，《纵乐的困惑》获得2000年美国“列文森中国研究最佳著作奖”，《...(展开全部)

In Writing Pirates, Yuanfei Wang connects Chinese literary production to emerging discourses of pirates and the sea. In the late Ming dynasty, so-called “Japanese pirates” raided southeast coastal China. Hideyoshi invaded Korea. Europeans sailed for overseas territories, and Chinese maritime merchants and emigrants founded diaspora communities in Southeast Asia. Travel writings...(展开全部)

Will China's recent economic growth continue at the same rate? For how long? What obstacles lie in the way of sustained growth? Who gains and why? Gregory Chow covers these and many other issues. Provides a penetrating and comprehensive analysis of the historical, institutional and theoretical factors that have contributed to China's economic success Reveals new findings conc...(展开全部)

Will China's recent economic growth continue at the same rate? For how long? What obstacles lie in the way of sustained growth? Who gains and why? Gregory Chow covers these and many other issues. Provides a penetrating and comprehensive analysis of the historical, institutional and theoretical factors that have contributed to China's economic success Reveals new findings conc...(展开全部)

Urbanization was central to development in late imperial China. Yet its impact is heatedly debated, although scholars agree that it triggered neither Weberian urban autonomy nor Habermasian civil society. This book argues that this conceptual impasse derives from the fact that the seemingly continuous urban expansion was in fact punctuated by a wide variety of “dynastic urbanis...(展开全部)

Urbanization was central to development in late imperial China. Yet its impact is heatedly debated, although scholars agree that it triggered neither Weberian urban autonomy nor Habermasian civil society. This book argues that this conceptual impasse derives from the fact that the seemingly continuous urban expansion was in fact punctuated by a wide variety of “dynastic urbanis...(展开全部)