This book examines the literary thematic changes, Buddhist imagery, and new motifs in the fantastic dreamworld as seen in the tales of the supernatural in early medieval China.

许理和 Erik Zürcher (1928-2008），荷兰莱顿大学教授。1959年以《佛教征服中国》获得博士学位，该书于当年出版后久享盛誉。1962年任莱顿大学东亚史教授，1969年创设莱顿大学汉学院现代中国资料中心，1974-1990年任该校汉学院院长，期间还 兼 任该校中文系主任、《通报》主编。其最大的兴趣是“当东方遇到西方”，既研究佛教在中国的传播与适应，也探讨明末清初耶稣会来华史，设法了解中国在接受外来影响时的反应与适应过程。还著有《中国耶稣会士传记，约1580—1680》、《佛教、基督教与中国社会》、《佛教：在词语、地图与图片里的起源与传播》等。

许理和 Erik Zürcher (1928-2008），荷兰莱顿大学教授。1959年以《佛教征服中国》获得博士学位，该书于当年出版后久享盛誉。1962年任莱顿大学东亚史教授，1969年创设莱顿大学汉学院现代中国资料中心，1974-1990年任该校汉学院院长，期间还 兼 任该校中文系主任、《通报》主编。其最大的兴趣是“当东方遇到西方”，既研究佛教在中国的传播与适应，也探讨明末清初耶稣会来华史，设法了解中国在接受外来影响时的反应与适应过程。还著有《中国耶稣会士传记，约1580—1680》、《佛教、基督教与中国社会》、《佛教：在词语、地图与图片里的起源与传播》等。

The early Song dynasty (960–1278) was a time of immense intellectual fervor, as China rulers, after over a century of internecine warfare, embarked on a new course that promoted wen (literary or cultural arts) over wu (martial prowess). With the new literary based agenda came a discussion of how to constitute Song’s wen agenda, how to define wen values, what kinds of literature...(展开全部)

While the customary path to achievement in traditional China was through service to the state, from the earliest times certain individuals had been acclaimed for repudiating an official career. This book traces the formulation and portrayal of the practice of reclusion in China from the earliest times through the sixth century, by which time reclusion had taken on its enduring ...(展开全部)

What happens when historiography—the way historical events are committed to writing—shapes historical events as they occur? How do we read biography when it is truly “life-writing,” its subjects fully engaged with the historiographical rhetoric that would record their words and deeds? The Threshold, a study of the culture of historiography in early medieval China, explores the...(展开全部)

First published in 1981, The Renewal of Buddhism in China broke new ground in the study of Chinese Buddhism. An interdisciplinary study of a Buddhist master and reformer in late Ming China, it challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height under the Tang dynasty (618–907) and steadily declined afterward. Chün-fang Yü details how in sixteenth-century China...(展开全部)

The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual demise at the end of the sixteenth century. Lewis devo...(展开全部)

The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual demise at the end of the sixteenth century. Lewis devo...(展开全部)

Andrew Eisenberg, Ph.D. (1991) in History, University of Washington, Seattle, is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He has published essays on Classical Chinese political history in the journals T'ang Studies, Theory and Society, and T'oung Pao. This is his first full length monograph.