芮乐伟·韩森（Valerie Hansen） 宾夕法尼亚大学博士，耶鲁大学历史系教授、东亚研究中心主任，著名汉学家。

In her study of medieval Chinese lay practices and beliefs, Valerie Hansen argues that social and economic developments underlay religious changes in the Southern Song. Unfamiliar with the contents of Buddhist and Daoist texts, the common people hired the practitioner or prayed to the god they thought could cure the ill or bring rain. As the economy rapidly developed, the gods,...(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.

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.

作者太史文（Stephen F. Teiser），普林斯顿大学铃木大拙讲座教授、宗教学系终身教授。 太史文早年毕业于欧柏林学院，后就读于普林斯顿大学宗教学系，主攻东亚宗教，1986年获博士学位。太史文的博士论文题目为《中国中世纪的盂兰盆节》，这篇论文为他今后研究中国中世纪的民间信仰打下了基础，1988年，他在原博士论文的基础上修订出版了他的成名作——《中国中世纪的鬼节》（The Ghost Festival in Medieval China, Princeton University Press, 1988）。 译者侯旭东，清华大学人文学院历史系教授。 北京师范大学历史系博士，历任中国社会科学院历史研究所研究员、清华大学人文学院历史系教授。曾在美国哈佛大学、台湾“中研院”历史语言研究所做访问学人。主要研究魏晋南北朝史，兼及秦汉。先后从事东晋南朝经济...(展开全部)

Largely unstudied until now, the religious festivals that attracted Chinese people from all walks of life provide the most instructive examples of the interaction between Chinese forms of social life and the Indian tradition of Buddhism. Stephen Teiser examines one of the most important of such annual celebrations. He provides a comprehensive interpretation of the festivities o...(展开全部)

The first study in English to offer a systematic introduction to the Chinese pantheon of divinities. It challenges received wisdom about Chinese popular religion, which, until now, presented all Chinese deities as mere functionaries and bureaucrats. The essays in this volume eloquently document the existence of other metaphors that allowed Chinese gods to challenge the traditio...(展开全部)

The first study in English to offer a systematic introduction to the Chinese pantheon of divinities. It challenges received wisdom about Chinese popular religion, which, until now, presented all Chinese deities as mere functionaries and bureaucrats. The essays in this volume eloquently document the existence of other metaphors that allowed Chinese gods to challenge the traditio...(展开全部)

19世纪末、20世纪初的中国服饰一直被历史学家称为是极具西方代表的。在该书作者看来，猛烈的服饰时尚冲击成为了晚清时期中国人生活的重要组成部分。其时无论男女，都对流行时尚充满着强烈的好奇心。 在20世纪早期来到中国的旅行者眼中，传统中国服饰是单一和单调的。而此时时尚产业则刚刚兴起，尤其是在上海。当时的男子着蓝色长袍、戴皮帽、穿皮鞋；女士则穿紧身夹克和窄腿裤。家庭作坊式制衣方式让位于机织布料，进口布料也渐渐占据一席之地。这些改革标志着中国城市和乡村的大部分地区服饰文化变革的开端。而此变革在接下来的一段时间中持续了半个世纪之久。 作者向我们展示了辛亥革命时期的高领紧身袄、五四运动时期的学生装、文革时期的军便装和当今的全球化服饰。她从全球化的角度审视了中国服饰现代化进程中发生的变化，将中国人在不同时期对服饰的表达方式丰富和生动地展现在读者眼前。