作者50年代后期进入哈佛大学攻读中国史，60年代初到台湾从事博士论文考察和进修汉语，以后10年先后任《纽约时报》驻台湾临时记者、驻越南和香港特派记者，期间发表有关白宫和越战内幕的专著，获1978年普利策新闻大奖。他自1979年初至1980年末任该报驻北京首席记者，在此期间，足迹遍及中国大陆各省市自治区，采访了工农兵学商各界人士，对我国遭受文革浩劫后的百废待兴局面感触尤甚。离任回国后历时一年有余著成此书，于1982年在美国问世，随后风靡欧美，备受西方读者欢迎，对一般群众的影响也较大。

Lo Jung-pang argues that during each of the three periods when imperial China embarked on maritime enterprises (the Qin and Han dynasties, the Sui and early Tang dynasties, and the Song, Yuan, and early Ming dynasties), coastal states took the initiative at a time when China was divided, maritime trade and exploration peaked when China was strong and unified, and then declined ...(展开全部)

The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguis...(展开全部)

China’s rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing’s back yard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smoldered in the region, but today the threat of a direct confrontation among superpowers grows ever more likely. This important book is the first to make clear sense of the South Sea disputes. Bill Hayton, a journalis...(展开全部)

China’s rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing’s back yard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smoldered in the region, but today the threat of a direct confrontation among superpowers grows ever more likely. This important book is the first to make clear sense of the South Sea disputes. Bill Hayton, a journalis...(展开全部)

卜正民（Timothy Brook），加拿大著名汉学家。曾任多伦多大学、斯坦福大学、牛津大学等校教授，现为加拿大英属哥伦比亚大学圣约翰学院院长、历史教授。卜正民还是美国明史学会（Society of Ming Studies）半年期刊《明史研究》（Ming Studies）编委会成员。自2008年起，卜正民成为哈佛大学六卷本《中华帝国史》的主编。卜正民曾于1975年秋进入复旦大学，师从文学批评史学者李庆甲教授学习中国古代文学，1977年，他在李约瑟的安排下参与了《中国的科学与文明》第七分册的编写。 卜正民著述颇丰且广受好评，其作品《纵乐的困惑：明代的商业与文化》（The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China）曾获美国亚洲研究学会颁发的列文森奖和加拿大历史学会每五年评选一次...(展开全部)

In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experience...(展开全部)

媒體推薦 人類無法逃脫他必須承受的命運安排，Max Morden在生命中的十字路口，他必須把他混亂生活理出個頭緒，他罹患癌症的太太剛剛過世，他想逃離現實生活中面對的失落，卻回到當年受到創傷的所在。他回到的他還是小男孩時生活的海邊小鎮，他記得當時Grace家庭的雙胞胎Myles與Chloe。不過在Max Morden試著重新在此地展開新生活的同時，卻又陷入與雙胞胎的奇怪關係。John Banville以《The Sea》以一位年過五旬的中年男子的心態，討論懷鄉的渴望與對於記憶的冥思，討論人面對的死亡與記憶，Banville優美的文字與嚴謹的風格架構讓該書在傳媒界一致認為是文字藝術的臻品，《The Sea》入圍了今年的英國布克獎，可說是呼聲相當高的一部作品。 【94年11月好讀推薦】二○○五年布克獎得主 John Banville，儘管在初審時擊退伊恩．...(展开全部)

卡勒德•胡赛尼（Khaled Hosseini），1965年生于阿富汗喀布尔市，后随父亲迁往美国。毕业于加州大学圣地亚哥医学系，现居加州。著有小说《追风筝的人》(The Kite Runner，2003）、《灿烂千阳》(A Thousand Splendid Suns，2007)、《群山回唱》（And the Mountains Echoed,2013）。作品全球销量超过4000万册。 “立志拂去蒙在阿富汗普通民众面孔的尘灰，将背后灵魂的悸动展示给世人”。2006年，因其作品巨大的国际影响力，胡赛尼获得联合国人道主义奖，并受邀担任联合国难民署亲善大使。他还创立了以自己名字命名的基金会，为阿富汗的难民提供人道主义援助。

The new work, entitled Sea Prayer, is a short, illustrated book which Hosseini wrote in response to the current refugee crisis and the haunting image of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on the beach in Turkey in September 2015. Sea Prayer is an attempt to pay tribute to the millions of families, like Alan Kurdi's, who have been splintered and...(展开全部)