The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, however, as a result of declining markets for kimono, they find their livelihood and...(展开全部)

The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, however, as a result of declining markets for kimono, they find their livelihood and...(展开全部)

The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, however, as a result of declining markets for kimono, they find their livelihood and...(展开全部)

费正清(John King Fairbank，1907—1991)是美国最负声望的中国问题观察家。在第二次世界大战期间，他曾在中国研读、旅行、教学。1955—1973年费正清任哈佛大学东亚研究中心主任，并任哈佛大学希根森(Francis Lee Higginson)历史讲座教授。20世纪美国众多有影响的中国问题专家皆出其门下。在中美正式建立外交关系前夕，美国高层领导人案头摆放的就是他的《美国与中国》。 费正清的主要著作中译本：《美国与中国》(The United States and China)、《伟大的中国革命(1800—985年)》(The Great Chinese Revolution 1800—1985)、《观察中国》(China Watch)及《中国：传统与变迁》(China：Tradition and Transformat...(展开全部)

John King Fairbank was Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Director of the East Asian Research Center (now the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies) at Harvard University.

The Silk Road was the contemporary name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads during the Han Dynasty (206BCE-220CE), in consequence of the inter-dependence and the conflicts of these two distinctive soc...(展开全部)

The Silk Road was the current name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads during the Han Dynasty (206BCE-220CE), in consequence of the inter-dependence and the conflicts of these two distinctive societi...(展开全部)

This book reopens and restructures the grand debate on the nature of economic development in China prior to the Communist revolution. It rejects the debate’s old contours in which quantitative data were used to argue that the trajectory of Chinese development was either “positive” or “negative.” Instead, the author combines quantitative analysis with a detailed study of local p...(展开全部)