Chinese history, institutions, and thought from 500 BC to 1949, with particular emphasis on sociology and economic history of ancient China.

彼得·伯格（Peter Berger） 国际知名的社会学家、宗教学家，现象社会学主要代表人物，新保守主义的代言人之一。美国波士顿大学文化、宗教和世界事务研究所前主任，曾先后任教于纽约社会研究学院、北卡罗来纳大学等多所大学。伯格学术兴趣广泛，思路开阔，著作颇丰，在宗教、世俗化、多元性、“全球化的多样性”等方面均有论著，内容涉及社会学、宗教学、神学、经济学和政治学等诸多领域，在西方人文社科界引起了持久的关注和影响。与德国社会学家托马斯·卢克曼合著的《现实的社会构建》，被认为是知识社会学领域的里程碑式著作；所撰《神圣的帷幕：宗教社会学的基本理论要素》被奉为堪与韦伯《新教伦理与资本主义精神》相媲美的经典；代表作另有《知识社会学：社会实体的建构》《与社会学同游：人文主义视角》《疑之颂：如何信而不狂》等。 格雷斯·戴维（Grace Davie） 英国著名宗教社...(展开全部)

Europe is a relatively secular part of the world in global terms. Why is this so? And why is the situation in Europe so different from that in the United States? These are the key questions considered in this book; key questions (the theme) clearly articulated in the first chapter.Subsequent chapters explore the nature of Eurosecularity in more detail (the variations on the the...(展开全部)

Drawing from literary, historical, dramatic, and anecdotal sources, Yenna Wu conducts a rich exploration of an unusually prominent theme in premodern Chinese prose fiction and drama: that of jealous and belligerent wives, or viragos, who dominate their husbands and abuse other women. Focusing on Chinese literary works from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, she presents...(展开全部)

America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism--manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to traditional public space--is emerging both at the heart and at the edge of town in megamalls, corporate enclaves, gentrified zones, and psuedo-historic marketplaces. If anything can be described as a paradigm for these places, it's ...(展开全部)

When published in 1982, this translation of Professor Jacques Gernet's masterly survey of the history and culture of China was immediately welcomed by critics and readers. This revised and updated edition makes it more useful for students and for the general reader concerned with the broad sweep of China's past.

何塞·奥尔特加-加塞特于1883年诞生在西班牙马德里，他是近代西班牙最伟大的思想家，也是西班牙共和国的知识领导者之一。

何塞·奥尔特加-加塞特于1883年诞生在西班牙马德里，他是近代西班牙最伟大的思想家，也是西班牙共和国的知识领导者之一。

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze River. Always more interested in people than places, he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature. On a Chinese Screen is the refined accumulation of the countless scraps of paper on which he had taken notes. Within the narrow confines of their colonial milieu, missionaries, consuls, ...(展开全部)