朱剑飞，天津大学学士，伦敦大学博士，墨尔本大学副教授。长期从事建筑理论、历史、设计研究，已出版《中国空间策略》《现代中国建筑》两本英文著作，并主编了中文文集《中国建筑60年（1949—2009）：历史理论研究》。

在明清北京，城市建筑与朝廷政治是如何联系在一起的？我们能否把北京看成一座“政治的建筑”？这个“政治的建筑”是如何被设计和构筑而成的？中国人如何在构筑房屋、营造城池、贯彻大规模水利土木工程等各种尺度上设计空间布局？长城、大运河、帝国京城及紫禁城宫殿的建造之间，存在着何种关系？它揭示了权力的运行，美的形式，还是关于人的存在的世界观？本书以考察明清北京的建筑为基础，试图解答这些问题，并探讨普遍的中国传统的空间布局方法的某些方面。

In the 1990s, as China continues to embrace—and grapple with—the global market economy, Qiu Shui and his friends attend med school, an ambition that has more to do with getting out of the country than with actually becoming doctors. Following the exploits of a young student and his classmates, from drinking binges, sex, and playing video games all night to military training, ho...(展开全部)

This publication accompanies an unprecedented exhibition highlighting four of the magnificent chinoiserie tapestries of Chinese Emperor Qianlong, woven after designs by François Boucher at the famous Beauvais manufactory from 1758–1760. The large and well-preserved textiles form part of the royal French commission by King Louis XV, objects of which were presented to Qianlong in...(展开全部)

This publication accompanies an unprecedented exhibition highlighting four of the magnificent chinoiserie tapestries of Chinese Emperor Qianlong, woven after designs by François Boucher at the famous Beauvais manufactory from 1758–1760. The large and well-preserved textiles form part of the royal French commission by King Louis XV, objects of which were presented to Qianlong in...(展开全部)

This volume opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. As environmental historians turn their attention to expanded chronologies of natural change, something new can be said about human history through animals and about the globally diverse cultural and historical dynamics that have led to perceptions of animals as wild or cultures as civilized. This innovative col...(展开全部)

By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and newspapers to poems and plays, Tom G. Hoogervorst's Language Ungoverned examines how the Malay of the Chinese-Indonesian community defied linguistic and political governance under Dutch colonial rule, offering a fresh perspective on the subversive role of language in colonial power relations. As a liminal colonial populat...(展开全部)

Winner of the 1997 American Literary Translators Association Outstanding Translation Award Hailed as a groundbreaking text in Chinese Studies, An Anthology of Chinese Literature brings together representative works from the first millenium B.C. to the end of the imperial system in 1911. This collection of over 600 pieces, translated with great clarity and sense of the origin...(展开全部)

During the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the censorious attitude that characterized China's post-1989 official response to contemporary art gave way to a new market-driven, culture industry valuation of art. Experimental artists who once struggled against state regulation of artistic expression found themselves being courted to advance China's international image. In Ex...(展开全部)

In this volume, Hui Zou analyzes historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing, constructed during the Qing dynasty. Designed and built in the late eighteenth century by Italian and French Jesuits, the garden described in this book was a wonderland of multis...(展开全部)