From Philosophy to Philology is an indispensable work on the intellectual life of China’s literati in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While there was not a scientific revolution in China, there was an intellectual one. The shock of the Manchu conquest and the collapse of the Ming dynasty in 1644 led to a rejection of the moral self-cultivation that dominated intellect...(展开全部)

The nine essays in this volume reexamine the “hundred days” in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of this reform movement. Their collective goal is to rethink the reforms not as a failed attempt at modernizing China but as a period in which many of the institutions that have since structured China began. Among the subjects covered are the reform movement, the reformer...(展开全部)

Among the environmental challenges facing us is alleviating the damage to marine ecosystems caused by pollution and overfishing. Coming to grips with contemporary problems, this book argues, depends on understanding how people have historically generated, perceived, and responded to environmental change. This work explores interactions between society and environment in China’s...(展开全部)

China's rural industrial sector has been the engine driving much of the Chinese economy's dynamism during the reform period. The nature and development of this sector, also referred to as township and village enterprises (TVEs) defy easy explanation. Across regions, there is dramatic variation in property rights among TVEs, ranging from local government ownership to outright pr...(展开全部)

The ledgers of merit and demerit were a type of morality book that achieved sudden and widespread popularity in China during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Consisting of lists of good and bad deeds, each assigned a certain number of merit or demerit points, the ledgers offered the hope of divine reward to users “good” enough to accumulate a substantial sum of merits. ...(展开全部)

作者简介： 包筠雅（Cynthia Joanne Brokaw），美国哈佛大学博士，现任布朗大学历史系教授、系主任。主要从事中国古代社会文化史、书籍史研究。所著《功过格：明清社会的道德秩序》《文化贸易：清代至民国时期四堡的书籍交易》在学术界产生广泛反响，先后被译介到国内 。 译者简介： 杜正贞，浙江大学人文学院历史学系教授。专业方向社会史、法律史，研究兴趣涉及基层社会组织、乡村生活和民间信仰等。已出版著作《村社传统与明清士绅：山西泽州乡土社会的制度变迁》《近代山区的习惯、契约与权力：龙泉司法档案的社会史研究》等。 张林，北京师范大学历史学硕士，现为北京师范大学继续教育与教师培训学院党总支副书记。