The Ming period of Chinese history is often depicted as one of cultural aridity, political despotism, and social stasis. Recent studies have shown that the arts continued to flourish, government remained effective, people enjoyed considerable mobility, and China served as a center of the global economy. This study goes further to argue that China’s perennial quest for cultural ...(展开全部)

This volume seeks to study the connections between two well-studied epochs in Chinese history: the mid-imperial era of the Tang and Song era (ca.800-1270) and the late imperial era of the late Ming and Qing (1550-1900). Both eras are seen as periods of explosive change, particularly in economic activity, characterized by the emergence of new forms of social organization and a d...(展开全部)

With the Qing Dynasty reform efforts (1901–1911), abolition of the civil service examination (1905), and the end of the monarchy (1912), the first three decades of the twentieth century brought important changes to the elite of Zhejiang Province. This book examines the social backgrounds, public activities, careers, and decision-making of local and provincial elites—that is, no...(展开全部)

罗伯特·达恩顿(1939年生)，美国普林斯顿大学谢尔比·库罗姆·戴维斯历史讲席教授，是英语世界中最重要的法国史专家之一，也是文化史、阅读史方面的领军人物。《催眠术与法国启蒙运动的终结》是他的第一部著作。代表作有：《拉莫莱特之吻·有关文化史的思考》、《屠猫记·法国文化史钩沉》、《法国大革命时期被禁的畅销书》、《旧制度时期的地下文学》、《启蒙运动的生意》。

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)

康斯坦斯·克拉森，康考迪亚大学的研究员，感觉史研究专家，长期专注于感觉史的研究，致力于探索人类感官知觉与文化之间的关系，以及感官经验如何影响了社会和文化的发展等主题。代表作有《感觉的世界 :探索历史与跨文化的感觉》《芳香 :嗅觉文化史》《深层感知 :触摸的文化史》《感知的方式 :理解社会中的感官》，曾担任六卷本《感官文化史》丛书的主编。

【作者】 理查德·G.纽豪瑟（Richard G. Newhauser） 亚利桑那州立大学（Arizona State University）英语与中世纪研究教授，其研究方向是道德传统与感官史。他的著作包括：《贪婪的早期历史》（The Early History of Greed ，2000；再版于2006年）；《罪恶：西欧中世纪道德传统论集》（Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages，2007）；（合编）《中世纪和近代早期文化中的罪恶观》（Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture，2012）等。 【译者】 钱文逸，艺术史学者、译者。早年求学于英国伦敦大学学院，获艺术史与材料研究学士学位（2014年）和艺术史硕士学位（2015年）...(展开全部)

【作者】 理查德·G.纽豪瑟（Richard G. Newhauser） 亚利桑那州立大学（Arizona State University）英语与中世纪研究教授，其研究方向是道德传统与感官史。他的著作包括：《贪婪的早期历史》（The Early History of Greed ，2000；再版于2006年）；《罪恶：西欧中世纪道德传统论集》（Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages，2007）；（合编）《中世纪和近代早期文化中的罪恶观》（Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture，2012）等。 【译者】 钱文逸，艺术史学者、译者。早年求学于英国伦敦大学学院，获艺术史与材料研究学士学位（2014年）和艺术史硕士学位（2015年）...(展开全部)

Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others--and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrializat...(展开全部)

Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others - and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrializat...(展开全部)