Cultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances rigorous procedures for testing for the existence and influence of "strategic culture." Johnston sets out to answer two empirical questions. Is ther...(展开全部)

Chinese Hegemony: Grand Strategy and International Institutions in East Asian History joins a rapidly growing body of important literature that combines history and International Relations theory to create new perspectives on East Asian political and strategic behavior. The book explores the strategic and institutional dynamics of international relations in East Asian history w...(展开全部)

The spirit of adventure is at the heart of Jonathan Spence's widely acclaimed scholarship on the modern history of China. This vitality, fleshed out with deep research and attired in elegant style, has drawn countless readers to subjects otherwise approachable only by experts. Through eight books, from the story of the early eighteenth century Manchu bondservant Ts'ao Yin to hi...(展开全部)

作者简介： 顾立雅（Herrlee Glessner Creel，1905—1994），美国汉学元老，曾任美国东方学会会长、芝加哥大学东方语文系主任。1929年获芝加哥大学博士学位，1932—1936年赴中国访学，结识诸多中国名家，并赴殷墟考察。回国后致力于汉学研究推广，著有《中国人的世界观》《中国之诞生》《中国古代文化研究》《孔子与中国之道》《中国思想》《中国治道之源》等。2006年芝加哥大学建立“顾立雅中国古文字学中心”纪念其学术成就。 译者简介： 马腾，暨南大学法学院/知识产权学院教授、博士生导师，中山大学法学博士，兼任中国法律史学会理事。主要研究领域为法学理论、中国法律史、先秦诸子思想，曾获首届曾宪义先生法律史奖学金学术俊秀奖、第十届钱端升法学研究优秀成果奖。著有《儒法合流与中国传统法思想阐释》《墨家“兼爱”法思想的现代诠释》，译有《道德的法...(展开全部)

What Is Taoism? traces, in nontechnical language, the history of the development of this often baffling doctrine. Creel shows that there has not been one "Taoism," but at least three, in some respects incompatible and often antagonistic. In eight closely related papers, Creel explicates the widely used concepts he originally introduced of "contemplative Taoism," "purposive Taoi...(展开全部)

作者简介： 顾立雅（Herrlee Glessner Creel，1905—1994），美国汉学元老，曾任美国东方学会会长、芝加哥大学东方语文系主任。1929年获芝加哥大学博士学位，1932—1936年赴中国访学，结识诸多中国名家，并赴殷墟考察。回国后致力于汉学研究推广，著有《中国人的世界观》《中国之诞生》《中国古代文化研究》《孔子与中国之道》《中国思想》《中国治道之源》等。2006年芝加哥大学建立“顾立雅中国古文字学中心”纪念其学术成就。 译者简介： 马腾，暨南大学法学院/知识产权学院教授、博士生导师，中山大学法学博士，兼任中国法律史学会理事。主要研究领域为法学理论、中国法律史、先秦诸子思想，曾获首届曾宪义先生法律史奖学金学术俊秀奖、第十届钱端升法学研究优秀成果奖。著有《儒法合流与中国传统法思想阐释》《墨家“兼爱”法思想的现代诠释》，译有《道德的法...(展开全部)

The Edge of Knowing explores the relationship between the rhetoric of dreams and realist literary practice in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The writers' attention to dreams demonstrates the multiple influences of Western psychology, utopian desire for...(展开全部)

Realism and the rhetoric of dreams intersected in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The Edge of Knowing investigates this relationship, showing how writers’ attention to dreams demonstrates the multiple influences of Western psychology, utopian desire for...(展开全部)

Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore their intrinsic conceptual complexity and historical specificity. The twelve...(展开全部)

A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture is the first publication, in any language, that is dedicated to the study of Chinese epistolary literature and culture in its entirety, from the early empire to the twentieth century. The volume includes twenty-five essays dedicated to a broad spectrum of topics from postal transmission to letter calligraphy, epistolary networ...(展开全部)