China is one of the world’s leading producers and consumers of liquor, with alcohol infusing all aspects of its culture, from religion and literature to business and warfare. Yet to the outside world, China’s most famous spirit, baijiu, remains a mystery. This is about to change, as baijiu is now being served in cocktail bars beyond its borders. Drunk in China follows Derek San...(展开全部)

中国是世界大的酒类生产国和消费国之一，酒精渗透到其文化的各个方面，从传统和文学到商业和战争。然而，对外界来说，中国知名的烈酒白酒仍然是个谜。这种情况即将改变，因为白酒现在已在国外的鸡尾酒吧供应。 《醉在中国》讲述了德里克·桑德豪斯探索世界上古老的饮酒文化的旅程。他走遍全国和世界各地，与酿酒师、啤酒酿造师、江湖骗子、考古学家和普通饮酒者会面。他研究了酒精塑造中国社会及其仪式的多种方式。他参观了生产车间、卡拉 OK 厅、火锅店和地下酒吧。一路上，他发现了一个跨越九千多年的传统，并探讨了最近的经济和政治发展如何首次将中国酒精推向国外。随着中国社会日益国际化，其饮酒文化也须适应时代。西方是否也能适应并与中国举杯共饮？阅读《醉在中国》一书，你就能找到答案。 China is one of the world's leading producers and co...(展开全部)

The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and...(展开全部)

From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the concept of order (zhi). This cultural preoccupation has found expression not only in China's highly refined bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in Chinese philosophy, religious and secular ritual, and a number of comprehensive...(展开全部)

作者:(美)康达维 译者:苏瑞隆 美国人文与科学院院士，西雅图华盛顿大学教授，被海内外赋学界誉为“当代西方汉学之巨擎，辞赋研究之宗师”。他积三十余年的不懈努力，在中国古代辞赋的译介、研究以及学术交流和传播方面，都取得了突出的成绩。

The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the world: the European voyages of exploration were searching not just for new lands but also for new trade routes to the Far East. In this book, Timothy Brook eloquently narrates the changing landscape of life over the three centuries o...(展开全部)

In this wide-ranging study, Sucheta Mazumdar offers a new answer to the fundamental question of why China, universally acknowledged as one of the most developed economies in the world through the mid-eighteenth century, paused in this development process in the nineteenth. Focusing on cane-sugar production, domestic and international trade, technology, and the history of consum...(展开全部)

Awards Winner of the 2022 Dan David Prize for outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history Winner of the 2023 Medieval Academy of America Monica H. Green Prize for Distinguished Medieval Research Honorable Mention in the 2023 Middle East Medievalists Book Prize In Middle Eastern cities as early as th...(展开全部)

In recent years, scholars have successfully challenged the perception that Chinese civilization, especially in its early phase, existed in isolation with little or no influence from other regions of the world. Similarly, the passive role of Chinese dynasties in their interactions with neighboring societies, emphasized in earlier studies, also has come under serious scrutiny. Ta...(展开全部)