Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so the story goes, only occurred in 1956, when the Indian civil rights pioneer Dr. B.R. Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with half a ...(展开全部)

Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, so the story goes, only occurred in 1956, when the Indian civil rights pioneer Dr. B.R. Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with half a ...(展开全部)

威廉．達爾林普(William Dalrymple) 蘇格蘭人，於佛斯海灣﹝Firth of Forth﹞的海邊長大。劍橋大學畢業後，曾為《獨立報》﹝Independent﹞專欄作家。年方二十二歲，便出版了暢銷又備受好評的《在薩那都》﹝In Xanadu﹞，此書於一九九○年獲得《約克郡郵報》﹝Yorksire Post﹞的最佳處女作品獎，以及蘇格蘭藝術協會春季圖書獎；並曾入圍John Llewelyn Rhys紀念獎。一九八九年他遷居德里，在當地居住四年，位本書蒐集資料並為《星期天通訊》﹝Sunday Correspondent﹞、《觀察者》﹝Spectator﹞、《觀察家》﹝Observer﹞以及《週日時報》﹝Sunday Times﹞等報紙撰稿。曾獲《週日時報》年度英國青年作家獎。 威廉．達爾林普與藝術家奧莉維亞．弗來瑟﹝Olivia Frase...(展开全部)

史景迁（Jonathan D. Spence），1936年出生于英国，是国际知名的中国近现代史专家，1965—2008年在美国耶鲁大学历史系任教。著作极丰，主要有《追寻现代中国》、《雍正王朝之大义觉迷》、《太平天国》、《改变中国》、《曹寅与康熙》、《康熙》、《天安门》、《大汗之国：西方眼中的中国》、《王氏之死》、《利玛窦的记忆宫殿》、《胡若望的疑问》。

"A remarkable achievement...vivid...fluent, graceful.... A publishing event."—Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history....(展开全部)

"A remarkable achievement...vivid...fluent, graceful.... A publishing event."—Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history....(展开全部)

"Fearful Symmetry" brings the incredible discoveries of contemporary physics within everyone's grasp. A. Zee, a distinguished physicist and skillful expositor, tells the exciting story of how today's theoretical physicists are following Einstein in their search for the beauty and simplicity of Nature. Animated by a sense of reverence and whimsy, the book describes the majestic ...(展开全部)

"Fearful Symmetry" brings the incredible discoveries of contemporary physics within everyone's grasp. A. Zee, a distinguished physicist and skillful expositor, tells the exciting story of how today's theoretical physicists are following Einstein in their search for the beauty and simplicity of Nature. Animated by a sense of reverence and whimsy, the book describes the majestic ...(展开全部)

"For the Record" considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a return? And conversely, what kind of 'archive' does such a recuperative hermeneutics produce? Rather than render sexuality's rela...(展开全部)

"For the Record" considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a return? And conversely, what kind of 'archive' does such a recuperative hermeneutics produce? Rather than render sexuality's rela...(展开全部)