威兮其祖：宋代太廟禮儀之爭 Empowered by Ancestors: Controversy over the Imperial Temple in Song China (960–1279) examines the enduring tension between cultural authority and political power in imperial China by inquiring into Song ritual debates over the Imperial Temple. During these debates, Song-educated elites utilized various discourses to rectify temple rituals in their own ways. In th...(展开全部)

施坚雅教授(G.William Skinner)，美国国家科学院院士、戴维斯加州大学人类学系教授,于2008年10月26日因病逝世，享年83岁。施坚雅教授一生致立于人类学、人口学和历史经济区划等研究，著述斗盛，在国际学术界享有崇高的声誉。 1925年2月14日施出生于美国加州奥克兰。1954年于美国康奈尔大学获人类学博士学位，先后任哥伦比亚大学社会学助教、康奈尔大学人类学副教授、教授，1965年起任斯坦福大学人类学教授，1990年至今任加州大学戴维斯分校人类学教授，其间曾任宾夕法尼亚大学、杜克大学、日本庆应大学、加州大学圣地亚哥分校、香港大学客座教授。 施坚雅教授曾在墨西哥、泰国、印度尼西亚、日本等地进行田野考察。1950-1951年曾到中国四川考察，1977年曾考察中国城市市场。1968年列名《美国名人录》，1969年被授予古根海姆学者，1980年...(展开全部)

Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint. Telling the story of a quintessential Chinese culture that spread uniformly from the administrative heartland to the previously untamed periphery, official records have largely ignored the local histories of the country conquered peoples, preserved for generations in the form of oral tradition through myths, le...(展开全部)

Society and the Supernatural in Song China is at once a meticulous examination of spirit-possession and exorcism in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a social history of the full panoply of China's religious practices and practitioners at the moment when she was poised to dominate the world economy. Although the Song dynasty (960-1276) is often identified with the establ...(展开全部)

王斯福（Stephan Feuchtwang）现为伦敦经济学院（LSE）人类学系兼职教授。研究领域包括人类学理论与中国民间宗教、各文明之比较研究与历史人类学。最近的出版物包括有其作为主编的论文集《制造地点：国家计划、全球化与中国的地方反应》（Making Place: State projects, globalisation and local responses in China, UCL Press 2004）、与王铭铭合写的著作《基层卡理斯玛：中国的四种地方领袖》（Grassroots Charisma: Four local leaders in China, Routledge 2001），另外，还有最近发表在《皇家人类学刊》上的论文“论作为顺从与过度交流的宗教仪式”（'On religious ritual as deference a...(展开全部)

A basic fact of Chinese social life and history is the institution of territorial cults and their festivals. They are highpoints of social life. They portray and punctuate a sense of life and death and present a whole picture of Chinese political relations as seen at their popular roots. The images of demons and ghosts and those of protectors against them which festivals and th...(展开全部)

The institution of local festivals and temples is not as well known as that of ancestor worship, but it is just as much a universal fact of Chinese life. Its content is an imperial metaphor, which stands in relation to the rest of its participants' lives as the poetry of collective vision, theatrically performed, built and painted in temples, carved and clothed in statues. Step...(展开全部)

Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the civil service examinations created and maintained political coherence across the Chinese polity. Preparation for the examinations transformed the lives of literate elites by defining educational standards and disseminating a language that determined elite status. However, as participation in the examinations became central to that ...(展开全部)

布迪，莫里斯，前者为美国宾夕法尼亚大学教授，还著有《中国的第一个统治者》、《中国物品西传者》、《中国思想西传考》、《托尔斯泰与中国》、《古代中国的庆典》等，并翻译了冯友兰的《中国哲学史》和《中国哲学简史》。后者为已故美国德克萨斯大学教授，还著有《律师如何思考》等。