Edwin Joshua Dukes，中文名陆一约。受伦敦传道会派遣到中国传教，主要在闽南一带活动。他根据清光绪三年（1877年）在福建境内的一次长途游历，加上常年在闽传教的见闻，撰成《中国人的日常生活：福建河流及道路沿途风光》。 译者：张跃军，博士，广西民族大学、厦门理工学院教授、博士生导师。加州大学伯克利分校访问学者、宾夕法尼亚大学富布莱特研究学者。 刘为洁，厦门理工学院副教授。毕业于四川外国语大学，获英语语言文学硕士学位。曾赴加拿大里贾纳大学研修。

迈克尔·鲁惟一，英国著名汉学家。从剑桥的佩雷斯学院毕业后，他进入牛津大学莫德林学院工作。因第二次世界大战爆发，1942年他离开牛津大学，来到英国政府通讯部接受日语训练；同时，开始利用业余时间学习汉语。1947年，他来到北京生活，此时对中国传统文化和中国历史产生浓厚兴趣，同时开始研究非洲和东方文化。返回英国后，他任教于伦敦大学，主要讲授远东历史。1963年，他获得牛津大学博士学位，后任教于剑桥大学，是剑桥大学克莱尔讲堂的成员，剑桥大学以他的名字设立“鲁惟一奖”专门用于奖励在中国文学方面表现突出的本科生。

This edited volume is first of its kind to document and critically analyse the changes took place snice China’s opening-up and reform and its impact on Dongbei, China’s North-East region, known for its remote and vast landscape, unique and othered culture, rich resources, mighty infrastructures and industries, geopolitical significance. Through presenting up-to-date and multidi...(展开全部)

Is modernity in non-Western societies always an “alternative” modernity, a derivative copy of an “original modernity” that began in the West ? No, answer the contributors to this book, who then offer an absorbing set of case studies from modern China to make their point. By focusing on people’s ordinary routines of working, eating, going to school, and traveling, the authors ex...(展开全部)

A philosopher’s case for the importance of good—if ethically questionable—humor. A good sense of humor is key to the good life, but a joke taken too far can get anyone into trouble. Where to draw the line is not as simple as it may seem. After all, even the most innocent quips between friends rely on deception, sarcasm, and stereotypes and often run the risk of disrespect, mean...(展开全部)

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as...(展开全部)

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as...(展开全部)

In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Linking Europe, India, and the Far East, the route passed through many countries and many settlements, from the splendid city of Samarkand to tiny desert hamlets. Susan Whitfield creates a ri...(展开全部)

In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative history and remains the only history of the Silk Road to recon...(展开全部)

Cultural consumption is one of the key activities of everyday life: it says who we are or who we would like to be, it can produce and maintain particular lifestyles, it can promise consolation in time of loss or symbolise success and achievement; it can provide the material for our dreams or maintain social difference and social distinction. For most people, consumption is the ...(展开全部)