迪克·威尔逊（Dick Wilson），国外研究当代中国问题的知名学者。早年就读于英国牛津大学及美国加州大学，获文学、法学硕士，后在研究中国问题的专业性刊物《中国季刊》担任主编。 威尔逊在研究当代中国历史和人物方面有一定造诣，其主要著述有：《毛泽东传》、《周恩来传》、《长征，1935年》、《亚洲的觉醒》、《人类的四分之一》等。

"The Emperor and the Saint" is a vivid place-by-place telling of the life and times of the most enlightened, creative, and dynamic ruler of Medieval Europe, Frederick II of Hohenstaufen. St. Francis, who shared with Frederick a love of the natural world and was baptized in the same cathedral in Assisi, is a parallel and contrasting presence. Cassady enthusiastically guides the ...(展开全部)

Djeow Seow, the Emperor's tiniest daughter, is always forgotten by her family as she spends her days flying a kite made from paper and sticks. When her father is taken prisoner, only Djeow Seow's courage, and a little help from her kite, can save him. Traditional, oriental papercut illustrations embellish this sensitive tale of love and loyalty. Full color. Caldecott Medal Hono...(展开全部)

Ocean Vuong returns with a big-hearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Gr...(展开全部)

李文烈（1948一），韩国当代最著名、最受欢迎的作家之一。在韩国文坛辛勤耕耘三十余年，创作了大量题卡才丰富、主题深刻、结构严谨、描写细腻、形式多样，而且通俗易懂、容易引起共鸣的文学作品。其作品涉及艺术、战争、宗教、爱情等人生与社会的方方面面，创造出一个个多姿多彩、引人入 胜的艺术世界，获得了众多读者的喜爱，具有广泛的社会影响力。曾获今日作家奖，东仁文学奖、大韩民国文学奖、中央文化大奖、李箱文学奖、现代文学奖等韩国文学界的多种重要奖项，堪称当代韩国作家中获奖最多的作家之一。

Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Hadrian abandoned his predecessor Trajan's eastern conquests - Mesopotamia and Armenia - trimmed down the lands beyond the lower Danube, and constructed new demarcation lines in Germany, North Africa, and most famously Hadrian's Wall in Britain, to delimit the empire. The emperor Hadrian, a strange...(展开全部)

李文烈（1948一），韩国当代最著名、最受欢迎的作家之一。在韩国文坛辛勤耕耘三十余年，创作了大量题卡才丰富、主题深刻、结构严谨、描写细腻、形式多样，而且通俗易懂、容易引起共鸣的文学作品。其作品涉及艺术、战争、宗教、爱情等人生与社会的方方面面，创造出一个个多姿多彩、引人入 胜的艺术世界，获得了众多读者的喜爱，具有广泛的社会影响力。曾获今日作家奖，东仁文学奖、大韩民国文学奖、中央文化大奖、李箱文学奖、现代文学奖等韩国文学界的多种重要奖项，堪称当代韩国作家中获奖最多的作家之一。

The exquisite ceramic ware produced at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory at Jingdezhen in southern China functioned as a kind of visual propaganda for the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) court. Porcelain for the Emperor charts the career of bannerman Tang Ying, a technocrat in the porcelain industry, through the first half of the eighteenth century to uncover the wider role of specia...(展开全部)

This book offers a large scale reassessment of the function of Roman emperor over three centuries (from Augustus to Constantine) and of the social realities of this exercise of power. Concentrating on the patterns of communication between the emperor and his subjects, the author shows that such communications were normally initiated by the subjects - whether grouped in cities o...(展开全部)