Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate. As the first account in English to be wholly based on contemporary Chinese sources, this innovative, beautifully illustrated book grounds the practices of garden-making in Ming dynasty China (1368–1644) firmly in the social and cultural history of the day. Who owned M...(展开全部)

柯律格（Craig Clunas，1954-），当代研究中国物质文明史的重要学者，现任英国牛津大学艺术史系教授。主要著作有《明代的图像与视觉性》《中国艺术》《雅债：文徵明的社交性艺术》《大明：明代中国的视觉文化与物质文化》等。 孔涛，1971年出生，山东曲阜人，山东大学专门史专业博士，任职于淄博市博物馆。主要研究方向：中国古代艺术史，美术考古。

柯律格（Craig Clunas，1954-），当代研究中国物质文明史的重要学者，现任英国牛津大学艺术史系教授。主要著作有《明代的图像与视觉性》《中国艺术》《雅债：文徵明的社交性艺术》《大明：明代中国的视觉文化与物质文化》等。 孔涛，1971年出生，山东曲阜人，山东大学专门史专业博士，任职于淄博市博物馆。主要研究方向：中国古代艺术史，美术考古。

蔡石山（Shih-shan Henry Tsai），享誉国际的历史学者，美国俄勒冈大学历史学博士，曾执教于台湾大学、美国加州大学洛杉矶与伯克利分校、阿肯色大学等，曾任美国阿肯色大学历史系教授兼亚洲研究中心主任。著有《明代的女人》《永乐大帝》等。

Until now, China has been scarcely represented in the burgeoning comparative literature on pilgrimage. This volume remedies that omission, discussing the interaction between pilgrims and sacred sites from the tenth century to the present. From the perspectives of literature, art, history, religion, politics, and anthropology, the essays focus on China's most famous pilgrimage m...(展开全部)

Until now, China has been scarcely represented in the burgeoning comparative literature on pilgrimage. This volume remedies that omission, discussing the interaction between pilgrims and sacred sites from the tenth century to the present. From the perspectives of literature, art, history, religion, politics, and anthropology, the essays focus on China's most famous pilgrimage m...(展开全部)

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)

Huizhou studies the construction of local identity through kinship in the prefecture of Huizhou, the most prominent merchant stronghold of Ming China. Employing an array of untapped genealogies and other sources, Qitao Guo explores how developments in the sociocultural, religious, and gender realms from the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries intertwined to shape Huizhou identity ...(展开全部)

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)

This is the first interdisciplinary effort to study friendship in late imperial China from the perspective of gender history. Friendship was valorized with unprecedented enthusiasm in Ming China (1368-1644). Some Ming literati even proposed that friendship was the most fundamental relationship among the so-called "five cardinal human relationships." Why the cult of friendship i...(展开全部)