Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires. Heaven Is Empty offers a new comparative perspective on the role of the sacred in the formation of China’s early empires (221 BCE–9 CE) and shows how the unification of the Central States was possible without a unitary and universalistic conception of religion. The cohes...(展开全部)

阿诺德•约瑟夫•汤因比（Arnold Joseph Toynbee，1889—1975），英国著名历史学家，也是20世纪较具国际影响的几位历史学家。毕业于牛津大学。先后任职于牛津大学、伦敦大学和英国外交部等机构，1919年和1946年分别以英国政府代表的身份参加两次世界大战结束后的巴黎和平会议。1926年起担任英国皇家国际问题研究所部长（一直任职到1953年为止）。以《历史研究》为代表的一系列著作为他赢得了世界性声誉，他也因此而被誉为“近世以来伟大的历史学家”。

贝剑铭，加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）博士，现为加拿大麦克马斯特大学佛教与东亚宗教教授，麦克马斯特大学佛教研究中心主任，中国中古宗教史学者。已发表关于中国佛教疑伪经、茶和酒等主题的论文，著有Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism（University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007）。 朱慧颖，南开大学历史学博士，文博研究员，现供职于中国茶叶博物馆。多年从事茶史研究与史著翻译，已出版译著《日本史》《麻风：一种疾病的医疗社会史》《十九世纪中国的鼠疫》，参编茶文化书籍《话说中国茶》《中国茶事大典》等。

Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity and popular beverage. The work traces the development of tea drinking from its mythical origins to the nineteenth century and examines the changes in aesthetics, ritual, science, health, and knowledge that tea brought with it. The shif...(展开全部)

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Western scientific interest in China focused primarily on natural history. Prominent scholars in Europe as well as Westerners in China, including missionaries, merchants, consular officers, and visiting plant hunters, eagerly investigated the flora and fauna of China. Yet despite the importance and extent of this scientific activity, ...(展开全部)

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Western scientific interest in China focused primarily on natural history. Prominent scholars in Europe as well as Westerners in China, including missionaries, merchants, consular officers, and visiting plant hunters, eagerly investigated the flora and fauna of China. Yet despite the importance and extent of this scientific activity, ...(展开全部)

This book offers an intimate portrait of early-twentieth-century Harbin, a city in Manchuria where Russian colonialists, and later refugees from the Revolution, met with Chinese migrants. The deep social and intellectual fissures between the Russian and Chinese worlds were matched by a multitude of small efforts to cross the divide as the city underwent a wide range of social a...(展开全部)

http://www.cambridge.org/cn/academic/subjects/archaeology/archaeology-asia-sub-saharan-africa-and-pacific/ancient-china-and-its-eurasian-neighbors-artefacts-and-cross-cultural-interactions-3000-700-bce?format=HB#vjJit9fv0Spej6Vl.97 This volume examines the role of objects in the region north of early dynastic state centers, at the intersection of Ancient China and Eurasia, a la...(展开全部)

The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilisation still in place today: formidable infrastructure, a society based on the strict hierarchy of the family, a shared written script, a cuisine founded on rice and millet, an extraordinarily challenging geography and environment, a...(展开全部)

The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilization still in place today: an extraordinarily challenging geography and environment; formidable infrastructure; a society based on the strict hierarchy of the family; a shared written script of characters; a cuisine founded on rice...(展开全部)