Gossip and anecdote may be “idle talk,” but they also serve to knit together individuals in society and to provide the materials through which literary culture and historical memory are constructed. This groundbreaking book provides a cultural history of gossip and anecdote in traditional China, beginning with the Han dynasty and ending with the Qing. The ten essays, along with...(展开全部)

本书作者把研究对象确定在中国古代社会中的法律，以期对中国历史上的法律提供一种社会学的解释。在兼跨社会学、历史学、法律这三个学科领域之间，开创了法律史与社会史结合的研究范式，形成了一种新的学术研究体系，被称为“法律社会史”。本书是这一领域的经典著作，初版至今已60余年，并有作者自己的英文译本传世，在西方汉学界广有影响。

The world’s preeminent authority on Chinese science explores the philosophy, social structure, arts, crafts, and even military strategies that form our understanding of Chinese science, making instructive comparisons along the way to similar elements of Indian, Hellenistic, and Arabic cultures. A major portion of the book concentrates on Taoist alchemy that led not only to the ...(展开全部)

In recent years, scholars have successfully challenged the perception that Chinese civilization, especially in its early phase, existed in isolation with little or no influence from other regions of the world. Similarly, the passive role of Chinese dynasties in their interactions with neighboring societies, emphasized in earlier studies, also has come under serious scrutiny. Ta...(展开全部)

作者方泽林（Steven Van Zoeren），又名范佐仁，1986年博士毕业于哈佛大学东亚语言与文明系，师从著名汉学家史华慈（Benjamin Schwartz）美。曾为哈佛学会成员，后任教于斯坦福大学亚洲语言文学系，著有《诗与人格：传统中国的阅读、注疏与诠释》等。现居美国德州奥斯汀，近期主要从事杜诗的翻译与研究。 译者赵四方，复旦大学历史学学士、博士，浙江大学历史学博士后，曾于德国图宾根大学访学。现为华东师范大学历史学系讲师（晨晖学者）。研究方向为中国学术思想史。在《学术月刊》、《史学理论研究》、《新经学》等刊物发表论文、书评十余篇。

李弘祺，耶鲁大学历史学博士，台湾清华大学人文社会学院历史研究所讲座教授。过去三十多年间专研中国教育史，从宋代开始，而及于整个传统中国，先后以英文及中文出版多本有关教育的着作，被日本学者誉为“活跃于当今世界治中国教育及科举史之第一人者”。

Previous studies of the practice of footbinding in imperial China have theorized that it expressed ethnic identity or that it served an economic function. By analyzing the popularity of footbinding in different places and times, Footbinding as Fashion investigates the claim that early Qing (1644-1911) attempts by Manchu rulers to ban footbinding made it a symbol of anti-Manchu ...(展开全部)

James Cahill (1926-2014): an art historian, curator, collector, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was considered one of the world's top authorities on Chinese art. Further information bout James Cahill: http://jamescahill.info/home-1/short-cv-for-james-cahill