This two-volume set provides an analysis of early Italian humanist thought and the Christian Renaissance. The author argues that the Italian humanists drew their inspiration more from the Church fathers than from the pagan ancients.

The first study in English to offer a systematic introduction to the Chinese pantheon of divinities. It challenges received wisdom about Chinese popular religion, which, until now, presented all Chinese deities as mere functionaries and bureaucrats. The essays in this volume eloquently document the existence of other metaphors that allowed Chinese gods to challenge the traditio...(展开全部)

The first study in English to offer a systematic introduction to the Chinese pantheon of divinities. It challenges received wisdom about Chinese popular religion, which, until now, presented all Chinese deities as mere functionaries and bureaucrats. The essays in this volume eloquently document the existence of other metaphors that allowed Chinese gods to challenge the traditio...(展开全部)

塞缪尔·早川（Samuel Hayakawa，1906—1992），日裔美籍语言学家、作家、政治家；旧金山州立大学英语教授，1968年任代理校长；1977-1983年任美国参议员。

Meaning in everyday thought and language is constructed at lightning speed. We are not conscious of the staggering complexity of the cognitive operations that drive our simplest behavior. This 1997 book examines a central component of meaning construction: the mappings that link mental spaces. A deep result of the research is that the same principles operate at the highest leve...(展开全部)

塞缪尔·早川（Samuel Hayakawa，1906—1992），日裔美籍语言学家、作家、政治家；旧金山州立大学英语教授，1968年任代理校长；1977-1983年任美国参议员。

David Martin Jones examines how China has been portrayed in European and subsequently North American social and political thought and what, if anything, this depiction tells us about the character of this thought. Such a question immediately evokes the spectre of orientalism and subsequent chapters explore whether the identification of an orientalist project invalidates the kno...(展开全部)

David Martin Jones examines how China has been portrayed in European and subsequently North American social and political thought and what, if anything, this depiction tells us about the character of this thought. Such a question immediately evokes the spectre of orientalism and subsequent chapters explore whether the identification of an orientalist project invalidates the kno...(展开全部)