How does an extended family, bound by shared history, affection, and duty but divided by generation, gender, status, and personality, memorialize its dead? This fascinating study shows how members of the prominent Yu family passed down their personal and familial memories over five generations, through the traumatic transition from imperial to modern China and amidst the radica...(展开全部)

In the first study of its kind about the role played by intimate memory in the mourning literature of late imperial China, Martin W. Huang focuses on the question of how men mourned and wrote about women to whom they were closely related. Drawing upon memoirs, epitaphs, biographies, litanies, and elegiac poems, Huang explores issues such as how intimacy shaped the ways in which...(展开全部)

In the first study of its kind about the role played by intimate memory in the mourning literature of late imperial China, Martin W. Huang focuses on the question of how men mourned and wrote about women to whom they were closely related. Drawing upon memoirs, epitaphs, biographies, litanies, and elegiac poems, Huang explores issues such as how intimacy shaped the ways in which...(展开全部)

Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasizze men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. But this emphasis has left many important gaps in our knowledge of Chinese life. This study seeks to fill some of these gaps by examining the ways rural Taiwanese women manipulate men and each other in the pursuit of their person...(展开全部)

Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasizze men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. But this emphasis has left many important gaps in our knowledge of Chinese life. This study seeks to fill some of these gaps by examining the ways rural Taiwanese women manipulate men and each other in the pursuit of their person...(展开全部)

作者简介 E.M. 齐奥朗（Emile Michel Cioran，1911~1995年），法籍罗马尼亚哲学家、随笔作家，以罗马尼亚文和法文写作，主要著作有：《在绝望之巅》、《眼泪与圣徒》、《解体概要》、《苦涩三段论》、《存在的诱惑》、《历史与乌托邦》、《恶之造物主》和《赞赏练习》。 译者简介 沙湄：哲学博士，专攻基督教艺术、东正教神学和陀思妥耶夫斯基研究，曾任香港中文大学宗教与文化研究系荣誉研究员、《天南》杂志执行主编。

By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a modern hagiographer, Cioran “dreamt” himself “the chronicler of these saints’ falls between heaven and earth, the intimate knower of t...(展开全部)

安．文森布佛（Anne Vincent-Buffault） 法國歷史學家，專門研究感知歷史與情感史（英：History of emotions；法：Histoire des sensibilités）。著有《觸覺的感性史》、《衰退的感性：冷漠史的元素》、《友誼練習：18和19世紀的友好實踐史》、《工人菁英養成史：1940～1970年電力業和天然氣業（培訓的歷史與記憶）》等作。 譯者簡介 許淳涵 牛津大學現代語文所博士班在讀。1992年生於嘉義，台大外文系、巴黎高等師範學院文學碩士畢。曾獲臺北文學獎，也曾差點去威尼斯念口筆譯。現研究十九世紀末、二十世紀初法國文學對中國的描繪和想像、性別與帝國、視覺藝術。譯有《漫遊⼥子：大城小傳，踩踏都會空間的女性身姿》（網路與書）、《私運書的人》（商周）、《沉默的一百種模樣》（臉譜）、《我的風格畫畫全書》（奇光...(展开全部)

In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital life. Rather than being deleted, e-mails and other computer files are archived. Media software and cloud storage allow for th...(展开全部)

杰里米·M.布莱克，埃克塞特大学的历史学教授。他写过100多本书，包括《为美国而战：北美独立战争，1519?–?1871》（IUP，2011）和《战争和文化转变》。《地缘政治学与对统治地位的追逐》《知识的力量：信息与技术如何造就现代世界》《战争与技术》2008年，布莱克获得了军事历史协会颁发的“Samuel Eliot Morison Prize”（塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森奖）。