On a visit to eastern Hui'an in 1994, Sara Friedman was surprised to see a married woman reluctant to visit her conjugal home. The author would soon learn that this practice was typical of the area, along with distinctive female dress styles, gender divisions of labor, and powerful same-sex networks. These customs, she would learn, have long distinguished villages in this coast...(展开全部)

China after Mao has undergone vast transformations, including massive rural-to-urban migration, rising divorce rates, and the steady expansion of the country's legal system. Today, divorce may appear a private concern, when in fact it is a profoundly political matter—especially in a national context where marriage was and has continued to be a key vehicle for nation-state build...(展开全部)

Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at opposite ends of Eurasia. Although their territories constituted only a small percentage of the global land mass, these two Eurasian polities controlled up to half of the world population and endured longer than most pre-...(展开全部)

沃尔特·沙伊德尔（Walter Scheidel），美国斯坦福大学人文学科迪卡森讲席教授、古典学和历史学教授，古罗马研究领域当前最重要、最活跃的学者之一。所涉领域主要包括古代社会和经济史，前现代历史人口学以及世界历史的比较和跨学科研究。其作品已被翻译成中文出版的有《罗马与中国：比较视野下的古代世界帝国》《不平等社会：从石器时代到21 世纪，人类如何应对不平等》。

Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at opposite ends of Eurasia. Although their territories constituted only a small percentage of the global land mass, these two Eurasian polities controlled up to half of the world population and endured longer than most pre-...(展开全部)

沃尔特·沙伊德尔（Walter Scheidel），美国斯坦福大学人文学科迪卡森讲席教授、古典学和历史学教授，古罗马研究领域当前最重要、最活跃的学者之一。所涉领域主要包括古代社会和经济史，前现代历史人口学以及世界历史的比较和跨学科研究。其作品已被翻译成中文出版的有《罗马与中国：比较视野下的古代世界帝国》《不平等社会：从石器时代到21 世纪，人类如何应对不平等》。

From the earliest museums established by Western missionaries in order to implement religious and political power, to the role they have played in the formation of the modern Chinese state, the origin and development of museums in mainland China differ significantly from those in the West. The occurrence of museums in mainland China in the late nineteenth century was primarily ...(展开全部)

From the earliest museums established by Western missionaries in order to implement religious and political power, to the role they have played in the formation of the modern Chinese state, the origin and development of museums in mainland China differ significantly from those in the West. The occurrence of museums in mainland China in the late nineteenth century was primarily ...(展开全部)

Focusing on the evolving relations between the state and market in the post-Mao reform era, Yongnian Zheng and Yanjie Huang present a theory of Chinese capitalism by identifying and analyzing three layers of the market system in the contemporary Chinese economy. These are, namely, a free market economy at the bottom, state capitalism at the top, and a middle ground in between. ...(展开全部)

Focusing on the evolving relations between the state and market in the post-Mao reform era, Yongnian Zheng and Yanjie Huang present a theory of Chinese capitalism by identifying and analyzing three layers of the market system in the contemporary Chinese economy. These are, namely, a free market economy at the bottom, state capitalism at the top, and a middle ground in between. ...(展开全部)