Scholar-officials of late medieval China were not only enthusiastic in amateur storytelling, but also showed unprecedented interest in recording stories on different aspects of literati life. These stories appeared in diverse forms, including narrative poems, "tales of the marvelous," "records of the strange," historical miscellanies, and transformation texts. Through storytell...(展开全部)

Manling Luo is assistant professor of Chinese literature at Indiana University.

This book is a study of the intellectual and literary factors that in the mid-Qing dynasty contributed to the development of vernacular fiction of unprecedented scholarly and satirical sophistication. The author examines three works of vernacular fiction—Rulin waishi (ca. 1750), Yesou puyan (ca. 1780), and Jinghua yuan (1821/1828)—for their articulation of new perceptions of th...(展开全部)

Andrew Eisenberg, Ph.D. (1991) in History, University of Washington, Seattle, is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He has published essays on Classical Chinese political history in the journals T'ang Studies, Theory and Society, and T'oung Pao. This is his first full length monograph.

Andrew Eisenberg, Ph.D. (1991) in History, University of Washington, Seattle, is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He has published essays on Classical Chinese political history in the journals T'ang Studies, Theory and Society, and T'oung Pao. This is his first full length monograph.

For many people, orthodoxy in late imperial China means Confucianism, or more precisely, Neo-Confucianism. Unlike most studies of Chinese values, which approach the subject as a philosophical and religious system, this book focuses on the interaction between Neo-Confucianism that stood for far more than more benevolent government, individual morality, and scholarly cultivation....(展开全部)

诺曼·多恩 威尔士大学卡迪夫学院教授，剑桥大学法学博士。西方学界研究教会法的权威，英国教会协会的法律顾问，担任《教会法杂志》的主编和“宗教与法律”系列丛书（劳特利奇出版社出版）的主编，自1990年出版博士论文《中世纪晚期英国法中的最高权威》后，已出版多部关于“法律与宗教关系”的著作。 关于本书译者： 杨尚东 四川平昌人，西南政法大学行政法学院讲师，北京大学法学博士。 关于“法律与宗教经典文库”主编： 佀化强 重庆大学特聘研究员，博士生导师。2007年8月至2008年8月公派留学美国福德汉姆大学法学院。 苗文龙 法学博士，重庆大学法学院宪法与行政法研究中心研究员。

Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the latter half of Tang-dynasty China, ...(展开全部)