For 2000 years the state-run libraries of imperial China systematically assembled standard collections of books from the past and present. Although the collections themselves were lost through warfare and fire, the classified catalogues prepared by the Privy Director of Books were often used in compiling national bibliographies for the state-sponsored dynastic histories. Throug...(展开全部)

For 2000 years the state-run libraries of imperial China systematically assembled standard collections of books from the past and present. Although the collections themselves were lost through warfare and fire, the classified catalogues prepared by the Privy Director of Books were often used in compiling national bibliographies for the state-sponsored dynastic histories. Throug...(展开全部)

Medieval prayer books held not only the devotions and meditations of Christianity, but also housed, slipped between pages, sundry notes, reminders, and ephemera, such as pilgrims’ badges, sworn oaths, and small painted images. Many of these last items have been classified as manuscript illumination, but Kathryn M. Rudy argues that these pictures should be called, instead, parch...(展开全部)

Abstract: Having recovered from political persecution and resolved problems within the sangha, Buddhism reached a summit in its development during Sui and Early Tang China (581-755). Daoxuan (596-667) played an unparalleled role in shaping the direction of Buddhist history during the medieval period through both his rich writings and his innovations of monastic rituals and regu...(展开全部)

Abstract: Having recovered from political persecution and resolved problems within the sangha, Buddhism reached a summit in its development during Sui and Early Tang China (581-755). Daoxuan (596-667) played an unparalleled role in shaping the direction of Buddhist history during the medieval period through both his rich writings and his innovations of monastic rituals and regu...(展开全部)

一本以遺失的書籍軼事為主軸的著作。從荷馬、聖經，說到廿世紀自殺身亡的Sylvia Plath。 以往的書籍沒有電子檔，當然這些寫在各種不同材質的文字，既使逃過了人為的破壞，有時也難逃自然的侵蝕。作者畢生研究遺失文學作品，希望藉由這本書的內容，讓我們可以大略瞭解，我們喪失了多少珍貴的經典作品。例如收藏在亞歷山卓圖書館的大量希臘古典作品，因為一場大火，這些作品付之一炬，不過也有如希臘劇作家Menander，本以為遺失的偉大劇作，之後發現翻譯後竟被視為垃圾的其他案例。Kelly認為文字的遺失是常態，不過也因為這些偉大文字的遺失，也讓我們能更珍惜現今我們所擁有的文字閱讀的珍貴資產。

In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books is the first guide to literature’s what-ifs and never-weres. In compulsively reada...(展开全部)

In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books is the first guide to literature’s what-ifs and never-weres. In compulsively reada...(展开全部)

一本以遺失的書籍軼事為主軸的著作。從荷馬、聖經，說到廿世紀自殺身亡的Sylvia Plath。 以往的書籍沒有電子檔，當然這些寫在各種不同材質的文字，既使逃過了人為的破壞，有時也難逃自然的侵蝕。作者畢生研究遺失文學作品，希望藉由這本書的內容，讓我們可以大略瞭解，我們喪失了多少珍貴的經典作品。例如收藏在亞歷山卓圖書館的大量希臘古典作品，因為一場大火，這些作品付之一炬，不過也有如希臘劇作家Menander，本以為遺失的偉大劇作，之後發現翻譯後竟被視為垃圾的其他案例。Kelly認為文字的遺失是常態，不過也因為這些偉大文字的遺失，也讓我們能更珍惜現今我們所擁有的文字閱讀的珍貴資產。

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.