The story of Mulian rescuing his mother’s soul from hell has evolved as a narrative over several centuries in China, especially in the baojuan (precious scrolls) genre. This genre, a prosimetric narrative in vernacular language, first appeared around the fourteenth century and endures as a living tradition. In exploring the evolution of the Mulian story, Rostislav Berezkin illu...(展开全部)

"The first two lectures place the alternative I defend -- a kind of pragmatic realism -- in a historical and metaphysical context. Part of that context is provided by Husserl's remark that the history of modern philosophy begins with Galileo -- that is, modern philosophy has been hypnotized by the idea that scientific facts are all the facts there are. Another part is provided ...(展开全部)

This book examines cities of the Jiangnan region of south-central China between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries, an area considered to be the model of a successfully developing regional economy. The six studies focus on the urban centers of Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, and Shanghai. Emphasizing the regional focus, the authors explore the interconnections and sequential rela...(展开全部)

魏斐德（Frederic Wakeman，Jr. 1937—2006）美国著名中国研究专家、历史学家、社会活动家，被誉为美国“汉学三杰”之一。曾任美国加州大学伯克利分校历史系哈斯基金教授，美国历史家协会会长、加州大学伯克利分校东亚研究院院长、美国社会科学院院长。除已发表的百余篇学术论文外，其著作还包括《洪业：清朝开国史》《间谍王：戴笠与中国特工》《大门口的陌生人：1839—1861年间华南的社会动乱》《上海警察（1927—1937）》《上海歹土：战时恐怖活动与城市犯罪（1937—1941）》《红星照耀上海城（1942—1952）》《历史与意志：毛泽东思想的哲学透视》等。

There were over a thousand counties and prefectures in late imperial China; each loomed large in the hearts and minds of the local natives, and had a history of its own. The Order of Places tells a story of how these places were ordered by the long-lived imperial state, and then re-ordered during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries as geographical mobility increased. At ...(展开全部)

施坚雅教授(G.William Skinner)，美国国家科学院院士、戴维斯加州大学人类学系教授,于2008年10月26日因病逝世，享年83岁。施坚雅教授一生致立于人类学、人口学和历史经济区划等研究，著述斗盛，在国际学术界享有崇高的声誉。 1925年2月14日施出生于美国加州奥克兰。1954年于美国康奈尔大学获人类学博士学位，先后任哥伦比亚大学社会学助教、康奈尔大学人类学副教授、教授，1965年起任斯坦福大学人类学教授，1990年至今任加州大学戴维斯分校人类学教授，其间曾任宾夕法尼亚大学、杜克大学、日本庆应大学、加州大学圣地亚哥分校、香港大学客座教授。 施坚雅教授曾在墨西哥、泰国、印度尼西亚、日本等地进行田野考察。1950-1951年曾到中国四川考察，1977年曾考察中国城市市场。1968年列名《美国名人录》，1969年被授予古根海姆学者，1980年...(展开全部)

How did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi explores the myriad ways that families fulfilled their obligations to provide a soldier to the army. The complex strategies they developed to manage their responsibilities suggest a new interpretation of an important period in China's history ...(展开全部)

Despite efforts to attain a more balanced approach, Western historians have largely interpreted China's modern period in terms of China's 'response to the West.' This book, by a scholar who is neither Chinese nor Western, goes far to set the balance right. Min Tu-ki, Korea's leading Sinologist, shows how China's own internal agenda has conditioned Chinese political life during ...(展开全部)

Here is the definitive book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists that operates under the name Anonymous, by the woman the Chronicle of Higher Education calls “the leading interpreter of digital insurgency” and the Huffington Post says “knows all of Anonymous’ deepest, darkest secrets.” Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set out t...(展开全部)