China's history has been shaped by war. Shortly after 300 AD, barbarian invaders from Inner Asia toppled China's Western Jin dynasty, leaving the country divided and at war for several centuries. Despite this, the empire gradually formed a unified imperial order. Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900 explores the military strategies, institutions and wars that reconstructed the Chi...(展开全部)

China's history has been shaped by war. Shortly after 300 AD, barbarian invaders from Inner Asia toppled China's Western Jin dynasty, leaving the country divided and at war for several centuries. Despite this, the empire gradually formed a unified imperial order. Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900 explores the military strategies, institutions and wars that reconstructed the Chi...(展开全部)

姜士彬（David Johnson），加州大学伯克利分校中国研究中心教授，早年专注中古中国士族研究，近年关注明清大众文化研究。

姜士彬（David Johnson），加州大学伯克利分校中国研究中心教授，早年专注中古中国士族研究，近年关注明清大众文化研究。

Why did the Chinese empire collapse and why did it take so long for a new government to reunite China? "Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989" seeks to answer these questions by exploring the most important domestic and international conflicts over the past two hundred years, from the last half of the Qing empire through to modern day China. This book reveals how most of China's wa...(展开全部)

Why did the Chinese empire collapse and why did it take so long for a new government to reunite China? "Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989" seeks to answer these questions by exploring the most important domestic and international conflicts over the past two hundred years, from the last half of the Qing empire through to modern day China. This book reveals how most of China's wa...(展开全部)

In this classic textbook history of early medieval Europe, Roger Collins provides a comprehensive account of the centuries during which Europe changed from being an abstract geographical expression to a new culturally coherent, if politically divided, entity. This essential volume: * examines how the social, economic and cultural structures of Antiquity were replaced by their ...(展开全部)

内容简介： 军事历史学家大卫·格拉夫以中国古典文献和最新的学术成果为基础，生动叙述了从公元300年西晋解体到900年唐朝覆亡长达六百年的军事战争史，所涉及的战争既有政权冲突与更替，也有对外征伐和边境防卫，更有武装叛乱及镇压行动。 他将战争置于更广泛的背景下，深入探讨了中国中古时期军事制度、军事理念、武器战术的变革对王朝命运、社会秩序和百姓生活的重大影响：把边境防御任务委托给定居在帝国边界的游牧民族，导致了西晋王朝的覆灭；府兵制在北周代北齐、隋征陈的历史进程中发挥了重大作用；轻骑兵取代重骑兵，让李世民纵横沙场，力压群雄，等等。作品视野宏阔、见解深刻，很能给人以启发。 编辑推荐： 1.经由汉学名家杜希德悉心指导而写就的历史佳作：本书是军事历史学家大卫·格拉夫将自己的普林斯顿大学博士论文进行通俗化加工而成的历史作品，而杜希德是格拉夫博士论文答辩委员会的委员...(展开全部)

内容简介： 军事历史学家大卫·格拉夫以中国古典文献和最新的学术成果为基础，生动叙述了从公元300年西晋解体到900年唐朝覆亡长达六百年的军事战争史，所涉及的战争既有政权冲突与更替，也有对外征伐和边境防卫，更有武装叛乱及镇压行动。 他将战争置于更广泛的背景下，深入探讨了中国中古时期军事制度、军事理念、武器战术的变革对王朝命运、社会秩序和百姓生活的重大影响：把边境防御任务委托给定居在帝国边界的游牧民族，导致了西晋王朝的覆灭；府兵制在北周代北齐、隋征陈的历史进程中发挥了重大作用；轻骑兵取代重骑兵，让李世民纵横沙场，力压群雄，等等。作品视野宏阔、见解深刻，很能给人以启发。 编辑推荐： 1.经由汉学名家杜希德悉心指导而写就的历史佳作：本书是军事历史学家大卫·格拉夫将自己的普林斯顿大学博士论文进行通俗化加工而成的历史作品，而杜希德是格拉夫博士论文答辩委员会的委员...(展开全部)

Dreaming is a near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. In this book, Robert Ford Campany investigates what people in late classical and early medieval China thought of dreams. He maps a common dreamscape―an array of ideas about what dreams are and what responses they should provoke―that underlies texts of...(展开全部)