In this highly readable and engaging work, Linda Walton presents a dynamic survey of China's history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries from the founding of the Song dynasty through the Mongol conquest when Song China became part of the Mongol Empire and Marco Polo made his famous journey to the court of the Great Khan. Adopting a thematic approach, she highlig...(展开全部)

This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. A senior scholar of this epoch, F. W. Mote highlights the personal characteristics of the rulers and dynasties and probes the cultural theme of Chinese adaptations to recurrent alien rule. No other work provides a similar synthesis: generational events, personalities, and the spirit of the age co...(展开全部)

【作者介绍】 许倬云，1930年生，江苏无锡人，1962年获美国芝加哥大学博士学位，先后执教于台湾大学、美国匹兹堡大学，其间多次受聘为香港中文大学、美国夏威夷大学、美国杜克大学、香港科技大学讲座教授。1986年荣任美国人文学社荣誉会士。学贯中西的史学耆宿，精通中国上古史、 文化史、社会史，熟悉西方历史及其理论与思想，擅长利用不同学科的视角和方法来研究历史，尤其是考察中国的历史与文化；不囿于书斋，时时心怀天下，关心中国文化的发展与走向。代表著作有《西周史》《汉代农业》《中国古代社会史论》《万古江河》《我者与他者》《说中国》等。 【作者自述】 我写这本书就是要给大家一个可读的东西，我不要再去记录朝代、皇帝、祖国的光荣，我要摆开看，老百姓过日子怎么样，老百姓怎么想。我的书里没有一个英雄人物。我希望把引导读者进入一个包含中国，却超越中国的新的人类社会。 我讲...(展开全部)

About the Book By the end of the nineteenth century, after a long period during which the weakness of China became ever more obvious, intellectuals began to go abroad for new ideas. What emerged was a musical genre that Liu Ching-chih terms "New Music." With no direct ties to traditional Chinese music, New Music reflects the compositional techniques and musical idioms of eighte...(展开全部)

By the end of the nineteenth century, after a long period during which the weakness of China became ever more obvious, intellectuals began to go abroad for new ideas. What emerged was a musical genre that Liu Ching-chih terms "New Music." With no direct ties to traditional Chinese music, New Music reflects the compositional techniques and musical idioms of eighteenth-, nineteen...(展开全部)

In this multidimensional analysis, Benjamin A. Elman uses over a thousand newly available examination records from the Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, 1315-1904, to explore the social, political, and cultural dimensions of the civil examination system, one of the most important institutions in Chinese history. For over five hundred years, the most important positions within t...(展开全部)

In this multidimensional analysis, Benjamin A. Elman uses over a thousand newly available examination records from the Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, 1315-1904, to explore the social, political, and cultural dimensions of the civil examination system, one of the most important institutions in Chinese history. For over five hundred years, the most important positions within t...(展开全部)

黄仁宇，生于湖南长沙，1936年入天津南开大学电机工程系就读。抗日战争爆发后，先在长沙《抗日战报》工作，后来进入国民党成都中央军校，1950年退伍。其后赴美攻读历史，获学士、硕士、博士学位。曾任哥伦比亚大学访问副教授及哈佛大学东亚研究所研究员。参与《明代名人传》及《剑桥中国史》的集体研究工作。

黄仁宇，生于湖南长沙，1936年入天津南开大学电机工程系就读。抗日战争爆发后，先在长沙《抗日战报》工作，后来进入国民党成都中央军校，1950年退伍。其后赴美攻读历史，获学士、硕士、博士学位。曾任哥伦比亚大学访问副教授及哈佛大学东亚研究所研究员。参与《明代名人传》及《剑桥中国史》的集体研究工作。

Paul Johnson turns his great gifts as a popular and much-translated historian to a subject that has enthralled him all his life: the history of art. Art, he believes, was central to human development, more so than writing and even language. This history begins with the earliest rock paintings around 30,000 BC and takes us right up to the present day. E.H. Gombrich's legendary b...(展开全部)