On the eve of the early modern age, Ming emperors ruled around one-quarter of the globe's population, the majority of the world's largest urban centers, the biggest standing army on the planet, and the day's most affluent economy. Far from being isolated, the Ming court was the greatest center of political patronage in East Eurasia, likely the world. Although the Ming throne mi...(展开全部)

Approaching the prison as a creative environment and imprisoned officials as creative subjects in Ming China (1368-1644), Ying Zhang introduces important themes at the intersection of premodern Chinese religion, poetry, and visual and material culture. The Ming is known for its extraordinary cultural and economic accomplishments in the increasingly globalized early modern world...(展开全部)

Paul R. Katz has composed a fascinating account of the fate of Chinese religions during the modern era by assessing mutations of communal religious life, innovative forms of religious publishing, and the religious practices of modern Chinese elites traditionally considered models of secular modernity. The author offers a rare look at the monumental changes that have affected mo...(展开全部)

康豹 (Paul R. Katz) 美國普林斯頓大學東亞系博士，曾經在國立中正大學與國立中央大學擔任過副教授和教授。目前為中央研究院近代史研究所特聘研究員，並擔任蔣經國國際學術交流基金會研究室主任。他的研究主要集中在近代中國和台灣的宗教社會史，以跨學科的方法綜合歷史文獻和田野調查。 於碩士班修業期間，習得民間文學研究的理論與方法，並曾在2011～2013年間參與「花蓮地區地方風物傳說采集與考察」國科會（今科技部）專題計畫，透過實地田野調查及親身訪談，深刻體認到流傳於臺灣民間的傳說故事，皆蘊含著人民的智慧與情感，遂決定於熟悉的家鄉進行民間文學研究。

According to imperial edict in pre-modern China, an elementary school was to be established in every village in the empire for any boy to attend. This book looks at how the schools worked, how they changed over time, and who promoted them and why. Over the course of the Ming period (1368-1644), schools were sponsored first by the emperor, then by the central bureaucracy, then b...(展开全部)

In Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang investigates the intellectual and technical contexts in which the knowledge of physiognomy ( xiangshu) was produced and transformed in Ming China (1368-1644 C.E.). Known as a fortune-telling technique via examining the human body and material objects, Xing Wang shows how the construction of the physiognomic body in m...(展开全部)

孔飞力(Philip Alden Kuhn)， 美国著名汉学家。1933年9月9日出生于英国伦敦。1950年，毕业于美国华盛顿特区的威尔逊CWoodraw Wilson)高级中学，同年考入哈佛大学。1959年获得硕士学位。师从费正清教授(John Fairbank)、史华慈教授(Benjanmin Schwartz)学习中国历史。1964年获得了哈佛大学历史与远东语言的博士学位。历任哈佛大学费正清东亚研究中心主任等职。代表著作除本书外还有《叫魂：1768中国妖术大恐慌》（Harvard University Press， Cambridge， Mas.，1990. 中译本由生活·读书·新知三联书店于1999年出版，陈兼、刘昶译）、《现代中国的起源》（Stanford University Press， Stanford， California， 20...(展开全部)

孔飞力(Philip Alden Kuhn)， 美国著名汉学家。1933年9月9日出生于英国伦敦。1950年，毕业于美国华盛顿特区的威尔逊CWoodraw Wilson)高级中学，同年考入哈佛大学。1959年获得硕士学位。师从费正清教授(John Fairbank)、史华慈教授(Benjanmin Schwartz)学习中国历史。1964年获得了哈佛大学历史与远东语言的博士学位。历任哈佛大学费正清东亚研究中心主任等职。代表著作除本书外还有《叫魂：1768中国妖术大恐慌》（Harvard University Press， Cambridge， Mas.，1990. 中译本由生活·读书·新知三联书店于1999年出版，陈兼、刘昶译）、《现代中国的起源》（Stanford University Press， Stanford， California， 20...(展开全部)