"Using selected key figures from Chinese literature from the Tang through the Qing, Isaac Yue traces the increasing attribution of monstrous qualities to foreigners as a means to demean the Other while inflating the stature of Chinese cultural identity. Yue’s sharp observations on the evolving images of Zhang Fei, Sun Wukong, and Zhong Kui will surely inspire a reevaluation of ...(展开全部)

柯睿（Paul W. Kroll），美国科罗拉多大学博尔德分校中文教授。1976年获密歇根大学博士学位。师从著名汉学家薛爱华，是当今北美中古文学研究的三大家之一。柯睿教授对中国中古时期文学和文化史有大量精彩的研究，包括六十多篇论文和五本论著以及若干编著。近著如A Student’s Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese。柯睿教授多年来一直担任《美国东方学会杂志》（Journal of the American Oriental Society）和《唐学报》（T’ang Studies）的主编。目前则主编欧洲汉学杂志《通报》（T’oung Pao）。童岭，1981年3月生，江苏镇江人。南京大学文学博士。现为南京大学文学院教授。国家第二批“万人计划”青年拔尖人才。主要研究六朝隋唐时代的学术、思想与文学，...(展开全部)

The Chinese essay is arguably China’s most distinctive contribution to modern world literature, and the period of its greatest influence and popularity—the mid-1930s—is the central concern of this book. What Charles Laughlin terms "the literature of leisure" is a modern literary response to the cultural past that manifests itself most conspicuously in the form of short, informa...(展开全部)

The Chinese essay is arguably China’s most distinctive contribution to modern world literature, and the period of its greatest influence and popularity—the mid-1930s—is the central concern of this book. What Charles Laughlin terms "the literature of leisure" is a modern literary response to the cultural past that manifests itself most conspicuously in the form of short, informa...(展开全部)

Despite China's long tradition of venerating the past as the ultimate source of cultural authority, the discourse of antiquity prior to the Song period (960-1279) demonstrated little concern for ancient objects. With a focus on physical artifacts of the past, Song intellectuals began a new discipline, "the study of bronze and stone" (jinshixue), that generated collections of it...(展开全部)

In Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire, Lara Blanchard analyzes images of women in painting and poetry of China’s middle imperial period, focusing on works that represent female figures as preoccupied with romance. She discusses examples of visual and literary culture in regard to their authorship and audience, examining the role of interiority in constructions of gender...(展开全部)

This sweeping literary encounter with the Western idea of the city moves from the early novel in England to the apocalyptic cityscapes of Thomas Pynchon. Along the way, Richard Lehan gathers a rich entourage that includes Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Bram Stoker, Rider Haggard, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Raymond Chandler...(展开全部)

理查德·利罕（Richard Lehan），美国加州大学洛杉矶分校英文系教授，长期从事英美文学研究，著有《了不起的盖茨比：奇才的局限》、《德莱塞：其人及其作》、《现实主义和自然主义：转折时代的小说》等。利罕同时还是一位历史学家，对“新历史主义“的“理论局限“发表过自己的独特看法，并引起学界关注。

This sweeping literary encounter with the Western idea of the city moves from the early novel in England to the apocalyptic cityscapes of Thomas Pynchon. Along the way, Richard Lehan gathers a rich entourage that includes Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Bram Stoker, Rider Haggard, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Raymond Chandler...(展开全部)

理查德·利罕（Richard Lehan），美国加州大学洛杉矶分校英文系教授，长期从事英美文学研究，著有《了不起的盖茨比：奇才的局限》、《德莱塞：其人及其作》、《现实主义和自然主义：转折时代的小说》等。利罕同时还是一位历史学家，对“新历史主义“的“理论局限“发表过自己的独特看法，并引起学界关注。