This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Ming China’s pursuit of national security along its 1,700 miles of northern frontier. Drawing on a wealth of original sources, John Dardess vividly portrays how Ming China’s emperors, officials, and commanders in the field thought, argued, and made decisions in real time as they worked to defend their country...(展开全部)

This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Ming China’s pursuit of national security along its 1,700 miles of northern frontier. Drawing on a wealth of original sources, John Dardess vividly portrays how Ming China’s emperors, officials, and commanders in the field thought, argued, and made decisions in real time as they worked to defend their country...(展开全部)

"Empire of Great Brightness" is an innovative and accessible history of a high point in Chinese culture, seen through the riches of its images and objects. Not a simple emperor-by-emperor history, it instead introduces the reader to themes that provide stimulating and original points of entry to the culture of China: to ideas of motion and rest; to the position occupied by writ...(展开全部)

柯律格（Craig Clunas） 1954年出生于英国苏格兰阿伯丁，现任英国牛津大学艺术史系讲座教授，曾任伦敦维多利亚与艾伯特博物馆（Victoria & Albert Museum）中国部资深研究员兼策展人15年，并自1994年起先后执教于萨塞克斯大学（University of Sussex）艺术史系及伦敦大学亚非学院（SOAS）。自1991年起陆续出版《长物：早期现代中国的物质文化与社会状况》、《丰饶之地：明代中国的园林文化》、《早期现代中国的图画与视觉性》、《中国艺术》及《雅债：文徵明的社交性艺术》、《大明：明代中国的视觉文化与物质文化》等著作。 译者黄小峰，中央美术学院人文学院副院长、副教授。

"Empire of Great Brightness" is an innovative and accessible history of a high point in Chinese culture, seen through the riches of its images and objects. Not a simple emperor-by-emperor history, it instead introduces the reader to themes that provide stimulating and original points of entry to the culture of China: to ideas of motion and rest; to the position occupied by writ...(展开全部)

Volumes Seven and Eight of The Cambridge History of China are devoted to the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), providing the largest and most detailed account in any language. Summarizing all modern research, Volume Eight offers detailed studies of governmental structure, the fiscal and legal systems, international relations, social and economic history, transportation networks, and th...(展开全部)

Many see China and the United States on the path to confrontation. The Chinese leadership violates human rights norms. It maintains a harsh rule in Tibet, spars aggressively with Taiwan, and is clamping down on Hong Kong. A rising power with enormous assets, China increasingly considers American interests an obstacle to its own. But, the authors argue, the United States is the ...(展开全部)

◎著者简介 埃里克·克里斯琴森（Eric Christiansen），牛津大学新学院荣休研究员，主要研究中世纪的欧洲北部历史，曾在伦敦、哥本哈根和佛罗里达讲学。 ◎译者简介 李达，浙江大学毕业，中世纪军事历史爱好者，主要研究方向为中世纪军事史、拜占庭帝国制度史、中世纪东地中海-黑海交流史等。曾自译数本军事典籍与编年史。 周超宇，山东大学硕士毕业，参与翻译工作数年，中世纪欧洲历史爱好者。

作者：（美国）约书亚·瑞夫纳 （Joshua Rovner） 美国南方卫理公会大学政治学副教授，兼任约翰·古德温·托尔政治学研究中心主任，专注国际政治、国家安全等方面的研究。曾任美国海军战争学院战略与政策学副教授，还曾任教于哥伦比亚大学和威廉姆斯学院。

The 'Northern Crusades', inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, are less celebrated than those in the Middle East, but they were also more successful: vast new territories became and remain Christian, such as Finland, Estonia and Prussia. Newly revised in the light of the recent developments in Baltic and Northern medieval research, this authoritative overview provides a b...(展开全部)