China’s vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geographies, and specialized anthologies of verse and prose written by keen observers of nature. Until the late nineteenth century, however, standard practice did not include deploying a set of diagnostic tools using a common terminology...(展开全部)

China’s vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geographies, and specialized anthologies of verse and prose written by keen observers of nature. Until the late nineteenth century, however, standard practice did not include deploying a set of diagnostic tools using a common terminology...(展开全部)

The world’s preeminent authority on Chinese science explores the philosophy, social structure, arts, crafts, and even military strategies that form our understanding of Chinese science, making instructive comparisons along the way to similar elements of Indian, Hellenistic, and Arabic cultures. A major portion of the book concentrates on Taoist alchemy that led not only to the ...(展开全部)

在本书中，约翰.弗里德曼阐述了西方政治理论中的一个中心问题：历史是如何并且在多大程度上被理性所引导的。他将规划称为对知行关系的综合考虑，在此基础上回顾了规划思想与实践的主要知识传统。其中，有三个传统，即社会改革，政策分析和社会认知主要是从公共管理的角度出发的。规划的第四个传统是社会运动。这个传统主要形塑于乌托邦主义、无政府主义、历史唯物主义以及其他的激进思想，它是从自下而上的角度来观察社会的结构性变迁的。 以上是本书的第一部分，介绍了一些基本的概念。在第二部分里，作者继续追溯这些传统所形成的主要历史阶段。由圣西门的远见卓识开始，作者对孔德、马克思、杜威、曼海姆、特格韦尔*、芒福德、西门和哈贝马斯等一系列思想家的贡献一一评价。 第三部分作者阐释了自己的看待规划的视角，即从一种非技术的角度出发，辩证的对待规划，将其视为一个恢复政治共同体的途径。 (特格韦...(展开全部)

These essays examine the relation of society and the state or, more broadly, the place of political action in society and in the history of Sung China. Connections between intellectual change and sociopolitical change are a consistent focus; attitudes toward history and problems of authority are a recurrent concern. The authors suggest new kinds of continuity between the dispar...(展开全部)

In the Sung dynasty (960-1278) the Chinese state faced challenges that in their combination and intensity were without clear precedent. Inside China, massive population growth and a swiftly growing private commercial economy threatened to outstrip, and in the long run would outstrip, the administrative and extractive capacities of both inherited and newly improvised institution...(展开全部)

These essays examine the relation of society and the state or, more broadly, the place of political action in society and in the history of Sung China. Connections between intellectual change and sociopolitical change are a consistent focus; attitudes toward history and problems of authority are a recurrent concern. The authors suggest new kinds of continuity between the dispar...(展开全部)

In the Sung dynasty (960-1278) the Chinese state faced challenges that in their combination and intensity were without clear precedent. Inside China, massive population growth and a swiftly growing private commercial economy threatened to outstrip, and in the long run would outstrip, the administrative and extractive capacities of both inherited and newly improvised institution...(展开全部)