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)

柏文莉，美国加州大学伯克利分校博士（1991），现为加州大学历史系教授，主要研究宋宋元时期的性别、妇女与家庭史。论文有《宋元墓志中的“妾”在家庭中的意义及其历史变化 》、《贞操的想象：从贞妓到节妇》等。

柏文莉，美国加州大学伯克利分校博士（1991），现为加州大学历史系教授，主要研究宋宋元时期的性别、妇女与家庭史。论文有《宋元墓志中的“妾”在家庭中的意义及其历史变化 》、《贞操的想象：从贞妓到节妇》等。

Will new information technologies, especially the Internet, bring freedom and democracy to authoritarian China? This study argues that the Internet has brought about new dynamics of socio-political changes in China, and that state power and social forces are transforming in Internet-mediated public space. Its findings are fourfold. First, the Internet empowers both the state an...(展开全部)