Painters of the Great Ming is the most thorough western language book on the Ming painting academy and the Zhe School. For Northern Song court art, see Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Accumulating Culture: the Collections of Emperor Huizong (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008) N5285 .C52 S664 2008. For Southern Song, see Hui-shu Li’s Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynast...(展开全部)

Like most empires, the Ming court sponsored grand displays of dynastic strength and military prowess. Covering the first two centuries of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Martial Spectacles of the Ming Court explores how the royal hunt, polo matches, archery contests, equestrian demonstrations, and the imperial menagerie were represented in poetry, prose, and portraiture. This stu...(展开全部)

Like most empires, the Ming court sponsored grand displays of dynastic strength and military prowess. Covering the first two centuries of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Martial Spectacles of the Ming Court explores how the royal hunt, polo matches, archery contests, equestrian demonstrations, and the imperial menagerie were represented in poetry, prose, and portraiture. This stu...(展开全部)

This collection of essays reveals the Ming court as an arena of competition and negotiation, where a large cast of actors pursued individual and corporate ends, personal agency shaped protocol and style, and diverse people, goods, and tastes converged. Rather than observing an immutable set of traditions, court culture underwent frequent reinterpretation and rearticulation, pro...(展开全部)

This collection of essays reveals the Ming court as an arena of competition and negotiation, where a large cast of actors pursued individual and corporate ends, personal agency shaped protocol and style, and diverse people, goods, and tastes converged. Rather than observing an immutable set of traditions, court culture underwent frequent reinterpretation and rearticulation, pro...(展开全部)

[英]西蒙·塞巴格·蒙蒂菲奥里(Simon Sebag Montefiore)，荣获多项大奖的历史学家，其著作已被翻译成四十余种语言。《叶卡捷琳娜大帝与波将金》入选塞缪尔·约翰逊奖、达夫·库珀奖和马什传记奖的短名单；Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar获得英国图书奖年度历史著作奖；《青年斯大林》获得英国科斯塔传记奖、美国《洛杉矶时报》传记奖、法国政治传记大奖和奥地利克莱斯基政治文学奖；《耶路撒冷三千年》获得文津图书奖和美国犹太图书理事会“年度好书”；《罗曼诺夫皇朝》入选《纽约时报》十大好书榜单，并荣获意大利“卢皮凯亚·德尔·特里奇奥文学奖”（Lupicaia del Terriccio Literature Prize）。他的作品还包括得到高度赞扬的“莫斯科三部曲”（小说）：《萨申卡》、Red Sky at Noon 和...(展开全部)

History's greatest love story, Catherine the Great and Potemkin is a sweeping epic of sex, love, power, conquest and extravagance on a magnificent Russian scale. Not only was only was their romance wildly passionate but they were also probably the most successful political partnership of all, outstripping Antony and Cleopatra or Napoleon and Josephine. Their secret letters, wh...(展开全部)

For decades, James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America. Now he turns his eye to an institution of government that he believes has become more powerful, and more partisan, than the founding fathers ever intended—the Supreme Court. Much as we would like to believe that the Court remains aloof from ideological politics,...(展开全部)