戚安道（Andrew Chittick），1997年在密歇根大学获历史学博士学位，随后在佛罗里达埃克德学院（EckerdCollege）任教，现为正教授。他撰有一系列论文探讨早期中古中国的地方历史书写，以及竞渡和龙舟比赛的历史，同时也是著名的《剑桥中国史·六朝卷》南朝部分的主笔。戚安道教授分别获普林斯顿高等研究院和美国国家人文科学捐赠基金会的研究资助。另著有《中国和世界史中的建康帝国：种族认同和政治文化》，牛津大学出版社，2020年。 译者毕云，毕业于香港中文大学，历史学博士，现为东南大学历史学系副教授。主要研究方向为：早期中古隐逸，汉魏学术思想，六朝墓志碑刻，古代生活文化。

Memory is not an inert container but a dynamic process. It can be structured by ritual, constrained by textual genre, and shaped by communities’ expectations and reception. Urging a particular view of the past on readers is a complex rhetorical act. The collective reception of portrayals of the past often carries weighty implications for the present and future. The essays colle...(展开全部)

Memory is not an inert container but a dynamic process. It can be structured by ritual, constrained by textual genre, and shaped by communities’ expectations and reception. Urging a particular view of the past on readers is a complex rhetorical act. The collective reception of portrayals of the past often carries weighty implications for the present and future. The essays colle...(展开全部)

In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states-the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires diverged from their Greco-Roman roots between 700 and 1000 A.D. and established distinctive medieval artistic traditions, cosmic imagery created a web of visua...(展开全部)

In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states-the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires diverged from their Greco-Roman roots between 700 and 1000 A.D. and established distinctive medieval artistic traditions, cosmic imagery created a web of visua...(展开全部)

According to imperial edict in pre-modern China, an elementary school was to be established in every village in the empire for any boy to attend. This book looks at how the schools worked, how they changed over time, and who promoted them and why. Over the course of the Ming period (1368-1644), schools were sponsored first by the emperor, then by the central bureaucracy, then b...(展开全部)

The Chinese territory is densely meshed with holy sites (mountains, caves, springs...) where the gods manifest themselves and where pilgrims come to meet them. The present volume, the result of a Franco-Japanese conference held in Paris in 2017, includes fifteen chapters in French and English, exploring the conceptions and practices at these holy sites; they build the analysis ...(展开全部)

The Chinese territory is densely meshed with holy sites (mountains, caves, springs...) where the gods manifest themselves and where pilgrims come to meet them. The present volume, the result of a Franco-Japanese conference held in Paris in 2017, includes fifteen chapters in French and English, exploring the conceptions and practices at these holy sites; they build the analysis ...(展开全部)

作者太史文（Stephen F. Teiser），普林斯顿大学铃木大拙讲座教授、宗教学系终身教授。 太史文早年毕业于欧柏林学院，后就读于普林斯顿大学宗教学系，主攻东亚宗教，1986年获博士学位。太史文的博士论文题目为《中国中世纪的盂兰盆节》，这篇论文为他今后研究中国中世纪的民间信仰打下了基础，1988年，他在原博士论文的基础上修订出版了他的成名作——《中国中世纪的鬼节》（The Ghost Festival in Medieval China, Princeton University Press, 1988）。 译者侯旭东，清华大学人文学院历史系教授。 北京师范大学历史系博士，历任中国社会科学院历史研究所研究员、清华大学人文学院历史系教授。曾在美国哈佛大学、台湾“中研院”历史语言研究所做访问学人。主要研究魏晋南北朝史，兼及秦汉。先后从事东晋南朝经济...(展开全部)

Largely unstudied until now, the religious festivals that attracted Chinese people from all walks of life provide the most instructive examples of the interaction between Chinese forms of social life and the Indian tradition of Buddhism. Stephen Teiser examines one of the most important of such annual celebrations. He provides a comprehensive interpretation of the festivities o...(展开全部)