With contributions by Bo Songnian, Jonathan Hay, David G. Johnson, Ni Yibin, Mei Mei Rado, and Wu Hung Writing in the early nineteenth century, the French traveler and cleric Abbé Huc exclaimed: “There is, perhaps, not a people in the world who carry so far their taste and passion for theatrical entertainments as the Chinese.” Although the spectacle of this theater is well kno...(展开全部)

Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore their intrinsic conceptual complexity and historical specificity. The twelve...(展开全部)

The present volume is based on two scholarly gatherings organized by the Center of the Art of East Asia, Dept. of Art History, at the University of Chicago to explore this theme in great detail. The conference papers, and now these resulting essays, offer new insights into this phenomenon, its philosophies, technologies, and the individual involved in represening the past in Ch...(展开全部)

巫鸿（Wu Hung） 著名美术史家、批评家、策展人，芝加哥大学教授。 1963年考入中央美术学院美术史系学习。1972—1978年任职于故宫博物院书画组、金石组。1978年重返中央美术学院美术史系攻读硕士学位。1980—1987年就读于哈佛大学，获美术史与人类学双重博士学位。随即在哈佛大学美术史系任教，于1994年获终身教授职位，同年受聘主持芝加哥大学亚洲艺术教学，执“斯德本特殊贡献教授”讲席。2002年建立东亚艺术研究中心并任主任，兼任该校斯玛特美术馆顾问策展人。2008年成为美国国家文理学院终身院士，并获美国美术家联合会美术史教学特殊贡献奖，成为大陆赴美学者获得这两项荣誉的第一人。 其著作包括对中国古代、现代艺术以及美术史理论和方法的多项研究，古代美术史方面的代表作有《武梁祠：中国古代画像艺术的思想性》（1989）、《中国古代艺术与建筑中的“纪...(展开全部)

This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. Leading scholar of Chinese art Wu Hung shows how the story of ruins in China is different from but connected to "ruin culture" in the West. He investigates indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their vis...(展开全部)

巫鸿（Wu Hung） 著名美术史家、批评家、策展人，芝加哥大学教授。 1963年考入中央美术学院美术史系学习。1972—1978年任职于故宫博物院书画组、金石组。1978年重返中央美术学院美术史系攻读硕士学位。1980—1987年就读于哈佛大学，获美术史与人类学双重博士学位。随即在哈佛大学美术史系任教，于1994年获终身教授职位，同年受聘主持芝加哥大学亚洲艺术教学，执“斯德本特殊贡献教授”讲席。2002年建立东亚艺术研究中心并任主任，兼任该校斯玛特美术馆顾问策展人。2008年成为美国国家文理学院终身院士，并获美国美术家联合会美术史教学特殊贡献奖，成为大陆赴美学者获得这两项荣誉的第一人。 其著作包括对中国古代、现代艺术以及美术史理论和方法的多项研究，古代美术史方面的代表作有《武梁祠：中国古代画像艺术的思想性》（1989）、《中国古代艺术与建筑中的“纪...(展开全部)

"I always compare filmmaking to cooking. Shooting is like buying the groceries. You buy all kinds of ingredients and the better ingredients you get, the better chance you have of making the movie you want."--Ang Lee, from Speaking in Images Speaking in Images offers an engaging and rare collection of interviews with the directors who have changed the face of Chinese and intern...(展开全部)

白睿文（Berry,M.），1974年生于美国芝加哥，哥伦比亚大学现代中国文学与电影博士，也是留美汉学家王德威的学生，现任职于加州大学圣芭芭拉分校东亚系副教授，主要研究领域为当代华语文学、电影、流行文化和翻译学。著作除本书外，还有《痛史：现代中国文学界与电影的历史创伤》（即将出版）。中英译作有王安忆《长恨歌》、余华《活着》、叶兆言《一九三七年的爱情》、张大春《我妹妹》与《野孩子》，正在翻译舞鹤的《余生》。

Doing Visual Ethnography explores the use and potential of photography, video and hypermedia in ethnographic and social research. It offers a reflexive approach to theoretical, methodological, practical and ethical issues of using these media `in the field' and `in the academy'. The book follows the research process from project design planning and implementing and practising f...(展开全部)