The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China. While scholars have so far considered the Stele exclusively in relation to the Chinese cultural and historical context, Todd Godwin here demonstrates that it can only be fully understood by reconstructing the complex connections...(展开全部)

The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China. While scholars have so far considered the Stele exclusively in relation to the Chinese cultural and historical context, Todd Godwin here demonstrates that it can only be fully understood by reconstructing the complex connections...(展开全部)

A collection of papers on the history of Christianity along the Silk Road and in pre-modern China, pushing back the frontier of knowledge in a fast developing new area of research. The diffusion of Christianity along the Silk Road from Iraq and Iran to China in the premodern era has attracted scholarly attention in the West since the discovery of the famous Xian (Nestorian) Mon...(展开全部)

美国哥伦比亚大学历史学博士，先后在田纳西大学、斯坦福大学和加州大学伯克利分校任教。研究兴趣为中国9-11世纪的精英社会、晚唐都城，11世纪宋辽边界，死亡与丧葬礼俗等。代表作有：《长城与北宋时期的边界概念》(The Great Wall and Conceptualizations of the Border under the Northern Song)，《大家族、官僚和地方实力派：晚唐中国精英的结构与流动》（Great Clansmen, Bureaucrats, and Local Magnates: The Structure and Circulation of the Elite in Late-Tang China），《宋辽边界的文化扩散与融合》（Cultural Diffusion and Hybridization along th...(展开全部)

The complete disappearance by the tenth century of the medieval Chinese aristocracy, the "great clans" that had dominated China for centuries, has long perplexed historians. In this book, Nicolas Tackett resolves the enigma of their disappearance by using new, digital methodologies to analyze a dazzling array of sources. He systematically exploits the thousands of funerary biog...(展开全部)

The complete disappearance by the tenth century of the medieval Chinese aristocracy, the "great clans" that had dominated China for centuries, has long perplexed historians. In this book, Nicolas Tackett resolves the enigma of their disappearance by using new, digital methodologies to analyze a dazzling array of sources. He systematically exploits the thousands of funerary biog...(展开全部)

美国哥伦比亚大学历史学博士，先后在田纳西大学、斯坦福大学和加州大学伯克利分校任教。研究兴趣为中国9-11世纪的精英社会、晚唐都城，11世纪宋辽边界，死亡与丧葬礼俗等。代表作有：《长城与北宋时期的边界概念》(The Great Wall and Conceptualizations of the Border under the Northern Song)，《大家族、官僚和地方实力派：晚唐中国精英的结构与流动》（Great Clansmen, Bureaucrats, and Local Magnates: The Structure and Circulation of the Elite in Late-Tang China），《宋辽边界的文化扩散与融合》（Cultural Diffusion and Hybridization along th...(展开全部)

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as well. In March 2009, Agamben was invited to speak in Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral in the presence of the bishop of Paris and a number of...(展开全部)

作者简介 尼古拉斯·莫顿(Nicholas Morton ) 英国诺丁汉特伦特大学艺术与人文学院副教授，其研究重点为 10~14 世纪十字军运动和中世纪近东的历史，并就这些主题发表了大量文章。他最新出版的著作是 7eMongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the他还是劳特里Medieval Near East (Basic Books).奇出版社三套世界史相关丛书的主编之一。 译者简介 谭琦 哈尔滨理工大学语言文学硕士，译有《十字军:一部争夺圣地的史诗》《诅咒之塔》《拜占庭的失落之城》《大围攻:马耳他1565》

姜士彬（David Johnson），加州大学伯克利分校中国研究中心教授，早年专注中古中国士族研究，近年关注明清大众文化研究。