Focusing on two late-Ming or early-Qing plays central to the Chinese canon, this thought-provoking study explores crucial questions concerning personal identity. How is a person, as opposed to a ghost or animal, to be defined? How can any specific person (as distinguished, for example, from an impostor or twin) be identified? Both plays are chuanqi, representatives of a monumen...(展开全部)

吕立亭（Tina Lu），耶鲁大学中国文学教授。1998年获得哈佛大学比较文学博士学位。主要从事明清文学研究。

格非，男，1964年8月生于江苏省丹徒县。1981年进入华东师范大学中文系汉语言文学专业，1985年留校，任中文系助教、讲师（1987）、副教授（1994）、教授（1998）。2000年获文学博士学位，并于同年调入清华大学中文系。 主要著作有《格非文集》、《欲望的旗帜》、《塞壬的歌声》等。有英、法、日、意大利等语种的单行本在国外出版。

This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the ...(展开全部)

德里克•帕菲特 （Derek Parfit，1942—），英国当代著名哲学家和伦理学家。他的探究方向为人格同一性、理性、伦理等课题。他1984年的著述《理与人》在学术界内有着很高的知名度，被广泛引用，也被不少高等学府推荐给学生和大众。他的所有研究几乎都在英国牛津大学完成，他同时亦是美国哈佛大学、纽约大学和罗格斯大学的客座教授。

This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the ...(展开全部)

The celebrated English translation of this classic work of Chinese literature is now available in an updated paperback edition. Written in 1598 by Tang Xianzu, The Peony Pavilion is one of literature's most memorable love stories and a masterpiece of Ming drama. Cyril Birch has captured all the elegance, lyricism, and subtle, earthy humor of this panoramic tale of romance and C...(展开全部)