Throughout Chinese history mountains have been integral components of the religious landscape. They have been considered divine or numinous sites, the abodes of deities, the preferred locations for temples and monasteries, and destinations for pilgrims. Early in Chinese history a set of five mountains were co-opted into the imperial cult and declared sacred peaks, yue, demarcat...(展开全部)

Benoit Vermander is professor of religious studies and director of the Xu-Ricci Dialogue Institute at Fudan University, Shanghai. He is the author of Corporate Social Responsibility in China: A Vision, an Assessment and a Blueprint. Photographer and anthropologist . Liz Hingley was a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (2013–2016). She is currently artis...(展开全部)

Shanghai, a dynamic world metropolis, is home to a multitude of religions, from Buddhism and Islam, to Christianity and Baha'ism, to Hinduism and Daoism, and many more. In this city of 24 million inhabitants, new religious groups and older faiths together claim and reclaim spiritual space. Shanghai Sacred explores the spaces, rituals, and daily practices that make up the religi...(展开全部)

Establishing a new approach to reading Chinese landscape painting, this work centers around an early key example of scholarly painting, viz. Dream Journey on the Xiao and Xiang Rivers (late 12th century). The author restores the status of Dream Journey as a cultural icon for Confucians, an object of contemplation for aesthetes, an imaginary dream journey for poets, and an incen...(展开全部)

What is the true human cost of the war in Afghanistan? What are the real effects of the austerity measure? And how did the London riots spread so quickly? "Facts are Sacred", the "Guardian's" award-winning datablog, publishes and analyses seemingly benign data - released under the auspices of transparency - to bring its readers astonishing revelations about the way we live now....(展开全部)

本•A. 敏特尔（Ben A. Minteer），亚利桑那州立大学生命科学院教授，主要研究领域为环境伦理与保护，论文刊登于《科学》《自然》《美国国家科学院院刊》等刊物。《景观革新》是他研究美国环境思想的代表作。

We are all in need of lights to follow. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. Hers was a centuries-old trade that had once made men and women rich, but had long been in decline. Still, somehow, she seemed to be hanging on...(展开全部)

Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into "view", and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural and physical surroundings. A principal aim of this volume follows from these interconnected ways of considering landscape: the conventional, Western n...(展开全部)

W.G.霍斯金斯（William George Hoskins，1908-1992年），英国历史学家，英国社会科学院院士，曾任教于莱斯特大学、牛津大学。他以研究英格兰地方史著称，在景观史研究方面做出巨大的开创性贡献，其研究领域还涉及考古学、城市史和农业史等。霍斯金斯撰有近二十部专著，《英格兰景观的形成》（1955年）是最具代表性的著作，另著有《英格兰地方史，过去与现在》（1966年）、《地方史中的田野调查》（1967年）、《掠夺年代》（1976年）等书。 梅雪芹，清华大学历史系教授，中国世界近现代史研究会副会长、中国英国史研究会理事。长期从事世界近现代史、英国近现代史和环境史的教学与研究。出版有《环境史学与环境问题》《环境史研究叙论》等著作，《火之简史》《什么是环境史》《大象的退却：一部中国环境史》等译作，在核心期刊发表论文数十篇。 刘梦霏，清华大学...(展开全部)

The Making of the English Countryside is W G Hoskins’ masterpiece, revealing the hidden histories of the landscape. This hugely influential and ground-breaking book changed forever the way we experience the places we live and work.