"Precious volumes," or "pao-chuan," were produced by popular sects in the Ming and early Qing dynasties. These scriptures were believed to have been divinely revealed to sect leaders and contain teachings and ritual instructions that provide valuable information about a lively and widespread religious tradition outside mainstream Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Largely negl...(展开全部)

"Precious volumes," or "pao-chuan," were produced by popular sects in the Ming and early Qing dynasties. These scriptures were believed to have been divinely revealed to sect leaders and contain teachings and ritual instructions that provide valuable information about a lively and widespread religious tradition outside mainstream Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Largely negl...(展开全部)

Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives of Northern Italy, The Night Battles recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti, literally, "good walkers." These men and women described fighting extraordinary ritual battles against witches and wizards in order to protect their harvests. While their bodies slept, the souls of the benandanti were ab...(展开全部)

劉紀璐 現任美國加州州立大學富樂敦分校哲學系教授。美國紐約羅徹斯特大學哲學博士，臺灣大學哲學碩士與學士。研究方向包括中國哲學、形而上學、心靈哲學、語言哲學、道德心理學，後設倫理學等。目前研究課題是儒家的機器人倫理學，並以此得到2019年美國卡內基學者獎。主要英文專著有Wiley-Blackwell出版社的Neo-Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality、An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism。主編論文選集包括劍橋大學出版的Consciousness and the Self 以及Routledge出版社的Nothingness in Asian Philosophy。

劉紀璐 現任美國加州州立大學富樂敦分校哲學系教授。美國紐約羅徹斯特大學哲學博士，臺灣大學哲學碩士與學士。研究方向包括中國哲學、形而上學、心靈哲學、語言哲學、道德心理學，後設倫理學等。目前研究課題是儒家的機器人倫理學，並以此得到2019年美國卡內基學者獎。主要英文專著有Wiley-Blackwell出版社的Neo-Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality、An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism。主編論文選集包括劍橋大學出版的Consciousness and the Self 以及Routledge出版社的Nothingness in Asian Philosophy。

This comprehensive introductory textbook to early Chinese philosophy covers a range of philosophical traditions which arose during the Spring and Autumn (722-476 BCE) and Warring States (475-221 BCE) periods in China, including Confucianism, Mohism, Daoism, and Legalism. It considers concepts, themes and argumentative methods of early Chinese philosophy and follows the developm...(展开全部)

The European Tributary States is the first attempt to give a comprehensive overview of the similarities and differences in the Ottoman Empire's relationship to Moldavia, Wallachia, Transylvania, Ragusa, the Crimean Khanate as well as the Cossack Hetmanate.

The European Tributary States is the first attempt to give a comprehensive overview of the similarities and differences in the Ottoman Empire's relationship to Moldavia, Wallachia, Transylvania, Ragusa, the Crimean Khanate as well as the Cossack Hetmanate.

First published in French in Saigon in 1956, this classic work integrates the study of Buddhist doctrine with the study of Chinese society from the fifth to the tenth centuries.