This is a study of the earliest and finest collated inscription in the history of Chinese calligraphy, the Ji Wang shengjiao xu 集王聖教序 (Preface to the Sacred Teaching Scriptures Translated by Xuanzang in Wang Xizhi’s Collated Characters), which was erected on January 1, 673. The stele records the two texts written by the Tang emperors Taizong (599–649) and Gaozong (628–683) in h...(展开全部)

Chang'an was the most important city in early imperial China, yet this is the first comprehensive study of the Sui-Tang capital in the English language. Following a background sketch of the earlier Han dynasty Chang'an and an analysis of the canonical and geomantic bases of the layout of the Sui-Tang capital, this volume focuses on the essential components of the city--its pala...(展开全部)

In the seventh century the kingdom of Samarkand sent formal gifts of fancy yellow peaches, large as goose eggs and with a color like gold, to the Chinese court at Ch'ang-an. What kind of fruit these golden peaches really were cannot now be guessed, but they have the glamour of mystery, and they symbolize all the exotic things longed for, and unknown things hoped for, by the peo...(展开全部)

In the seventh century the kingdom of Samarkand sent formal gifts of fancy yellow peaches, large as goose eggs and with a color like gold, to the Chinese court at Ch'ang-an. What kind of fruit these golden peaches really were cannot now be guessed, but they have the glamour of mystery, and they symbolize all the exotic things longed for, and unknown things hoped for, by the peo...(展开全部)

陈翰笙（1897~2004），中国早期马克思主义的农村经济学家、社会学家、历史学家、社会活动家，中国社会科学院世界历史研究所名誉所长。20世纪 30年代中国农村经济研究会的创始人。他坚持以马克思主义立场、观点、方法，分析研究中国农业、农民和农村问题，以第一手的农村调查材料论证中国农村半封建、半殖民地的社会性质，指明中国农业发展的道路。2004年3月13日逝世。

Based on translations of an unique Tang text, the Collected Statements, this work explores a worthy social commentary on the examination life that its compiler witnessed. Gradually providing a full picture of the civil service examination, it describes the emergence of the literary culture surrounding civil service examination recruitment during China's Tang dynasty (618-907); ...(展开全部)

本书是一本研究流落在海外的中国古代法书名迹的学术专著，由六篇相对独立又相联的论文组成，论述了书法史研究中一些容易被混淆与忽视的问题。

本书是一本研究流落在海外的中国古代法书名迹的学术专著，由六篇相对独立又相联的论文组成，论述了书法史研究中一些容易被混淆与忽视的问题。