This book explores, through a series of essays, a set of interrelated elements that define the literary culture of China in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. This period, known as the Mid-Tang, broke with many of the intellectual habits of the “middle period” of Chinese culture and adumbrated many of the characteristics of China in the Song and later periods. The firs...(展开全部)

宇文所安,又名斯蒂芬·欧文。1946年生于美国密苏里州圣路易斯市,长于美国南方小城。1959年移居巴尔的摩。在巴尔的摩公立图书馆里沉湎于诗歌阅读,并初次接触中国诗,虽然只是中文翻译,但他迅速决定与其发生恋爱,至今犹然。1972年获耶鲁大学东亚系博士学位,随即执教耶鲁大学。二十年后应聘哈佛,任教东亚系、比较文学系,现为詹姆斯·布莱恩特·柯南德特级教授。有著作数种,论文多篇。其人也,性乐烟酒,心好诗歌。简脱不持仪形,喜俳谐。自言其父尝忧其业中国诗无以谋生,而后竟得自立,实属侥幸尔。

Three decades of dizzying change in China's economy and society have left a tangible record of successes and failures. Less readily accessible but of no less consequence is the story, as illuminated in this book, of what China's reform has done to its people as moral and spiritual beings. Jiwei Ci examines the moral crisis in post-Mao China as a mirror of deep contradictions in...(展开全部)

hree decades of dizzying change in China’s economy and society have left a tangible record of successes and failures. Less readily accessible but of no less consequence is the story, as illuminated in this book, of what China’s reform has done to its people as moral and spiritual beings. Jiwei Ci examines the moral crisis in post-Mao China as a mirror of deep contradictions in ...(展开全部)

Unlike most texts in critical thinking, Reason in the Balance focuses broadly on the practice of critical inquiry, the process of carefully examining an issue in order to come to a reasoned judgment. Although analysis and critique of individual arguments have an important role to play, this text goes beyond that dimension to emphasize the various aspects that go into the practi...(展开全部)

This is the first English translation of Lee Ao's novel Martyrs' Shrine. Based on the events of the spirited but unsuccessful "Hundred Days' Reforms" movement, this book sweeps readers into the chaotic and fabled world of late imperial China.

Print and Politics offers a cultural history of a late Qing newspaper, Shibao, the most influential reform daily of its time. Exploring the simultaneous emergence of a new print culture and a new culture of politics in early-twentieth-century China, the book treats Shibao as both institution and text and demonstrates how the journalists who wrote for the paper attempted to stak...(展开全部)

This volume explores the dissemination of the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya tradition in Tang China (618–907) in the context of the dispersal of the state bureaucracy throughout the empire and the changing centre–periphery dynamics. The tradition’s development in China during the Tang Dynasty has traditionally been associated with northern China, particularly the capital city of Chang’a...(展开全部)