The Chinese territory is densely meshed with holy sites (mountains, caves, springs...) where the gods manifest themselves and where pilgrims come to meet them. The present volume, the result of a Franco-Japanese conference held in Paris in 2017, includes fifteen chapters in French and English, exploring the conceptions and practices at these holy sites; they build the analysis ...(展开全部)

The Chinese territory is densely meshed with holy sites (mountains, caves, springs...) where the gods manifest themselves and where pilgrims come to meet them. The present volume, the result of a Franco-Japanese conference held in Paris in 2017, includes fifteen chapters in French and English, exploring the conceptions and practices at these holy sites; they build the analysis ...(展开全部)

Product Description An exploration of Chinese thought during a time of monumental change, the period after the fall of the Han dynasty. From the Back Cover Exploring a time of profound change, this book details the intellectual ferment after the fall of the Han dynasty. Questions about "heaven" and the affairs of the world that had seemed resolved by Han Confucianism resurfaced...(展开全部)

For those to whom "Taoism" is the Tao te ching and Chuang-tzu, nothing could seem more foreign to Taoism than bureaucracy. In these two classics, the Way (tao) is everything that bureaucracy is not: it is nonhierarchical, undifferentiated, ineffable, spontaneous. The bureaucratic spirit pertains rather to stuffy Confucians, who foolishly imagine that the way to fulfill human po...(展开全部)

For those to whom "Taoism" is the Tao te ching and Chuang-tzu, nothing could seem more foreign to Taoism than bureaucracy. In these two classics, the Way (tao) is everything that bureaucracy is not: it is nonhierarchical, undifferentiated, ineffable, spontaneous. The bureaucratic spirit pertains rather to stuffy Confucians, who foolishly imagine that the way to fulfill human po...(展开全部)

Arguing that historians must write in a comic mode, aware of history's artifice, risks, and incompletion, Caroline Walker Bynum here examines diverse medieval texts to show how women were able to appropriate dominant social symbols in ways that allowed for the emergence of their own creative voices. By arguing for the positive importance attributed to the body, these essays giv...(展开全部)

柯睿（Paul W. Kroll），1976年獲密西根大學博士學位。曾任教于密西根大學、維吉尼亞大學、科羅拉多大學波爾得分校。獲得國家人文基金、古根海姆基金、美國學術團體協會中國研究獎學金等多種獎勵。在校內外擔任多種重要職務，包括擔任《通報》（T’oung Pao）、《美國東方社會雜誌》（Journal of the American OrientalSociety）、《唐研究》（T’ang Studies）等國際雜誌主編。迄今已出版多部著作，在海內外唐代文學研究、中古道教研究等領域備受矚目。 譯者介紹： 白照傑，河北人，1985年出生。澳門大學人文學院哲學博士。致力於中古道教、中古佛教、佛道二教關係、神話傳說、考古信仰、當代本土宗教現象等問題的研究。即將出版專著《整合及制度化：唐前期道教研究》《十字門內飄法雨：當代澳門佛教問題研究》等若干部。已出版...(展开全部)

This is the first study in a Western language devoted to one of the most visually distinctive features of the landscape in China--moya or moya shike, texts carved into granite boulders and cliffs that are part of the natural terrain at thousands of sites of historic or scenic interest. These inscriptions, carved in large, bold characters, served as a vast repository of texts pr...(展开全部)

This is the first study in a Western language devoted to one of the most visually distinctive features of the landscape in China--moya or moya shike, texts carved into granite boulders and cliffs that are part of the natural terrain at thousands of sites of historic or scenic interest. These inscriptions, carved in large, bold characters, served as a vast repository of texts pr...(展开全部)