Reproducing Chinese Culture in Diaspora discusses how a group of anti-communist Chinese exiles from Yunnan Province have managed to establish a rural livelihood in Thailand's northern hills over the past half century. When faced with the seemingly invincible Communist forces that were sweeping across the Mainland, these nationals retreated in 1949 or shortly thereafter to the G...(展开全部)

The spirit of adventure is at the heart of Jonathan Spence's widely acclaimed scholarship on the modern history of China. This vitality, fleshed out with deep research and attired in elegant style, has drawn countless readers to subjects otherwise approachable only by experts. Through eight books, from the story of the early eighteenth century Manchu bondservant Ts'ao Yin to hi...(展开全部)

Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore their intrinsic conceptual complexity and historical specificity. The twelve...(展开全部)

What happens when language wars are not about hurling insults or quibbling over meanings, but are waged in the physical sounds and shapes of language itself? Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages, have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for global dominance between the English and Chinese languages opens into historical ...(展开全部)

China has an age-old zoomorphic tradition. The First Emperor was famously said to have had the heart of a tiger and a wolf. The names o f foreign tribes were traditionally written with characters that included animal radicals. Splendidly illustrated with works ranging from Bronze Age vessels to twentieth-century conceptual pieces, this volume is a wide-ranging look at zoomorphi...(展开全部)

作者 | 张光直（Kwang-chih Chang，1931—2001） 当代著名人类学家、考古学家。毕生致力于中国史前考古。著有《古代中国考古学》《商文明》《中国青铜时代》等多部重要作品。他是沟通中西方考古学的“架桥人”，主张将中国考古学置于世界文化舞台。 作者 | 薛爱华（Edward Hetzel Schafer，1913—1991） 美国历史学家、汉学家，任教于加州大学伯克利分校，曾任美国东方学会会长，以唐史研究而著称。著有《撒马尔罕的金桃：唐代舶来品研究》《朱雀：唐代的南方意象》《珠崖：12世纪之前的海南岛》《神女：唐代文学中的龙女与雨女》等作品。 作者 | 牟复礼（Frederick W. Mote，1922—2005） 美国汉学家、中国史学者，普林斯顿大学东亚系的奠基人。曾主持编写《剑桥中国史·明代史》，将萧公权名著《中国政治思想史》译...(展开全部)

作者 | 张光直（Kwang-chih Chang，1931—2001） 当代著名人类学家、考古学家。毕生致力于中国史前考古。著有《古代中国考古学》《商文明》《中国青铜时代》等多部重要作品。他是沟通中西方考古学的“架桥人”，主张将中国考古学置于世界文化舞台。 作者 | 薛爱华（Edward Hetzel Schafer，1913—1991） 美国历史学家、汉学家，任教于加州大学伯克利分校，曾任美国东方学会会长，以唐史研究而著称。著有《撒马尔罕的金桃：唐代舶来品研究》《朱雀：唐代的南方意象》《珠崖：12世纪之前的海南岛》《神女：唐代文学中的龙女与雨女》等作品。 作者 | 牟复礼（Frederick W. Mote，1922—2005） 美国汉学家、中国史学者，普林斯顿大学东亚系的奠基人。曾主持编写《剑桥中国史·明代史》，将萧公权名著《中国政治思想史》译...(展开全部)

This is an introduction to one of the most exciting new interdisciplinary fields of research: cultural memory studies. Who was Maurice Halbwachs, and what are the 'social frameworks of memory'? What can Aby Warburg's work tell us about the 'memory of art'? How do Pierre Nora's lieux de memoire connect history and memory? Where does the ancient art of memory meet the neuroscienc...(展开全部)

杜朴（Robert L. Thorp），早期中国艺术领域的权威学者，华盛顿大学圣路易斯分校艺术史和考古系荣休教授，著述丰硕。杜朴博士除了在远东广泛游历和参加田野考察工作外，还合作策划了几个重要的展览，并受邀在多个以中国艺术收藏著称的美国博物馆做讲座。 文以诚 （Richard Ellis Vinograd），著名的中国画研究专家，1995 年起任斯坦福大学艺术和艺术史系主任。他是晚期中国（宋代至今）艺术领域备受尊崇的学者，著有《自我的界限：1600-1900 的中国肖像画》，在许多重要刊物上发表过文章和书评。文以诚博士经常受邀以演讲者、评审或研讨者的身份出席有关中国艺术与文化的会议和论坛。