During China’s transition from dynastic empire to nation-state, the crowd emerged as a salient trope. Intellectuals across the ideological spectrum have used the crowd trope to ruminate on questions of selfhood and nationhood, and to advance competing models of enlightenment and revolution. Revolutionary Waves analyzes the centrality of the crowd in the Chinese cultural and pol...(展开全部)

Vincent Goossaert is deputy director of the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris. He is the author of The Taoists of Peking, 1800–1949: A Social History of Urban Clerics, among other books. David A. Palmer is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Qigong Fever: Body, Scie...(展开全部)

A tale of love, heartbreak and surfing from a debut cartoonist. In Waves is Craig Thompson's Blankets meets William Finnegan's Barbarian Days. In this visually arresting graphic novel, surfer and illustrator AJ Dungo remembers his late partner, her battle with cancer, and their shared love of surfing that brought them strength throughout their time together. With his passion fo...(展开全部)

A tale of love, heartbreak and surfing from an important new voice in comics. In Waves is Craig Thompson's Blankets meets Barbarian Days. In this visually arresting graphic novel, surfer and illustrator AJ Dungo remembers his late partner, her battle with cancer, and their shared love of surfing that brought them strength throughout their time together. With his passion for sur...(展开全部)

乔治•鲁德（1910—1993），英国马克思主义史学家。受法国年鉴学派影响，主张“自下而上”的历史研究，对于法国大革命史与近代欧洲社会史有精深的研究，师从法国大革命史研究的名家乔治•勒费弗尔，由于其左派身份，一生经历坎坷，漂泊不定，依然笔耕不辍。著有《法国大革命中的群众》《历史中的群众》《革命中的欧洲（1783-1815）》《18世纪的巴黎与伦敦》等专著，大多被誉为经典。

乔治•鲁德（1910—1993），英国马克思主义史学家。受法国年鉴学派影响，主张“自下而上”的历史研究，对于法国大革命史与近代欧洲社会史有精深的研究，师从法国大革命史研究的名家乔治•勒费弗尔，由于其左派身份，一生经历坎坷，漂泊不定，依然笔耕不辍。著有《法国大革命中的群众》《历史中的群众》《革命中的欧洲（1783-1815）》《18世纪的巴黎与伦敦》等专著，大多被誉为经典。

乔治•鲁德（1910—1993），英国马克思主义史学家。受法国年鉴学派影响，主张“自下而上”的历史研究，对于法国大革命史与近代欧洲社会史有精深的研究，师从法国大革命史研究的名家乔治•勒费弗尔，由于其左派身份，一生经历坎坷，漂泊不定，依然笔耕不辍。著有《法国大革命中的群众》《历史中的群众》《革命中的欧洲（1783-1815）》《18世纪的巴黎与伦敦》等专著，大多被誉为经典。

Modern Chinese history told from a Buddhist perspective restores the vibrant, creative role of religion in postimperial China. It shows how urban Buddhist elites jockeyed for cultural dominance in the early Republican era, how Buddhist intellectuals reckoned with science, and how Buddhist media contributed to modern print cultures. It recognizes the political importance of sacr...(展开全部)

"Sainthood" has been, and remains, a contested category in China, given the commitment of China's modern leadership to secularization, modernization, and revolution, and the discomfort of China's elite with matters concerning religion. However, sainted religious leaders have succeeded in rebuilding old institutions and creating new ones despite the Chinese government's censure....(展开全部)

Wing-tsit Chan was a Chinese scholar and professor best known for his studies of Chinese philosophy and his translations of Chinese philosophical texts. Chan was born in China in 1901 and went to the United States in 1924, earning a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1929.