菲利帕·梅里曼（Philippa Merriman），高级职业银器匠人，梅里曼银器公司董事，对银子的历史与制作工艺有着深入的研究。在从事制银行业之前，为哲学讲师。

The curious course of silver through human history unfolds in this rich and engaging book, accompanied by striking illustrations from the British Museum. Philippa Merriman takes the reader back to the earliest uses of silver: in ingots and coins, dowries, hoards, and college plate. She shows us how silver demonstrated status--whether for an individual, as ornament, furnishings...(展开全部)

Zhang Zhen is assistant professor of cinema studies at New York University.

Shanghai in the early twentieth century was alive with art and culture. With the proliferation of popular genres such as the martial arts film, the contest among various modernist filmmakers, and the advent of sound, Chinese cinema was transforming urban life. But with the Japanese invasion in 1937, all of this came to a screeching halt. Until recently, the political establishm...(展开全部)

Shanghai in the early twentieth century was alive with art and culture. With the proliferation of popular genres such as the martial arts film, the contest among various modernist filmmakers, and the advent of sound, Chinese cinema was transforming urban life. But with the Japanese invasion in 1937, all of this came to a screeching halt. Until recently, the political establishm...(展开全部)

Zhang Zhen is assistant professor of cinema studies at New York University.

One of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, The Samurai tells of the journey of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil and the resulting clash of cultures and politics.

One of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, The Samurai tells of the journey of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil and the resulting clash of cultures and politics.

“Dublin’s clammy atmosphere and its oppressive social and religious mores are a convincing backdrop to a moving drama conveyed by a master writer.” -------- The Times Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1 950s, that low, dishonorable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man he once admired i...(展开全部)