In this illuminating study of a vital but long overlooked aspect of Chinese religious life, Jimmy Yu reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, self-inflicted violence was an essential and sanctioned part of Chinese culture. He examines a wide range of practices, including blood writing, filial body-slicing, chastity mutilations and suicides, ritual exposure, and ...(展开全部)

Featuring updates and revisions that reflect recent historiography, this new edition of The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500-1700 presents a comprehensive overview of Portuguese imperial history that considers Asian and European perspectives. Features an argument-driven history with a clear chronological structure Considers the latest developments in English, French, and Portu...(展开全部)

▼内容简介 本书初版于1992年，于2012年修订再版。如作者所述，本书并非一部考据葡萄牙亚洲殖民地的社会、政治和经济史实细节的作品，而是旨在提供一种对这一历史时期进行综合分析的图式。从1992年到现在，这种图式提出已有二十多年，但依然经受了考验，并未被后来的研究成果超越。 全书共分十章，既历时性地讲述了葡萄牙到来之前亚洲的地缘政治和经济变化以及葡萄牙自身的国家和社会结构、葡萄牙创立亚洲帝国的模式、逻辑及其兴衰历程，也具体地分析了葡萄牙亚洲社会的不同社群，最后的结论部分则对传统的观点提出挑战。 从方法论上，作者突破了单纯的亚洲史和欧洲史的视角，而是要求将葡萄牙的亚洲事业放在全球史的视域中考量，使得本书具有全面性；同时作者也反对模式化的解释，使得本书具有穿透力。因此我们了解到：早期近代亚洲绝非铁板一块，而是有着精英的流动，自身已然发生深刻的变化；葡萄牙...(展开全部)

This book is a unique transdisciplinary study on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science, especially in such a critical era of environmental crisis today. In recent years, environment historians have written intensively on China, yet the study of animals and plants in medieval China was less developed, not much about the role of religions, more precisely. T...(展开全部)

This collection of original, new studies about Mainland China,Hong Kong,Taiwan and Singapore and other overseas Chinese communities focuses on religious changes, and especially the role of the state and market in affecting religious developments in these societies. Information was gathered by participant observation and interviews primarily, and the analysis of documents second...(展开全部)

▼作者简介 桑贾伊•苏拉马尼亚姆 Sanjay Subrahmanyam 历史学家。1961年生于印度，曾先后在印度德里经济学院、法国社会科学高等学院和哈佛大学任教，现为加州大学洛杉矶分校教授。2009年当选美国艺术与科学学院院士。2012年获印孚瑟斯奖。 ▼译者简介 巫怀宇 1987年生，江苏南京人。英国圣安德鲁斯大学文学硕士、杜伦大学史学硕士，南京大学哲学博士

【魅貨：近代早期跨太平洋貿易的中國絲綢，1500-1700年】 1573年，由兩艘馬尼拉大帆船運載的12綑中國 ＃絲綢 抵達新西班牙。此種跨太平洋絲綢貿易的產生與隨後的快速發展，反映出全球交流網絡的最終樣態。《魅貨：近代早期跨太平洋貿易的中國絲綢，1500-1700年》（An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500–1700）是首部聚焦於近代早期16至17世紀中國出口絲綢至新西班牙的英文著作，對兩國養蠶業的發展、絲綢時尚品的廣泛流行與政府對絲綢使用上的管理規範做出對比。

▼作者简介 桑贾伊•苏拉马尼亚姆 Sanjay Subrahmanyam 历史学家。1961年生于印度，曾先后在印度德里经济学院、法国社会科学高等学院和哈佛大学任教，现为加州大学洛杉矶分校教授。2009年当选美国艺术与科学学院院士。2012年获印孚瑟斯奖。 ▼译者简介 巫怀宇 1987年生，江苏南京人。英国圣安德鲁斯大学文学硕士、杜伦大学史学硕士，南京大学哲学博士

Animals play crucial roles in Buddhist thought and practice. However, many symbolically or culturally significant animals found in India, where Buddhism originated, do not inhabit China, to which Buddhism spread in the medieval period. In order to adapt Buddhist ideas and imagery to the Chinese context, writers reinterpreted and modified the meanings different creatures possess...(展开全部)

On July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan Brison was attacked from behind, severely beaten, sexually assaulted, strangled to unconsciousness, and left for dead. She survived, but her world was destroyed. Her training as a philosopher could not help her make sense of things, and many of her fundamental assumptions about the nature of the self and the wor...(展开全部)