Only two major exhibitions from the fabled Chinese Palace Museum collections have been seen in the West - the first in London in 1935-36 and the second in the United States in 1961-62. These two exhibitions provided an extraordinary stimulus to the study of Chinese culture, revolutionized Asian art studies in the West, and opened the eyes of the public to the artistic tradition...(展开全部)

Only two major exhibitions from the fabled Chinese Palace Museum collections have been seen in the West - the first in London in 1935-36 and the second in the United States in 1961-62. These two exhibitions provided an extraordinary stimulus to the study of Chinese culture, revolutionized Asian art studies in the West, and opened the eyes of the public to the artistic tradition...(展开全部)

尼克·卡特，本名克雷格·戴维森，目前居住于加拿大多伦多。他以本名克雷格·戴维森出版的第一本文学小说《锈与骨》在2012年被改编为电影，由法国著名女星玛丽昂·歌迪亚主演，颇受佳评，入围第65届戛纳国际电影节主竞赛单元。以尼克•卡特之名出版的恐怖惊悚小说《军团》得到了业内和读者的双重好评，随后，他又出版了《军团》姊妹篇《深渊》。

In 1978, on windswept plains of northern Afghanistan, archaeologists unearthed tombs of ancient nomads that had been sealed for two thousand years and discovered an extraordinary trove: some 22,000 individual pieces of gold buried with the remains of six Bactrian nomads. Within months of this discovery at Tillya Tepe, a Soviet invasion isolated Afghanistan, and the so-called Ba...(展开全部)

Monet is one of the leading figures of the Impressionist group of painters that came to the fore in France in the second half of the nineteenth century. This project is aimed at established fans and for those wishing to learn about him for the first time. With the inclusion of facsimiles of some 30 documents from Claude Monet's personal papers and associated archives, "Musee Ma...(展开全部)

Focusing on the artistic production and cultural impact of the lower Yangzi River delta, an area known as Jiangnan, this volume features more than 200 objects from Neolithic times through the eighteenth century that range in media from jade, silk, prints, and paintings to porcelain, lacquer, and bamboo carvings. Essays by internationally renowned scholars cover topics such as J...(展开全部)

Focusing on the artistic production and cultural impact of the lower Yangzi River delta, an area known as Jiangnan, this volume features more than 200 objects from Neolithic times through the eighteenth century that range in media from jade, silk, prints, and paintings to porcelain, lacquer, and bamboo carvings. Essays by internationally renowned scholars cover topics such as J...(展开全部)

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.'One of the great literary curios of the twentieth century Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender is the Night, which many critics consider to be his masterpiece, Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story, whi...(展开全部)

'We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet' One of the great literary curios of the twentieth century Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story, which strangely parallels the narrative of her husband, throwing a ...(展开全部)

作者簡介 查理‧英格利許（Charlie English） 英國皇家地理學會研究員、《衛報》前國際新聞組組長。十九歲時首次前往非洲旅遊，做了既深而廣的探索，之後遊歷世界各國，經驗豐富。文章常見於各大報。 為了撰寫廷巴克圖的故事，他在得知手抄本並未被毀的消息後，辭去了《衛報》的工作。 譯者簡介 蔡耀緯 臺灣大學歷史學研究所碩士，現為自由譯者。譯有《1921穿越福爾摩沙：一位英國作家的臺灣旅行》、《平凡的美德：分歧世界的道德秩序》、《大歷史：從宇宙大霹靂到今天的人類世界》（合譯）、《臺灣邊疆的治理與政治經濟（1600-1800）》（合譯）、《恐怖的總合》（合譯）等。