The city of Hangzhou was a symbol of the declining Song Empire (960–1279). Paramount and feeble, awe-inspiring and threatened, it was the most admired city and a disgrace to its dynastic founders. Rather than debate the merit of these polemical judgments, the contributors to this volume treat them as expressions of their historical moment that reveal ideological and aesthetic p...(展开全部)

Offering an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the city which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and urban space, .the author approaches the city as essentially a "material" place where people live, work, and participate in social practices within historical limits set not by sensory experience or cultural meanings but material social conditions. Urban cult...(展开全部)

Offering an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the city which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and urban space, .the author approaches the city as essentially a "material" place where people live, work, and participate in social practices within historical limits set not by sensory experience or cultural meanings but material social conditions. Urban cult...(展开全部)

Product Description from Amazon.com This collection is the first comprehensive treatment of the song lyric (tz'u) in China from its origins through the nineteenth century. Engaging issues of form, language, voice, and transmission, these essays explore the changing and frequently problematic situation of the tz'u over centuries of literary production. They articulate the common...(展开全部)

Charles Hartman presents an ambitious analysis of the workings of governance in Imperial China centered on the Song Dynasty (960–1279). Here he develops a new model for thinking about the deeper structures of governance in Song and pre-imperial China – the 'technocratic–Confucian continuum' – which challenges the prevailing perception of Confucian political dominance and offers...(展开全部)

查尔斯·哈特曼以宋代（960-1279年）为中心，对帝制中国的治理运作进行了雄心勃勃的分析。在此，他开发了一个新模型来思考宋代和前帝国中国更深层次的治理结构——“技术官僚-儒家连续体”——这挑战了普遍存在的儒家政治主导地位的看法，并提供了一种扩大宋代政治文化定义和范围以涵盖所有参与者的载体。以他广受好评的著作《宋代历史的形成：资料和叙述，公元 960-1279 年》（2021 年）为基础，对宋代宫廷进行了丰富详尽的探索，其意义超越了当前研究的时期，既可以重新思考中国君主制的性质，也可以考察政治异议的建设性可能性。 Charles Hartman presents an ambitious analysis of the workings of governance in Imperial China centered on the Song Dyna...(展开全部)

Charles Hartman presents an ambitious analysis of the workings of governance in Imperial China centered on the Song Dynasty (960–1279). Here he develops a new model for thinking about the deeper structures of governance in Song and pre-imperial China – the 'technocratic–Confucian continuum' – which challenges the prevailing perception of Confucian political dominance and offers...(展开全部)

查尔斯·哈特曼以宋代（960-1279年）为中心，对帝制中国的治理运作进行了雄心勃勃的分析。在此，他开发了一个新模型来思考宋代和前帝国中国更深层次的治理结构——“技术官僚-儒家连续体”——这挑战了普遍存在的儒家政治主导地位的看法，并提供了一种扩大宋代政治文化定义和范围以涵盖所有参与者的载体。以他广受好评的著作《宋代历史的形成：资料和叙述，公元 960-1279 年》（2021 年）为基础，对宋代宫廷进行了丰富详尽的探索，其意义超越了当前研究的时期，既可以重新思考中国君主制的性质，也可以考察政治异议的建设性可能性。 Charles Hartman presents an ambitious analysis of the workings of governance in Imperial China centered on the Song Dyna...(展开全部)

D.E. Mungello is professor of history and director of Asian Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

Stewart, a poet, professor, and MacArthur Fellow, ambitiously traces "the path of the aesthetic in search of an explanation for the role of poetry in our culture." In a book much like Burke's On the Sublime or Kant's Observations on the Sublime, Stewart tacks from darkness and grief to sound, poetic voice, lyric possession, the deictic now (measure and time), and the nocturne. ...(展开全部)