This book opens in eleventh-century China, where scholars were the first in world history to systematically illustrate and document ancient artifacts. As Jeffrey Moser argues, the visual, technical, and conceptual mechanisms they developed to record these objects laid the foundations for methods of visualizing knowledge that scholars throughout early modern East Asia would use ...(展开全部)

This book opens in eleventh-century China, where scholars were the first in world history to systematically illustrate and document ancient artifacts. As Jeffrey Moser argues, the visual, technical, and conceptual mechanisms they developed to record these objects laid the foundations for methods of visualizing knowledge that scholars throughout early modern East Asia would use ...(展开全部)

Duckworth are proud to present this first modern edition of The Tragedy of Arthur by William Shakespeare. The long-lost play surfaces in Phillips's new novel, a sublime faux memoir framed as the introduction to the play's first printing. Arthur and his twin sister, Dana, maintained an unusual relationship with their gregarious father, a forger whose passion for the bard and fo...(展开全部)

罗伯特·贝格利：普林斯顿大学艺术史与考古系退休荣誉教授，研究领域涉及新石器时代至青铜时代的艺术、考古、冶金、文字起源和音乐理论，近期著作包括Gombrich among the Egyptians（2015）、《剑桥世界史》第四卷的古代世界艺术以及Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History 的西周之前的中国青铜器时代等章节。 王海城：西雅图华盛顿大学艺术史系Mary and Cheney Cowles讲座副教授，致力于中国青铜时代与其他古代文明的比较研究，近期著作包括Writing and the Ancient State（2014）、《剑桥世界史》第三卷的中国早期文字与城市以及Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History的中国早期艺术等章节。

Robert Bagley is Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. His recent publications include the chapter on Shang archaeology in the Cambridge History of Ancient China and articles on Chinese bronzes, the origin of the Chinese writing system, and ancient Chinese music theory.