Benoit Vermander is professor of religious studies and director of the Xu-Ricci Dialogue Institute at Fudan University, Shanghai. He is the author of Corporate Social Responsibility in China: A Vision, an Assessment and a Blueprint. Photographer and anthropologist . Liz Hingley was a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (2013–2016). She is currently artis...(展开全部)

Shanghai, a dynamic world metropolis, is home to a multitude of religions, from Buddhism and Islam, to Christianity and Baha'ism, to Hinduism and Daoism, and many more. In this city of 24 million inhabitants, new religious groups and older faiths together claim and reclaim spiritual space. Shanghai Sacred explores the spaces, rituals, and daily practices that make up the religi...(展开全部)

Throughout Chinese history mountains have been integral components of the religious landscape. They have been considered divine or numinous sites, the abodes of deities, the preferred locations for temples and monasteries, and destinations for pilgrims. Early in Chinese history a set of five mountains were co-opted into the imperial cult and declared sacred peaks, yue, demarcat...(展开全部)

作者：佶亞伍丁‧薩爾達爾（Ziauddin Sardar） 生於巴基斯坦，在大倫敦的哈克尼自治市長大。身兼作家、廣播人、文化評論家，是首屈一指的穆斯林知識分子。撰有五十多本伊斯蘭和當代文化的著作，被《遠見》雜誌（Prospect）列為英國百大智者之一。目前擔任美國東西大學後常態政策與未來研究中心主任、《穆斯林評論》季刊共同總編輯、《未來學》月刊顧問、倫敦穆斯林研究所董事長。 譯者：高平唐 報社資深編譯，電影公司影片和公關公司新聞摘要特約翻譯，譯有《緬甸：追求自由民主的反抗者》、《翁山蘇姬》、《希拉蕊回憶錄》、《歐尼斯光譜保健法讓你的基因變得更好》、《大熊市》、《巴菲特投資手冊》。

作者：佶亞伍丁‧薩爾達爾（Ziauddin Sardar） 生於巴基斯坦，在大倫敦的哈克尼自治市長大。身兼作家、廣播人、文化評論家，是首屈一指的穆斯林知識分子。撰有五十多本伊斯蘭和當代文化的著作，被《遠見》雜誌（Prospect）列為英國百大智者之一。目前擔任美國東西大學後常態政策與未來研究中心主任、《穆斯林評論》季刊共同總編輯、《未來學》月刊顧問、倫敦穆斯林研究所董事長。 譯者：高平唐 報社資深編譯，電影公司影片和公關公司新聞摘要特約翻譯，譯有《緬甸：追求自由民主的反抗者》、《翁山蘇姬》、《希拉蕊回憶錄》、《歐尼斯光譜保健法讓你的基因變得更好》、《大熊市》、《巴菲特投資手冊》。

The issue of death has loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Throughout the Republican period, Shanghai swallowed up lives by the thousands. Exposed bodies strewn around in public spaces were a threat to social order as well as to public health. In a place where every group had its own beliefs and set of death and funeral practices, how did they adapt to a modern, u...(展开全部)

introduction by Bernard Tschumi In A Landscape of Events, the celebrated French architect, urban planner, and philosopher Paul Virilio focuses on the cultural chaos of the 1980s and 1990s. It was a time, he writes, that reflected the "cruelty of an epoch, the hills and dales of daily life, the usual clumps of habits and commonplaces."Urban disorientation, the machines of war, a...(展开全部)

老拉萨作为吐蕃王朝的首府都城，至少可以向前追溯十三四个世纪。藏史春秋、雪城沧桑，在闪闪发光的巍峨金顶的俯视下，缓慢而笨重地流过布达拉宫脚下。这里不仅有辉煌的历史文化遗传，还有千百年来朴实的游牧精神。老拉萨，是僧侣的拉萨、贵族的拉萨、商人、乞丐、朝圣者、探险家的拉萨。是什么样的诱惑，促使纪实文学作家马丽华情不自禁地回过头去张望过往岁月？作为久负盛名的历史文化名城老拉萨，正像长长的一卷老照片，意味深长。用心地端详着它，可以从那上面读出了晴空丽日，也读出了风云漫卷……本书为其英文精装本。

If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which had emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trades. It almost certainly would not have been London, an unassuming hub of the wool and cloth trade with a population of around 75,00...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·希伯特（Christopher Hibbert，1924—2008），出生于英国莱斯特郡，毕业于牛津大学拉德利和奥里尔学院。二战期间他在伦敦爱尔兰步枪团任步兵军官，曾两次负伤，并于1945年获得军功十字勋章。普拉姆教授（J. H. Plumb）称其为“能力极高的作家”，《新政治家》称其为“传记作者中的明珠”。他是一位久负盛名的通俗历史学家。 其作品以治学严谨著称，包括《拉格伦王的灭亡》（The Destruction of Lord Raglan，荣获1962年海涅曼文学奖）、《温莎宫廷》（The Court at Windsor）、《查尔斯·狄更斯成名之路》（The Making of Charles Dickens）、《猛龙觉醒：1793—1911年的中国与西方》（The Dragon Wakes: China and the Wes...(展开全部)