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)

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)

The pulsing beat of its nightlife has long drawn travelers to the streets of Shanghai, where the night scene is a crucial component of the city’s image as a global metropolis. In Shanghai Nightscapes, sociologist James Farrer and historian Andrew David Field examine the cosmopolitan nightlife culture that first arose in Shanghai in the 1920s and that has been experiencing a rev...(展开全部)

James Farrer is professor of sociology and global studies at Sophia University, Tokyo, and author of Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Andrew David Field is the author of Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919–1954 and Mu Shiying: China’s Lost Modernist.

Shanghai's tumultuous history has resulted in the progressive and stylish city of today. For more than a century and a half artists have been both documenting the city's changes and leading its way into the future. Timed to coincide with the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 (and a city-wide Shanghai Celebration in San Francisco, its sister city), Shanghai catalogs the first exhibiti...(展开全部)

Shanghai's tumultuous history has resulted in the progressive and stylish city of today. For more than a century and a half artists have been both documenting the city's changes and leading its way into the future. Timed to coincide with the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 (and a city-wide Shanghai Celebration in San Francisco, its sister city), "Shanghai" catalogs the first exhibi...(展开全部)

'Shanghai's champion storyteller - He grips his reader to the end' Economist 'Gripping, breakneck ultra-noir reminiscent of vintage Ellroy' David Peace, author of Red or Dead 'If you love Richard Lloyd Parry and David Grann, don't miss City of Devils' Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me 1930s Shanghai was a haven for outlaws from all over the world: a place where pasts could be for...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 保罗•法兰奇（Paul French），哈生于伦敦，求学于伦敦和格拉斯哥，曾在上海工作、生活多年，出版过多部传播甚广的分析、评论中国的专著。其代表作《午夜北平》是“爱伦•坡奖”最佳罪案实录奖项（Edgar Awardfor Best Fact Crime）和英国犯罪小说作家协会的非虚构类金匕首奖(CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction) 得主。 【译者简介】 兰莹，先后就读于外交学院英语系、中国人民大学美术学院。现为公务员，从事对外文化艺术交流工作。业余从事文学、历史、美术领域的翻译，译有《午夜北平》等四本书。