韩书瑞，现任普林斯顿大学历史系教授、东亚系执行主任。1966年，她从斯坦福大学历史系毕业后，进入耶鲁大学学习，并获得前往台湾学习中文的机会，1968年在耶鲁获得东亚研究的硕士学位，1974年获历史学博士学位。之后，她进入宾西法尼亚大学历史系任教，先后任助理教授、副教授、教授，1993年进入普林斯顿大学。

韩书瑞(Susan Naquin)，美国普林斯顿大学东亚系主任、历史系教授。在清史研究方面的成就卓著，她的著作《山东叛乱：1774年的王伦起义》、《北京：庙宇与城市生活》、《千禧年之乱：1813年八卦教起义》等在学术界均有着广泛的影响。

作者简介 周锡瑞（Joseph W. Esherick） 当今美国研究中国近现代史领域最有成就、最负盛名的学者之一，曾师从汉学家费正清、列文森和魏斐德。其著作《义和团运动的起源》于1987年出版后，立即获得了国际学术界的重视。先后获得美国的中国学研究的两个最高奖——费正清奖和列文森奖，以及加州大学伯克莱奖。 译者简介： 张俊义，中国社会科学院近代史研究所研究员。主要研究香港史、近代中外关系史。 王栋，上海大学文学院历史系“千人计划“特聘教授。

In the summer of 1900, bands of peasant youths from the villages of north China streamed into Beijing to besiege the foreign legations, attracting the attention of the entire world. Joseph Esherick reconstructs the early history of the Boxers, challenging the traditional view that they grew from earlier anti-dynastic sects, and stressing instead the impact of social ecology and...(展开全部)

Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern county of T'an-ch'eng emerges here as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy ...(展开全部)

Euclides da Cunha's classic account of the brutal campaigns against religious mystic Antonio Conselheiro has been called the Bible of Brazilian nationality. "Euclides da Cunha went on the campaigns [against Conselheiro] as a journalist and what he returned with and published in 1902 is still unsurpassed in Latin American literature. Cunha is a talent as grand, spacious, entang...(展开全部)

The idea that we might be robots is no longer the stuff of science fiction; decades of research in evolutionary biology and cognitive science have led many esteemed thinkers and scientists to the conclusion that, following the precepts of universal Darwinism, humans are merely the hosts for two replicators (genes and memes) that have no interest in us except as conduits for rep...(展开全部)

The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire explores the serious and far-reaching impacts of Little Ice Age climate fluctuations in Ottoman lands. This study demonstrates how imperial systems of provisioning and settlement that defined Ottoman power in the 1500s came unraveled in the face of ecological pressures and extreme cold and drought, leading to the outbr...(展开全部)

Occupying much of imperial China's Yangzi River heartland and costing over twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions was the Taiping faith of the rebels. Inspired by a Protestant missionary tract, the core of the Taiping faith focused on the belief that Shangdi, ...(展开全部)

What constitutes reading? This is the question William McKelvy asks in The English Cult of Literature. Is it a theory of interpretation or a physical activity, a process determined by hermeneutic destiny or by paper, ink, hands, and eyes? McKelvy seeks to transform the nineteenth-century field of "Religion and Literature" into "Reading and Religion," emphasizing both the materi...(展开全部)