Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos, the first book focusing on premortem shrines in any era of Chinese history, places the institution at the intersection of politics and religion. When a local official left his post, grateful subjects housed an image of him in a temple, requiting his grace: that was the ideal model. By Ming times, the “living shrine” was legal,...(展开全部)

Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos, the first book focusing on premortem shrines in any era of Chinese history, places the institution at the intersection of politics and religion. When a local official left his post, grateful subjects housed an image of him in a temple, requiting his grace: that was the ideal model. By Ming times, the “living shrine” was legal,...(展开全部)

"Tongzhi," which translates into English as same purpose or same will, was once widely used to mean comrade. Since the 1990s, the word has been appropriated by the LGBT community in China and now refers to a broad range of people who do not espouse heteronormativity."Tongzhi Living," the first study of its kind, offers insights into the community of same-sex-attracted men in th...(展开全部)

"Tongzhi," which translates into English as same purpose or same will, was once widely used to mean comrade. Since the 1990s, the word has been appropriated by the LGBT community in China and now refers to a broad range of people who do not espouse heteronormativity."Tongzhi Living," the first study of its kind, offers insights into the community of same-sex-attracted men in th...(展开全部)

TIANTIAN ZHENG is Associate Professor of Sociology/Anthropology at State University of New York, USA, and author of Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China.

伦纳德·蒙洛迪诺（Leonard Mlodinow），这个名字你可能不熟悉，但你肯定知道斯蒂芬·霍金的《时间简史》和《大设计》——这两部著作都是霍金与伦纳德·蒙洛迪诺合著的。蒙洛迪诺是一名著名理论物理学家，1981年在马克斯-普朗克物理学与天体物理学研究所当研究员，主攻量子场论。1985年，他怀揣梦想，带着6000美元去好莱坞打拼，成为《星际迷航：下一代》等剧的编剧。1993年，他又进军游戏界，成为电脑游戏制作人和设计者，与斯蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格、罗宾·威廉姆斯和迪士尼公司协作制作的游戏斩获了数项大奖。他同时并没有耽误写作，著有热销书《醉汉的脚步》《潜意识》《费曼的彩虹》《世界之战》，其中《醉汉的脚步》获得“编辑推荐奖”、“年度影响力书籍”，并入围英国皇家学会图书奖。他也一直没有放弃理论物理学研究，以“业余物理学家”的身份，至今仍有论文发表。

Engaging the writing of the fifteenth-century Confucian theorist and chancellor of the Imperial Academy, Qiu Jun, these essays enlarge our grasp of both Confucianism and the Chinese state, exploring what educated Chinese imagined as best practice in meeting the challenges of administering the realm. Rediscovering statecraft in the Ming period allows us to think about the tradit...(展开全部)

Who was Yang Tinghe? Despite being one of Ming China’s most eminent officials, Yang and his career have long eluded scholarly study in the West. In this volume, Aaron Throness engages a trove of untapped Ming sources and secondary scholarship to recount Yang Tinghe’s political life, and in unprecedented detail. Throness explores how Yang, a pragmatic politician and conservative...(展开全部)

Who was Yang Tinghe? Despite being one of Ming China’s most eminent officials, Yang and his career have long eluded scholarly study in the West. In this volume, Aaron Throness engages a trove of untapped Ming sources and secondary scholarship to recount Yang Tinghe’s political life, and in unprecedented detail. Throness explores how Yang, a pragmatic politician and conservative...(展开全部)

蔡石山（Shih-shan Henry Tsai），享誉国际的历史学者，美国俄勒冈大学历史学博士，曾执教于台湾大学、美国加州大学洛杉矶与伯克利分校、阿肯色大学等，曾任美国阿肯色大学历史系教授兼亚洲研究中心主任。著有《明代的女人》《永乐大帝》等。