China’s last imperial dynasty governed a vast and culturally diverse territory, encompassing a wide range of local political systems and regional elites. But the Qing empire was built and held together by a single imperial elite: the more than two million members of the hereditary Eight Banner system who were at the core of both the military and the bureaucracy. The banner popu...(展开全部)

Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule offers a new interpretation of eunuchs and their connection to imperial rule in the first century and a half of the Qing dynasty (1644–1800). This period encompassed the reigns of three of China’s most important emperors, men who were deeply affected by the great eunuch corruption of the fallen Ming dynasty. In this groundbreakin...(展开全部)

In 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China’s rude northeastern frontier, overthrew the Ming, Asia’s mightiest rulers, and established the Qing dynasty, which endured to 1912. From this event arises one of Chinese history’s great conundrums: How did a barely literate alien people manage to remain in power for nearly 300 years over a highly cultured popula...(展开全部)

In 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China’s rude northeastern frontier, overthrew the Ming, Asia’s mightiest rulers, and established the Qing dynasty, which endured to 1912. From this event arises one of Chinese history’s great conundrums: How did a barely literate alien people manage to remain in power for nearly 300 years over a highly cultured popula...(展开全部)

The exquisite ceramic ware produced at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory at Jingdezhen in southern China functioned as a kind of visual propaganda for the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) court. Porcelain for the Emperor charts the career of bannerman Tang Ying, a technocrat in the porcelain industry, through the first half of the eighteenth century to uncover the wider role of specia...(展开全部)

Weixing, or “surname guessing,” was a highly organized lottery practice in China wherein money was bet on the surnames of which candidates would pass the civil and military examinations. For centuries, up until 1905, the examination system was the primary means by which the Chinese state selected new officials from all over the empire and a way for commoners to climb the social...(展开全部)

巴里•埃森格林，当今国际学术界最活跃、最富影响力的著名经济学家之一。现任加州大学伯克利分校经济系 George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee 讲座教授，还是美国艺术科学学院院士、美国国家经济研究局（ NBER ）研究员、经济政策研究中心研究员和德国基尔世界经济研究所研究员。在宏观经济史、国际金融货币体系、金融危机理论、亚洲金融市场、外汇制度等领域做出了开创性的学术贡献，其关于金融危机、汇率制度和最优货币区的实证分析等方面的研究在国际学术界产生了非常重要的影响。作为国际经济政策历史（宏观经济史的分支）的学术奠基人，他的《黄金镣铐：金本位和大萧条》已成为国际上研究 “大萧条”的经典之作。此外，他也是国际货币体系演变史研究的奠基人之一。

巴里•埃森格林，当今国际学术界最活跃、最富影响力的著名经济学家之一。现任加州大学伯克利分校经济系 George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee 讲座教授，还是美国艺术科学学院院士、美国国家经济研究局（ NBER ）研究员、经济政策研究中心研究员和德国基尔世界经济研究所研究员。在宏观经济史、国际金融货币体系、金融危机理论、亚洲金融市场、外汇制度等领域做出了开创性的学术贡献，其关于金融危机、汇率制度和最优货币区的实证分析等方面的研究在国际学术界产生了非常重要的影响。作为国际经济政策历史（宏观经济史的分支）的学术奠基人，他的《黄金镣铐：金本位和大萧条》已成为国际上研究 “大萧条”的经典之作。此外，他也是国际货币体系演变史研究的奠基人之一。

Ocean Vuong returns with a big-hearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Gr...(展开全部)

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