This book, full of quantitative evidence and limited-circulation archives, details manufacturing and the beginnings of industrialization in China from 1644 to 1911. It thoroughly examines the interior organization of public craft production and the complementary activities of the private sector. It offers detailed knowledge of shipbuilding and printing. Moreover, it contributes...(展开全部)

For commoners in the Qing dynasty, the most salient agents of the imperial state were not the emperor’s appointed officials but rather the clerks and runners of the county yamen, the lowest level of functionaries in the Qing state’s administrative hierarchy. Yet until now we have known very little about these critically important persons beyond the caricatured portrayals of cor...(展开全部)

For commoners in the Qing dynasty, the most salient agents of the imperial state were not the emperor's appointed officials but rather the clerks and runners of the county yamen, the lowest level of functionaries in the Qing state's administrative hierarchy. Yet until now we have known very little about these critically important persons beyond the caricatured portrayals of cor...(展开全部)

司马富（Richard J.Smith），美国莱斯大学历史系荣休教授。美国加州大学戴维斯分校政治学学士、历史学博士。主要研究领域为清史、中国近代史。 ★译者简介 张安琪，中国人民大学清史研究所博士研究生，美国罗彻斯特大学访问学人，研究方向为近现代中西文化交流史。 荆晨，美国亚利桑那州立大学东亚语言与文明系博士研究生，研究兴趣包括日本近世与近代文学、旅行文学和日本汉学。 康海源，中国人民大学清史研究所硕士毕业，现为出版社编辑。译有《重归一统》，合译有《神武军容耀天威：明代皇室的尚武风习与展现》。

Opportunity in Crisis explores the history of late Qing Cantonese migration along the West River basin during war and reconstruction and the impact of those developments on the relationship between state and local elites on the Guangxi frontier. By situating Cantonese upriver and overseas migration within the same framework, Steven Miles reconceives the late Qing as an age of C...(展开全部)

This volume surveys the highly influential Arts and Crafts design movement--which embraced architecture, furniture, glass, ceramics, metalwork, textiles and books--in Britain, America and Europe. Although the styles adopted by the movement were diverse, its leading architects, artists and craft-designers, including William Morris, Frank Lloyd Wright, Josef Hoffman and Eliel Saa...(展开全部)

Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state. This examination of case records and law codes traces the legal meanings and social and political contexts of small-time swindles that were punished as grave political transgressions.

赵世瑜，1959年生，北京师范大学历史学硕士、文学博士。现为历史系教授、博士生导师。主要著作有《清皇父摄政王多尔衮全传》（合著）、《吏与中国传统社会》、《眼光向下的革命》及译著《欧洲史学新方向》等。重点研究16世纪以来的基层社会与民间文化。

"In a sweeping overview of four centuries of Mongolian history that draws on previously untapped sources, Johan Elverskog opens up totally new perspectives on some of the most urgent questions historians have recently raised about the role of Buddhism in the constitution of the Qing empire. Theoretically informed and strongly comparative in approach, Elverskog’s work tells a fa...(展开全部)

These essays examine the relation of society and the state or, more broadly, the place of political action in society and in the history of Sung China. Connections between intellectual change and sociopolitical change are a consistent focus; attitudes toward history and problems of authority are a recurrent concern. The authors suggest new kinds of continuity between the dispar...(展开全部)