【作者简介】 蔡九迪（Judith T. Zeitlin），1988年获得哈佛大学博士学位，现任芝加哥大学东亚语言文明系讲座教授，主要研究方向为明清文学、戏剧和视觉文化。著有《异史氏：蒲松龄与中国文言小说》《芳魂：明末清初中国文学中的女鬼与性别》《蔡九迪自选集》等。目前，正与中国作曲家合作创作《聊斋》题材歌剧，并计划开展《聊斋志异》全书的英译工作。 【译者简介】 任增强，文学博士，山东大学儒学高等研究院副教授，国家重点文化工程“全球汉籍合璧工程”研究编编辑室主任，兼任文化与旅游部–北京语言大学共建“中国文化对外翻译与传播研究中心”研究员，全国高校海外汉学研究学会理事，主要研究方向为海外汉学与汉籍。出版著作有《英美聊斋学研究》和《中国文化概要》（英文版）。围绕汉学与汉籍发表论文多篇，部分文章被《新华文摘》《中国社会科学文摘》以及人大复印资料等摘编转载。...(展开全部)

This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.

This book provides a clear and wide-ranging overview of consumption as a sociological concept. Arguing that consumption is both an unavoidable part of life and an ongoing dialectical process, it gives a critical assessment of a range of theoretical approaches to the study of consumption and the possibilities these frameworks can offer. Consumption is something we all do. It is ...(展开全部)

This book provides a clear and wide-ranging overview of consumption as a sociological concept. Arguing that consumption is both an unavoidable part of life and an ongoing dialectical process, it gives a critical assessment of a range of theoretical approaches to the study of consumption and the possibilities these frameworks can offer. Consumption is something we all do. It is ...(展开全部)

‘All we have are stories.’ In the city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures — with their greenish stomachs or gills or strange birthmarks — live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness, some with ancient forbears, others engineered as artificial breeds. Guided – and often misguided – by her elusiv...(展开全部)

‘All we have are stories.’ In the city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures — with their greenish stomachs or gills or strange birthmarks — live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness, some with ancient forbears, others engineered as artificial breeds. Guided – and often misguided – by her elusiv...(展开全部)