Tian, or Heaven, had multiple meanings in early China. It had been used since the Western Zhou to indicate both the sky and the highest god, and later came to be regarded as a force driving the movement of the cosmos and as a home to deities and imaginary animals. By the Han dynasty, which saw an outpouring of visual materials depicting Heaven, the concept of Heaven encompassed...(展开全部)

As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what "one" is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we understand power as "forming" the subject as well, it provides the very condition of its...(展开全部)

Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student who subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her torm...(展开全部)

[ 日本 ] 川上未映子 出生于大阪，是当代日本文坛极具国际影响力的作家之一，她以诗意的文风及对女性身体的洞察、对伦理道德悖论和现代社会困境的省察而闻名。 出道之前，为偿还家庭债务并筹措弟弟的学费，川上做过酒吧侍应、书店店员等工作。在打工的同时，她开始了自己的音乐生涯。与一家大型唱片公司签约，并搬到了东京。然而，她不能写自己的歌词，专辑的销售情况也不理想，于是她彻底辞职，转而从事文学创作。最初 她是一名博客作者，后来在文学杂志上发表诗歌，正式开始文学创作。作为演员的她曾拿下日本电影旬报最佳新人女演员奖。她对于性别、家庭和女性的坦率思考，为她收获了大量渴望获得理智与独立的女性读者，日点击量高达 20 万次。 川上以诗人的身份在文坛出道，并于 2007 年出版了她的第一部中篇小说《我的自我、我的牙齿和世界》。她的作品曾拿下了日本文坛各大奖项，包括芥川奖（...(展开全部)

Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student who subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her torm...(展开全部)

[ 日本 ] 川上未映子 出生于大阪，是当代日本文坛极具国际影响力的作家之一，她以诗意的文风及对女性身体的洞察、对伦理道德悖论和现代社会困境的省察而闻名。 出道之前，为偿还家庭债务并筹措弟弟的学费，川上做过酒吧侍应、书店店员等工作。在打工的同时，她开始了自己的音乐生涯。与一家大型唱片公司签约，并搬到了东京。然而，她不能写自己的歌词，专辑的销售情况也不理想，于是她彻底辞职，转而从事文学创作。最初 她是一名博客作者，后来在文学杂志上发表诗歌，正式开始文学创作。作为演员的她曾拿下日本电影旬报最佳新人女演员奖。她对于性别、家庭和女性的坦率思考，为她收获了大量渴望获得理智与独立的女性读者，日点击量高达 20 万次。 川上以诗人的身份在文坛出道，并于 2007 年出版了她的第一部中篇小说《我的自我、我的牙齿和世界》。她的作品曾拿下了日本文坛各大奖项，包括芥川奖（...(展开全部)

Psychic Politics is the result of Jane Roberts's search for the rules that govern our inner lives-the links between our daily, subjective experience and the greater Reality that nourishes all of our existence. This is not only her most challenging book, but a very personal investigation in which the sources of dream and myth, and the creative wellsprings of sex and spirituality...(展开全部)

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque—and occasionally so intemperate? John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of...(展开全部)

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque—and occasionally so intemperate? John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of...(展开全部)

Essentially clinical in its approach, Psychic Retreats discusses the problem of patients who are 'stuck' and with whom it is difficult to make meaningful contact. John Steiner, an experienced psychoanalyst, uses new developments in Kleinian theory to explain how this happens. He examines the way object relationships and defences can be organized into complex structures which le...(展开全部)