A history of capitalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China and India exploring the competition between their tea industries Tea remains the world's most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, ...(展开全部)

贝剑铭，加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）博士，现为加拿大麦克马斯特大学佛教与东亚宗教教授，麦克马斯特大学佛教研究中心主任，中国中古宗教史学者。已发表关于中国佛教疑伪经、茶和酒等主题的论文，著有Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism（University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007）。 朱慧颖，南开大学历史学博士，文博研究员，现供职于中国茶叶博物馆。多年从事茶史研究与史著翻译，已出版译著《日本史》《麻风：一种疾病的医疗社会史》《十九世纪中国的鼠疫》，参编茶文化书籍《话说中国茶》《中国茶事大典》等。

Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity and popular beverage. The work traces the development of tea drinking from its mythical origins to the nineteenth century and examines the changes in aesthetics, ritual, science, health, and knowledge that tea brought with it. The shif...(展开全部)

Written by one of the most distinguished experts on China’s economic and business history, China and Capitalism provides a highly original and at the same time clear and readable approach to understanding the development of business in China from 1500 to the 1990s. David Faure then uses the picture he has assembled to shed new light on the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese bu...(展开全部)

Written by one of the most distinguished experts on China’s economic and business history, China and Capitalism provides a highly original and at the same time clear and readable approach to understanding the development of business in China from 1500 to the 1990s. David Faure then uses the picture he has assembled to shed new light on the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese bu...(展开全部)

科大卫（David Faure），1947年生，普林斯顿大学社会学博士，现为香港中文大学历史系教授，英国牛津大学圣安东尼学院院士。研究方向包括：华南宗族史、中国商业史、香港史、中国地方史。近年正关注山西、江南以及西江地区的历史发展，同时也继续着商业史的研究。在研究中着意于田野调查，在著作中大量使用口述、碑铭、契约等史料，致力于揭示人们在日常生活中所创造出的社会结构，特别是华南地区自宋代以来的文化与社会变迁。

From its rise in the 1830s to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade was a guiding force in the Chinese political economy. Opium money was inextricably bound up in local, national, and imperial finances, and the people who piloted the trade were integral to the fabric of Chinese society. In this book, Peter Thilly narrates the dangerous lives and shrewd business operations ...(展开全部)

From its rise in the 1830s to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade was a guiding force in the Chinese political economy. Opium money was inextricably bound up in local, national, and imperial finances, and the people who piloted the trade were integral to the fabric of Chinese society. In this book, Peter Thilly narrates the dangerous lives and shrewd business operations ...(展开全部)

This new edition of Burton Stein's classic A History of India builds on the success of the original to provide an updated narrative of the development of Indian society, culture, and politics from 7000 BC to the present. New edition of Burton Stein’s classic text provides a narrative from 7000 BC up to the twenty-first century Includes updated and extended coverage of the moder...(展开全部)

赫尔曼·库尔克 基尔大学亚洲史教授。著有《国王和祭仪：印度和东南亚的国家形成和合法化》（Kings and Cults:State Formation and Legitimation in India and Southeast Asia) (1993）等 迪特玛尔·罗特蒙特 海德堡大学南亚研究所历史学教授和负责人。著有《印度经济史》（An Economic History of India)(1993)和《1929-1939年大萧条的全球影响》（The Global Impact of the Great Depression,1929-1939) (1996)等。