Ten Thousand Things explores the many forms of life, or, in ancient Chinese parlance "the ten thousand things" that life is and is becoming, in contemporary Beijing and beyond. Coauthored by an American anthropologist and a Chinese philosopher, the book examines the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good life, practice the embodied arts of...(展开全部)

雷德侯 1942年12月7日出生于慕尼黑。 1961-1969年在科隆、波恩、巴黎、台北、海德堡等地学习东亚艺术、欧洲艺术、汉学、日本学。 1969年以《清代的篆书》论文获海德堡大学东亚艺术史博士，随后至美国普林斯顿大学、哈佛大学修学。 1975-1976年供职于柏林国立博物馆、东亚艺术博物馆，1976年在科隆大学任教授，同年执教于海德堡大学东亚艺术史系，任系主任兼艺术史研究所所长，1978年任哲学历史学院院长。 雷德侯还是德国东方学会会长、柏林学术院院士、德意志考古研究所通讯员、海德堡学术院院士、英国学术院通讯院士。曾任剑桥、芝加哥、台湾大学客座教授或特约研究员。 其主持的展览有紫禁城的珍宝、兵马俑大军，日本与欧洲，中国明清绘画等。著《米蒂与中国书法的古典传统》、《兰与石——柏林东亚艺术博物馆藏中国...(展开全部)

Chinese workers in the third century b.c. created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century a.d., Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, China exported more than a hundred million pieces of porcelain to ...(展开全部)

哈德森的这部处女秀小说描写张力十足、调子哀婉凄凉，通过直白的音乐场面描写和爱滋病刚刚肆虐时期的追述，让读者和她一起追踪着一群朋友、恋人、父母和他们孩子的生活轨迹。作者深入探究了她笔下人物的生活，记述了他们每个人彼此之间长久且割不断的联系，还有他们和周遭的事物的某种反应和关系，以及80年代虽然黑暗但是具有启示意义的那段时光。

哈德森的这部处女秀小说描写张力十足、调子哀婉凄凉，通过直白的音乐场面描写和爱滋病刚刚肆虐时期的追述，让读者和她一起追踪着一群朋友、恋人、父母和他们孩子的生活轨迹。作者深入探究了她笔下人物的生活，记述了他们每个人彼此之间长久且割不断的联系，还有他们和周遭的事物的某种反应和关系，以及80年代虽然黑暗但是具有启示意义的那段时光。

In the 1990s, as China continues to embrace—and grapple with—the global market economy, Qiu Shui and his friends attend med school, an ambition that has more to do with getting out of the country than with actually becoming doctors. Following the exploits of a young student and his classmates, from drinking binges, sex, and playing video games all night to military training, ho...(展开全部)

Né en 1960 à Hangzhou (Zhejiang) Yu Hua a commencé à écrire en 1983. Ont été traduits en français : Vivre ! (le livre de poche, 1994 ; Babel n° 880). porté à l'écran par Zhang Yi-mou et primé au Festival de Cannes en 1994, Un monde évanoui (Philippe Picquier, 1994) ; et, chez Actes Sud. Le Vendeur de sang (1997: Babel n° 748), Un amour classique (2000: Babel n° 955), Cris dans ...(展开全部)

美国驻日本前大使格鲁的驻日本工作日记。

The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated p...(展开全部)

This book began as a list designer Stefan Sagmeister made in his diary under the title Things I have learned in my life so far , which includes statements such as "Worrying solves nothing" and "Trying to look good limits my life." The list reveals something that is profoundly true: Although human beings have been pursuing happiness for countless generations, it is not so easil...(展开全部)