An unprecedented passion for saving lives swept through late Ming society, giving rise to charitable institutions that transcended family, class, and religious boundaries. Analyzing lecture transcripts, administrative guidelines, didactic tales, and diaries, Joanna Handlin Smith abandons the facile explanation that charity was a response to poverty and social unrest and examine...(展开全部)

Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in southeastern China, published a series of lavishly illustrated books, which constituted the first multigenre painting manuals in Chinese history. Their popularity was immediate and their contents and format were widely reprinted and disseminated in a number of contemporary publicati...(展开全部)

于君方（Chün-fang Yü） 臺灣東海大學畢業，哥倫比亞大學博士學位。哥倫比亞大學宗教系榮譽退休教授，現為中央研究院院士。多年從事漢傳佛教的研究，包括漢傳佛教思想、制度、儀軌，佛教與社會諸課題，對佛教的漢化、佛教與釋道之間的互動、佛教與性別特別有興趣。 主要著作包括 The Renewal of Buddhism in China: Chu-hung and the Late Ming Synthesis（《漢傳佛教復興——雲棲袾宏及明末融合》）；The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 8, “The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644”（《劍橋中國明代史1368-1644（下卷）》第十四章〈明代佛教〉）；合編Pilgrims and Sacred Sitesin China（《中國進香與朝聖之地》...(展开全部)

Approaching the prison as a creative environment and imprisoned officials as creative subjects in Ming China (1368-1644), Ying Zhang introduces important themes at the intersection of premodern Chinese religion, poetry, and visual and material culture. The Ming is known for its extraordinary cultural and economic accomplishments in the increasingly globalized early modern world...(展开全部)

How did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi explores the myriad ways that families fulfilled their obligations to provide a soldier to the army. The complex strategies they developed to manage their responsibilities suggest a new interpretation of an important period in China's history ...(展开全部)

柯律格（Craig Clunas，1954— ），当代研究中国物质文明史的重要学者，现任英国牛津大学东方研究院艺术史教授。主要著作有《中国艺术》《雅债》和《明代的图像与视觉性》等。

Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy or ‘kings’ – relatives of the emperors – in Ming dynasty China (1368–1644). Through an investigation of their patronage of architecture, calligraphy, painting and other art forms, and through examination of the contents of their splendid and recently excavated tombs, this ...(展开全部)

柯律格（Craig Clunas，1954— ），当代研究中国物质文明史的重要学者，现任英国牛津大学东方研究院艺术史教授。主要著作有《中国艺术》《雅债》和《明代的图像与视觉性》等。

Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy or ‘kings’ – relatives of the emperors – in Ming dynasty China (1368–1644). Through an investigation of their patronage of architecture, calligraphy, painting and other art forms, and through examination of the contents of their splendid and recently excavated tombs, this ...(展开全部)

The last century of China's Ming dynasty (1368-1644) saw many troubles and challenges from abroad. Pirates raided the coast, Europeans challenged the traditional world order of the tribute system, and the everlasting threat from the northern steppe people continued to raise concerns for the state. This climate of uncertainty resulted in many Ming literati discussing foreign cou...(展开全部)