An internationally acclaimed expert explains why Chinese-style architecture has remained so consistent for two thousand years, no matter where it is built. For the last two millennia, an overwhelming number of Chinese buildings have been elevated on platforms, supported by pillars, and covered by ceramic-tile roofs. Less obvious features, like the brackets connecting the pillar...(展开全部)

An internationally acclaimed expert explains why Chinese-style architecture has remained so consistent for two thousand years, no matter where it is built. For the last two millennia, an overwhelming number of Chinese buildings have been elevated on platforms, supported by pillars, and covered by ceramic-tile roofs. Less obvious features, like the brackets connecting the pillar...(展开全部)

This lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive and authoritative study of Chinese architecture from Neolithic times through the late nineteenth century. Six of China’s greatest architectural historians have joined with a leading Western scholar to write this book, the first in-depth, collaborative history of Chinese architecture in more than fifty years. Drawing on recent di...(展开全部)

In this interdisciplinary narrative, the never-ending "completion" of China's most important street offers a broad view of the relationship between art and ideology in modern China. Chang'an Avenue, named after China's ancient capital (whose name means "Eternal Peace"), is supremely symbolic. Running east-west through the centuries-old heart of Beijing, it intersects the powerf...(展开全部)

The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a "back door" to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic opportunities for trade explorers. Since the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949 and subsequent political upheavals in China, an unprecedented number of Yunnanese ref...(展开全部)

The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a "back door" to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic opportunities for trade explorers. Since the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949 and subsequent political upheavals in China, an unprecedented number of Yunnanese ref...(展开全部)

Hugo and Nebula Award winner Miles Vorkosigan in all his guises: prodigal son, back-country judge, lover, spy, diplomat (not his strong suit), strategist, scapegoat, mercenary commander, and—always—hero. This volume contains three novellas: The mountains of mourning, Labyrinth, and “The borders of infinity”; in addition to a story framing all three into a plot to court-martial ...(展开全部)

洛伊斯·比约德，1949年生于美国俄亥俄州，是迄今为止获奖最多的女性科幻作家。 比约德九岁起开始阅读科幻小说，浓厚的兴趣一直延续到她的大学时代。成为小说家之前，比约德曾沉迷于生物学，在1985年发表处女作《以物易物》后。很快就凭借中篇小说《悲悼的群山》荣获1989年的星云奖。 比约德的小说文笔流畅，心理活动描写细腻。以不同寻常的人物设置、紧张刺激的情节著称；其代表作“迈尔斯系列”目前已出版到第十四部。 比约德共夺取了五次雨果奖、两次星云奖，其中仅“迈尔斯系列”就获得了四次雨果奖。

Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. In this ambitious exploration, an eminent thinker examines what, exactly, the building blocks of architecture have meant over the centuries and how technology may—or may not—be changing how we think about the...(展开全部)

"Warmly recommended. It is that rare achievement, a lively book which at the same time takes the fullest possible advantage of scholarly knowledge."--Charles C. Gillespie, "New York Times Book Review"