Groot（高延），荷兰汉学家和宗教史学家。《中國宗教體系》此書涉及中國宗教體系中的遠古形式、 變革、歷史、現實層面、姿態、風俗以及社會制度。一共有6卷，英文版。 The ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect, manners, customs and social institutions connected with the religious system of China.

中国的经济制度是个奇迹 我的学术生涯潇洒终结 張五常 为高斯的芝大会议提供的《中国的经济制度》一文，是我在学术上的严谨论著中最后的作品了。不会再写。专栏文字还会继续一些日子吧。不少旧文需要整理，三卷本的《经济解释》还要修改，但正规的学术文章──结构慎重、注脚详尽的那种──我是不会再染指的了。七十二岁，还有其它有趣的要做──书法也愈来愈有看头──以《中国的经济制度》终结学术生涯既有意思，也很痛快。 多年来我担心思考能力走下坡自己不知道，写出令人尴尬的学术分析。一些老了的朋友遇到这样的不幸。就算自己得天独厚，跟大自然斗法是斗不过的。《中国》一文是得意之作，向前看，这样水平的学术文章自己无法重复，再向前走，下坡必然，就此终结，仰天大笑，不亦潇洒乎？ 我的《佃农理论》发表于一九六八，《中国的经济制度》二○○八，刚好四十年。加上《佃农》之前的创意争取，是四十三...(展开全部)

In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China, exploring how global climate crisis spelled the end of Ming rule. T...(展开全部)

https://www.routledge.com/The-Hidden-Land-The-Garrison-System-And-the-Ming-Dynasty/Gu/p/book/9780367776770 "The Hidden Land" means that a large amount of land in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) was "hidden" or unknown, since the land was managed by both the administrative and the military systems, and only the former was made public while the latter was being hidden due to confide...(展开全部)

The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the world: the European voyages of exploration were searching not just for new lands but also for new trade routes to the Far East. In this book, Timothy Brook eloquently narrates the changing landscape of life over the three centuries o...(展开全部)

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)

A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.

David Foster Wallace, who is twenty-four years old, is a 1985 graduate of Amherst College. He is currently studying for a MFA at the university of Arizona in Tucson.(物是人非啊……)