This important study is central to an understanding of the organizational heritage with which the process of political modernization began in China. Based on far-ranging research into Chinese primary sources, Thomas Metzger’s study challenges conventional views of Ch’ing despotism and of the Ch’ing bureaucracy as tradition-bound and rigid. The author stresses the flexibility of...(展开全部)

More than 240 rare photographs and drawings highlight this excellent pictorial record and analysis of Chinese architectural history. Based on years of unprecedented field studies by the author, the illustrations depict many of the temples, pagodas, tombs, bridges, and imperial palaces comprising China's architectural heritage. 152 halftones, 94 diagrams.

..."The book, written by one of the main researchers on the field, gives a complete account of the theory of r.e. degrees...The definitions, results and proofs are always clearly motivated and explained before the formal presentation; the proofs are described with remarkable clarity and conciseness. The book is highly recommended to everyone interested in logic. It also provide...(展开全部)

The first part consists of an introduction to the theory of computation and recursive function theory, including definitions of computable functions, Turing machines, partial recursive functions, recursively enumerable sets, the Kleene recursion theorem etc. The second part is a comprehensive study of recursively enumerable sets and their degrees.

A sociological history of literary studies—both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of “English” have been especially acute and long-standing. No scholar has analyzed the discipline’s contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In this much-anticipated new b...(展开全部)

A sociological history of literary studies—both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of “English” have been especially acute and long-standing. No scholar has analyzed the discipline’s contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In this much-anticipated new b...(展开全部)

This book is about the progress, migration, and impact of the Manchu written language. A key characteristic of Manchu is that it could be read by speakers of other languages without those speakers' ever hearing it spoken. This is a book in intellectual history, cultural history, and the history of language.

孔飞力(Philip Alden Kuhn)， 美国著名汉学家。1933年9月9日出生于英国伦敦。1950年，毕业于美国华盛顿特区的威尔逊CWoodraw Wilson)高级中学，同年考入哈佛大学。1959年获得硕士学位。师从费正清教授(John Fairbank)、史华慈教授(Benjanmin Schwartz)学习中国历史。1964年获得了哈佛大学历史与远东语言的博士学位。历任哈佛大学费正清东亚研究中心主任等职。代表著作除本书外还有《叫魂：1768中国妖术大恐慌》（Harvard University Press， Cambridge， Mas.，1990. 中译本由生活·读书·新知三联书店于1999年出版，陈兼、刘昶译）、《现代中国的起源》（Stanford University Press， Stanford， California， 20...(展开全部)

孔飞力(Philip Alden Kuhn)， 美国著名汉学家。1933年9月9日出生于英国伦敦。1950年，毕业于美国华盛顿特区的威尔逊CWoodraw Wilson)高级中学，同年考入哈佛大学。1959年获得硕士学位。师从费正清教授(John Fairbank)、史华慈教授(Benjanmin Schwartz)学习中国历史。1964年获得了哈佛大学历史与远东语言的博士学位。历任哈佛大学费正清东亚研究中心主任等职。代表著作除本书外还有《叫魂：1768中国妖术大恐慌》（Harvard University Press， Cambridge， Mas.，1990. 中译本由生活·读书·新知三联书店于1999年出版，陈兼、刘昶译）、《现代中国的起源》（Stanford University Press， Stanford， California， 20...(展开全部)