In the Later Han period the region covered by the modern provinces of Gansu, southern Ningxia, eastern Qinghai, northern Sichuan, and western Shaanxi, was a porous frontier zone between the Chinese regimes and their inner Asian neighbours, not fully incorporated into the Chinese realm until the first century BCE. Not surprisingly the region had a large concentration of men of m...(展开全部)

In the Later Han period the region covered by the modern provinces of Gansu, southern Ningxia, eastern Qinghai, northern Sichuan, and western Shaanxi, was a porous frontier zone between the Chinese regimes and their inner Asian neighbours, not fully incorporated into the Chinese realm until the first century BCE. Not surprisingly the region had a large concentration of men of m...(展开全部)

《剑桥中国秦汉史》（1986年出版，1992年出版中译本）第三章《王莽，汉之中兴，后汉》由毕汉思执笔，主要应用了他自己《汉代的中兴》四卷本（Hans Bielenstein《The Restoration of the Han Dynasty, with Prolegomena on the Historiography of the Hou Han Shu》）的成果，四卷本分别出版于1954，1959，1967，1979，其中第一卷由博士论文改编而成，主要分两大部分，第一部分是对东汉史料的梳理；第二部分切入正题，从王莽改革说起，共分七章，分别是王莽改制、早期叛乱、南阳起事、新市平林下江军、赤眉、王莽败亡，汉代中兴。第四卷实际分成两本书，一是先于1976年出版的《东汉的洛阳》，二是被收入《剑桥文史丛刊》，出版于1980年的《汉代官僚制度》（《The ...(展开全部)

The Opium War of 1839-42, the first military conflict to take place between China and the West, is a subject of enduring interest. Mao Haijian, one of the most distinguished and well-known historians working in China, presents the culmination of more than ten years of research in a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists. Mao examines the Qing part...(展开全部)

The Opium War of 1839-42, the first military conflict to take place between China and the West, is a subject of enduring interest. Mao Haijian, one of the most distinguished and well-known historians working in China, presents the culmination of more than ten years of research in a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists. Mao examines the Qing part...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award The Later Han dynasty, also known as Eastern Han, ruled China for the first two centuries of the Christian era. Comparable in extent and power to the early Roman empire, it dominated east Asia from present-day Vietnam to the Mongolian steppe. Rafe de Crespigny presents here the first full account of this period in Chine...(展开全部)

张磊夫（Rafe de Crespigny），澳大利亚著名汉学家、历史学家。生于1936年，先后就读于英国剑桥大学、澳大利亚国立大学，现为澳大利亚国立大学亚太学院终身讲座教授、澳大利亚国立大学学园行馆荣誉成员，是当代澳大利亚史学界研究中国东汉及魏晋史的先驱，国际汉学研究领域儒莲奖获得者。主要代表作：《国之枭雄：曹操传》（中译本）等。

This book examines the military collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty to a combination of foreign and domestic foes. The Ming’s defeat was a highly surprising development, not least because as recently as in the 1590s the Ming had managed to defeat a Japanese force considered to be perhaps the most formidable of its day when the latter attempted to subjugate Korea en-route to a plan...(展开全部)

This book examines the military collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty to a combination of foreign and domestic foes. The Ming’s defeat was a highly surprising development, not least because as recently as in the 1590s the Ming had managed to defeat a Japanese force considered to be perhaps the most formidable of its day when the latter attempted to subjugate Korea en-route to a plan...(展开全部)

陆威仪（Mark Edward Lewis），1954年生，师从何炳棣，毕业于芝加哥大学。美国著名中国古代史专家，斯坦福大学李国鼎中华文化讲座教授。他的研究关注中国文明的不同方面，尤其擅长从政治和社会层面考察中国问题。著有“哈佛中国史”丛书中前3卷《早期中华帝国：秦与汉》、《分裂的帝国：南北朝》《世界性的帝国：唐朝》，以及《早期中国的写作与权威》《早期中国的空间构造》等。 ---------- 译者简介 张晓东，历史学博士，上海社会科学院历史研究所助理研究员，上海郑和研究中心兼职助理研究员，上海社会科学院“中国现代史”创新型学科团队成员，专攻中国运河史、中国军事史和东亚海洋史、海上丝绸之路问题，以及当前海洋地缘战略问题。著有《汉唐漕运与军事》《汉唐军事史论集》等。 冯世明，苏州大学社会学院历史系讲师，研究方向为汉唐史、中国古代民族史。