哈里•狄金森，爱丁堡大学荣休教授、荣誉院士，自1980-2006年一直担任理查德•洛奇英国史讲席教授；曾经担任爱丁堡大学历史学系主任，爱丁堡大学研究生委员会主席。他是英国高等教育学会会员，两次担任英国皇家历史学会副主席（Vice-President）以及英国历史学会常务副主席，英国艺术和人文研究委员会历史研究组主席。研究领域是18世纪英国政治史，主要关注议会政治、大众政治和政治思想史，也研究这一时期的军事和海军史。其代表作有：《英国激进主义与法国大革命1789-1815》（British Radicalism and the French Revolution 1789-1815）、《沃尔波尔与辉格党的优势》（Walpole and the Whig Supremacy, London, 1973)）、《财产与自由》（Liberty and Prop...(展开全部)

What the British 'knew' about China changed fundamentally in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. During this period, China became a key focus of British commercial and missionary interests, creating urgent demand for new knowledge about the country. This change in British understanding of and views about Chinese language, culture, politics and economy has typica...(展开全部)

What the British 'knew' about China changed fundamentally in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. During this period, China became a key focus of British commercial and missionary interests, creating urgent demand for new knowledge about the country. This change in British understanding of and views about Chinese language, culture, politics and economy has typica...(展开全部)

Paul R. Katz has composed a fascinating account of the fate of Chinese religions during the modern era by assessing mutations of communal religious life, innovative forms of religious publishing, and the religious practices of modern Chinese elites traditionally considered models of secular modernity. The author offers a rare look at the monumental changes that have affected mo...(展开全部)

康豹 (Paul R. Katz) 美國普林斯頓大學東亞系博士，曾經在國立中正大學與國立中央大學擔任過副教授和教授。目前為中央研究院近代史研究所特聘研究員，並擔任蔣經國國際學術交流基金會研究室主任。他的研究主要集中在近代中國和台灣的宗教社會史，以跨學科的方法綜合歷史文獻和田野調查。 於碩士班修業期間，習得民間文學研究的理論與方法，並曾在2011～2013年間參與「花蓮地區地方風物傳說采集與考察」國科會（今科技部）專題計畫，透過實地田野調查及親身訪談，深刻體認到流傳於臺灣民間的傳說故事，皆蘊含著人民的智慧與情感，遂決定於熟悉的家鄉進行民間文學研究。

Paul R. Katz has composed a fascinating account of the fate of Chinese religions during the modern era by assessing mutations of communal religious life, innovative forms of religious publishing, and the religious practices of modern Chinese elites traditionally considered models of secular modernity. The author offers a rare look at the monumental changes that have affected mo...(展开全部)

康豹 (Paul R. Katz) 美國普林斯頓大學東亞系博士，曾經在國立中正大學與國立中央大學擔任過副教授和教授。目前為中央研究院近代史研究所特聘研究員，並擔任蔣經國國際學術交流基金會研究室主任。他的研究主要集中在近代中國和台灣的宗教社會史，以跨學科的方法綜合歷史文獻和田野調查。 於碩士班修業期間，習得民間文學研究的理論與方法，並曾在2011～2013年間參與「花蓮地區地方風物傳說采集與考察」國科會（今科技部）專題計畫，透過實地田野調查及親身訪談，深刻體認到流傳於臺灣民間的傳說故事，皆蘊含著人民的智慧與情感，遂決定於熟悉的家鄉進行民間文學研究。

Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defence of British national honour, and cultural conflicts between ‘progressive’ Britain and ‘backward’ China. Instead, it argues that the war was started by a group of British merchants in the Chinese port of Canton in t...(展开全部)

Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexuality in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters and Montesquieu’s Lettres persa...(展开全部)