Painters of the Great Ming is the most thorough western language book on the Ming painting academy and the Zhe School. For Northern Song court art, see Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Accumulating Culture: the Collections of Emperor Huizong (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008) N5285 .C52 S664 2008. For Southern Song, see Hui-shu Li’s Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynast...(展开全部)

In the twenty-first century, China has emerged as the leading challenger to U.S. global dominance. China is often seen as a sleeping giant, emerging out of poverty, backwardness, and totalitarianism and moving toward modernization. However, history shows that this vast country is not newly awakening, but rather returning to its previous state of world eminence. With this compel...(展开全部)

In China in 2018 over 200 million rural migrants worked away from their hometowns, fuelling the country's rapid economic boom. In the 2010s over sixty-one million rural children had at least one parent who had migrated without them, while nearly half had been left behind by both parents. Rachel Murphy draws on her longitudinal fieldwork in two landlocked provinces to explore th...(展开全部)

https://profilebooks.com/great-state-hb.html China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at the height of their power coul...(展开全部)

孟德卫（David E. Mungello） 美国汉学家。出生于1943年，1973年获得加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校博士学位。现为贝勒大学（Baylor University）历史与亚洲研究教授。 另著有《莱布尼兹和儒学》（Leibniz and Confucianism: The Search for Accord）、《神奇的土地：耶稣会士的调适策略和汉学的起源》(Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology)、《被遗忘的杭州基督徒》（The Forgotten Christians of Hangzhou）、《灵肉之争中的山东（1650-1785）》（The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650–1785）等。

D.E. Mungello is professor of history and director of Asian Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

For too long, the history of contact between China and the West has been portrayed as a one-sided encounter: Europeans were said to have "discovered" China, while Chinese responses to the West went largely unnoticed. In this book, D.E. Mungello dispels the myth that China was a silent partner in the dialogue between Eastern and Western civilizations. Although they did not recip...(展开全部)

The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and fa...(展开全部)