This study is a thorough examination of the entire historical scope of the Chinese Buddhist bibliography, including its historical foundations, textual classifications, criteria of authenticity, and collections made by individual catalogers. The need for such a study is urgent, for although references to and even in-depth studies of individual Buddhist catalogs and the data the...(展开全部)

When Buddhism was introduced into China at about the beginning of the Christian era, the Chinese were captivated at first by its overpowering world view. Consequently, Buddhism in China has usually been discussed in terms of the Indianization of Chinese life and thought, but Kenneth Ch'en shows that as Indian ideas were gaining ground the Chinese were choosing among them and mo...(展开全部)

In Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, D. F. McKenzie shows how the material form of texts crucially determines their meanings. He unifies the principal interests of both critical theory and textual scholarship to demonstrate that, as all works of lasting value are reproduced, re-edited and re-read, they take on different forms and meanings. By witnessing the new needs of ...(展开全部)

A monumental work in the history of religion, the history of the book, the study of politics, and bibliographical research, this volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon from the fourth century to the digital era. Approaching the subject from a historical perspective, it ties the religious, social, and textual practices of canon formation to the development of Ea...(展开全部)

These volumes contain a selection of twenty-one essays presented in a conference convened jointly by the Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient and the Centre for the Study of Religion and Chinese Society of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, on "Religion and Chinese Society: The Transformation of a Field and Its Implications for the Study of Chinese Culture". The collection provid...(展开全部)

The central actors in this book are some reclusive forest-dwelling ascetic meditation masters who have been acclaimed as 'saints' in contemporary Thailand. These saints originally pursued their salvation quest among the isolated villages of the country's periphery, but once recognized as holy men endowed with charisma, they became the radiating centres of a country-wide cult of...(展开全部)

In recent years, China leaders have taken decisive action to transform information, communications, and technology (ICT) into the nation's next pillar industry. In Networking China, Yu Hong offers an overdue examination of that burgeoning sector's political economy. Hong focuses on how the state, in conjunction with market forces and class interests, is constructing and realig...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 于尔根•奥斯特哈默（Jürgen Osterhammel），1952年生，曾在伦敦德国史研究所和弗莱堡大学工作，现为康斯坦茨大学近现代史教授。他出版过大量有关18世纪以来的欧亚历史著作。其作品包括《中国与世界：十八世纪至当代》（获得德国史学家协会奖）《中国革命: 1925年5月30日, 上海》《世界的演变：19世纪史》等。于尔根•奥斯特哈默因其在历史学研究中的卓越成就分别于2010年和2016年获得莱布尼茨奖、汤因比奖。目前，他正在从事2 0世纪的去殖民化史研究，并和入江昭（Akira Iriye）合作主编6卷本《世界史》（A History of the World）。 · 【译者简介】 强朝晖，职业译者，译有《中国冲击》《水的政治》等。 刘风，北京外国语大学德语系毕业，德语同传译员，自由职业翻译，译有《正午的单车》、《完美三月》和《...(展开全部)

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtak...(展开全部)