The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women. This was a time when footbinding spread, and Confucian scholars began to insist that it was better for a widow to starve than to remarry. Yet there were also improvements in women's status in marriage and property rights. In this thoroughly original work, one of the most respected scholars of premodern China b...(展开全部)

The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women. This was a time when footbinding spread, and Confucian scholars began to insist that it was better for a widow to starve than to remarry. Yet there were also improvements in women's status in marriage and property rights. In this thoroughly original work, one of the most respected scholars of premodern China b...(展开全部)

In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented in...(展开全部)

"The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism" is a history of ideas about women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow tracks the categories that Chinese intellectuals have developed to think about women and connects these paradigms to transnational debates about eugenics, gender, sexuality, and the psyche. Contending that Chinese feminism has a basis in eugenicist thought, B...(展开全部)

"The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism" is a history of ideas about women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow tracks the categories that Chinese intellectuals have developed to think about women and connects these paradigms to transnational debates about eugenics, gender, sexuality, and the psyche. Contending that Chinese feminism has a basis in eugenicist thought, B...(展开全部)

"The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism" is a history of ideas about women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow tracks the categories that Chinese intellectuals have developed to think about women and connects these paradigms to transnational debates about eugenics, gender, sexuality, and the psyche. Contending that Chinese feminism has a basis in eugenicist thought, B...(展开全部)

"The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism" is a history of ideas about women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow tracks the categories that Chinese intellectuals have developed to think about women and connects these paradigms to transnational debates about eugenics, gender, sexuality, and the psyche. Contending that Chinese feminism has a basis in eugenicist thought, B...(展开全部)

This is volume 13 of the Kuroda Institute's excellent Studies in East Asian Buddhism series. The present volume grew out of the conference "Buddhism in the Sung," hosted by the University of Illinois in April 1996. This volume is the first extended scholarly treatment of Buddhism in the Sung (960-1279) to be published in a Western language. It focuses largely on elite figures, ...(展开全部)

卡洛琳‧艾爾頓（Caroline Elton） 在牛津大學獲得本科學位，之後獲得賓夕法尼亞大學的研究生獎學金，並在倫敦大學學院（UCL）醫學院的學術精神病學系獲得博士學位。她是一名職業心理學家，曾和許多醫生共事。她的第一個角色是在病房、門診和手術室中觀察高級臨床醫生的教學，這是對過時的醫學教育模式提出質疑的舉措之一。後來，她被任命為英國國民健保署「職涯中心」（Careers Unit）負責人，負責支持整個倫敦的實習醫生。她還擔任擴展醫學學位課程的負責人，該課程是英國最大的「擴大參與」（widening participation）醫學學位課程。卡洛琳撰寫了許多文章探討醫生所面臨的問題以及如何提供醫生最好的支持，並經常在英國和國外會議中發表演講。 譯者簡介 林麗雪 臺灣大學政治學系畢業。曾任職國會助理、記者與編輯。喜愛大自然與有生命力的人、事、...(展开全部)

The Social Lives of Chinese Objects is the first anthology of texts to apply Arjun Appadurai’s well-known argument on the social life of things to the discussion of artefacts made in China. The essays in this book look at objects as “things-in-motion,” a status that brings attention to the history of transmissions ensuing after the time and conditions of their production. How d...(展开全部)