The classic Chinese novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) tells the story of a band of outlaws in twelfth-century China and their insurrection against the corrupt imperial court. Imported into Japan in the early seventeenth century, it became a ubiquitous source of inspiration for translations, adaptations, parodies, and illustrated woodblock prints. There may be no work of Chi...(展开全部)

本書檢視早期近代中國印刷品的世界，並聚焦於經典古典小說《 #水滸傳 》。根據讀者遇到的版本差異，《水滸傳》可能提供相當不同的閱讀體驗，此現象亦反映早期近代中國小說體裁，與當時 #印刷 文化變遷的特色。 葛思平主張理解傳統小說的最佳方式，就是將其視為印刷業的一種現象。他追索這種特具影響力的小說，在近代早期如何被改寫與改動，因為它跨越了菁英與大眾、私人與商業、以及民間與武林的界線。撇開那些難有答案的，關於作者身份與原典的種種問題，葛思平轉而關注透過印行自有版本來塑造小說的編輯-出版商們。藉由研究小說的各種化身，《紙上的嘯聚：水滸傳與中國小說的變革》（Bandits in Print: "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel）揭示印刷品不僅是穩定文學文本的力量，在特定的...(展开全部)

本書檢視早期近代中國印刷品的世界，並聚焦於經典古典小說《 #水滸傳 》。根據讀者遇到的版本差異，《水滸傳》可能提供相當不同的閱讀體驗，此現象亦反映早期近代中國小說體裁，與當時 #印刷 文化變遷的特色。 葛思平主張理解傳統小說的最佳方式，就是將其視為印刷業的一種現象。他追索這種特具影響力的小說，在近代早期如何被改寫與改動，因為它跨越了菁英與大眾、私人與商業、以及民間與武林的界線。撇開那些難有答案的，關於作者身份與原典的種種問題，葛思平轉而關注透過印行自有版本來塑造小說的編輯-出版商們。藉由研究小說的各種化身，《紙上的嘯聚：水滸傳與中國小說的變革》（Bandits in Print: "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel）揭示印刷品不僅是穩定文學文本的力量，在特定的...(展开全部)

Until 1898, Chinese and foreign scholars agreed that China had never known, needed, or desired a field of study similar in scope and purpose to European logic. Less than a decade later, Chinese literati claimed that the discipline had been part of the empires learned heritage for more than two millennia. This book analyzes the conceptual, ideological, and institutional transfor...(展开全部)

This brilliant new book explores how, over the last 250 years, the German people have shaped their natural environment and how the landscapes they created took a powerful hold on the German imagination. Beginning in the 1740s with Frederick the Great of Prussia, who regarded the reclamation of marshland as ‘conquests from barbarism’, we meet Johann Gottfried Tulla, ‘the man who...(展开全部)

Majestic and lyrically written, The Conquest of Nature traces the rise of Germany through the development of water and landscape. David Blackbourn begins his morality tale in the mid-1700s, with the epic story of Frederick the Great, who attempted by importing the great scientific minds of the West and by harnessing the power of his army to transform the uninhabitable marshland...(展开全部)

This brilliant new book explores how, over the last 250 years, the German people have shaped their natural environment and how the landscapes they created took a powerful hold on the German imagination. It investigates how the most fundamental element - water - was 'conquered' by draining fens and marshes, straightening the courses of rivers, building high dams and exploiting h...(展开全部)

A monumental, integrated view of man's search for an understanding of the inner reaches of the mind.

A monumental, integrated view of man's search for an understanding of the inner reaches of the mind.

Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Karen Wigen's interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early modern Japan. Her focus, the Ina Valley, served as a gateway to the mountainous interior of central Japan. Using methods drawn from historical geography and economic development, Wig...(展开全部)