Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economic stagnation, thrust into the modern world when the western gunboats arrived in the 1840s, by providing an account of the indigenous evolution of the Chinese state. The Magistrate's Tael makes it possible to judge the impact of the West on modern China's development.

Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economic stagnation, thrust into the modern world when the western gunboats arrived in the 1840s, by providing an account of the indigenous evolution of the Chinese state. The Magistrate's Tael makes it possible to judge the impact of the West on modern China's development.

魏丕信（Pierre-Etienne Will），生于1944年，法国著名汉学家。早年攻读欧洲古典文学（拉丁、希腊、法国）和中文，1975年获巴黎大学博士学位，1969年入法国国家高等社会科学研究院任教至今，1991年当选法兰西学院院士。研究范围遍及人口史、灾害史、水利史、荒政史、明清国家与经济的关系、明清官僚制度等，有专著2部及论文50余篇，成就卓著，在国际学界享有盛誉。

作者 | 瞿同祖（1910—2008） 著名社会学家、法学家、历史学家。1939年执教云南大学。1944年执教西南联合大学，历任讲师、副教授、教授；其间撰写出版《中国法律与中国社会》一书，成为学术界的开新之作。1945年春应邀赴美，先后任哥伦比亚大学中国历史研究室研究员、哈佛大学东亚研究中心研究员；出版《清代地方政府》，在西方汉学界产生了相当大的影响。1962年转加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学，任副教授，讲中国通史。1965年回国，待业数年后发回原籍，任省文史馆员。1976年调入中国社科院近代史所。2006年当选为中国社会科学院荣誉学部委员。 著有《中国封建社会》、《中国法律与中国社会》、《清代地方政府》（Local Government in China Under the Ch'ing）、《汉代社会结构》（Han Social Structure）...(展开全部)

This book attempts to describe, analyze, and interpret the structure and functioning of local government at the chou and hsien levels in the Ch'ing dynasty. The chou and hsien were the units of local government that actually carried out administration and dealt directly with the people. An understanding of how they functioned can tell us much about how the populace was ruled in...(展开全部)

Looking beyond the familiar trappings of the cult of female chastity—such as hagiographies of widows and chastity shrines--in late imperial China, this book explores the cult's political significance and practical ramifications in everyday life during the eighteenth century. In the first full-length study of the subject, Janet Theiss examines a vast number of laws, legal cases,...(展开全部)

In Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China, Fei HUANG examines the process of reshaping the landscape of Dongchuan, a remote frontier city in Southwest China in the eighteenth century. Rich copper deposits transformed Dongchuan into one of the key outposts of the Qing dynasty, a nexus of encounters between various groups competing for p...(展开全部)

Looking beyond the familiar trappings of the cult of female chastity—such as hagiographies of widows and chastity shrines--in late imperial China, this book explores the cult's political significance and practical ramifications in everyday life during the eighteenth century. In the first full-length study of the subject, Janet Theiss examines a vast number of laws, legal cases,...(展开全部)

曼素恩获密歇根大学文学士学位、斯坦福大学哲学博士学位。现任戴维斯加州大学历史学教授兼历史系主任。1999―2000年任亚洲研究会主任。其第二部著作《缀珍录》曾获亚洲研究会Levenson（利文森）奖。另与程玉溪联合主编了忡国历史上的性别书写》（伯克利：加利福尼亚大学出版社，2001）、目前正在撰写《张家才女外传》。

Three decades of dizzying change in China's economy and society have left a tangible record of successes and failures. Less readily accessible but of no less consequence is the story, as illuminated in this book, of what China's reform has done to its people as moral and spiritual beings. Jiwei Ci examines the moral crisis in post-Mao China as a mirror of deep contradictions in...(展开全部)