Among the large caches of private documents discovered and collected in China, few rival the Huizhou sources for the insight they provide into Chinese local society and economy over the past millennium. Having spent decades researching these exceptionally rich sources, Joseph P. McDermott presents in two volumes his findings about the major social and economic changes in this i...(展开全部)

This volume is written for anyone who has wondered about the growth of Chinese businesses and their relation to Chinese family and government institutions. Making full use of its partner volume's findings on village institutions in the southern prefecture of Huizhou, this volume explains how late imperial China's key regional group of merchants emerged from this prefecture's vi...(展开全部)

The Mongol conquest of north China between 1211 and 1234 inflicted terrible wartime destruction, wiping out more than one-third of the population and dismantling the existing social order. In the Wake of the Mongols recounts the riveting story of how northern Chinese men and women adapted to these trying circumstances and interacted with their alien Mongol conquerors to create ...(展开全部)

迈克尔·麦尔（Michael Meyer） 毕业于加州大学伯克利分校，目前在美国匹兹堡大学和香港大学教授纪实文学写作。1995年作为美国“和平队”志愿者首次来到中国，在四川省一座小城市培训英语教师。1997年他搬到北京居住了十年，并在清华大学学习中文。他的文章多次在《纽约时报》《时代周刊》《金融时报》《华尔街日报》等诸多媒体上发表。曾获得多个写作奖项，其中包括古根海姆奖（Guggenheim）、纽约市公共图书馆奖（New York Public Library）、怀廷奖（Whiting）和洛克菲勒·白拉及尔奖（Rockefeller Bellagio）。主要作品有《再会，老北京》《东北游记》。

迈克尔·麦尔（Michael Meyer） 毕业于加州大学伯克利分校，目前在美国匹兹堡大学和香港大学教授纪实文学写作。1995年作为美国“和平队”志愿者首次来到中国，在四川省一座小城市培训英语教师。1997年他搬到北京居住了十年，并在清华大学学习中文。他的文章多次在《纽约时报》《时代周刊》《金融时报》《华尔街日报》等诸多媒体上发表。曾获得多个写作奖项，其中包括古根海姆奖（Guggenheim）、纽约市公共图书馆奖（New York Public Library）、怀廷奖（Whiting）和洛克菲勒·白拉及尔奖（Rockefeller Bellagio）。主要作品有《再会，老北京》《东北游记》。

This book presents a new perspective on attempts by the contemporary Chinese government to transform the diverse conditions found in countless rural villages into what the state’s social welfare program deems “socialist new villages.” Lili Lai argues that an ethnographic focus on the specifics of village life can help destabilize China’s persistent rural-urban divide and help c...(展开全部)

This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China t...(展开全部)

There were over a thousand counties and prefectures in late imperial China; each loomed large in the hearts and minds of the local natives, and had a history of its own. The Order of Places tells a story of how these places were ordered by the long-lived imperial state, and then re-ordered during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries as geographical mobility increased. At ...(展开全部)