沈艾娣，牛津大学博士。曾任教于哈佛大学，现为牛津大学教授。主要研究方向为华北乡村、地方宗教与社会、清末以降的社会文化等。著有The Making of the Republican Citizen: Ceremonies and Symbols in China, China: Inventing the Nation，及The Missionary’s Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village等。

In this beautifully crafted study of one emblematic life, Harrison addresses large themes in Chinese history while conveying with great immediacy the textures and rhythms of everyday life in the countryside in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Liu Dapeng was a provincial degree-holder who never held government office. Through the story of his family, the author...(展开全部)

明恩溥（Arthur H. Smith，1845-1932） 美国公理会传教士。1872年来华，先后居住于天津、山东等地，兼任《字林西报》通讯员。1905年辞去教职，留居通州写作。著有多种关于中国的书籍，代表作是《中国人的气质》（Chinese Characteristics）。他在华生活近五十年，特别熟悉下层农民的生活，对中国较有感情，是最早建议美国政府退还中国庚子赔款的人，并获得了美国国会通过。本书首版于1899年。他对中国社会的研究深为鲁迅、潘光旦等学人称道。

Until recently, few villagers of rural North China ventured far from their homes. Their intensely local view of the world included knowledge of the immanent sacred realm, which derived from stories of divine revelations, cures, and miracles that circulated among neighboring villages. These stories gave direction to private devotion and served as a source of expert information o...(展开全部)

This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Temple festivals, with their giant processions, elaborate rituals, and operas, were the most important influence on the symbolic universe of ordinary villagers and demonstrate their remarkable capacity for religious and artistic creation. The great festivals described...(展开全部)

This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Temple festivals, with their giant processions, elaborate rituals, and operas, were the most important influence on the symbolic universe of ordinary villagers and demonstrate their remarkable capacity for religious and artistic creation. The great festivals described...(展开全部)

Until recently, few villagers of rural North China ventured far from their homes. Their intensely local view of the world included knowledge of the immanent sacred realm, which derived from stories of divine revelations, cures, and miracles that circulated among neighboring villages. These stories gave direction to private devotion and served as a source of expert information o...(展开全部)

In every story Clyde Clason has written he has woven his mystery around an unusual background of subject, and in this book, he surpassed himself. Nobody but he could so convincingly have woven into a modern American mystery story the strange customs and weird rites of colorful Tibet. Adam Merriweather, a Chicago collector, buys an eighth century sacred Tibetan manuscript. This ...(展开全部)

孟旦 美国密歇根大学哲学及中文荣休教授，并为该校中国文化研究所研究员。曾于2003年在香港中文大学主讲新亚书院钱宾四先生学术文化讲座。孟旦教授的主要著作包括：《早期中国人的观念》、《当代中国人的观念》、《人性的图像：宋代的人物画》等。