During the early communist period of the 1950s, temple fairs in China were both suppressed and secularized. Temples were closed down by the secular regime and their activities classified as feudal superstition and this process only intensified during the Cultural Revolution when even the surviving secular fairs, devoted exclusively to trade with no religious content of any kind...(展开全部)

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has vastly expanded its urbanization processes in an effort to reduce the inequalities between urban and rural areas. Centered on the mountainous region of Chongqing, which serves as an experimental site for the country’s new urban development policies, The End of the Village analyzes the radical expansion of urbanization a...(展开全部)

"The Sea of Fertility is a literary legacy on the scale of Proust's" National Review The story of one man's obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment, The Temple of Dawn powerfully dramatises the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the post-war era. Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Ba...(展开全部)

"The Sea of Fertility is a literary legacy on the scale of Proust's" National Review The story of one man's obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment, The Temple of Dawn powerfully dramatises the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the post-war era. Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Ba...(展开全部)

The Nanputuo Temple in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen has been a cherished site for the worship of the bodhisattva Guanyin for centuries. It was a center of modernizing Buddhism in the early twentieth century and a flagship for the revival of Buddhism after state suppression during the Cultural Revolution. The Space of Religion takes readers inside the Nanputuo Temple ...(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》。

China's rural industrial sector has been the engine driving much of the Chinese economy's dynamism during the reform period. The nature and development of this sector, also referred to as township and village enterprises (TVEs) defy easy explanation. Across regions, there is dramatic variation in property rights among TVEs, ranging from local government ownership to outright pr...(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》。