Matteo Ricci (1552-1616), an Italian Jesuit, entered China in 1583 to spread Catholicism in the largely Confucian country. In order to make a persuasive argument for the educated Chinese to abandon their traditional faith for the new one he was carrying, Ricci realized that he would have to prove the general superiority of Western culture. He did so by teaching young Confucian ...(展开全部)

夏伯嘉，（R.PO-CHIAHSIA）。美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学Edwin Erle Sparks讲座教授，台湾中研院院士。出生于香港，先后求学于香港、英国、德国和美国，是近代早期欧洲史和中西文化交流史领域的著名学者。已出版专著和编著十余部，其中多部作品被译成中文、日文、意大利文、西班牙文和德文，多个国家授予其学术荣誉。

A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he crossed the cultural divides between China and the West by immersing himself in the language and culture of his hosts. Even 4...(展开全部)

The Jesuit Mission in late Ming China was certainly one of the most fascinating cultureal encounters that has ever occurred in history: the Chinese Ming dynasty and the European Renaissance, two of the most celebrated civilizations of all time.

With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persec...(展开全部)

With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of an entire century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of an ordinary family that somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and...(展开全部)

From the author of Life: A User's Manual (Godine, 1987) comes an equally astonishing novel: W or The Memory of Childhood, a narrative that reflects a great writer's effort to come to terms with his childhood and his part in the Nazi occupation of France. Guaranteed to send shock waves through the literary community, Perec's W tells two parallel stories. The first is autobiogra...(展开全部)

From Fouad Ajami, an acclaimed author and chronicler of Arab politics, comes a compelling account of how a generation of Arab intellectuals tried to introduce cultural renewals in their homelands through the forces of modernity and secularism. Ultimately, they came to face disappointment, exile, and, on occasion, death. Brilliantly weaving together the strands of a tumultuous c...(展开全部)

福阿德·阿贾米（Fouad Ajami）：黎巴嫩裔美国学者、中东问题专家，先后担任过约翰·霍普金斯大学高级国际问题研究院的中东研究所主任、斯坦福大学胡佛研究院高级研究员。著有《阿拉伯人的困境》《贝鲁特：悔恨之都》《消失的伊玛目：穆萨·萨德尔与黎巴嫩的什叶派》等作品。曾获麦克阿瑟天才奖、美国国家人文奖章、富兰克林奖章等荣誉。

From Fouad Ajami, an acclaimed author and chronicler of Arab politics, comes a compelling account of how a generation of Arab intellectuals tried to introduce cultural renewals in their homelands through the forces of modernity and secularism. Ultimately, they came to face disappointment, exile, and, on occasion, death. Brilliantly weaving together the strands of a tumultuous c...(展开全部)