The matter of saṃgha-state relations is of central importance to both the political and the religious history of China. The volume The Middle Kingdom and the Dharma Wheel brings together, for the first time, articles relating to this field covering a time span from the early Tang until the Qing dynasty. In order to portray also the remarkable thematic diversity of the field, ea...(展开全部)

理查德·W.布利特（Richard W. Bulliet），哈佛大学历史学与中东研究博士，哥伦比亚大学中东史教授，专长为中东史、伊斯兰社会制度史、技术史等。著有《尼沙普尔贵族：中古伊斯兰社会史研究》《骆驼与轮子》《伊斯兰：从边缘的视角来看》《大地与人：一部全球史》等，并出版过多本小说。 译者简介： 于子轩，北京大学历史学系博士研究生在读，发表过《柔然文小考》等多篇论文，研究方向为北方民族史和内亚史。 戴汭，北京大学历史学系硕士毕业，剑桥大学历史学博士研究生在读，研究方向为中华人民共和国史。

Why, for many centuries, was the wheel abandoned in the Middle East in favor of the camel as a means of transport? This richly illustrated study explains this anomaly. Drawing on archaeology, art, technology, anthropology, linguistics, and camel husbandry, Bulliet explores the implications for the region's economic and social development during the Middle Ages and into modern t...(展开全部)

理查德·W.布利特（Richard W. Bulliet），哈佛大学历史学与中东研究博士，哥伦比亚大学中东史教授，专长为中东史、伊斯兰社会制度史、技术史等。著有《尼沙普尔贵族：中古伊斯兰社会史研究》《骆驼与轮子》《伊斯兰：从边缘的视角来看》《大地与人：一部全球史》等，并出版过多本小说。 译者简介： 于子轩，北京大学历史学系博士研究生在读，发表过《柔然文小考》等多篇论文，研究方向为北方民族史和内亚史。 戴汭，北京大学历史学系硕士毕业，剑桥大学历史学博士研究生在读，研究方向为中华人民共和国史。

理查德·W.布利特（Richard W. Bulliet），哈佛大学历史学与中东研究博士，哥伦比亚大学中东史教授，专长为中东史、伊斯兰社会制度史、技术史等。著有《尼沙普尔贵族：中古伊斯兰社会史研究》《骆驼与轮子》《伊斯兰：从边缘的视角来看》《大地与人：一部全球史》等，并出版过多本小说。 译者简介： 于子轩，北京大学历史学系博士研究生在读，发表过《柔然文小考》等多篇论文，研究方向为北方民族史和内亚史。 戴汭，北京大学历史学系硕士毕业，剑桥大学历史学博士研究生在读，研究方向为中华人民共和国史。

Why, for many centuries, was the wheel abandoned in the Middle East in favor of the camel as a means of transport? This richly illustrated study explains this anomaly. Drawing on archaeology, art, technology, anthropology, linguistics, and camel husbandry, Bulliet explores the implications for the region's economic and social development during the Middle Ages and into modern t...(展开全部)

理查德·W.布利特（Richard W. Bulliet），哈佛大学历史学与中东研究博士，哥伦比亚大学中东史教授，专长为中东史、伊斯兰社会制度史、技术史等。著有《尼沙普尔贵族：中古伊斯兰社会史研究》《骆驼与轮子》《伊斯兰：从边缘的视角来看》《大地与人：一部全球史》等，并出版过多本小说。 译者简介： 于子轩，北京大学历史学系博士研究生在读，发表过《柔然文小考》等多篇论文，研究方向为北方民族史和内亚史。 戴汭，北京大学历史学系硕士毕业，剑桥大学历史学博士研究生在读，研究方向为中华人民共和国史。

This study is a thorough examination of the entire historical scope of the Chinese Buddhist bibliography, including its historical foundations, textual classifications, criteria of authenticity, and collections made by individual catalogers. The need for such a study is urgent, for although references to and even in-depth studies of individual Buddhist catalogs and the data the...(展开全部)

This study is a thorough examination of the entire historical scope of the Chinese Buddhist bibliography, including its historical foundations, textual classifications, criteria of authenticity, and collections made by individual catalogers. The need for such a study is urgent, for although references to and even in-depth studies of individual Buddhist catalogs and the data the...(展开全部)

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as well. In March 2009, Agamben was invited to speak in Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral in the presence of the bishop of Paris and a number of...(展开全部)