Peter van der Veer is director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, and a Distinguished Professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His books include Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain (Princeton) and Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India.

Peter van der Veer is director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, and a Distinguished Professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His books include Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain (Princeton) and Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India.

A collection of papers on the history of Christianity along the Silk Road and in pre-modern China, pushing back the frontier of knowledge in a fast developing new area of research. The diffusion of Christianity along the Silk Road from Iraq and Iran to China in the premodern era has attracted scholarly attention in the West since the discovery of the famous Xian (Nestorian) Mon...(展开全部)

The “Global” and the “Local” in Early Modern and Modern East Asia presents a unique set of historical perspectives by scholars from two important universities in the East Asian region—The University of Tokyo (Tōdai) and Fudan University, along with East Asian Studies scholars from Princeton University. Two of the essays address the international leanings in the histories of the...(展开全部)

The “Global” and the “Local” in Early Modern and Modern East Asia presents a unique set of historical perspectives by scholars from two important universities in the East Asian region—The University of Tokyo (Tōdai) and Fudan University, along with East Asian Studies scholars from Princeton University. Two of the essays address the international leanings in the histories of the...(展开全部)

This pathbreaking study provides the first comprehensive examination of India-China interactions in the broader contexts of Asian and world history. By focusing on material exchanges, transmissions of knowledge and technologies, networks of exchange during the colonial period, and little-known facets of interactions between the Republic of India and the People's Republic of Chi...(展开全部)

余英时，1930年生于天津。1950年至1955年就读于香港新亚书院及新亚研究所，师从钱穆先生。1956年至1961年就读于哈佛大学，师从杨联陞先生，获博士学位。曾任密歇根大学、哈佛大学、耶鲁大学教授，香港新亚书院院长兼中文大学副校长，普林斯顿大学讲座教授。2006年获颁美国国会图书馆克鲁格人文与社会科学终身成就奖、2014年获得第一届唐奖汉学奖。代表作有《朱熹的历史世界》、《方以智晚节考》、《戴震与章学诚》、《士与中国文化》、《论天人之际》等。

為英國約克大學社會學教授，除了消費社會學，亦多有著述針對宗教社會學與社會學理論進行探討。其著作包括《非宗教社會學》（Toward A Sociology of Irreligion）（Macmillan, 1971）、《社會行為的迷思》（The Myth of Social Action）（Cambridge University Press, 1996）、《血拼經驗》（The Shopping Experience）（Sage, 1997：與帕西‧福克（Pasi Falk）同為編者）等等。其他以消費為主題之書目資訊，詳見本書附錄。

為英國約克大學社會學教授，除了消費社會學，亦多有著述針對宗教社會學與社會學理論進行探討。其著作包括《非宗教社會學》（Toward A Sociology of Irreligion）（Macmillan, 1971）、《社會行為的迷思》（The Myth of Social Action）（Cambridge University Press, 1996）、《血拼經驗》（The Shopping Experience）（Sage, 1997：與帕西‧福克（Pasi Falk）同為編者）等等。其他以消費為主題之書目資訊，詳見本書附錄。

為英國約克大學社會學教授，除了消費社會學，亦多有著述針對宗教社會學與社會學理論進行探討。其著作包括《非宗教社會學》（Toward A Sociology of Irreligion）（Macmillan, 1971）、《社會行為的迷思》（The Myth of Social Action）（Cambridge University Press, 1996）、《血拼經驗》（The Shopping Experience）（Sage, 1997：與帕西‧福克（Pasi Falk）同為編者）等等。其他以消費為主題之書目資訊，詳見本書附錄。