黄宗智（Philip C.C.Huang），加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶校区（University of California，Los Angeles）历史系教授（1966—2004年），中国研究中心创办主任（1986～1995年），Modem China创刊编辑（1975年至今）。主要著作有《华北小农经济与社会变迁》、《经验与理论：中国社会、经济与法律的实践历史研究》，以及法律史的三卷本：《清代的法律、社会与文化：民法的表达与实践》、《法典、习俗与司法实践：清代与民国的比较》和《过去和现在：中国民事法律实践的探索》。

黄宗智（Philip C.C.Huang），加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶校区（University of California，Los Angeles）历史系教授（1966—2004年），中国研究中心创办主任（1986～1995年），Modem China创刊编辑（1975年至今）。主要著作有《华北小农经济与社会变迁》、《经验与理论：中国社会、经济与法律的实践历史研究》，以及法律史的三卷本：《清代的法律、社会与文化：民法的表达与实践》、《法典、习俗与司法实践：清代与民国的比较》和《过去和现在：中国民事法律实践的探索》。

Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasizze men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. But this emphasis has left many important gaps in our knowledge of Chinese life. This study seeks to fill some of these gaps by examining the ways rural Taiwanese women manipulate men and each other in the pursuit of their person...(展开全部)

All over the planet, urban growth is taking place in delta and coastal areas. In the Netherlands, there is an inextricable link between hydraulic engineering, urban design, and nation building. To what extent can the Dutch experience serve as a model for other urbanised delta areas? Han Meyer, professor of urbanism at TU Delft, examines how this relationship has emerged and suc...(展开全部)

Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While the sack circulated globally, the plant was cultivated almost exclusively by peasant ...(展开全部)

Focusing on the artistic production and cultural impact of the lower Yangzi River delta, an area known as Jiangnan, this volume features more than 200 objects from Neolithic times through the eighteenth century that range in media from jade, silk, prints, and paintings to porcelain, lacquer, and bamboo carvings. Essays by internationally renowned scholars cover topics such as J...(展开全部)

From Wikipedia: Running in the Family is a fictionalized memoir, written in post-modern style involving aspects of magic realism, by Michael Ondaatje. It deals with his return to his native island of Sri Lanka, also called Ceylon, in the late 1970s. It also deals with his family. Much of the focus falls on his father Mervyn Ondaatje and his scandalous drunken antics. Michael's ...(展开全部)

迈克尔·翁达杰 加拿大小说家、诗人。1943年出生于斯里兰卡科伦坡，十一岁时随母亲移居英国，十九岁移居加拿大，加入加拿大国籍。先后毕业于多伦多大学和皇后大学，曾长期在约克大学教授英语文学。 自1962年出版第一部诗集以来，迈克尔·翁达杰已经出版六部长篇小说、童年回忆录《世代相传》，以及多部诗集、剧本、文学评论集。他也积极参与加拿大独立出版社马车房出版社的诗歌编辑工作。他于1992年出版的小说《英国病人》荣获布克奖，后被导演改编成同名电影，2018年，《英国病人》斩获布克文学奖成立50年来最佳小说的殊荣。其2000年出版的小说《安尼尔的鬼魂》获加拿大吉勒奖、加拿大总督文学奖、法国美第奇奖。2007年出版的小说《遥望》获加拿大总督文学奖。

In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India," Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.

From Wikipedia: Running in the Family is a fictionalized memoir, written in post-modern style involving aspects of magic realism, by Michael Ondaatje. It deals with his return to his native island of Sri Lanka, also called Ceylon, in the late 1970s. It also deals with his family. Much of the focus falls on his father Mervyn Ondaatje and his scandalous drunken antics. Michael's ...(展开全部)