The "phantom heroine"―in particular the fantasy of her resurrection through sex with a living man―is one of the most striking features of traditional Chinese literature. Even today the hypersexual female ghost continues to be a source of fascination in East Asian media, much like the sexually predatory vampire in American and European movies, TV, and novels. But while vampires ...(展开全部)

高居翰（James Cahill），1926年出生于美国加州，曾长期担任加州大学伯克利分校艺术史和研究生院的教授，以及华盛顿弗利尔美术馆中国书画部顾问，他的著作多由在各大学授课时的讲稿修订，或充分利用博物馆资源编纂而成，皆是通过风格分析研究中国绘画史的经典书籍，享有世界范围的学术声誉。

Table of Contents Illustrations Note on Romanization Preface: An Invitation to Explore the City 1 Introduction: The City in Modern Chinese Cultural History 2 Urban Configurations: Small Town, Ancient Capital, Modern Metropolis 3 Mapping the Ancient Capital of Beijing 4 The Symbolic Triumph of Chinese Tradition in Beijing 5 Reading the Illegible Metropolis of Shanghai 6 Th...(展开全部)

The Dutch are 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. So wrote the English ambassador to the Dutch Republic, Sir William Temple, in 1673. Maarten Prak offers a lively and innovative history of the Dutch Golden Age, charting its political, social, economic and cultural history through chapters that range from the introduction of the tulip ...(展开全部)

Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that there is a massive amount of historical evidence on the subject. China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gender and sexuality among its subjects than any other pre-modern state. How did these and other late imperial legacies shape twentieth-ce...(展开全部)

潘吉星，我国著名科学技术史专家，早在青年时代，他在中国科学技术史领域的研究，就获得了李约瑟博士的赞誉。目前，潘吉星先生任中国科学院自然科学史研究所研究员、国家古籍整理出版规划小组成员、国际科学史研究院通讯院士、中国科技大学研究生院兼职导师等职；历任英国剑桥大学罗宾逊学院客座研究员、美国宾夕法尼亚大学文理学院客座教授、日本国京都大学人文科学研究所客座教授及同志社大学新岛讲座教授。潘吉星先生用中外文发表学术专著17部、论文170余篇，如《中国造纸技术史稿》、《天工开物校注与研究》、《中外科学之交流》、《中国造纸印刷技术史》等，主编《李约瑟文集》。曾获中国图书荣誉奖1项、中国科学史优秀图书一等奖3项、国家首届古籍整理图书二等奖1项、中国优秀社会科学图书二等奖1项，以及各种省部级奖近10项。

Do all cultures and historical periods have a concept corresponding to the English word emotion? This collection of essays is concerned with the closest candidate within the Chinese language, namely the term qíng. What is the meaning of this term in different periods and genres? What are the types of discourse in which it is typically found? This volume contains two essays on t...(展开全部)