Our relationship with things abounds with paradoxes. People assign value to objects in ways that are often deeply personal or idiosyncratic yet at the same time rooted in specific cultural and historical contexts. How do things become meaningful? How do our connections with the world of things define us? In Ming and Qing China, inquiry into things and their contradictions flour...(展开全部)

Our relationship with things abounds with paradoxes. People assign value to objects in ways that are often deeply personal or idiosyncratic yet at the same time rooted in specific cultural and historical contexts. How do things become meaningful? How do our connections with the world of things define us? In Ming and Qing China, inquiry into things and their contradictions flour...(展开全部)

Our relationship with things abounds with paradoxes. People assign value to objects in ways that are often deeply personal or idiosyncratic yet at the same time rooted in specific cultural and historical contexts. How do things become meaningful? How do our connections with the world of things define us? In Ming and Qing China, inquiry into things and their contradictions flour...(展开全部)

Despite the importance of books and the written word in Chinese society, the history of the book in China is a topic that has been little explored. This pioneering volume of essays, written by historians, art historians, and literary scholars, introduces the major issues in the social and cultural history of the book in late imperial China. Informed by many insights from the ri...(展开全部)

Despite the importance of books and the written word in Chinese society, the history of the book in China is a topic that has been little explored. This pioneering volume of essays, written by historians, art historians, and literary scholars, introduces the major issues in the social and cultural history of the book in late imperial China. Informed by many insights from the ri...(展开全部)

In the West, love occupies center stage in the modern age, whether in art, intellectual life, or the economic life. We may observe a similar development in China, on its own impetus, which has resulted in this characteristic of modernity—this feature of modern life has been securely and unambiguously established, not the least facilitated by the thriving of literature about qin...(展开全部)

罗友枝（Evelyn S. Rawski），匹兹堡大学历史系教授，研究方向为近代东亚和中国近代史，着重于大众史、大众文化和社会礼俗史的研究，著有《中国南方的农业变化与农业经济》《清代中国的教育与大众文化》及《十八世纪的中国社会》(合著)等。 黎安友（Andrew J. Nathan），哥伦比亚大学政治学系教授、东亚研究所主任，研究方向为中国政治与外交政策、比较政治等，著有《中国的民主》《中国政治变迁之路》《长城与空城计：中国寻求安全的战略》等。 姜士彬（David G. Johnson），加州大学伯克利分校中国研究中心教授，早年专注中古中国士族研究，近年关注明清大众文化研究，著有《中古中国的寡头政治》《景观与祭祀：中国北方乡村生活的仪式基础》等。

罗友枝（Evelyn S. Rawski），匹兹堡大学历史系教授，研究方向为近代东亚和中国近代史，着重于大众史、大众文化和社会礼俗史的研究，著有《中国南方的农业变化与农业经济》《清代中国的教育与大众文化》及《十八世纪的中国社会》(合著)等。 黎安友（Andrew J. Nathan），哥伦比亚大学政治学系教授、东亚研究所主任，研究方向为中国政治与外交政策、比较政治等，著有《中国的民主》《中国政治变迁之路》《长城与空城计：中国寻求安全的战略》等。 姜士彬（David G. Johnson），加州大学伯克利分校中国研究中心教授，早年专注中古中国士族研究，近年关注明清大众文化研究，著有《中古中国的寡头政治》《景观与祭祀：中国北方乡村生活的仪式基础》等。

One of the principal purposes of this book is to help bring the study of non-elite culture into the mainstream of academic discourse about traditional China. No one believes that we can understand China by studying only the privileged and the educated. But they produced most of the documents, and so they have received, and still receive, attention from historians far out of pro...(展开全部)

罗友枝（Evelyn S. Rawski），匹兹堡大学历史系教授，研究方向为近代东亚和中国近代史，着重于大众史、大众文化和社会礼俗史的研究，著有《中国南方的农业变化与农业经济》《清代中国的教育与大众文化》及《十八世纪的中国社会》(合著)等。 黎安友（Andrew J. Nathan），哥伦比亚大学政治学系教授、东亚研究所主任，研究方向为中国政治与外交政策、比较政治等，著有《中国的民主》《中国政治变迁之路》《长城与空城计：中国寻求安全的战略》等。 姜士彬（David G. Johnson），加州大学伯克利分校中国研究中心教授，早年专注中古中国士族研究，近年关注明清大众文化研究，著有《中古中国的寡头政治》《景观与祭祀：中国北方乡村生活的仪式基础》等。