One of the most exciting recent developments in the study of Chinese literature has been the rediscovery of an extremely rich and diverse tradition of women's writing of the imperial period (221 BCE -1911 CE). Many of these writings are of considerable literary quality. Others provide us with moving insights into the lives and feelings of a surprisingly diverse group of women l...(展开全部)

魏斐德（Frederic Wakeman，Jr. 1937—2006）美国著名中国研究专家、历史学家、社会活动家，被誉为美国“汉学三杰”之一。曾任美国加州大学伯克利分校历史系哈斯基金教授，美国历史家协会会长、加州大学伯克利分校东亚研究院院长、美国社会科学院院长。除已发表的百余篇学术论文外，其著作还包括《洪业：清朝开国史》《间谍王：戴笠与中国特工》《大门口的陌生人：1839—1861年间华南的社会动乱》《上海警察（1927—1937）》《上海歹土：战时恐怖活动与城市犯罪（1937—1941）》《红星照耀上海城（1942—1952）》《历史与意志：毛泽东思想的哲学透视》等。

魏斐德（Frederic Wakeman，Jr. 1937—2006）美国著名中国研究专家、历史学家、社会活动家，被誉为美国“汉学三杰”之一。曾任美国加州大学伯克利分校历史系哈斯基金教授，美国历史家协会会长、加州大学伯克利分校东亚研究院院长、美国社会科学院院长。除已发表的百余篇学术论文外，其著作还包括《洪业：清朝开国史》《间谍王：戴笠与中国特工》《大门口的陌生人：1839—1861年间华南的社会动乱》《上海警察（1927—1937）》《上海歹土：战时恐怖活动与城市犯罪（1937—1941）》《红星照耀上海城（1942—1952）》《历史与意志：毛泽东思想的哲学透视》等。

This groundbreaking book argues that in the Qin-Han period, there arose in China a regime of textual authority-one that overlapped but did not coincide with imperial authority. Drawing on a wide range of research and theory, Connery makes an original contribution to the analysis of early imperial elite culture, particularly in the fields of literature and linguistics, intellect...(展开全部)

This groundbreaking book argues that in the Qin-Han period, there arose in China a regime of textual authority-one that overlapped but did not coincide with imperial authority. Drawing on a wide range of research and theory, Connery makes an original contribution to the analysis of early imperial elite culture, particularly in the fields of literature and linguistics, intellect...(展开全部)

Alongside the scores of travel books about China written by foreign visitors, Chinese travelers' impressions of their own country rarely appear in translation. This anthology is the only comprehensive collection in English of Chinese travel writing from the first century A.D. through the nineteenth. Early examples of the genre describe sites important for their geography, histo...(展开全部)

This is a collection of original essays which focuses on the causes, meanings and significance of female suicides in Ming and Qing China. It is the first attempt in English-language scholarship to revise earlier views of female self-destruction that had been shaped by the May Fourth Movement and anti-Confucian critiques of Chinese culture, and to consider the matter of female s...(展开全部)