http://www.cambridge.org/cn/academic/subjects/history/east-asian-history/reunification-china-peace-through-war-under-song-dynasty The Song dynasty (960–1279) has been characterized by its pre-eminent civil culture and military weakness. This groundbreaking work dem onstrates that the civil dominance of the eleventh century was the product of a half-century of continuous warfare...(展开全部)

http://www.cambridge.org/cn/academic/subjects/history/east-asian-history/reunification-china-peace-through-war-under-song-dynasty The Song dynasty (960–1279) has been characterized by its pre-eminent civil culture and military weakness. This groundbreaking work dem onstrates that the civil dominance of the eleventh century was the product of a half-century of continuous warfare...(展开全部)

"The Peace War" is quintessential hard-science adventure. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing governmental installations and military bases in bobbles, the Authority becomes virtually omnipotent. But they've never caught Paul Hoehler...(展开全部)

"The Peace War" is quintessential hard-science adventure. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing governmental installations and military bases in bobbles, the Authority becomes virtually omnipotent. But they've never caught Paul Hoehler...(展开全部)

Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defence of British national honour, and cultural conflicts between ‘progressive’ Britain and ‘backward’ China. Instead, it argues that the war was started by a group of British merchants in the Chinese port of Canton in t...(展开全部)

Despite China's long tradition of venerating the past as the ultimate source of cultural authority, the discourse of antiquity prior to the Song period (960-1279) demonstrated little concern for ancient objects. With a focus on physical artifacts of the past, Song intellectuals began a new discipline, "the study of bronze and stone" (jinshixue), that generated collections of it...(展开全部)

Product Description from Amazon.com This collection is the first comprehensive treatment of the song lyric (tz'u) in China from its origins through the nineteenth century. Engaging issues of form, language, voice, and transmission, these essays explore the changing and frequently problematic situation of the tz'u over centuries of literary production. They articulate the common...(展开全部)

杜希德（1925—2006），英国汉学家、历史学家，主要研究中国隋唐史，历任英国剑桥大学第六任汉学讲座教授和美国普林斯顿大学胡应湘汉学讲座教授，1967年被选为英国学术院院士。与美国哈佛大学学者费正清共同主编《剑桥中国史》。