On July 19, 1048, the Yellow River breached its banks, drastically changing its course across the Hebei Plain and turning it into a delta where the river sought a path out to the ocean. This dramatic shift of forces in the natural world resulted from political deliberation and hydraulic engineering of the imperial state of the Northern Song Dynasty. It created 80 years of socia...(展开全部)

戴维·艾伦·佩兹(David Allen Pietz)华盛顿州立大学副教授，1998年获华盛顿大学博士学位，有着丰富的中国访学与研究经历。1993年、1994年夏在南京大学做访问学者，与中国社会科学院、中国水利研究院、黄河保护委员会等合作研究过中国水资源方面的项目。佩兹主要研究中国经济与环境发展史，重要学术成果有专著《工程国家：民国时期(1927—1937)的淮河治理及国家建设》(2002)，合著《中华人民共和国的国家体制与经济发展》(2000)，论文《中国2010年前的石油与天然气需求》(2000)、《中国的石油储备战略：现状与未来发展方向》(2002)、《中国的能源危机》(2008)等。

Society and the Supernatural in Song China is at once a meticulous examination of spirit-possession and exorcism in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a social history of the full panoply of China's religious practices and practitioners at the moment when she was poised to dominate the world economy. Although the Song dynasty (960-1276) is often identified with the establ...(展开全部)

Society and the Supernatural in Song China is at once a meticulous examination of spirit-possession and exorcism in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a social history of the full panoply of China's religious practices and practitioners at the moment when she was poised to dominate the world economy. Although the Song dynasty (960-1276) is often identified with the establ...(展开全部)

Mi Fu, one of the most celebrated figures in the history of Chinese art, was a prominent calligrapher in eleventh-century China. A member of the educated elite, or literati, he also contributed a great deal to discussions of theoretical issues of function and style in calligraphy, the primary means of graphic expression for the literati. In this book Peter Sturman examines Mi F...(展开全部)

Mi Fu, one of the most celebrated figures in the history of Chinese art, was a prominent calligrapher in eleventh-century China. A member of the educated elite, or literati, he also contributed a great deal to discussions of theoretical issues of function and style in calligraphy, the primary means of graphic expression for the literati. In this book Peter Sturman examines Mi F...(展开全部)

格里德尔（J.B.Grieder），中文名贾祖麟，哈佛大学博士，美国著名中国研究学者费正清和史华慈的学生，布朗大学历史系教授（现已退休）。专长研究中国知识分子史，主要著作有《胡适与中国的文艺复兴》及《知识分子与现代中国》等。

戴维·艾伦·佩兹(David Allen Pietz)华盛顿州立大学副教授，1998年获华盛顿大学博士学位，有着丰富的中国访学与研究经历。1993年、1994年夏在南京大学做访问学者，与中国社会科学院、中国水利研究院、黄河保护委员会等合作研究过中国水资源方面的项目。佩兹主要研究中国经济与环境发展史，重要学术成果有专著《工程国家：民国时期(1927—1937)的淮河治理及国家建设》(2002)，合著《中华人民共和国的国家体制与经济发展》(2000)，论文《中国2010年前的石油与天然气需求》(2000)、《中国的石油储备战略：现状与未来发展方向》(2002)、《中国的能源危机》(2008)等。

The Unsettled Plain studies agrarian life in the Ottoman Empire to understand the making of the modern world. Over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the environmental transformation of the Ottoman countryside became intertwined with migration and displacement. Muslim refugees, mountain nomads, families deported in the Armenian Genocide, and season...(展开全部)

This is the first book, in English, offering a comprehensive study of Sima Guang's career and thought.Politics and Conservatism in Northern Song China breaks new ground in the study of Northern Song court politics. Additionally, the writing style is lively and engaging. The adeptly translated quotations and the colorful anecdotes illustrate the main analytical points while maki...(展开全部)