Questions of the nature of understanding and interpretation - hermeneutics - are fundamental in human life, though historically Westerners have tended to consider these questions within a purely Western context. In this comparative study, Zhang Longxi investigates the metaphorical nature of poetic language, highlighting the central figures of reality and meaning in both Eastern...(展开全部)

Questions of the nature of understanding and interpretation—hermeneutics—are fundamental in human life, though historically Westerners have tended to consider these questions within a purely Western context. In this comparative study, Zhang Longxi investigates the metaphorical nature of poetic language, highlighting the central figures of reality and meaning in both Eastern...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2012 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication. The famous 1893 Chicago World’s Fair celebrated the dawn of corporate capitalism and a new Machine Age with an exhibit of the world’s largest engine. Yet the noise was so great, visitors ran out of the Machinery Hall to retreat to the peace and quiet of the Japanese pavilion’s Buddhist temp...(展开全部)

The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia. Traditionally many European historians and theorists have seen the societies of the East as 'static' or 'backward'. Jack Goody challenges these assumptions, beginning with the notion of a special Western rationality which enabled 'us' and not 'them' to modernise. He then turns to book-keeping, which several social and econo...(展开全部)

This title is extracted from Volumes 10, 11, 13, and 18. It includes Commentary on "The Secret of the Golden Flower", Psychological Commentary on "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" and "The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation", Foreword to Suzuki's Introduction to Zen Buddhism, and Foreword to the I Ching.

At the start of the third Christian millennium we are aware of massive political, economic and ideological changes which condition the chances of liberty, wealth and equality. Yet it is surprisingly difficult for us to understand these forces, for we cannot see what surrounds us so closely. This book analyzes our condition by looking at the work of two great thinkers, one of wh...(展开全部)

If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and in...(展开全部)

Step into a world of star-crossed lovers, magical winds, mischievous giants, and trolls, through some of the most exquisite illustrations in publishing history. In this gorgeous reprint, TASCHEN revives the most ambitious publication project of beloved Danish artist Kay Nielsen, one of the most famous children’s book illustrators of all time. First published in 1914, East of th...(展开全部)

周蕾（Rey Chow），出生于香港，在美国斯坦福大学先后获得硕士、博士学位，曾任教于美国明尼苏达大学与布朗大学，现为美国杜克大学 Firor Scott 文学教授，为华裔文化研究领域最重要的学者之一。研究领域为：现代中国文学，当代女性主义理论，中国电影，后殖民理论，文化研究。

周蕾（Rey Chow），出生于香港，在美国斯坦福大学先后获得硕士、博士学位，曾任教于美国明尼苏达大学，现为美国布朗大学Andrew Mellon人文学讲座教授，为华裔文化研究领域最重要的学者之一。研究领域为：现代中国文学，当代女性主义理论，中国电影，后殖民理论，文化研究。