In the late fifth century, a girl whose name has been forgotten by history was born at the edge of the Chinese empire. By the time of her death, she had transformed herself into Empress Dowager Ling, one of the most powerful politicians of her age and one of the first of many Buddhist women to wield incredible influence in dynastic East Asia. In this book, Stephanie Balkwill do...(展开全部)

Women entered the book trade in significant numbers in China during the late 16th Century, when it became acceptable for women from 'good families' to write poetry and seek to publish their collected poems. At about the same time, a boom in the publication of fiction began, and semi-professional novelists emerged. This study begins with three case studies, each of which probes ...(展开全部)

First published in 1981, The Renewal of Buddhism in China broke new ground in the study of Chinese Buddhism. An interdisciplinary study of a Buddhist master and reformer in late Ming China, it challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height under the Tang dynasty (618–907) and steadily declined afterward. Chün-fang Yü details how in sixteenth-century China...(展开全部)

Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this understudied group of workers and their experiences of being laid off, "counseled," and then reoriented to the market economy. Using fi...(展开全部)

Dr. Jie Yang, Associate Professor of anthropology, received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Toronto in 2006. Dr. Yang’s research is at the intersection of two primary areas: linguistic anthropology and China studies. In the first area, she is interested in the analysis of how power and ideologies are embedded in and work through language and how ideologies interp...(展开全部)

Xiaobo Lü , University of California, Berkeley Changdong Zhang , Peking University, Beijing

赵树凯，1959年11月生，山东莱西人。文学学士（山东大学），法学硕士（中央党校），法学博士（中国人民大学）。研究员，国务院颁发政府特殊津贴专家。中共中央政治局第三十六次集体学习主讲人（2006年11月）。现任国务院发展研究中心信息中心主任。 1982年8月起在中共中央书记处农村政策研究室（国务院农村发展研究中心）工作，任秘书、助理研究员。1990年8月起在国务院发展研究中心工作，任助理研究员、副研究员、研究员，国务院发展研究中心农村部组织研究室主任、中共中央文献编辑委员会《万里文选》编辑组编辑、河北省涿鹿县委副书记、中国发展研究基金会副秘书长、国务院发展研究中心信息中心主任，[1] 兼任中国农村劳动力资源开发研究会秘书长。曾任世界银行和英国国际发展部中国农村发展项目顾问，联合国开发计划署中国农村发展项目顾问，亚洲基金会基层治理项目顾问。1995年获...(展开全部)

高彦颐（Dorothy Ko）美国斯坦福大学国际关系学学士、东亚历史系博士，专攻明清社会史及比较妇女史。曾任教加州大学圣地亚哥分校及新泽西州立罗格斯大学历史及妇女研究系，现为纽约哥伦比亚大学巴纳德分校历史系教授。近作有（步步生莲：绣鞋与缠足文化）（Every Step a Lotus; Shoes for Bound Feet, University of California Press,2001）及（灰姑娘的姐妹：缠足的修正历史）（Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding University of California Press,2005）等书。