In this series of lectures on the painters Hsia Kuei (twelfth-thirteenth centuries), Shen Chou (fifteenth-sixteenth centuries), and Shih-t'ao (seventeenth-eighteenth centuries), Richard Edwards explores the special relationship between the self and landscape in Chinese art. These three painters, each important in his own time and deemed a master by later critics, were all conce...(展开全部)

焦大衛 (David K. Jordan) 美國芝加哥大學人類學博士、聖地亞哥加州大學人類學系榮休教授。主要研究範圍包括文化與心理人類學、社會語言學、跨文化宗教研究，尤其是台灣地區的中國民間宗教教派。 歐大年 (Daniel L. Overmyer) 加拿大英屬哥倫比亞大學亞洲研究學系中國研究中心榮休教授。1996至1998年任香港中文大學宗教系講座教授，1997至1998年為該系系主任。主要研究範圍包括中國佛教、民間宗教、明清民間宗教經卷。

焦大衛 (David K. Jordan) 美國芝加哥大學人類學博士、聖地亞哥加州大學人類學系榮休教授。主要研究範圍包括文化與心理人類學、社會語言學、跨文化宗教研究，尤其是台灣地區的中國民間宗教教派。 歐大年 (Daniel L. Overmyer) 加拿大英屬哥倫比亞大學亞洲研究學系中國研究中心榮休教授。1996至1998年任香港中文大學宗教系講座教授，1997至1998年為該系系主任。主要研究範圍包括中國佛教、民間宗教、明清民間宗教經卷。

Establishing a new approach to reading Chinese landscape painting, this work centers around an early key example of scholarly painting, viz. Dream Journey on the Xiao and Xiang Rivers (late 12th century). The author restores the status of Dream Journey as a cultural icon for Confucians, an object of contemplation for aesthetes, an imaginary dream journey for poets, and an incen...(展开全部)

In 1215, the year Khubilai Khan (1215–1294) was born, the Mongols made their first major incursion into North China and initiated a period of extraordinary creativity in the arts that was encouraged by the confluence of many cultures and ethnic groups. This period lasted approximately 150 years and had its greatest flowering in the Yuan dynasty, founded by Khubilai in 1271 and ...(展开全部)

This ground breaking study dispels the common belief that Chinese 'doesn't have words' but instead 'has characters'. Jerome Packard's book provides a comprehensive discussion of the linguistic and cognitive nature of Chinese words. It shows that Chinese, far from being 'morphologically impoverished', has a different morphological system because it selects different 'settings' o...(展开全部)

The past quarter of a century has seen a surge in Chinese syntactic research that has produced a sizeable literature on the analysis of almost every construction in Mandarin Chinese. This guide to Chinese syntax analyses the majority of constructions in Chinese that have featured in theoretical linguistics in the past 25 years, using the authors' own analyses as well as existin...(展开全部)

The past quarter of a century has seen a surge in Chinese syntactic research that has produced a sizeable literature on the analysis of almost every construction in Mandarin Chinese. This guide to Chinese syntax analyses the majority of constructions in Chinese that have featured in theoretical linguistics in the past 25 years, using the authors' own analyses as well as existin...(展开全部)

巫鸿（Wu Hung）早年任职于故宫博物院书画组、金石组，获中央美术学院美术史系硕士。1987年获哈佛大学美术史与人类学双重博士学位，后在该校美术史系任教，1994年获终身教授职位。同年受聘主持芝加哥大学亚洲艺术的教学、研究项目，执“斯德本特殊贡献教授”讲席，2002年建立东亚艺术研究中心并任主任。 其著作《武梁祠：中国古代画像艺术的思想性》获1989年全美亚洲学年会最佳著作奖（李文森奖）；《中国古代美术和建筑中的纪念碑性》获评1996年杰出学术出版物，被列为20世纪90年代最有意义的艺术学著作之一；《重屏：中国绘画中的媒介与表现》获全美最佳美术史著作提名。参与编写《中国绘画三千年》（1997）、《剑桥中国先秦史》（1999）等。多次回国客座讲学，发起“汉唐之间”中国古代美术史、考古学研究系列国际讨论会，并主编三册论文集。 近年致力于中国现当代艺术的...(展开全部)