本书是一本研究流落在海外的中国古代法书名迹的学术专著，由六篇相对独立又相联的论文组成，论述了书法史研究中一些容易被混淆与忽视的问题。

本书是一本研究流落在海外的中国古代法书名迹的学术专著，由六篇相对独立又相联的论文组成，论述了书法史研究中一些容易被混淆与忽视的问题。

夏含夷（Edward L. Shaughnessy），美國芝加哥大學教授，顧立雅（Creel）中國古史名譽教授。研究範圍為中國上古文化史、古文字學、經學、《周易》，主要專著包括《西周史料：銅器銘文》、《易經：馬王堆帛書易經第一英文翻譯》、《孔子之前：中國經典的創造研究》、《溫故知新錄 : 商周文化史管見》、《古史異觀》、《重寫中國古代文獻》、《興與象：中國古代文化史論集》等。

For 1,300 years, Chinese calligraphy was based on the elegant art of Wang Xizhi (AD303-361). But the 17th-century emergence of a style modelled on the rough, broken epigraphs of ancient bronzes and stone artifacts brought a revolution in calligraphic taste. By the 18th century, this led to the formation of the stele school of calligraphy, which continues to shape Chinese callig...(展开全部)

The innovative approach to the study of Kuchean Buddhism presented in this book examines the material remains in order to identify the type of Buddhism practiced in the region, which left its traces in the rock- and surface monasteries. In addition to drawing upon as yet unpublished data from in situ fieldwork, this study also undertakes a detailed reading of the records and ph...(展开全部)

This unusual and interesting book is a fascinating account of the world of Chinese writing. It examines Chinese space and the political and social use of writing as propaganda, a publicity booster and as a ladder for social climbing.

This unusual and interesting book is a fascinating account of the world of Chinese writing. It examines Chinese space and the political and social use of writing as propaganda, a publicity booster and as a ladder for social climbing.

Yang Lien-sheng The first fulltime Chinese historian in the Department of Far Eastern Languages, Yang Lien-sheng 楊聯陞 (1914-1990) was born in Baoding, Hubei province. He received his undergraduate education at Qinghua University, where he studied economics and completed his thesis under the direction of the historian Chen Yinke. He then came to Harvard University and became on o...(展开全部)