美国斯坦福大学人类学系、荷兰内梅亨大学教授，被公认为自施坚雅以后海外中国经济社会史研究的中坚学者、著名人类学者。曾获得美国鲁斯基金会资助。

An outstanding compendium of fourteen papers, almost exclusively based on recent anthropological field research in Hong Kong and Taiwan on the diverse Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist beliefs and practices of the Chinese peasant ... This collection is of great value in explicating the structure of the supernatural world as seen by the Chinese peasant, its similarity to the forma...(展开全部)

作者简介： 杨庆堃（C. K. Yang）（1911-1999），华裔美国社会学家。 第一位从宽广社会学角度来证明中国宗教存在形式、合理性及历史传统的宗教社会学家。原籍广东南海。1932年获燕京大学社会学学士学位，1934年获该校硕士学位。1939年获美国密歇根大学社会学博士学位。先后任纽约商报编辑、华盛顿大学助理教授。回国后，1948年起任岭南大学社会学系副教授兼系主任，并在广州近郊鹭江村从事农村社区的调查工作。1951年再度赴美，任麻省理工学院国际研究中心研究员。1953年任匹兹堡大学社会学系副教授、教授。1970年代在香港中文大学创办社会学系。 编辑推荐： 欧大年：这部著作简直可以被称为研究中国宗教的“圣经”。 弗里德曼：因为杨氏的书，社会学传统在此到达了一个顶峰，他使中国宗教成为一个实体。 赵文词：本书是一部了不起的著作，目前仍未有可与之匹敌...(展开全部)

Taoism and Chinese Religion by Henri Maspero Translated by Frank A. Kierman, Jr. Revised Edition - Quirin Pinyin Updated Editions (QPUE) This book is a translation of Le Taoisme et les Religions Chinoises, which was posthumously published in France in 1971. It is the first English translation of most of the seminal works on Chinese religion of the great sinologist Henri Maspero...(展开全部)

Materializing Magic Power paints a broad picture of the dynamics of popular religion in Taiwan. The first book to explore contemporary Chinese popular religion from its cultural, social, and material perspectives, it analyzes these aspects of religious practice in a unified framework and traces their transformation as adherents move from villages to cities. In this groundbreaki...(展开全部)

The Sichuan region has long been the focus of Terry Kleeman's work. His first book, A God's Own Tale (SUNY Press, 1994), told the story of the development of a local Sichuanese snake spirit into the national god of literature, Wenchang. In the present book, Kleeman addresses a little-known chapter in the history of Sichuan: its independent statehood in the first half of the fou...(展开全部)