本书为高桥芳郎从事研究工作25年来所发表的有关身分法的论文结集，每篇论文自成一章，又相互联系，在分别解决宋以后身分法若干关键问题的基础上，共同构成了作者对这一时期身分法史的基本理解。书中所收论文曾在日本学界引起过很大反响，获得了学界的高度评价，也曾引起过激烈的讨论。作者致力于采用身分法的观点来研究中国社会，在着重于“法”的层面进行探讨的同时，还大量使用各个时代的笔记、小说、方志等社会史资料，对宋元以来的奴婢、雇佣人、佃仆、佃客、义子孙、雇工人等底层社会的身分特征及其概念内涵详加辨析，生动、全面而立体地剖析了国家统治与社会实态的变革与互动，对于阐明宋元以来中国底层社会的构成及身分法奠定了坚实的基础，为宋元以来社会史、法制史研究者的必读书目。

當中共接管城市，傳統的城市精英遇到農民出身的新統治者，他們如何看待彼此？
隨着1949年軍事勝利，中國共產黨開始了對城市的接管。中共離開熟悉的農村根據地，進入城市陌生的政治文化生態，逐步鞏固政權、恢復經濟、改造機構。而由此啓動的文化轉型，與其政治變化具有同等重要的意義。本書以杭州為中心，詳細分析1949至1954年間中共對接管幹部的準備和訓練，城市政策的制定與對話，以及接管後城市與鄉村、南方與北方、革命與傳統等不同文化的碰撞和互動。在此過程中，革命者改造了傳統城市，城市也改造了農村革命者。革命者這種新的文化認同，對其樹立新政權的合法性、穩定性和現代性，同時保持革命理想，起了決定性的作用。
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「這本書將成為解釋共產黨接管中國城市的一個標本著作。」
─鮑德威（David D. Buck，威斯康辛大學密爾沃基分校歷史系榮休教授）

本书立足于比较文学，主要就《圣经》对中国现代文学的影响进行研究。第一部分主要论述《圣经》在20世纪中国的译介和接受情况；第二部分主要研究《圣经》对现代文学的影响，如周作人、海子、冰心、茅盾、顾城、王蒙等文学创作都受到《圣经》的影响；第三部分主要论述韩素音、张晓风、蓉子、夏宇、斯人几人如何受《圣经》的影响并进行文学创作的。通过本书，读者可以较为详细地了解《圣经》在中国的译介、接受以及对中国现代文学的影响。通过本书，也可以拓展研究视野，发现新的研究视角、研究思路，从而更好地研究《圣经》与中国现代文学的关系。

《上海史研究译丛》精选当今海外一流学者有关近现代上海史研究的经典之作，可读性和学术性兼具，并由国内专家翻译。海外学者以独特视角、独有材料和独到见解，对上海历史作出有别于以往的解读，内容涉及上海道台、警察、妓女、工业家、侨民、同乡会、救火会、苏北人等众生相。
本书分“现状和趋势”、“名著解读”和“名家剪影”三编，分别就海外上海学的研究概况、主要名著和重要名家作了全面、细致的介绍和评析，并且还附有海外上海学著作目录、论文目录、英文博士论文目录，可以说是一本翔实、权威，既有理论探讨，又有个案分析的书。

In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used Western perspectival illusionism to transform walls and ceilings with visually striking images that were also deeply meaningful to Qianlong. These unprecedented works not only offer new insights into late imperial China’s most influential emperor, but also reflect one way in which Chinese art integrated and domesticated foreign ideas.
In Imperial Illusions, Kristina Kleutghen examines all known surviving examples of the Qing court phenomenon of “scenic illusion paintings” (tongjinghua), which today remain inaccessible inside the Forbidden City. Produced at the height of early modern cultural exchange between China and Europe, these works have received little scholarly attention. Richly illustrated, Imperial Illusions offers the first comprehensive investigation of the aesthetic, cultural, perceptual, and political importance of these illusionistic paintings essential to Qianlong’s world.

【本书看点】
★ 以现代史家之眼，还原宋徽宗的真实生命历程——抛开中国传统史学符号化的道德指责，伊沛霞教授以“了解之同情”的现代学术立场与现代政治观点，从宋徽宗自己的视角出发，再现了北宋末期的历史与时代风貌。
★ 北宋末期，中国的艺术水平究竟取得了多高的成就？——作为历史上屈指可数天赋极高的艺术家皇帝，在书法、绘画、诗词、茶道、建筑等多个领域，宋徽宗在位年间，有何种影响。 他和同时代艺术家，如何往来。以绘画为例，作者选取五幅名作，进行了细致的分析。
★北宋的灭亡是偶然还是必然？在位二十余年，宋徽宗犯过哪些错误？在走向盛世的时刻，宋徽宗在面对外交、战争、党争、经济方面的棘手问题时，出于何种目的，做出了哪些决策，使得情势急转直下，乃至最后沦为亡国之君？
【内容简介】
宋徽宗在位期间，中国几乎是世界上最先进的国家。在位二十多年间，这位极富艺术天赋的皇帝引领宋朝达到了文化上的鼎盛。不过，因为被女真人俘虏，最终死于异国他乡，宋徽宗更多的被后世认为是一个失败的皇帝，道德教育的反面教材。
伊沛霞教授积数十年之力撰成《宋徽宗》，成为英文世界为这位皇帝撰写的首部完整传记，力图矫正大众对徽宗“腐化、昏庸”的偏见。伊沛霞重塑了宋徽宗的形象，将其放回历史语境中，还原一个繁荣国度的君主不断追求卓越荣耀的雄心——尽管这份雄心以悲剧收场。
徽宗在即位早期竭力超越朝廷党争，随后将精力转到自己擅长的领域。他大大拓展了朝廷的慈善事业，建立官学、医院、孤儿院、乞丐墓地。作为艺术家，他身边围绕着杰出的诗人、画家、音乐家，他还修筑了壮丽的宫殿、寺观和庭园，后世几乎难以超越。他对道士青眼有加，为道经作注，还让臣民也接受并践行这种信仰，不过他对道教的虔诚最终偏离了儒学主流，削弱了他的治国能力。
【推荐】
就史籍解读与史学反思而言，宋徽宗是很好的个案。在习见的历史叙述中，徽宗无疑是反面形象。本书作者强调徽宗既是皇帝，也是“人”，希望避开以往的评价框架，以不同类型的材料和多种细节，拼织出形象丰富的宋徽宗。作者力图从徽宗的角度去观察他的世界，以求对其活动有所理解；并且尝试在世界君主制度的范畴内，用比较的视角来看中国的皇帝，以一种“前所未有的方式”来讲述徽宗的故事。
——邓小南（北京大学历史系教授、北京大学人文社会科学研究院院长）
伊沛霞教授将个人和政治、政策和人性结合在了一起，努力追索到底是什么推动着宋徽宗一步步追求文化复兴和政治改革，为我们理解统治者仍在灌输的激情提供了一个新的面向——不管这种激情是积极的还是消极的。
——戴仁柱 （Richard L. Davis，岭南大学教授）
自黄仁宇的《万历十五年》以来，还没有大学者为普通读者写一部中国皇帝的传记。伊沛霞广泛征引各类原始材料，按照主题和时间重新梳理，用全新的视角加以处理，修正了徽宗长久以来的负面形象。她没有从“不可避免地走向失败”这个角度来解读宋徽宗，而是努力从徽宗的视野来看他的世界，并时刻意识到徽宗在做决定时究竟掌握哪些信息。伊沛霞对宋徽宗生平的解读是人文主义的，并带有心理学上的说明，她试图重新想象皇帝威严的外表下隐藏的脾气秉性、真情实感和个人思想。
——李瑞（Ari Daniel Levine，乔治亚大学教授）

Looking at the life and legacy of Emperor Yang (569–618) of the brief Sui dynasty in a new light, this book presents a compelling case for his importance to Chinese history. Author Victor Cunrui Xiong utilizes traditional scholarship and secondary literature from China, Japan, and the West to go beyond the common perception of Emperor Yang as merely a profligate tyrant. Xiong accepts neither the traditional verdict against Emperor Yang nor the apologist effort to revise it, and instead offers a reassessment of Emperor Yang by exploring the larger political, economic, military, religious, and diplomatic contexts of Sui society. This reconstruction of the life of Emperor Yang reveals an astute visionary with literary, administrative, and reformist accomplishments. While a series of strategic blunders resulting from the darker side of his personality led to the collapse of the socioeconomic order and to his own death, the Sui legacy that Emperor Yang left behind lived on to provide the foundation for the rise of the Tang dynasty, the pinnacle of medieval Chinese civilization.
"This is a detailed study of a vital, yet (in English) virtually unknown, period of medieval Chinese history. Traditional Chinese historians usually castigate Emperor Yang, and the author has successfully cut through this invective to reveal much about the man, his policies, and his achievements. The result is a work that will change the way both Chinese and Western historians regard the Sui dynasty and its importance to overall Chinese history." — Charles Hartman, author of Han Yü and the T’ang Search for Unity
"This book marks a new phase in the study of this pivotal period in Chinese history, and what Xiong says here must be addressed by anyone who studies the Sui dynasty." — Albert E. Dien, editor of State and Society in Early Medieval China

过去一千多年来，江南三角洲始终是中国经济发展的核心地区。其中，江南发达的市镇以及市镇网络的存在，既是江南持续发展的关键因素，又是江南经济繁荣的重要表现。这种独特现象引发了中国本土及海外几代学人的长期关注。
1988年到1991年间，来自名古屋大学文学部及教养部的6位中国史、地理学学者，对江苏、上海、浙江等地的市镇进行了四次实地调查。调查范围远至上古人类遗迹、生物化石，近及现代村治、工业生产，还包括地形、公共设施、家族、祭祀、信仰、遗产保护、史志编纂等问题。本书就是这六位学者在此次调查基础上，辅以文献资料完成的学术成果的汇编，涉及镇域的形成方式、镇董的作用、居委会的地位、市集的运作、一个市镇的通史，乃至整个江南三角洲的地貌特点。在方法上，这些研究无不体现出时间与空间的互动、田野与文献的对话，也为研究主题与问题意识的跨学科交流提供了范例。

Evidence from Shang oracle bones to memorials submitted to Western Han emperors attests to a long-lasting debate in early China over the proper relationship between humans and gods. One pole of the debate saw the human and divine realms as separate and agonistic and encouraged divination to determine the will of the gods and sacrifices to appease and influence them. The opposite pole saw the two realms as related and claimed that humans could achieve divinity and thus control the cosmos. This wide-ranging book reconstructs this debate and places within their contemporary contexts the rival claims concerning the nature of the cosmos and the spirits, the proper demarcation between the human and the divine realms, and the types of power that humans and spirits can exercise. It is often claimed that the worldview of early China was unproblematically monistic and that hence China had avoided the tensions between gods and humans found in the West. By treating the issues of cosmology, sacrifice, and self-divinization in a historical and comparative framework that attends to the contemporary significance of specific arguments, Michael J. Puett shows that the basic cosmological assumptions of ancient China were the subject of far more debate than is generally thought.

北宋政权崩解后，继起的南宋高宗政权既需要快速有效地清理内部诸政治势力，重建朝廷威权，也必须思考如何应对敌国金压境的威胁。本书作者寺地遵教授引入政治学的“政治过程论”作为研究方法，细腻地描述了建炎元年（1127）至乾道元年（1165）间诸政治势力为掌握国家权力所进行的斗争，以及国家政策如何因应外在情势而调整，同时综合考察了各政治势力的社会背景。全书以绍兴十二年（1142）宋金和议形成分为前后两部，论述南宋政权自成立以来的运作与变化。讨论的时空虽在南宋初期，然自北方避敌南下的高宗皇帝以至文武官僚为巩固自身权、利，彼此纵横捭阖间对南宋政权性质所造成的影响，恰为理解传统中国政权体制内的权力冲突、抗争关系提供了有力的观察视角。

西周的政治制度曾经对东亚文明产生过根本性的影响，同时，从比较历史学的角度看，西周研究，对全球范围特别是有关早期国家的形态和发展的研究，有直接意义。作者以现今发现的西周铭文为主要依据，从政治制度的角度来研究西周官僚政府的组织原则和运作机制。以西周铭文为主要研究依据，可以相对减少后世史料价值观的困扰。在大量研究铭文的基础上，作者认为，过去的几个政治学、人类学模式：“城市国家”、“领土国家”、“封建国家”、“分立国家”、“邑制国家”等，都不能直接应用于西周国家；西周国家更接近于“权力代理的亲族邑制国家”。

A study that makes use of an interdisciplinary approach to challenge traditional theories of state formation in China and promote debate on early Chinese history. Analyzing data from archaeology, geology, cultural geography, ethnohistory and ancient texts, the authors show how the procurement of key external resources - especially metal and salt - drove the dynamics of state formation in early China in the period of 1800-1400BC.

David N. Keightley’s seminal essays on the origins of Chinese society are brought together in one volume.
These Bones Shall Rise Again brings together in one volume many of David N. Keightley’s seminal essays on the origins of early Chinese civilization. Written over a period of three decades and accessible to the non-specialist, these essays provide a wealth of information and insights on the Shang dynasty, traditionally dated 1766–1122 or 1056 BCE. Of all the eras of Chinese history, the Shang has been a particularly elusive one, long considered more myth than reality. A historian with a keen appreciation for anthropology and archaeology, Keightley has given us many descriptions of Shang life. Best known for his analysis of oracle bones, he has looked beyond the bones themselves and expanded his historical vision to ponder the lives of those who used them. What did the Shang diviner think he was doing? The temerity to ask such questions and the insights they have provided have been provocative and, at times, controversial. Equally intriguing have been Keightley’s assertions that many of the distinctive features of Chinese civilization were already in evidence during the Shang, 3000 years ago. In this collection, readers will find not only an essential reference but also the best kind of thought-provoking scholarship.

This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the foundation of imperial authority. Its central theme is the emergence of this body of writings as the textual double of the state, and of the text-based sage as the double of the ruler. The book examines the full range of writings employed in early China, such as divinatory records, written communications with ancestors, government documents, the collective writings of philosophical and textual traditions, speeches attributed to historical figures, chronicles, verse anthologies, commentaries, and encyclopedic compendia. Lewis shows how these writings served to administer populations, control officials, form new social groups, invent new models of authority, and create an artificial language whose mastery generated power and whose graphs became potent objects. Writing and Authority in Early China traces the enterprise of creating a parallel reality within texts that depicted the entire world. These texts provided models for the invention of a world empire, and one version ultimately became the first state canon of imperial China. This canon served to perpetuate the dream and the reality of the imperial system across the centuries.

契约在早期近代中国的经济生活中所扮演的角色，一般被认为仅仅处于次要地位。而本书所要展示的，则是契约在这一时期各种日常人际关系与交易构建中所发挥的极为重要的作用。对当下学者而言，契约对日常经济活动中诸多细节所留下的记录具有重大价值。
本书的文章对清代以及民国时期的经济和法律制度，特别是与契约和财产紧密相关的那些领域，提供了一个全新的研究视角，并就这些制度在特殊的社会背景下如何运转有清晰的阐述。汲取对古老文档资料的新近研究成果，契约嵌入中国社会与经济生活，并在商品化的扩散中发挥了作用。其中，有两篇文章的命题涉及广泛：一篇是曾小萍力证强大的财产权利存在着一个独特的中国传统；另一篇是欧中坦结合美国法学知识，针对中国比较研究框架的有效性所进行的分析。

New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities offers nine empirical studies to examine the social, legal and governance dimensions of the great urban transformation in Republican China pertaining to the cultural realm of the urban space.