For over a century, voting has been a surprisingly common political activity in China. Voting as a Rite examines China’s experiments with elections from the perspective of intellectual and cultural history. Rather than arguing that such exercises were either successful or failed attempts at political democracy, the book instead focuses on a previously unasked question: how did those who participated in Chinese elections define success or failure for themselves? Answering this question reveals why Chinese elites originally became enamored of elections at the end of the nineteenth century, why critics complained about elections that featured real competition in the early twentieth century, and why elections continued to be held after the mid-twentieth century even though outcomes were predetermined by the state. While no mainland Chinese government has ever felt that its rule required validation at the ballot box, the discourses that surrounded elections reveal much about important tensions within modern Chinese political thought. What is the best means to identify talent? Can the state trust the people to act responsibly as citizens? As Joshua Hill shows, elections are vital, not peripheral, to understanding these concerns fully.

《白云观访信录》是日本学者吉冈义丰的研究性著作。全书主要分为四个部分，第一部分详细介绍了道士的日常生活、工作职责、具体分工，观宇的清规戒律、救济功能，以及祭神的分类、仪式、贡品等内容，并提供了民国二十九年和三十二年的住观道士的资料。第二部分探源溯流，对白云观的历史进行了梳理，分别介绍了唐、金、辽、元代白云观的发展概况，对天长观、长春宫与白云观的历史渊源进行了基本阐释。第三部分回顾了全真教的成立过程，介绍了全真教的基本思想，并涉及始祖王重阳、二祖马丹阳的生平事迹。第四部分实则为作者实地考察白云观的所见所闻、所思所想，包括观内的饮食住宿、管理上的矛盾、各圣殿的布局风貌等内容。

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《佛教对中国物质文化的影响》是美国斯坦福大学宗教研究系教授柯嘉豪的一本重要学术著作，在西方中国宗教研究领域具有相当重要的意义。此书详细分析了佛教对中国物质文化的影响，包括对中国建筑、衣着、家具以及饮食的贡献。在此书之前，西方学者撰写中国通史时，除了提到佛教在思想、信仰以及仪式等方面的激荡外，很少强调佛教曾影响中国的物质文化；同时，也很少留意佛教的流传与物质文化间的关系。而对于中国读者来说，从一个较宏观的角度来讨论佛教对中国物质文化的影响，促使其思索宗教物品在其信仰与生活中所扮演的角色，仍具有新颖的启发意义。

Between the seventh and ninth centuries, the Chinese mind became preoccupied with a concept of the afterlife that persists into modern times. To be reborn, the deceased must successfully negotiate passage through ten courts of law, each ruled by a magistrate or king. The pains of transition from death to rebirth can be alleviated by the intercession of the living with contributions to the Buddhist church and bribes of spirit money. The cosmology, morality, and rituals of the ten kings are described for the first time in surviving sources in an illustrated text, The Scripture on the Ten Kings, which is here translated for the first time.

Where does Neo-Confucianism - a movement that from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries profoundly influenced the way people understood the world and responded to it - fit into our story of China's history?This interpretive, at times polemical, inquiry into the Neo-Confucian engagement with the literati as the social and political elite, local society, and the imperial state during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties is also a reflection on the role of the middle period in China's history. The book argues that as Neo-Confucians put their philosophy of learning into practice in local society, they justified a new social ideal in which society at the local level was led by the literati with state recognition and support. The later imperial order, in which the state accepted local elite leadership as necessary to its own existence, survived even after Neo-Confucianism lost its hold on the center of intellectual culture in the seventeenth century but continued as the foundation of local education. It is the contention of this book that Neo-Confucianism made that order possible.

《文化、权力与国家》是以乡村的文化网络为基本结构并考察其功能，这一点和作者第二本书《从国族中拯救历史》（中译本即出）的结构形态似乎相差不少，但他所关注的主题却在继续延伸：现代国家如何构造新的文化，以及民间团体如何“抵抗”从上面来的“攻击”，是第二本书所讨论的一个主要问题。
最重要的一点是，作者在他的著述里贯穿了一种方法论：在考虑话语—主体—制度这三者对历史的建构时应该加入许多外来事物和偶然因素，因为参与主体和主体性构成的不仅有话语，还有外来事物；而由主体构建的制度还应包括制度本身的逻辑和偶然性。因此，所谓“拯救历史”其实是一个方法的问题，而不是一个带有实体的目的。作者认为当民族国家成为现代性之下的历史主体时，其它历史就没有了，因为写历史的不同方法带有不同的目的性——以民族国家为对象的历史自然会排除掉其他可能的历史。所以，他从民族国家中要拯救的不是某种实体，而是一种方法，这种方法表明，我们本来就应该有许多种历史，它们是交织在一起的。对杜赞奇这样的研究者来讲，他最关注的就是在民族国家之外的历史是如何被压下去的，乡村仍然是他的立场。

Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of "abandoning the body"(self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and doctrinal context. Rather than privilege the doctrinal and exegetical interpretations of the tradition, which assume the central importance of the mind and its cultivation, James Benn focuses on the ways in which the heroic ideals of the bodhisattva present in scriptural materials such as the Lotus Sutra played out in the realm of religious practice on the ground.

Literature, from the Chinese perspective, makes manifest the cosmic patterns that shape and complete the world—a process of “worlding” that is much more than mere representation. In that spirit, A New Literary History of Modern China looks beyond state-sanctioned works and official narratives to reveal China as it has seldom been seen before, through a rich spectrum of writings covering Chinese literature from the late-seventeenth century to the present.
Featuring over 140 Chinese and non-Chinese contributors from throughout the world, this landmark volume explores unconventional forms as well as traditional genres—pop song lyrics and presidential speeches, political treatises and prison-house jottings, to name just a few. Major figures such as Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Eileen Chang, and Mo Yan appear in a new light, while lesser-known works illuminate turning points in recent history with unexpected clarity and force. Many essays emphasize Chinese authors’ influence on foreign writers as well as China’s receptivity to outside literary influences. Contemporary works that engage with ethnic minorities and environmental issues take their place in the critical discussion, alongside writers who embraced Chinese traditions and others who resisted. Writers’ assessments of the popularity of translated foreign-language classics and avant-garde subjects refute the notion of China as an insular and inward-looking culture.
A vibrant collection of contrasting voices and points of view, A New Literary History of Modern China is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of China’s literary and cultural legacy.

This brief paperback introduction to the basic ideas that underlie traditional Chinese culture focuses on the "Golden Age" (600 B.C.-150 B.C.) of Chinese philosophy.

Ethnic Identity in Tang China is the first work in any language to explore comprehensively the construction of ethnicity during the dynasty that reigned over China for roughly three centuries, from 618 to 907. Often viewed as one of the most cosmopolitan regimes in China's past, the Tang had roots in Inner Asia, and its rulers continued to have complex relationships with a population that included Turks, Tibetans, Japanese, Koreans, Southeast Asians, Persians, and Arabs.
Marc S. Abramson's rich portrait of this complex, multiethnic empire draws on political writings, religious texts, and other cultural artifacts, as well as comparative examples from other empires and frontiers. Abramson argues that various constituencies, ranging from Confucian elites to Buddhist monks to "barbarian" generals, sought to define ethnic boundaries for various reasons but often in part out of discomfort with the ambiguity of their own ethnic and cultural identity. The Tang court, meanwhile, alternately sought to absorb some alien populations to preserve the empire's integrity while seeking to preserve the ethnic distinctiveness of other groups whose particular skills it valued. Abramson demonstrates how the Tang era marked a key shift in definitions of China and the Chinese people, a shift that ultimately laid the foundation for the emergence of the modern Chinese nation.
Ethnic Identity in Tang China sheds new light on one of the most important periods in Chinese history. It also offers broader insights on East Asian and Inner Asian history, the history of ethnicity, and the comparative history of frontiers and empires.
"The author has ranged far and wide, plucking nuggets of material from dynastic histories, gazetteers, contemporary scholarly treatises, memorials to the emperor, poetry, and artwork. This is a groundbreaking book."—Peter B. Golden, Rutgers University

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中国明清以来6个世纪人口的发展一直是从事历史学、经济学、人口学的学者及思考中国人口与历史、中央地方政权体制运作、人口与土地诸问题的读者关注的重要问题。何炳棣先生关于上述问题的精彩论术无疑使本书成为海外汉学研究的经典之作。在何氏之前，从未有一位学者通过追溯人口术语的制度内涵的演变来现解分析已有的人口数据，并对移民、地区经济开发。农作物改善、赋税制度、土地使用权、自然灾害对人口发展的影响做出透彻细致的分析。该书在学术研究上里程碑式的意义是*庸置颖的，而其中对人口及其相关问题的理解和视解仍可启发当代人对中国发展的思考。