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.

学海堂是由有名汉学家阮元于道光五年在广州城北粤秀山创办的书院，以专重经史训诂为宗旨，是清代很有影响力的书院之一。《学海堂与晚清岭南学术》描述学海堂改变了广州的精英文化，与地方社会文化背景相映；尽管学海堂占有垄断地位，但在广州城内或在三角洲腹地，仍存有其他诸多广府文人认同的文化生产基地。《学海堂与晚清岭南学术》通过考察文化学术各派之间的相互作用以及社会与地理上的认同现象，来展示十九世纪早期与中叶广州的社会文化景观和地方文化政治状况。

This is a study of the works of the Northern Song Chinese poet Chen Yuyi (1090-1139) as he led the Jurchen invasion during the massive political upheavals of a dynastic transition. This book demonstrates how Chen's poems epitomize the new style of writing in the Song that is markedly different from that of his Tang predecessors. Underscoring this stylistic and aesthetic analysis is a comparison of Chen and his model, the Tang master Du Fu (712-770). Through detailed analysis of Chen's poems, and of the political and psychological conditions under which they were written, the reader gains intimate insights into not only how a classical Chinese poet conducted his business, on the road, in crisis, but also the sources of the poet's inner strength, what culturally, psychologically, and emotionally sustained him on the long painful journey. This was an important period not only for Chen Yuyi but also for Chinese literary history. Chen's poems bring to focus the changing dynamics of the classical Chinese poet's relationship to the world. As his journey grew longer and brought him farther away from central China, the richness of the local landscapes in the south made him less apprehensive about the political situation, allowed him to endure the constant fluctuations in his environment, and revitalized his inner self as a poet. As Chen struggled and eventually reconciled with the political situation, he achieved a new balance between person and world, mind and landscape, a status later Chinese critics and theorists call qingjing jiaorong, the propitious fusion and coming together of emotion and nature in poetry. An original study on Chinese poetry, Writing Poetry, Surviving War is an important book for Asian studies and premodern Chinese humanities collections. It will appeal to scholarly and general audiences whose interests intersect China, premodern travel, trauma literature, traditional ideas of nature, and landscape poetry.

Chinese Asianism examines Chinese intellectual discussions of East Asian solidarity, analyzing them in connection with Chinese nationalism and Sino–Japanese relations. Beginning with texts written after the first Sino–Japanese War of 1894 and concluding with Wang Jingwei’s failed government in World War II, Craig Smith engages with a period in which the Chinese empire had crumbled and intellectuals were struggling to adapt to imperialism, new and hegemonic forms of government, and radically different epistemes. He considers a wide range of writings that show the depth of the pre-war discourse on Asianism and the influence it had on the rise of nationalism in China.
Asianism was a “call” for Asian unity, Smith finds, but advocates of a united and connected Asia based on racial or civilizational commonalities also utilized the packaging of Asia for their own agendas, to the extent that efforts towards international regionalism spurred the construction of Chinese nationalism. Asianism shaped Chinese ideas of nation and region, often by translating and interpreting Japanese perspectives, and leaving behind a legacy in the concepts and terms that persist in the twenty-first century. As China plays a central role in regional East Asian development, Asianism is once again of great importance today.

Chinese Esoteric Buddhism is generally held to have been established as a distinct and institutionalized Buddhist school in eighth-century China by “the Three Great Masters of Kaiyuan”: Śubhākarasiṃha, Vajrabodhi, and Amoghavajra. Geoffrey C. Goble provides an innovative account of the tradition’s emergence that sheds new light on the structures and traditions that shaped its institutionalization.
Goble focuses on Amoghavajra (704–774), contending that he was the central figure in Esoteric Buddhism’s rapid rise in Tang dynasty China, and the other two “patriarchs” are known primarily through Amoghavajra’s teachings and writings. He presents the scriptural, mythological, and practical aspects of Chinese Esoteric Buddhism in the eighth century and places them in the historical contexts within which Amoghavajra operated. By telling the story of Amoghavajra’s rise to prominence and of Esoteric Buddhism’s corresponding institutionalization in China, Goble makes the case that the evolution of this tradition was predicated on Indic scriptures and practical norms rather than being the product of conscious adaptation to a Chinese cultural environment. He demonstrates that Esoteric Buddhism was employed by Chinese rulers to defeat military and political rivals. Based on close readings of a broad range of textual sources previously untapped by English-language scholarship, this book overturns many assumptions about the origins of Chinese Esoteric Buddhism.
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By focusing on the career and legacy of Amoghavajra, one of the most significant figures in the history of East Asian Buddhism, Geoffrey C. Goble's work provides a detailed image of Esoteric Buddhism in elite Chinese society and fills a long-standing lacuna in the field of Chinese Buddhist studies. Through careful translation and close reading of a wide range of textual sources, Chinese Esoteric Buddhism advances our understanding of Esoteric Buddhism as an elite religious tradition in Tang China and also illuminates the dynamic relationship between the Chinese imperial state and religious practitioners and institutions. Goble's work provides a granular study of the historical, cultural, and personal factors that contributed to Amoghavajra's rise to influence and the formation of Esoteric Buddhism in Tang China. Chinese Esoteric Buddhism is necessary reading for all who are interested in the Tang Dynasty, East Asian Esoteric Buddhism, and early tantric Buddhism.
Bernard Faure, Columbia University
Carefully attending to historical context, Goble clarifies Amoghavajra's role as propagator of Buddhist tantras in China. Demonstrating how his teachings found favor by conforming to Tang dynasty imperial religion and by promoting lethal rites, Goble then traces Amoghavajra's political and religious legacy and his function as an index for the collection and circulation of texts and discourses in subsequent Chinese Buddhist history.
Charles D. Orzech, Colby College
Goble's treatment demonstrates that Amoghavajra is one of the preeminent figures in the history of Buddhism, not just in East Asia but in the entire history of Buddhism. As a Buddhist thinker and practitioner Amoghavajra stands equal to any other landmark figure. Goble's definitive study brings new clarity to the debate over the nature, practices, and institutional existence of an Esoteric Buddhism in Tang China. In fact that debate can now be considered closed.
Richard K. Payne, Institute of Buddhist Studies
Amoghavajra stands out as a towering beacon in the history of Esoteric Buddhism in China, and no study on this important Buddhist tradition would be complete without referring to him and his achievements. In this new study Geoffrey C. Goble takes a critical look at Amoghavajra and his legacy, and in this process undertakes an in-depth investigation into the primary sources, in particular those which elucidate the Buddhist master's intimate relationship with the Tang court and the country's political elite during the middle and second half of the eighth century. Goble's study is therefore as much about elite religion as it is about the interface between the Buddhist religion and politics in late medieval China. A must for anyone interested in Tang history and Esoteric Buddhism.
Henrik H. Sørensen, Ruhr University

本書以生動活潑的筆觸，描繪中國中古時期（三至十世紀）在佛教強烈影響之下，人民生活的各個層面。雖然佛教對日常生活有相當的制約，但佛教寺院和節日，也是當時人們最重要的節慶和娛樂。佛教的福田思想，更使朝廷將官方救濟貧病的社會工作委託寺院與僧人經營。透過細膩的歷史索隱，本書將帶您走入中古社會的佛教世界，探訪這一道當時百姓心中的聖潔曙光。

荷兰的中国研究有着悠久而深厚的历史。本书所收录的论文不仅回溯了19世纪中期至今荷兰中国研究的历史发展，还探讨了荷兰对中国研究领域中特定学科的关注。荷兰的中国研究源于荷兰在荷属东印度群岛进行殖民统治的需求，在20世纪上半叶对语文学高度重视，并在过去几十年里逐渐转向对现当代中国的学科研究。

1420年，明成祖朱棣下诏，以明年正月初一始，北京为京师，不称行在。明朝正式把北京作为首都。
从南京迁都北京，两地相差8个纬度，距离1000公里以上，整个迁都过程历时近40年才尘埃落定，不仅在中国历史上绝无仅有，在世界历史也是极为罕见的案例。
迁都北京大致经历了“靖难之役”后推行的“两京体制”，永乐年间实现迁都北京，三大殿烧毁引发的北京地位动摇，洪熙帝决定还都南京，宣德帝再次定都北京，明英宗正统年间正式定都北京等进程。
本书把历来作为孤立政治史事件的迁都北京，放到洪武、建文、永乐、洪熙、宣德、正统年间整个明朝初期政权确立的大背景下考察分析，对其迂回曲折的过程进行系统梳理，继而论述了迁都北京在政治、经济、社会等方面引起的一系列变化，以及这些变化对此后中国乃至东亚世界的深远影响。
本书在明朝迁都北京600周年之际翻译出版，无疑是对这一重大历史事件最具意义的纪念之一。

浙江大學藝術與考古研究（特輯二）

The early history of the maritime trade of China had been largely<br />studied (at the time of this 1954 study) from the Western point of<br />view, that is, as the eastern terminal point of a trade carried and<br />dominated by Indians, Persians and Arabs. This had also been true of<br />the early history of Southeast Asia. Historians, both of China and of<br />Southeast Asia, had seen the trade mainly as the coming of Western<br />merchants in search of gold, silks and various kinds of spices. No<br />study (then) had yet been made of the ancient trade between China and<br />Southeast Asia which was known to the Chinese as the Nanhai trade.<br />This book, The Nanhai Trade: Early Chinese Trade in the South China<br />Sea, introduces this subject. It examines various features of this<br />trade, especially the economic background and the Chinese imperial<br />and regional attitudes towards it. The period covered is the eleven<br />centuries before the founding of the Sung dynasty in 960 -- roughly<br />the period from the Han dynasty to the T'ang. This one of Professor<br />Wang Gungwu's early studies, now re-issued under the Eastern<br />Universities Press imprint.

《清代文化东传的研究》是日本学者藤塚邻关于清代文化东传朝鲜和日本的研究著作。此著作是藤塚邻在1936年提交的东京帝国大学的博士论文，曾于日本昭和二十年 （1975）在国书刊行会出版。著者藤塚邻在对清代文化东传朝鲜和日本的整体分析和阐释方面具有开阔深入的研究视角，作为一位文献收藏和鉴赏家，他在当时也收集了大量的清代和朝鲜学者的第一手宝贵文献资料，从而系统地论述了清代文化、学术、文学传入朝鲜和日本的清晰脉络。著作中也通过清代学人和朝鲜、日本学者的直接交流为个案，生动地描述了朝鲜和日本学者在接受清代文化和学术过程中的心理历程。著作文献资料丰富详实，论述和评价精湛准确，是研究近代东亚中、韩、日三国文化、学术、文学演进与交流方面的重要研究成果。

本书主要由八个章节和一个附录组成。章介绍艾约瑟的生平、研究意义以及本文撰写的思路和方法。第二章主要讨论近代早期欧洲学界对人类不同语言之间的差异与联系的认识，主要概述了在1871年艾约瑟出版《汉语在语言学上的位置》一书前，欧洲学界对语言演变和语言关系的研究情况。本书从第三章开始进入研究的核心部分。该章主要通过《中国在语言学上的位置》一书讨论艾约瑟的中西语言比较研究，考察湛约翰（John Chalmers）、艾约瑟和施古德三人在研究方法和旨趣上的异同。第四章主要介绍19世纪70年代之后，汉学界就艾约瑟的研究展开的争论，以及艾约瑟对评判的回应。第五章是由第四章引发的问题的延伸，主要探讨19世纪西方学界对语言研究科学方法的认识，以及语法比较、语音比较、谱系划分等方法的适用前提和局限。进而可以更加客观地看待那场汉学界百余年前的争论的本质。第六章的主要研究艾约瑟对汉语史和语言起源的探索，考察用现今标准衡量依然堪称科学的研究是如何围绕一个根本不可能解决的问题而展开的。后两章主要对艾约瑟的研究所面临的理论困境进行进一步解释。第七章主要研究汉语在19世纪语言形态演化理论中的角色，追溯西方学界如何看待汉语在语言形态演化过程中的地位，以及关于汉语的知识如何启发西方学者反思浪漫主义语言形态演化理论。第八章主要通过19世纪西方学界关于人类族群划分标准的争论解释艾约瑟试图通过语言同源来论证文明乃至人种同源的方法所面对的困境。后是全书的总结部分。附录部分主要探讨19世纪的比较语文学和中国文明西来说的关系。

This book explores new directions in the study of China’s borderlands. In addition to assessing the influential perspectives of other historians, it engages innovative approaches in the author’s own research. These studies probe regional accommodations, the intersections of borderland management, martial fortification, and imperial culture, as well as the role of governmental discourse in defining and preserving restive boundary regions. As the issue of China’s management of its borderlands grows more pressing, the work presents key information and insights into how that nation’s contested fringes have been governed in the past.

《发生在黄土村庄的日军性暴力:大娘们的战争尚未结束》是日本民间学术团体“从性暴力视角看日中战争的历史性格”和日本民间组织“搞清日军性暴力实情，支援请求赔偿诉讼会”的全体成员历经十多年的辛勤工作，先后走访当地20多次，形成了120分钟盒式录音带共约150多盘的基础上，经过反复整理、核实后完成的一部力作。调查对象主要为侵华日军在山西省盂县实施性暴力犯罪的受害者，作者通过长期和受害者女性本人的发自内心的交流，以及紧紧扣住每一个具体的受害事件的展开，再现了当年的历史情景，勾画出了日军性暴力犯罪的种种形态。同时，在完成日军性暴力犯罪调查的基础上，又展开了对日军性暴力犯罪的深层次、多角度研究。包括对关于日军性暴力记录的发掘过程的反省；关于日军在山西乃至华北地区的“慰安所”的调查研究；从宏观角度对山西省日军特务机关和伪政权机构的研究；对日军占领期间，山西省盂县的抗日运动的研究。以及对日本的相关文学作品中看到的战场上的性暴力描述的分析研究。书其中不乏深刻的、极具震撼力的论述。

2014年，尘封七十余年的《民族学大纲》（教育部边疆问题讲座、金陵大学民族学课程讲稿）首次公开出版，使得今天的读者得以领受上世纪四十年代学术名师的谆谆教诲。这份珍贵讲稿的作者徐益棠，是二十世纪上半叶中国民族学人类学学科史上一位重要的人物，在中国民族学人类学早期建设中做了非常重要的贡献。

In this ambitious work of political and intellectual history, Charles Hartman surveys the major sources that survive as vestiges of the official dynastic historiography of the Chinese Song dynasty (960–1279). Analyzing the narratives that emerge from these sources as products of Song political discourse, Hartman offers a thorough introduction to the texts and the political circumstances surrounding their compilation. Distilling from these sources a 'grand allegory of Song history', he argues that the narratives embedded within reflect tension between a Confucian model of political institutionalism and the Song court's preference for a non-sectarian, technocratic model. Fundamentally rethinking the corpus of texts that have formed the basis of our understanding of the Song and of imperial China more broadly, this far-reaching account of historiographical process and knowledge production illuminates the relationship between official history writing and political struggle in China.

The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning gives the reader direct access to the foundational documents of the tradition of calculation created by astronomers of the early Chinese empire between the late second century BCE and the third century CE. The paradigm they established was to shape East Asian thought and practice in the field of mathematical astronomy for centuries to come. It was in many ways radically different from better known traditions of astronomy in other parts of the ancient world.
This book includes full English translations of the first three systems of mathematical astronomy adopted for use by imperial astronomical officials, together with introductory material explaining the origin and nature of each system, and a general introduction to the work as a whole. The translations, which are accompanied by the original Chinese text, give a consistent rendering of all technical terms, and include detailed explanatory notes. The text in which the second of the three systems is found also includes a unique collection of documents compiled around 178 CE by two experts in the field, one of whom was the author of the third system translated in this book. Using material transcribed from government archives of the two preceding centuries, these scholars carefully document and review controversies and large-scale official debates on astronomical matters up to their own time. Nothing equivalent in detail and clarity has survived from any other ancient culture. The availability of the totality of this material in English opens new perspectives to all historians of pre-modern astronomy.

清末外交官洪钧出使俄国，适逢俄国学者贝勒津刊布《史集》及瑞典历史学家多桑利用波斯文、阿拉伯文史料出版《蒙古史》，他获得这些资料后，著《元史译文证补》三十卷。从此中国学者开始了解到波斯文《世界征服者史》《史集》《瓦萨夫史》和阿拉伯文《全史》《札兰丁传》等域外文献的重要性。洪钧开创的运用中外文献进行互证互补研究的新方法也为后世学者所继承。本书即以《史集》《世界征服者史》《马可波罗行纪》等域外文献为研究对象，注重运用中外文献进行互证互补和审音勘同之法，进一步探讨了域外文献与蒙古史、元史研究中的诸多问题。