This extraordinary catalogue accompanies a major traveling exhibition of 128 works of bronze, jade, and clay dating from the thirteenth century B.C. to the second century A.D. The majority of these stunningly sophisticated works of art--among the most unusual and spectacular produced anywhere in the ancient world--all come from a startling archaeological discovery made just fourteen years ago at the previously unknown site of Sanxingdui in Sichuan province. The discovery of this Bronze Age civilization fundamentally changes our understanding of Chinese history. Representing fifteen hundred years of cultural production, these striking objects are extraordinarily varied, ranging from a monumental standing figure and an almost life-size bronze horse to ritual vessels, masks, and bronze heads of fantastic-looking supernatural beings, finely honed jade knives and ritual blades, and marvelous clay statuettes. Most have never before been seen in the United States. The exhibition and catalogue represent a unique international effort to continue the study of ancient Sichuan. Under the leadership of Robert Bagley, an international team of scholars contributes eight essays on the archaeological discoveries at Sanxingdui, the art historical importance of these objects, and the new history of ancient China they tell. Contributors are Michle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens, Jessica Rawson, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Alain Thote, Jenny F. So, Michael Nylan, and the Seattle Art Museum's Curator of Chinese Art, Jay Xu. In addition to the essays, there are individual entries for each object, nearly all of which have been newly photographed for this publication. Ancient Sichuan contributes to a revolutionary change in perceptions of ancient Chinese civilization, providing an unprecedented opportunity to explore the art, material culture, and spiritual life of ancient China. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle May-August 2001 Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth September 2001-January 2002 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York March-June 2002 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto August-November 2002

This book explores the roles of agricultural development and advancing social complexity in the processes of state formation in China. Over a period of about 10,000 years, it follows evolutionary trajectories of society from the last Palaeolithic hunting-gathering groups, through Neolithic farming villages and on to the Bronze Age Shang dynasty in the latter half of the second millennium BC. Li Liu and Xingcan Chen demonstrate that sociopolitical evolution was multicentric and shaped by inter-polity factionalism and competition, as well as by the many material technologies introduced from other parts of the world. The book illustrates how ancient Chinese societies were transformed during this period from simple to complex, tribal to urban, and preliterate to literate.
• Covers major topics including the roles of agricultural development, advancing social complexity and state formation in ancient China • Considers the origins of archaic states in the Yellow River valley • Includes discussion of regional interactions within China and between China and the outside world

Research evidence indicates that formative assessment is one of the most effective ways of enhancing student learning. It is, however, difficult to implement successfully, principally because what is tested through summative assessment has such a powerful influence on teacher and student actions. This book scrutinizes the relationship between testing and learning from alternative perspectives to the dominant literature from the major Anglophone countries. It develops the notion of contextually grounded formative assessment practices by analyzing data from schools in the Confucian-heritage setting of Hong Kong. It explores questions such as:
• Under what circumstances do tests support or hinder student learning?
• How can teachers effectively prepare students for tests and appropriately follow up after tests?
• What are the key socio-cultural influences impacting on testing and student learning in the classroom?
• How do teachers change in their orientation towards assessment and what support do they require?
This text is a valuable resource for education students, professionals and researchers, policy-makers and curriculum developers.

Richard Madsen takes us into the moral universe of peasants confronting political purges, social conflicts, and economic change in a village in Mao's China.

For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them?slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an ?anarchist history,? is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states.
In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of ?internal colonialism.? This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states. Scott?s work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.

本书以图文并茂的形式详细描述了莽人的传统文化，全面介绍了莽人生活的各个方面，进一步丰富了中国民族文化的宝库。
莽人是一个至今未明确族属的族群，生活在中越边境靠中国一侧的大山深处，属云南省金平苗族瑶族傣族自治县金水河镇。作者通过16年的跟踪实察研究，将这个鲜为人知的族群真实地展现于世。
书中论述了中国和莽人和越南境内的芒人的关系，从历史、语言、文化等角度证明了中国境内只有莽人，而无芒人。
作为第一部较为全面地介绍和研究莽人的图书，全书以图文并茂的形式详细描述了莽人的传统文化，全面介绍了莽人的生活和各个方面，进一步丰富了中国民族文化地宝库。

Midway through the reign of Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, mass hysteria broke out. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land clipping off the ends of men's queues (braids worn by royal decree) and chanting magical incantations over them in order to steal the souls of their owners. In this book, Kuhn chronicles this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of soulstealers that ensued, so opening up a window on 18th-century China. The book raises questions not just about China, but also about past human behaviour in general and it demonstates how in any society, a provincial panic can become a national witch-hunt.

全书共九章。以中文写作，内容系统全面，涵盖了理论语言学最重要的分支以及社会语言学，心理语言学和认知语言学等内容，是一部题材丰富、写法新颖、强调互动、可读性很强的语言学入门教材。本书特点如下：
•语言清新活泼，内容易读有趣，字里行间彰显语言学的趣味性；
•例证丰富新颖．讲解深入浅出，熟视无睹的语言现象蕴含大学问；
•选材时效性强，关注不断变化发展中的语言．激发学习者积极观察与思考；
•强调互动参与，练习丰富，有针对性，引导学习者进行分析，系统学习语言学及研究方法。
第一章　关于语言：真知和谬见
1.语言的无处不在
2.听一说和读一写
3.对语言的敬畏
3.1 语言崇拜
3.2　语言的社会力量
3.3 名即其人
4.关于语言的“常识”
5.语言的共性
6.语言的起源
6.1 《圣经》和其他
6.2 关于语言起源的旧有理论
6.3　几点初步的结论
7.小结
第二章　语言的物理载体
1.语言的载体
1.1 面对面的口语交流：听和说
1.2　书面的语言交流：读和写
1.3 几种特殊的语言交流形式
1.4　语言不同载体的优与劣
2.语音的研究
2.1　声学语音学
2.2　感知语音学
2.3　发声语音学
2.4 发声器官
2.5　语音学的新发展
3.语音的组合：音位学
4.世界上的文字书写系统
4.1 历史回眸
4.2 “画谜”原则
4.3 不同的书写系统
4.3.1 方块文字
4.3.2　音节文字
4.3.3 字母文字
5.小结
第三章　语言中的词汇
1.开放型词类和闭合型词类
2.词的结构
2.1 粘附词素与自由词素
2.2 派生词素和屈折词素
2.2.1 派生词素
2.2.2 屈折词素
2.2.3 Uglily和Uglification
3.构词法
3.1 复合词
3.2 缩略词
3.3 合成词
3.4 逆成词
3.5 省略词
3.6 外来词
4.汉语的网络新词汇
5.小结
第四章　语言的意义
第五章　语言的句子结构
第六章　使用中的语言
第七章　社会中的语文
第八章　儿童语文习得
第九章　语言与认知
结语
参考书目

《中国大地构造及其演化》（Geotectonic Evolution of China）一书由任纪舜等著，1980年科学出版社出版中文版，1986年日本地书馆出版日文版，1987年科学出版社和Springer Verlag联合出版英文版。该书是1979年出版的1∶400万中国大地构造图（地图出版社）的简要说明，其主要创新点是：将黄汲清的多旋回构造运动观点与板块构造学说结合，首次在中国大地构造图上详细标绘了中国境内主要的板块缝合带；从全球动力学角度，将东亚划分为古亚洲、特提斯—喜马拉雅和滨（环）太平洋三大构造域。将中国的主要断裂带划分为古亚洲、特提斯和滨（环）太平洋三大断裂体系；重新系统划分了中国的造山旋回，建立了构造年表；重新划分了中国的主要构造单元，建立了中国大地构造演化模式：早元古代，中条旋回之后，中朝准地台形成；晚元古代扬子旋回之后，古中国地台形成；古生代初兴凯旋回之后，古中国地台解体，中国古生代构造格局逐步建立；晚古生代，华力西旋回之后，古亚洲大陆（古亚洲构造域）形成；中新生代，印支旋回以来，滨（环）太平洋和特提斯—喜马拉雅构造域逐步形成。