A fascinating and rigorous guide to deciphering Hindu symbolism, this book will help you understand and appreciate religious art in India. Despite its scholarly paraphernalia and language, the book (whose title translates as "seeing") is tremendously useful for the traveler. It's an eye-opening book for the intellectually curious. With a useful glossary and some not-very-good photographs.
"The role of the visual is essential to Hindu tradition and culture, but many attempts to understand India's divine images have been laden with misperceptions. Darśan, a Sanskrit word that means 'seeing,' is an aid to our vision, a book of ideas to help us read, think, and look at Hindu images with appreciation and imagination."—Religious Studies Review

David Marr's posthumously published Vision (1982) influenced a generation of brain and cognitive scientists, inspiring many to enter the field. In Vision, Marr describes a general framework for understanding visual perception and touches on broader questions about how the brain and its functions can be studied and understood. Researchers from a range of brain and cognitive sciences have long valued Marr's creativity, intellectual power, and ability to integrate insights and data from neuroscience, psychology, and computation. This MIT Press edition makes Marr's influential work available to a new generation of students and scientists. In Marr's framework, the process of vision constructs a set of representations, starting from a description of the input image and culminating with a description of three-dimensional objects in the surrounding environment. A central theme, and one that has had far-reaching influence in both neuroscience and cognitive science, is the notion of different levels of analysis--in Marr's framework, the computational level, the algorithmic level, and the hardware implementation level. Now, thirty years later, the main problems that occupied Marr remain fundamental open problems in the study of perception. Vision provides inspiration for the continuing efforts to integrate knowledge from cognition and computation to understand vision and the brain.

Imperiled Destinies examines the evolution of Daoist beliefs about human liability and redemption over eight centuries and outlines ritual procedures for rescuing an ill‐starred destiny. From the second through the tenth century CE, Daoism emerged as a liturgical organization that engaged vigorously with Buddhism and transformed Chinese thinking about suffering, the nature of evil, and the aims of liberation. In the fifth century, elements of classical Daoism combined with Indian yogic practices to interiorize the quest for deliverance. The medieval record portrays a world engulfed by evil, where human existence was mortgaged from birth and burdened by increasing debts and obligations in this world and the next. Against this gloomy outlook, Daoism offered ritual and sacramental instruments capable of acting on the unseen world, providing therapeutic relief and ecstatic release from apprehensions of death, disease, war, spoilt harvests, and loss. Drawing on prayer texts, liturgical sermons, and experiential narratives, Franciscus Verellen focuses on the Daoist vocabulary of bondage and redemption, the changing meanings of sacrifice, and metaphoric conceptualizations bridging the visible and invisible realms. The language of medieval supplicants envisaged the redemption of an imperiled destiny as debt forgiveness, and deliverance as healing, purification, release, or emergence from darkness into light.

With great reverence for the Bible, Dundes offers a new and exciting way to resolve some of the mysteries and contradictions that evolved during the Bible's pre-written legacy and that persists today. Using his expert knowledge of folklore, Dundes unearths and contracts multiple versions of nearly every major biblical event, including the creation of women, the flood, the ten commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord's Prayer, and the inscription on the Cross.

Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yôkai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines, and movies, exploring their meanings in the Japanese cultural imagination and offering an abundance of valuable and, until now, understudied material. Michael Dylan Foster tracks yôkai over three centuries, from their appearance in seventeenth-century natural histories to their starring role in twentieth-century popular media. Focusing on the intertwining of belief and commodification, fear and pleasure, horror and humor, he illuminates different conceptions of the "natural" and the "ordinary" and sheds light on broader social and historical paradigms--and ultimately on the construction of Japan as a nation.

本書為2008 年「沈淪、懺悔與救度：中國文化的懺悔書寫」會議論文集，本書為華語學界第一次以懺悔為主題，審視佛、道、儒與古典文學中的罪疚感與文化生產之間的關係。會議舉辦後引起廣大回響，經過詳密與嚴格的審查程序與校對工程之後，即將正式出版，預計將引起學界廣泛的討論。
文學與宗教關係的研究一向是本所相關領域的同仁專長所在，本所具有嫻熟佛教、道教、天主教各種不同宗教傳統的同仁，各自曾經接受東西方不同的相關學術訓練傳統，對於學界相關研究成果具有相當的視野，同時具備操作能，又能兼收交相攻錯之意。以中國文學傳統中的懺悔書寫為觀察對象，幾乎是一個全新的嘗試，可以為中國文學研究的方法與內涵提供一個嶄新的視野。然而這些豐碩的成果尚未為研究中國文學的學者所充分吸收，本書以「懺悔」為媒介，中國文化中的宗教思想、道德範式，以及理想的人生圖像同時交互作用，成為一個多重聲調複式奏演的文化場域。

Product Description
An exploration of Chinese thought during a time of monumental change, the period after the fall of the Han dynasty.
From the Back Cover
Exploring a time of profound change, this book details the intellectual ferment after the fall of the Han dynasty. Questions about "heaven" and the affairs of the world that had seemed resolved by Han Confucianism resurfaced and demanded reconsideration. New currents in philosophy, religion, and intellectual life emerged to leave an indelible mark on the subsequent development of Chinese thought and culture. This period saw the rise of xuanxue ("dark learning" or "learning of the mysterious Dao"), the establishment of religious Daoism, and the rise of Buddhism. In examining the key ideas of xuanxue and focusing on its main proponents, the contributors to this volume call into question the often-presumed monolithic identity of this broad philosophical front. The volume also highlights the richness and complexity of religion in China during this period, examining the relationship between the Way of the Celestial Master and local, popular religious beliefs and practices, and discussing the relationship between religious Daoism and Buddhism.

Symbolism of Evil is a Beacon Press publication.

收录人物近三万人，引用书达83种。全书包括姓名索引和字号索引。

Do we rely on different senses now than the ones we relied on in the past? How have our senses affected history? How have the senses themselves changed? What role have the senses played in the ways we discriminate? Exploring illuminating examples from antiquity to the twenty-first century, this lively, concise introduction to the essential, emerging field of sensory history presents a new way of looking at the past that takes the everyday, the average, and the banal as seriously as it takes the history of elites, the intellect, and the exceptional. Considering each of the five senses, Mark M. Smith explores diverse subjects: visual culture in Victorian Britain and South America; sound in nineteenth-century Australia and France; gender politics and touch in early modern Europe and in native America; 'race' and olfaction in the United States and scent in ancient Christianity; and, the role of taste in shaping national identity in modern China and early America.

《历代史料笔记丛刊·唐宋史料笔记:朝野类要(繁体竖排版)》是一部宋代官场小型百科全书，“征引朝廷故事，以类相从”。全书共五卷，20小类，尤其详于官制、考试、礼制等方面，极富资料价值。整理者在点校全书的基础上，详细考述了《历代史料笔记丛刊·唐宋史料笔记:朝野类要(繁体竖排版)》编纂者赵升的生平、成书经过、版本流传等，并通过对《四库》底本的细致比勘，揭示了《四库》馆臣改动底本的不为人知的一面，值得学界重视。
《历代史料笔记丛刊·唐宋史料笔记:朝野类要(繁体竖排版)》书前有彩色书影，中间为文本点校与相关研究，书后有?引，使用方便，在已出的史料笔记中独树一帜。

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.
In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

天文分野是由中国传统星占学衍生出来的一套将天界星区与地理区域相互对应的理论学说，它集中体现了古代中国人的宇宙观和世界观。长期以来，天文分野一直属于科技史的研究范畴，而未进入历史学者的研究视野。但事实上，中国古代的天文分野对历史上各个时期的王朝政治、社会文化及思想观念都有重要的影响，如果从历史学的视角去加以考察，会发现围绕天文分野有很丰富的议题值得进一步发掘与开拓。本文即以《天地之间：天文分野的历史学研究》为题，对天文分野与社会历史相关的一系列问题进行了较为系统的研究。 希望本文的研究有助于我们透过天文分野，更深入地理解古代中国人的思维世界，以及中国古代社会由传统走向近代的转型历程。

This book is a collection of texts on one of China’s boldest social experiments in recent years: the Bishan Project, a rural reconstruction and practical utopian commune project in a small village Bishan, Anhui Province, China. This project ran for 6 years (2011- 2016) and caused a national debate in China, when it was invited to be exhibited and presented abroad.
The writings describe and criticize the social problems caused by China’s over-loading urbanization process and starts a contemporary agrarianism and agritopianism discourse to resist the modernism and developmentalism doctrine which dominated China for more than a century, answering a global desire for the theory and action of the alternative social solution for today’s environmental and political crises.

アンカラで＜私＞は一人のトルコ人女性を訪ね、東京から預かってきたものを渡すことができた。イスタンブールの街角では熊をけしかけられ、ギリシャの田舎町では路上ですれ違った男にパーティーに誘われて　　。ふと気がつくと、あまたの出会いと別れを繰り返した旅もいつのまにか［壮年期］にさしかかり、＜私＞は、旅をいつ、どのように終えればよいのか、考えるようになっていた　　。
［対談］旅を生き、旅を書く（高田宏×沢木耕太郎）　収録

本书是中国和日本宋辽金元史界青年学者之间密切交流的成果，彰显了此一领域的研究特色之一，以“史料”与“场域”为核心议题，体现了当前宋辽金元史研究领域的新课题、新视野。
本书是复旦大学和日本宋代史研究会共同筹划举办的中日青年学者辽宋夏金元史研讨会的论文精选，由日本宋史专家平田茂树先生和复旦大学余蔚教授合作主编，收录文章二十篇，以“文献开发和空间探索”为核心，分别从新史料、史料的新可能性、信息流动与士人网络、礼仪空间与文化传统、地域空间与历史书写、景观空间与人的互动、政治空间与制度运作等多个主题展开讨论，展示了辽宋金元史界相关专题蕞新和最前沿的学术研究成果，借助东亚的辽宋西夏金元史的国际交流，推动超越“时代”、“领域”的学术研究更上一层楼。

Gershom Scholem was the master builder of historical studies of the Kabbalah. When he began to work on this neglected field, the few who studied these texts were either amateurs who were looking for occult wisdom, or old-style Kabbalists who were seeking guidance on their spiritual journeys. His work broke with the outlook of the scholars of the previous century in Judaica—die Wissenschaft des Judentums, the Science of Judaism—whose orientation he rejected, calling their “disregard for the most vital aspects of the Jewish people as a collective entity: a form of “censorship of the Jewish past.” The major founders of modern Jewish historical studies in the nineteenth century, Leopold Zunz and Abraham Geiger, had ignored the Kabbalah; it did not fit into their account of the Jewish religion as rational and worthy of respect by “enlightened” minds. The only exception was the historian Heinrich Graetz. He had paid substantial attention to its texts and to their most explosive exponent, the false Messiah Sabbatai Zevi, but Graetz had depicted the Kabbalah and all that flowed from it as an unworthy revolt from the underground of Jewish life against its reasonable, law-abiding, and learned mainstream. Scholem conducted a continuing polemic with Zunz, Geiger, and Graetz by bringing into view a Jewish past more varied, more vital, and more interesting than any idealized portrait could reveal.
— from the Foreword by Arthur Hertzberg, 1995

中国最早的一部历史地图集应该是西晋裴秀的《禹贡地域图》十八篇。这十八篇地图可以说是世界上见于文字记载的最早的一部以历代政区沿革为主的历史地图集。可惜图已失传。而今现存最早的莫过于宋代的《历代地理指掌图》。
《历代地理指掌图》计有地图 44 幅，每幅图均附图说，上自帝喾，下至宋朝，各代地图，至少 1 幅，多则 5 幅，是很规范的历史地图集。在图集前安排两幅总图，第 3 幅至第 44 幅图，才是帝喾至宋朝的历代政区沿革地图。再加之前有序，后有总论，无愧为中国古代地图集编绘之创举。
第一幅图是「古今华夷区域总要图」。此图的海岸线、河流、长城等轮廓，与阜昌七年（1136年）刻石的「华夷图」很相似。特别是这幅图的图说与「华夷图」上的说明文字，大体一致。可见二者所依据的是同一幅图。进一步讲，均是参考了唐代贾耽的《海内华夷图》。还有「古今华夷区域总要图」上的海洋，海水用水波纹表示，海洋中的岛屿（如：日本、流球、三佛齐等）用长圆框加文字注记表示。由此推测，贾耽的《海内华夷图》中的海洋与岛屿的绘法，可能也是这样。此图的范围，包括今朝鲜、日本、南海诸岛和印度等地。图上域外部分绘画比较简略，但主要内容为宋代所置诸路和古今州郡的分佈。第二幅是「历代华夷山水名图」。此图与其后诸图，海岸线轮廓与第一幅基本相同，没绘域外部分，海水没绘水波纹，主要反映古代中国山河名称及分佈大势。第 3 幅至第 44 幅图，有古代的九州图、十二州（九州和营、幽、并三州）以及「春秋列国图」、「秦郡县天下图」、「西汉郡国图」、「三国鼎峙图」、「西晋郡国图」、「萧齐南国图」、「元魏北国图」、「唐十道图」等。宋代地图 5 幅，分别是「圣朝太祖肇造图」、「圣朝太宗统一图」、「圣朝元丰九域图」、「圣朝化外州郡图」和「圣朝升改废置州郡图」。
关于《历代地理指掌图》的作者，在宋人着述中，说法不一。有人说是苏轼，有人说是税安礼，也有说不知何人所作。近人王重民先生所撰《中国善本书提要》中推论《历代地理指掌图》的作者时说：「今以意推之，图盖北宋时税安礼所撰，坊本或不题安礼名，盖初刻于蜀，后遂辗转託之苏轼。」王先生的推论不无道理，因此，可以认为《历代地理指掌图》的作者是税安礼，初刊时，图非 44 幅，未注作者，也无苏轼序。赵亮夫见到的刻本，也许已有伪託苏轼所作的序。赵亮夫说他所看到的刻本「字画漫不可考，乃加校勘，命工锓木，续有升改，亦并足之」。可想，最后一幅图中南宋绍兴三十二年（1162年）的升改建置，是赵亮夫所增补。
遗憾的是，现在只有南宋刻本传世下来，现存日本东洋文库，国内仅见明刻本。此南宋刻本于 1919 年曾自日本邮至北京装修，当时京师图书馆馆长张宗祥用馆藏明刻本与宋刻本校核，并用朱笔在明刻本上做了改动和说明，从中可以看到宋刻本的面貌。现存国家图书馆的这部明刻本，在最后一页有一段张宗祥的朱笔手记，记录了校对的时间和经过。明代刻本《历代地理指掌图》目前也不多见。现今国家图书馆存两部，中国科学院图书馆存一部，美国国会图书馆存一部。此外，北京大学图书馆存有一部清代人抄本。这些都是中国古代地图的珍品。
此本據日本國東洋文庫所藏南宋刻本影印，爲目前所能見到最善之本。