本书深入探索了汉语研究的诸多重要方面：汉语的历史和现状，汉语的音韵、文字、语法，汉语方言，白话与书面语，语言与社会等。作为外国语言学家研究汉语的著作，本书发现、解释了许多汉语使用者习焉不察的语言现象，能帮助我们不带偏见地看待汉语。另外，本书对普通语言学也有重要意义。

Globalization has become an inescapable fact of contemporary life. Some leaders, in both the East and the West, believe that human rights are culture-bound and that liberal democracy is essentially Western, inapplicable to the non-Western world. How can civilized life be preserved and issues of human rights and civil society be addressed if the material forces dominating world affairs are allowed to run blindly, uncontrolled by any cross-cultural consensus on how human values can be given effective expression and direction?
In a thoughtful meditation ranging widely over several civilizations and historical eras, William Theodore de Bary argues that the concepts of leadership and public morality in the major Asian traditions offer a valuable perspective on humanizing the globalization process. Turning to the classic ideals of the Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, and Japanese traditions, he investigates the nature of true leadership and its relation to learning, virtue, and education in human governance; the role in society of the public intellectual; and the responsibilities of those in power in creating and maintaining civil society.
De Bary recognizes that throughout history ideals have always come up against messy human complications. Still, he finds in the exploration and affirmation of common values a worthy attempt to grapple with persistent human dilemmas across the globe.

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Volume 1 focuses on Chinese poetry. Reaching back into the first millennium before Christ, it ranks among the greatest
achievements of human intellect and has made an impact in all other cultures. Especially to be noted are the “Buch der Lieder” (Book of Songs), “Lieder des Südens” (Songs of the South), the classical poetry of the Tang Age with Li Bai (701-762) as its best-known representative, as well as the classical song of the Song Age (10th to 13th ct.). Wolfgang Kubin not only presents China’s literary history, but the history of its ideas and culture as well. Besides the eminent importance of religious issues for the beginnings of this literary genre, the symbolic content of Chinese script is emphased, guaranteeing its readability regardless time and place. The author depicts the development of poetry from religious to secular text as well as from collective authorship in ancestor worship via collective creation in courtly poetry to the works by individual poets. Although the main focus is on the great works of ancient times and Middle Ages, the modern development up to the year 1911, i.e. the end of the Empire, has been given adequate scope. The index facilitates searching for individual authors and works both in international Pinyin-transliteration and Chinese script.
Reviews
"Mit dem Handwerkszeug des Philologen, der Leidenschaft des Literaten und dem Weitblick des Universalisten breitet Kubin die chinesische Dichtkunst als Seelenlandschaft der chinesischen Intelligenz, als kollektives Gedächtnis einer Kultur aus." (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Nr. 96, 26./27. 4. 2003) "Der vorliegende Band ist ein Meisterwerk, das den neuesten Stand der deutschsprachigen Sinologie vertritt und damit der künftigen Forschung nützlich sein wird." (Zeitschrift für Kulturaustausch, Regensburg, Nr. 4, 2003) "Alles in allem ist Wolfgang Kubins "Die chinesische Dichtkunst" ein in seiner Art beeindruckendes Werk, das unser Sachwissen über die chinesische Dichtkunst mit einem Schlag auf den neuesten Stand gebracht und nachkommenden Werken neue Maßstäbe gesetzt hat. Von nun an können wir unsere Auseinandersetzung mit der chinesischen Dichtkunst von diesem Werk aus in Angriff nehmen."
--(NOAG. Nachrichten der Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, Hamburg, Nr. 1/2, 2003)

本书以民国时期的大学为研究对象，主要分析了北京的清华大学、北京大学，上海的圣约翰大学、交通大学、上海大学、复旦大学和中国公学等京、沪两地大学不同的办学风格、校园文化，及其与上海经济，民国政治、国民政府教育政策的互动关系，叙述了民国都会学院精英在政治、学术的交互拉力中虽取得国际化，但在国内环境中却无所适从、渐入颓唐的艰难过程，是作者在中国近代教育史和上海都市文化史领域研究多年的一部力作。

三联书店“高居翰作品系列”新增品种之一，在1993年费正清东亚研究中心举办的赖世和讲座基础上增订而成，专题讨论中国与日本的诗意绘画。虽是一本专门的学术著作，但并不拘于传统上对诗画关系的讨论，另辟蹊径，见解独到，辅以大量精美的宋代、晚明诗意画以及在大陆很少见到的日本南画，以飨有意深入了解中国文化艺术的读者。

《变革中国:市场经济的中国之路》是新制度经济学鼻祖、产权理论的创始人、102岁的诺贝尔经济学家得主科斯讲述的一个有着中国特色的独特故事。在过去30年里，中国从一个市场和企业精神被禁锢而贫困潦倒的国度，成功地转型为一个市场开放、私企盛行的全球经济重镇。改革伊始，中国领导人痛定思痛，解放思想，实事求是，在坚守社会主义立场的同时，官方和民间改革并举，共同打造“中国特色社会主义市场经济”。
《变革中国:市场经济的中国之路》向世人揭示这一切的来龙去脉。它展现给读者中国走向现代市场经济的曲折险途和波澜历程。作者以实地调研为基础，参考国内外众多文献，根据多年对中国经济发展的跟踪观察和对市场经济的长期理论思考，直笔而书，成就中国改革一家之言。
《变革中国：市场经济的中国之路》基于作者长期以来对中国经济的跟踪观察和研究，从毛泽东时代谈起，完整地梳理了中国如何从一个市场和企业精神被禁锢的国度，成功转型为一个市场开放的全球经济重镇，以及这个过程中经历的曲折和波澜，同时针对存在的问题，对中国经济的未来提出了诊断和预测。
作为新制度经济学和产权理论、交易成本的创始人，科斯教授是20世纪以来最重要的经济学大师之一，是对中国经济发展产生直接影响的最重要的经济学家。国内众多的顶尖学者也深受其影响，诸如张五常、吴敬琏、周其仁、张维迎、盛洪、向松祚等，从而影响了中国经济发展的进程。2008年，科斯遍邀全球著名经济学家如蒙代尔、诺斯、福格尔，以及中国的经济学家、企业家和政府官员等，组织了“中国经济制度变革三十周年国际学术研讨会”。张五常著名的《中国的经济制度》，即根据这次研讨会的主题论文整理而成。
可以说，《变革中国》是经济版的《论中国》，文字通俗，可读性极佳。相比于国内作者，科斯教授的立场更独立，叙述更客观、更有说服力。相比于国外的其他经济学家，科斯教授长期以来跟踪研究中国经济，他的叙述更全面更深刻。

This landmark 2008 study provides an integrated analysis of China's unexpected economic boom of the past three decades. The authors combine deep China expertise with broad disciplinary knowledge to explain China's remarkable combination of high-speed growth and deeply flawed institutions. Their work exposes the mechanisms underpinning the origin and expansion of China's great boom. Penetrating studies track the rise of Chinese capabilities in manufacturing and in research and development. The editors probe both achievements and weaknesses across many sectors, including China's fiscal, legal, and financial institutions. The book shows how an intricate minuet combining China's political system with sectorial development, globalization, resource transfers across geographic and economic space, and partial system reform delivered an astonishing and unprecedented growth spurt.

《宋代研究工具书刊指南(修订版)》在1990年初版和1996年第二版的基础上增补了条目200多条，收录了与有宋一代社会各个方面研究相关的包括中、日、韩、英、法、德等6国文字的参考资料，共分为综合性工具书、思想、宗教、社会、经济、政治、法律、文学、芸术、史籍、地理、宋代版本、石刻文献、拓本、宋代研究会等11个主题，先按主题、再按参考书种类编排，主题之下，条目按用途范围与出版时间排列；每条目首列条目名称，其后分列：责任者、发表（出版）单位或部门、发表（出版）时间或起止时间等。附《美国国会图书馆标题表内有关宋代内容资料标题》。

《怀柔远人》的主题是清代礼宾与1793年马嘎尔尼英国使团，书中分别考察了清朝与英国对遣使事件的叙述，以便强调双方不同的实际操作模式与观念框架。在批判性地评介了其他有关清代外交关系的观点之后，第2章提供了一个对清帝国及其统治状况的全景式的考察，第5章也谈到这个问题，并特别关注宾礼。第3章讨论18世纪大英帝国国内文化背景，展示在知识贵族中普遍流行的“外交、贸易及对中国的了解”。第4章重新检讨马嘎尔尼勋爵对觐见过程前前后后的叙述。第6章和第7章透过清朝的礼仪和统治观念来审视清朝有关这次觐见的记载。第8章把双方的叙述列在一起，合而观之。第9章，在对这次清英相遇做出一些总结之后，回顾了中西关系史中对马嘎尔尼使团的研讨。

In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time--the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain. The occasion was the mission of Lord Macartney, sent by the British crown and sponsored by the East India Company, to the court of the Qianlong emperor. "Cherishing Men from Afar" looks at the initial confrontation between these two empires from a historical perspective informed by the insights of contemporary postcolonial criticism and cultural studies.
The history of this encounter, like that of most colonial and imperial encounters, has traditionally been told from the Europeans' point of view. In this book, James L. Hevia consults Chinese sources--many previously untranslated--for a broader sense of what Qing court officials understood; and considers these documents in light of a sophisticated anthropological understanding of Qing ritual processes and expectations. He also reexamines the more familiar British accounts in the context of recent critiques of orientalism and work on the development of the bourgeois subject. Hevia's reading of these sources reveals the logics of two discrete imperial formations, not so much impaired by the cultural misunderstandings that have historically been attributed to their meeting, but animated by differing ideas about constructing relations of sovereignty and power. His examination of Chinese and English-language scholarly treatments of this event, both historical and contemporary, sheds new light on the place of the Macartney mission in the dynamics of colonial and imperial encounters.

朱元璋推翻蒙元政权，建立明朝以后，却也带来了一段腥风血雨的统治，许多文人画家都落得了身首异处的凄惨下场，形成明初画坛的空白时期。本书探讨明代初期与中期的绘画发展，除了讨论明代画家如何赓续元代的绘画成就，寻求创新之外，也探讨了宫廷绘画与浙、吴（苏州）、南京等地方画派的表现及其发展。书中对于画家的社会、经济地位与其绘画风格的关系，也有极为精彩透辟的讨论。

The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the world: the European voyages of exploration were searching not just for new lands but also for new trade routes to the Far East. In this book, Timothy Brook eloquently narrates the changing landscape of life over the three centuries of the Ming (1368-1644), when China was transformed from a closely administered agrarian realm into a place of commercial profits and intense competition for status.
The Confusions of Pleasure marks a significant departure from the conventional ways in which Chinese history has been written. Rather than recounting the Ming dynasty in a series of political events and philosophical achievements, it narrates this longue durée in terms of the habits and strains of everyday life. Peppered with stories of real people and their negotiations of a rapidly changing world, this book provides a new way of seeing the Ming dynasty that not only contributes to the scholarly understanding of the period but also provides an entertaining and accessible introduction to Chinese history for anyone.

The epic, untold story of China’s devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan
For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. The war began in China, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, and China eventually became the fourth great ally, partner to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain. Yet its drama of invasion, resistance, slaughter, and political intrigue remains little known in the West.
Rana Mitter focuses his gripping narrative on three towering leaders: Chiang Kai-shek, the politically gifted but tragically flawed head of China’s Nationalist government; Mao Zedong, the Communists’ fiery ideological stalwart, seen here at the beginning of his epochal career; and the lesser-known Wang Jingwei, who collaborated with the Japanese to form a puppet state in occupied China. Drawing on Chinese archives that have only been unsealed in the past ten years, he brings to vivid new life such characters as Chiang’s American chief of staff, the unforgettable “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell, and such horrific events as the Rape of Nanking and the bombing of China’s wartime capital, Chongqing. Throughout, Forgotten Ally shows how the Chinese people played an essential role in the wider war effort, at great political and personal sacrifice.
Forgotten Ally rewrites the entire history of World War II. Yet it also offers surprising insights into contemporary China. No twentieth-century event was as crucial in shaping China’s worldview, and no one can understand China, and its relationship with America today, without this definitive work.

本书是一部研究近代中德关系史的名著。作者充分利用美国、德国、中国大陆和台湾的历史档案，论述了1928—1938年中德亲近关系建立后德国对中华民国的政权建设、军事制度、工业经济以及意识形态发展所起到的重要影Ⅱ向，指出了近代中国对现代化模式的选择并不只是接受西方的思想和文化，更在于与西方在政治、经济、军事等领域的实质性接触。美国《亚洲研究》和《太平洋事务》以及香港《二十一世纪》等书评认为，本书是研究中德关系史的一本“难以超越”的著作，是关于中华民国史和中国近代史的一项“极其出色”的成就。

How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of cultural resources - during their revolutionary rise to power and afterwards. Skillful "cultural positioning" and "cultural patronage," on the part of Mao Zedong, his comrades and successors, helped to construct a polity in which a once alien Communist system came to be accepted as familiarly "Chinese." Perry traces this process through a case study of the Anyuan coal mine, a place where Mao and other early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party mobilized an influential labor movement at the beginning of their revolution, and whose history later became a touchstone of "political correctness" in the People's Republic of China. Once known as "China's Little Moscow," Anyuan came over time to symbolize a distinctively Chinese revolutionary tradition. Yet the meanings of that tradition remain highly contested, as contemporary Chinese debate their revolutionary past in search of a new political future.

以往欧美学术界在论述抗战前夕和抗日战争期间中国政府的作用时，多采用“史迪威模式”，把目光更多投向中外关系，特别是中美关系。本书作者认为应从中国社会本身来寻求答案，为此，在翻阅爬梳了大量原始档案和文献的基础上，对此项课题进行重新研究，提出了不少新看法，供中国学界和一般的文史爱好者参考。
“在我的分析中强调四个主题。第一，我把战事和军事置于国民党历史的中心，这段历史从20世纪20年代中期作为一个附有武装力量的革命组织的崛起，直到1945年8月随日本投降而终止的抗日战争，到彼时为止，我相信其失败虽然不是不可避免的，却是可以预见的。……
第二，国民党民族主义的一项内容是驳斥将中国描绘成一种不尚武的文化。在19世纪末和20世纪初，西方认为中国不尚武、消极和落后的观点在中国内部被接受了。……
第三，虽然国民党人受到西方军事模式和文化批评的影响，他们并没有忘记中国自己的历史，他们的政策采纳了过去的传统。……
第四，我很重视地缘政治。一方面，这要求注意国民党自己在地缘政治方面的深谋远虑。在这一方面，从1935到1939年，国民党试图利用日本和中国东北有漫长边界的苏联之间的冲突……”