摘要：Why does authoritarian China provide a higher level of public goods than democratic India? Studies based on regime type have shown that the level of public goods provision is higher in democratic systems than in authoritarian forms of government. However, public goods provision in China and India contradicts these findings. Whether in terms of access to education, healthcare, public transportation, and basic necessities, such as drinking water and electricity, China does consistently better than India. This book argues that regime type does not determine public goods outcomes. Using empirical evidence from the Chinese and Indian municipal water sectors, the study explains and demonstrates how a social contract, an informal institution, influences formal institutional design, which in turn accounts for the variations in public goods provision. Compares public goods provided by China and India and argues that regime types do not determine public goods outcomes Proposes a new conceptual framework for understanding public goods provision through a detailed study of drinking water in Chinese and Indian cities Explores important policy issues for developing countries and gives insights into real-life policy implications for governments

摘要：The China Perspectives series focuses on translating and publishing works by leading Chinese scholars, writing about both global topics and China-related themes. It covers Humanities & Social Sciences, Education, Media and Psychology, as well as many interdisciplinary themes. This is the first time that any of these books have been translated into English for international readers. The series aims to put forward a Chinese perspective, give insights into cutting-edge academic thinking in China, and inspire researchers globally.

摘要：Compensated dating or commercial sex involving young girls has emerged as a global concern over the past decades and since the turn of the twenty-first century, has created a panic among parents in Hong Kong. Nevertheless, there is no consensus on whether compensated dating is an offence, an illegal victimization, or a private matter. Guardians at different levels are eager to locate feasible intervention measures to deal with this rising issue while academics and researchers are interested in understanding more of its features and the viewpoints of the different parties involved. Through the lens of an original, detailed qualitative study with 27 girls involved in compensated dating and a quantitative study involving around 1,000 parents, social workers, police officers, and community leaders, this book offers readers both insiders』 voices and outsiders』 views of compensated dating. In addition to addressing local and global concerns, it maintains a balance between theory and practice, description and debate.

摘要：Popular operas in late imperial China were a major part of daily entertainment, and were also important for transmitting knowledge of Chinese culture and values. In the twentieth century, however, Chinese operas went through significant changes. During the first four decades of the 1900s, led by Xin Wutai (New Stage) of Shanghai and Yisushe of Xi』an, theaters all over China experimented with both stage and scripts to present bold new plays centering on social reform. Operas became closely intertwined with social and political issues. This trend toward 「politicization」 was to become the most dominant theme of Chinese opera from the 1930s to the 1970s, when ideology-laden political plays reflected a radical revolutionary agenda. Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, this book focuses on the reformed operas staged in Shanghai and Xi』an. By presenting extensive information on both traditional/imperial China and revolutionary/Communist China, it reveals the implications of these 「modern」 operatic experiences and the changing features of Chinese operas throughout the past five centuries. Although the different genres of opera were watched by audiences from all walks of life, the foundations for opera’s omnipresence completely changed over time.

摘要：First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places. In Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools, the first book-length treatment in English of Chinese travel literature (youji), James M. Hargett identifies and examines core works in the genre, from the Six Dynasties period (220–581), when its essential characteristics emerged, to its florescence in the late Ming dynasty (1368–1644). He traces the dynamic process through which the genre, most of which was written by scholars and officials, developed, and shows that key features include a journey toward an identifiable place; essay or diary format; description of places, phenomena, and conditions, accompanied by authorial observations, comments, and even personal feelings; inclusion of sensory details; and narration of movement through space and time._x000D_ Travel literature's inclusion of a variety of writing styles and purposes has made it hard to delineate. Hargett finds, however, that classic pieces of Chinese travel literature reveal much about the author, his values, and his view of the world, which in turn tells us about the author's society, making travel literature a rich source of historical information.

摘要：Since the first century when Buddhism entered China, the foreign religion has influenced and been influenced in turn by traditional Chinese culture, and eventually become an important part of it. That is one of the great historical themes not only for China but also for East Asia. This book explores the elements of Buddhism, including its classics, doctrines, system and rituals, to reveal the basic connotation of Buddhism as a cultural entity. Regarding the development of Buddhism in China, it traces the spread in chronological order, from the introduction in Han Dynasties (202 B.C.-220 A.D.), to the prosperity in the Sixteen Kingdoms (circa. 304-circa. 439 A.D.), and then to the decline since the Five Dynasties (907-circa. 960 A.D.). It is noteworthy that the Buddhist schools in the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420-589 A.D.), and the Buddhist sects in Sui and Tang Dynasties (581-907 A.D.), contribute to the sinicization of Buddhism. This book also deals with the interesting question of the similarities and differences between Chinese Buddhism and Indian Buddhism, to examine the specific characters of the former in terms of thought and culture. In the last chapter, the external influence of Chinese Buddhism in East Asia is studied. Scholars and students in Buddhism and Chinese culture studies, especially those in Buddhist countries, will benefit from the book. Also, it will appeal to readers interested in religion, Chinese culture and ancient Chinese history.

摘要：This book actively engages with current discussion of narratology, and unnatural narrative theory in particular. Unsatisfied with the hegemony of European and Anglo-American narrative theory, it calls for a transnational and comparative turn in unnatural narrative theory, the purpose of which is to draw readers』 attention to those periphery and marginalized narratives produced in places other than England and America. It places equal weight on theoretical exploration and critical practice. The book, in addition to offering a detailed account of current scholarship of unnatural narratology, examines its core issues and critical debates as well as outlining a set of directions for its future development. To present a counterpart of Western unnatural narrative studies, this book specifically takes a close look at the experimental narratives in China and Iraq either synchronically or diachronically. In doing so, it aims, on the one hand, to show how the unnatural narratives are written and to be explained differently from those Western unnatural narrative works, and on the other hand, to use the particular cases to challenge the existing narratological framework so as to further enrich and supplement it. The book will be useful and inspiring to those scholars working in such broad fields as narrative theory, literary criticism, cultural studies, semiotics, media studies, and comparative literature and world literature studies.

摘要：Renjian Cihua is a masterpiece in Chinese literary criticism written by Wang Guowei, a famous scholar in the study of Chinese classics. It is also one of the most influential academic works in China from the late Qing Dynasty to the present. This book contains two parts. The first part is the content of the lectures given by the author Florence Chia-ying Yeh, who is a Chinese-born Canadian poet and scholar of classical Chinese poetry. With accessible, graceful and refined language, the author explains the theory on "artistic conceptions" in Renjian Cihua, the difference between Shi and Ci in aesthetic traits, and the works of celebrated Ci poets in various dynasties. The second part is the translation of Renjian Cihua. This book will be a valuable reference to scholars and students in Chinese classics and Wang Guowei studies. Readers interested in Chinese literature will also be attracted by it.

摘要：本书以这一群体为考察对象,意在对唐代建国模式及其修正过程进行梳理,并对陈寅恪所提出的"关陇集团"、"李武韦杨婚姻集团"等中古史研究中的理论命题进行回应。此外,有关太原功臣的历史叙事,也是唐初修正建国模式、重新塑造开国史的重要文本,本书将以此为个案,探讨唐初政治实践对历史观念与国史编纂的影响。

摘要：晚清民国时期，西医的不断传入，有关中西医之间的讨论甚嚣尘上，这些争论在一定程度上促进了中国医疗卫生事业的发展。本书共收录这一时期有关医疗卫生的文献96种，分医疗机构、大众推广读物、医疗期刊等，试图通过对晚清民国时期医疗卫生文献的整理与开发，为学者提供这一时期民国医疗卫生条件建设的概况、发展状况的资料，推动民国医疗社会史的研究。

摘要：本书从经学的角度研究清代治《春秋》学的学者以及他们的代表性著作，发前人之所未发，从经学而非思想史的角度来研究清代的《春秋》学，是使儒家经典回归经学研究的有益探索，也是《春秋》学研究史的新发展、新尝试。本书分为四个部分：清代主流《春秋》学研究，清代《春秋》左氏学研究，清代《春秋》公羊学研究，清代《春秋》谷梁学研究。作者通过研读清代《春秋》学著作，归纳出清代主流《春秋》学研究乃'以己意兼采三《传》以释

摘要：Capitalist globalisation since the 1980s has produced immense benefits in terms of technical progress, poverty reduction and welfare improvement. However, it has been accompanied by profound contradictions, including ecological destruction, global warming, inequality, concentration of business power, and financial instability. Regulation of global political economy in the interests of the majority of the world’s population is essential if the human species is to avoid a Darwinian catastrophe. This book explores China’s rich history of regulating the market in the interests of the mass of the population. For over two thousand years the Chinese bureaucracy has sought pragmatically to find a Way in which to integrate the 『invisible hand』 of market forces with the 『visible hand』 of ethically guided government regulation. Instead of seeking confrontation with China, citizens and politicians in the West need to deepen their understanding of the contribution that China can make to globally sustainable development in the decades and centuries ahead.

摘要：The Mongol conquest of north China between 1211 and 1234 inflicted terrible wartime destruction, wiping out more than one-third of the population and dismantling the existing social order. In the Wake of the Mongols recounts the riveting story of how northern Chinese men and women adapted to these trying circumstances and interacted with their alien Mongol conquerors to create a drastically new social order. To construct this story, the book uses a previously unknown source of inscriptions recorded on stone tablets. Jinping Wang explores a north China where Mongol patrons, Daoist priests, Buddhist monks, and sometimes single women—rather than Confucian gentry—exercised power and shaped events, a portrait that upends the conventional view of imperial Chinese society. Setting the stage by portraying the late Jin and closing by tracing the Mongol period’s legacy during the Ming dynasty, she delineates the changing social dynamics over four centuries in the northern province of Shanxi, still a poorly understood region.

摘要：'大生驻沪事务所'是大生企业集团驻上海的办事机构，是当时大生集团的神经中枢，在整个大生运营系统中具有举足轻重的地位。大生驻沪事务所与大生许多企业每天都有号信往来，通过号信实施对大生集团众多企业的了解、掌控和指挥，各企业则借此了解外部形势和市场行情。大生上海事务所与大生企业往来号信数量庞大，内容丰富，涉及大生集团各企业经营活动的方方面面和当时社会生活的各个领域。这批号信，无论是对近代民族工业的宏观研

摘要：和刻本中医古籍就是由日人抄录或重新刻印流通的中医文献，是凝聚了中日两国人民智慧成果的文化结晶，具有鲜明的特色以及独特的研究价值，同时，它让部分已经散佚的中医文献以和刻本的形式得以保存，这些珍贵的文献内容是中医文化不可或缺的重要一环。 据统计，仅1840年至1855年的16年时间里，通过'书籍之路'运往日本的书籍就达3407种。从中国各地收集而来的中国书籍通过东南沿海的港口启航运往日本长崎、大阪等地

摘要：《印度佛教史》一书是卓越的日本佛教学者平川彰先生论述印度佛教的通史类著作，内容详尽，叙述简洁，广泛综合东西方印度佛教研究成果。其论理分明，剖析层层深入，很大程度上恢复了印度佛教的历史概貌，令读者耳目一新。本书是“学术性的佛教研究”的经典之作，为初学者了解印度佛教的完美入门书，亦为广大佛学研习者和爱好人士的必备指南。

摘要：艺术史研究中长期以'仕女画'或'美人画'来表述以女性为主题的绘画作品，但这样的术语不仅相对晚出，在形成过程中还带有一定的画科定位和评论取向，也无法囊括所有围绕'女性'产生的绘画作品。本书中，巫鸿先生提出了'女性题材绘画'这个概念，并引入'女性空间'作为讨论的核心，意图把被孤立和抽出的女性形象还原到它们所属的图画、建筑和社会环境中去 目录： 绪 论 为什么要重新研究女性题材绘画？ 第一章 缘起：灵魂旅行与宇宙女神（战国～汉） 第二章　女性楷模：空间的说教（汉～南北朝） 第三章　山水神女：欲望的空间（南北朝） 第四章　宫闱丽人：女性空间的独立（东周～唐） 第五章 异邦的杨贵妃：再造性别空间（五代～辽） 第六章 织——女功、女德与女性政治空间（宋） 第七章 青楼图像：表现与自我表现（明～清） 第八章 美人画：程式与话语（明～清） 第九章 古与今的协商：陈洪绶的女性世界 第十章 现实与虚拟之间：皇帝的幻想后宫（清） 结 语

摘要：《里耶秦简文字编》之材料来源，包括（一）《里耶秦简（壹）》所著录之五、六、八层简牍，（二）《里耶秦简博物馆藏秦简》所著录除五、六、八层以外其它层位之里耶简（两书收里耶简总数逾3000枚。单字超56000余个）。《里耶秦简文字编》共收单字字头1540个，其中多有《秦文字编》、《秦简牍文字编》等专业工具书未收之新见秦文字。 《里耶秦简文字编》分正编、附录两部分。 正编十四卷，字头按大徐本《说文解字

摘要：为纪念2018年北京大学建校、北大图书馆建馆120周年，北大图书馆经过1年精心准备，从20年来北大图书馆新藏金石拓本中挑选了312种精品（编282号），配以带有研究性质的说明文字，由北大出版社推出8开彩版图录。所收拓本有甲骨金器、瓦当砖陶、碑志和法帖四大类，多为30年来新出土、新发现的重要金石，亦有部分北大无藏的稀见旧拓。这些拓本上起殷商，下迄近代，或涉历史风云人物，或涉重要史实，或裨益于史学研究，或展示书法新佳作。本书颇具历史文化与艺术特色，带有浓重“北大特征”烙印，是集中展示新中国出土金石文物、极具史料价值的一部新资料集。本书的推出，有利于学界对北大新馆藏的了解利用，便于读者对古代书法精品的欣赏。

摘要：500多张精美图片全方位展示中国现存的最大皇家园林的前世今生，揭秘这座被列入《世界遗产名录》的'皇家园林博物馆'的借景手法、山形水系、文物古建、历史真相，以及其'移天缩地'的独特造园艺术和文化内涵。