海外中国研究
Chinese Painting and Its Audiences
Douban
Craig Clunas
publishing house:
Princeton University Press
2017
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What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them discussed here in English for the first time, to show how Chinese painting has been understood by a range of audiences over five centuries, from the Ming Dynasty to today. Richly illustrated, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences demonstrates that viewers in China and beyond have irrevocably shaped this great artistic tradition.
Arguing that audiences within China were crucially important to the evolution of Chinese painting, Clunas considers how Chinese artists have imagined the reception of their own work. By examining paintings that depict people looking at paintings, he introduces readers to ideal types of viewers: the scholar, the gentleman, the merchant, the nation, and the people. In discussing the changing audiences for Chinese art, Clunas emphasizes that the diversity and quantity of images in Chinese culture make it impossible to generalize definitively about what constitutes Chinese painting.
Exploring the complex relationships between works of art and those who look at them, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences sheds new light on how the concept of Chinese painting has been formed and reformed over hundreds of years.
Collective Resistance in China
Douban
Yongshun Cai
publishing house:
Stanford University Press
2010
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Although academics have paid much attention to contentious politics in China and elsewhere, research on the outcomes of social protests, both direct and indirect, in non-democracies is still limited. In this new work, Yongshun Cai combines original fieldwork with secondary sources to examine how social protest has become a viable method of resistance in China and, more importantly, why some collective actions succeed while others fail.
Cai looks at the collective resistance of a range of social groups—peasants to workers to homeowners—and explores the outcomes of social protests in China by adopting an analytical framework that operationalizes the forcefulness of protestor action and the cost-benefit calculations of the government. He shows that a protesting group's ability to create and exploit the divide within the state, mobilize participants, or gain extra support directly affects the outcome of its collective action. Moreover, by exploring the government's response to social protests, the book addresses the resilience of the Chinese political system and its implications for social and political developments in China.
被统治的艺术
The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China Douban Goodreads
[加] 宋怡明
translator:
钟逸明
publishing house:
后浪丨中国华侨出版社
2019
《明朝那些事儿》作者当年明月作序
哈佛大学费正清研究中心主任宋怡明教授全新力作
从明清日常政治入手,深入剖析中国文化肌理,透视“阳奉阴违”“上有政策,下有对策”“制度套利”等深植中国社会的潜规则
◎ 编辑推荐
☆ 荣获美国《选择》杂志2018年度“ 杰出学术著作奖”
☆ 厦门大学教授郑振满、耶鲁大学教授濮德培、《逃避统治的艺术》作者詹姆斯·斯科特盛誉推荐,《明朝那些事儿》作者当年明月、香港中文大学历史系前系主任科大卫倾情作序。
☆ 由小历史见大历史,由百姓小故事讨论时代大问题。从明代军役制度及军户的因应策略入手,再现政策与人性的博弈,反思明朝治国得失,促使我们思考什么是好制度。
☆ 宋怡明教授普通话流利,熟知福建风土人情,有近三十年田野调查经验,收集了大量家谱、地方志等第一手民间资料。他作为以历史人类学研究为标志的“华南学派”第三代学者之翘楚,经常引用他口中的“祖师爷”傅衣凌先生的话:历史研究不可以在图书馆做,要去跑田野。
◎ 内容简介
本书以明代沿海卫所为背景,剖析在明朝世袭军户制度下军户家庭与官府的互动,着重描述和总结了承担兵役义务的军户如何趋利避害,制订出种种策略以优化自身处境。他们既未公然蔑视权威,亦非俯首帖耳,而是在反抗与服从的“中间地带”运作,以期将需要付出的代价降到最低,同时使利益最大化。
本书分三大部分,分别讲述了福建军户在原籍、卫所和军屯的生活。本书的一大特色在于,运用了大量家谱、地方志、口述史等民间资料,讲述了许多发生在军户生活中有趣的故事。真实而鲜活的案例,辅以严谨、细致的考辨,构成了这本讲述百姓自身历史的社会史著作。
◎ 媒体推荐
在中国大一统的王朝体制中,民间社会形成了灵活多样的应对机制。《被统治的艺术》论述明代军户群体的生存策略,对理解中国传统政治文化与社会形态富有启迪意义。
——郑振满,厦门大学历史系教授
这部颇具启发性的著作运用了大量史料,创造性地将过去与现在联系起来,是近年来出版的对明清中国社会关系最复杂、最生动的描写之一。
——濮德培(Peter C. Perdue),耶鲁大学历史系教授
本书睿智而有力地将微观历史与宏观历史融为一炉,在长时段中探索人们如何在表面的顺从下进行抵抗。作者通过历史的放大镜审视明代的征兵制度,意在展示个人与国家之间的操纵策略。
——詹姆斯·C. 斯科特(James C. Scott),耶鲁大学政治系教授
◎ 获奖情况
★ 荣获美国《选择》杂志2018年度“杰出学术著作奖”。
中国的军阀政治 (1916-1928)
Douban
(美) 齐锡生
translator:
杨云若 / 萧延中
publishing house:
中国人民大学出版社
2010
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本书是众多海外中国研究独树一帜的政治史力作。其原创性贡献在于,并未囿于传统的史学描述范式——把“军阀政治”视为由拥兵自重的武夫所组成的军政集团,聚焦于军阀的逸闻趣事;而是在占有丰富史料的前提下,以“权力均势系统”和“角色行为规则”为观照,试图在政治、经济、军事、思想和社会心理等多重历史要素中,勾勒出全方位政治运作的多元图景。研究思路独特,创见迭出,融历史与理论于一炉。读者既可从中感知军阀个体的特殊行为惯习,又能从中把握政治生态演变背后的北洋式逻辑,堪称一部跨学科研究的经典之作。
时空中的美术
Douban
[美国] 巫鸿
publishing house:
生活·读书·新知三联书店
2009
本书是继《礼仪中的美术——巫鸿中国古代美术史文编》之后,巫鸿先生在三联书店推出的第二部学术论文集。与《文编》集中探讨中国古美术的“礼仪”功能相比,《二集》的论题侧重考察中国美术中特有的“时空”观念,以及它在不同媒材的图像中的表现和释读。“时空”的观念与表现是巫鸿近十几年集中思考的一个主要问题,他认为这是另一条可供理解中国艺术独特性的线索。
全书分为三部分——上编:时空的形象;中编:观念的再现;下编:图像的释读,所收1992—2007文章15篇,考查对象包括建筑、明器、拓片、画屏、卷轴、册页、摄影等多种形式。与常见的中国美术史研究不同,这些论文没有局限于孤立的门类和史实,而是竭力为这些现象找到自己的传统和脉络,并赋予其宽阔的视野,使阐释更具启发性。这些文章是对《文集》提出“礼仪美术”概念的完善与补充,从而有助于读者更深入地认识中国美术的独特传统。
礼仪中的美术
Douban
[美国] 巫鸿
translator:
郑岩
publishing house:
生活·读书·新知三联书店
2005
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本书选译了著名美术史家巫鸿教授自1985年以来发表的31篇论文。这些论文;围绕着”礼仪美术”(ritual art)这一基本概念讨论了中国上古和中古美术中的多项艺术传统和形式,包括史前至三代的陶、玉和青铜礼器,东周以降的墓葬艺术,佛教。道教美术的产生和初期发展等。这些论文大量使用考古和文献证据,以扩大美术史研究的广度和深度。作者结合人类学和社会学 的理论和方法论,探讨建筑、雕塑、画像和器物等各种视觉形象的组合以及与人类行为及思维的有机联系。其分析对象不再是孤立的物品和图像.而包括了对视觉环境的复原以及对艺术品的创作动因、社会环境,礼仪功能以及观者反应的考察。文章中的讨论往往在两个层面上进行,除了对具体历史问题的考察,还反思有关的学术史和研究方法。相当一批论文从比较文化史的角度探讨了中国古代美术的特殊物质性和视觉传统对重新思考中国美术史的叙事结构具有重要意义。
在西方学界中,这些文章对近年中国古代美术的研究已产生重要影响。本书是国内首次对巫鸿教授学术成果的系统介绍。全书分为四部分,包括史前至先秦美术、汉代美术、中古佛教与道教美术,及古代美术沿革。书后附有访谈录、论文出处。书中插配古代美术品照片、拓片、线图,地图等图像600余帧。
废墟的故事
Douban
[美国] 巫鸿
translator:
肖铁
publishing house:
上海人民出版社
2012
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美术史家巫鸿最新学术专著力作,中文版与英文版同年面世。
废墟主题,纵横捭阖,探讨中国艺术从古代到当代的实践与经验,领域横跨绘画、建筑、摄影、印刷品和电影,并与西方艺术参照并观,令人眼界大开。《废墟的故事》不仅对于中国美术与视觉文化是一次富于雄心的思辨,对于全球语境下的艺术研究同样是一项里程碑式的贡献。
传统中国美术中的“废墟”在哪里?在创造现代中国视觉文化的过程中,东西方的废墟观念是如何在历史的对立中得以流布与深化?20世纪以来,当代废墟美学是如何在过去与未来之间寻找到自身存在的立足之地?
美术史家巫鸿将中国“废墟”观念及其视觉表现形式的流变放置在考察的中心:丘与墟,碑与枯树,作为废墟替身的拓片,“迹”的种种形式,“如画废墟”的东西流通,“战争废墟”的庆典与见证,《小城之春》的废宅与老城,圆明园旁的前卫诗歌与美术,当代艺术对于都市拆迁废墟的浓烈兴趣……本书在梳理这份涵盖绘画、建筑、摄影、印刷品和电影的材料清单时,“展现出令人敬佩的清晰与准确”(包华石)。
《废墟的故事》不仅对于中国美术与视觉文化是一次富于雄心的思辨,对于全球语境下的艺术研究同样是一项里程碑式的贡献。
重屏
The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting Douban
(美)巫鸿
publishing house:
上海人民出版社
2010
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画家挥洒翰墨,手卷随手慢慢展开;雅集的士人聚在园林,正赏玩着竹杖挑起的一幅立轴;帝王在画屏前驻足,随后在屏背题诗一首。对于理解中国绘画来说,这些具体的绘画形式与特定的观赏场合显然十分重要。然而在大多数对这一重要艺术传统的介绍中,这一切还是被忽视了。一幅中国画往往只剩下画心的图像,绘画的物质性消失了,绘画与社会生活、文化习俗的紧密联系因而也变得隐晦不明。
本书首次尝试把中国绘画既视为物质产品也看作图画再现,正是这两方面的交互合作与相互制约使得一张画生意盎然。这种新的研究方式打破了图像、实物和原境之间的界限,把美术史与物质文化研究联系起来。屏风可以是一件实物,一种艺术媒材,一个绘画母题,也可以是三者兼而有之,巫鸿对此进行了详尽的综合分析。通过多样的角色,屏风不仅给予中国画家无穷的契机来重新创造他们的艺术,同时也让本书作者有机会处理宽广的主题,包括肖像与图画叙事、语词与图像、感知与想象、山水画、性别、窥探欲、伪装、元绘画以及政治修辞等等。
中国绘画中的“女性空间”
Douban
[美] 巫鸿
publishing house:
生活·读书·新知三联书店
2019
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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。
围绕“女性空间”,作者梳理了从战国到明清各个历史阶段中女性主题绘画的发展状况——从武梁祠的列女画像砖到南北朝的《洛神赋图》,从青楼名妓的自我表现到展现理想化美人的《十二美人图》,以图文并茂的方式,展现“女性”在各种绘画场景和时代中的不同呈现,重构其所从属的原作;结合艺术评论、时代背景等因素,深度挖掘作品背后审美价值和商业价值的相互影响,进而思考女性题材绘画在社会、宗教与文化环境中的意义。
Chinese Urbanism
Douban
Mark Jayne
publishing house:
Routledge
2018
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This book provides a definitive overview of contemporary developments in our understanding of urban life in China. Multidisciplinary perspectives outline the most significant critical, theoretical, methodological and empirical developments in our appreciation of Chinese cities in the context of an increasingly globalized world. Each chapter includes reviews and appraisals of past and current theoretical development and embarks on innovative theoretical directions relating to Marxist, feminist, post-structural, post-colonial and ‘more-than-representational’ thinking. The book provides an in-depth insight into urban change and considers in what ways theoretical engagement with Chinese cities contributes to our understanding of ‘global urbanism’. Chapters explore how new critical perspectives on economic, political, social, spatial, emotional, embodied and affective practices add value to our understanding of urban life in, and beyond, China.
Chinese Urbanism offers valuable insights which will be of interest to students and scholars alike working in geography, urban studies, Asian studies, economics, political studies and beyond.
Embodied Modernities
Douban
Fran Martin
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Ari Larissa Heinrich
publishing house:
University of Hawaii Press
2006
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From feminist philosophy to genetic science, scholarship in recent years has succeeded in challenging many entrenched assumptions about the material and biological status of human bodies. Likewise in the study of Chinese cultures, accelerating globalization and the resultant hybridity have called into question previous assumptions about the boundaries of Chinese national and ethnic identity. The problem of identifying a single or definitive referent for the "Chinese body" is thornier than ever.
By facilitating fresh dialogue between fields as diverse as the history of science, literary studies, diaspora studies, cultural anthropology, and contemporary Chinese film and cultural studies, Embodied Modernities addresses contemporary Chinese embodiments as they are represented textually and as part of everyday life practices. The book is divided into two sections, each with a dedicated introduction by the editors. The first examines "Thresholds of Modernity" in chapters on Chinese body cultures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—a period of intensive cultural, political, and social modernization that led to a series of radical transformations in how bodies were understood and represented. The second section on "Contemporary Embodiments" explores body representations across the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong today. Chapters examine topics such as the hotly contested cultural history of foot binding; transformations in understanding gender and sexuality and the impact of European colonialism in turn-of-the-century China; cross-dressing traditions in popular Chinese theatre and fiction; contemporary representations of the organ trade; body performance among young fans of Taiwanese puppetry serials; and the complexly inscribed text of Bruce Lee’s transnationally mobile body.
Embodied Modernities showcases cutting-edge research by leading figures in Chinese cultural studies as well as representatives of a new generation of younger scholars. By enabling new critical conversations across disciplinary boundaries and bringing the dynamic corporeal cultures of today into conversation with those of the recent past, the work both advances and transforms current scholarly understanding of the making and meaning of bodies in modern Chinese societies.
Changing Chinese Masculinities
Douban
Kam Louie (editor)
publishing house:
Hong Kong University Press
2016
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It is now almost a cliché to claim that China and the Chinese people have changed. Yet inside the new clothing that is worn by the Chinese man today, Kam Louie contends, we still see much of the historical Chinese man. With contributions from a team of outstanding scholars, Changing Chinese Masculinities studies a range of Chinese men in diverse and, most importantly, Chinese contexts. It explores the fundamental meaning of manhood in the Chinese setting and the very notion of an indigenous Chinese masculinity.
In twelve chapters spanning the late imperial period to the present day, Changing Chinese Masculinities brings a much needed historical dimension to the discussion. Key aspects defining the male identity such as family relationships and attitudes toward sex, class, and career are explored in depth. Familiar notions of Chinese manhood come in all shapes and sizes. Concubinage reemerges as the taking of “second wives” in recent decades. Male homoerotic love and male prostitution are shown to have long historical roots. The self-images of the literati and officials form an interesting contrast with those of the contemporary white-collar men. Masculinity and nationalism complement each other in troubling ways. China has indeed changed and is still changing, but most of these social transformations do not indicate a complete break with past beliefs or practices in gender relations.
The Afterlife of Images
Douban
Larissa N. Heinrich
publishing house:
Duke University Press
2008
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In 1739 China's emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of the Chinese. In the mid-nineteenth century, the celebrated Cantonese painter Lam Qua collaborated with the American medical missionary Peter Parker in the creation of portraits of Chinese patients with disfiguring pathologies, rendered both before and after surgery. Europeans saw those portraits as evidence of Western medical prowess. Within China, the visual idiom that the paintings established influenced the development of medical photography. In The Afterlife of Images, Larissa N. Heinrich investigates the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses that linked ideas about disease to Chinese identity beginning in the eighteenth century.
Combining literary studies, the history of science, and visual culture studies, Heinrich analyzes the rhetoric and iconography through which medical missionaries transmitted to the West an image of China as "sick" or "diseased." She also examines the absorption of that image back into China through missionary activity, through the earliest translations of Western medical texts into Chinese, and even through the literature of Chinese nationalism. Heinrich argues that over time "scientific" Western representations of the Chinese body and culture accumulated a host of secondary meanings, taking on an afterlife with lasting consequences for conceptions of Chinese identity in China and beyond its borders.
中国绘画的深意
Douban
[日]宫崎法子
translator:
傅彦瑶
publishing house:
湖南文艺出版社
2019
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《中国绘画的深意》是日本汉学家宫崎法子解读中国绘画的经典之作。
作者选取了中国绘画中非常重要的两个类别——山水画、花鸟画,作为其研究对象,以这两类画的兴衰史为切入点,一一剖析画中的表现的主题与其背后蕴含的意义,结合艺术和社会史,解读一代代中国古人在绘画中编织的思想与梦想。既是艺术作品的赏析品味,更是社会学及人文精神的阐述。
全书分为山水画和花鸟画两卷。卷一山水画梳理了对山水画的确立、发展产生影响的社会背景,比如科举制度的发展、士大夫阶层的出现、文人文化的普及;例举自五代以来到宋、元、明各个历史时期的重要绘画作品,详述了山水画中的旅人、渔夫、奇石与庭院等意象背后蕴含的文人阶层的隐逸理想;重点解读文人山水画这一派系,论述其创作背景、传播与发展以及中心主题的变迁,从北宋的实景山水画慢慢过渡到元明的山居图、别业图、行旅图、仙山图等的过程。
卷二花鸟画结合大量作品展示,概括从古至宋的花鸟画的发展过程,重点详述藻鱼图、莲池水禽图、草虫图等典型主题的绘画内容,解析画中常见的意象如鱼、莲花、鸳鸯、白鹭、葡萄、竹雀等,表明花鸟画相比山水画承载文人知识分子的精神寄托之外,更多包含了中国民间自古以来对幸福的天真追求。
权力源自地位
The Power of Position: Beijing University, Intellectuals and Chinese Political Culture, 1898-1929 Douban
(美)魏定熙
translator:
张蒙
publishing house:
江苏人民出版社
2015
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《权力源自地位:北京大学、知识分子与中国政治文化,1898~1929》是目前英文世界中一本以北京大学为研究对象的学术专著。不同以往的是,作者没有单纯从革命史和高等教育史的角度去解读北大的早期历史,而将北大看作是中国古代太学与德日现代大学的融合体。在近代中国的新旧辩证互动过程中,知识分子仍然在一定程度上固守自己的精英主义传统,以北大为阵地教化天下。由此,无论是风起云涌的学生运动,还是不由自主的教授参政,均在其现代的外壳之下,显现出古代士人的精神风貌。中国近代历史的连续性(而非通常所说的“断裂”)在这里也得到充分彰显。
观看王维的十九种方式
19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei Douban
[美国] 艾略特.温伯格
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[墨西哥] 奥克塔维奥·帕斯
translator:
光哲
publishing house:
商务印书馆
2019
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◆入选 豆瓣·2019年外国文学非小说类年度十佳
◆编辑推荐
有关汉语诗歌翻译的经典之作。
当今昔皆为汉语的一首诗,变成一首英语诗、一首西语诗、一首法语诗,其中又有着怎样的发生呢?
伟大的诗歌正是在不断的变形、不断的翻译之境中活着:诗作死于穷途末路。
◆名家推荐
温伯格如同一位古中国的琴师,在山间,寂寞地调音、眺望世间 。
——北岛
世界对中国古典诗歌的理解,本书是最经典的标本。艾略特.温伯格让我们眼界大开。不同语言、不同思维方式所构造出的文化差异令人深叹翻译之难。但有意义的翻译总会带给我们诸多启发。中国文学在世界上完成自己的方式超出我们的想象。
——西川
◆内容简介
温伯格逐一检点了王维的《鹿柴》这首五言绝句的十九种以及更多种译本。在这段文本的细读之旅中,一面在翻译的横向上挪移,一面在诗的纵向上深入,向我们展示翻译的艺术、存心的得失,展示诗的幽微迷人、难以把捉。当然,也展示了汉语以及英语、法语、德语、西语等每种语言的质地、特色,以及运用。
一部简短而深美的经典小册。
对所有喜欢汉语、英语,喜欢翻译、喜欢诗的人来说,将开启一段迷人的短旅,尤其对于那些爱诗的人,更将如此。而那些在古典诗歌与当代诗歌两地犹疑,甚至把彼此划为敌对阵营并投戈相向的人,也许,会在这次短旅中温和地走向彼此,走向更远。
◆媒体推荐
温伯格对文字的敏感以及清晰思考的天赋在本书处处可见……渊博而迷人……
——《纽约书评》
……有关翻译最好的一个微型读本……同样最有趣、最渴切。
——《巴黎评论》
任何一个对翻译感兴趣的人都不可错过的一次阅读。
——Complete Review
左道
The Sinister Way:The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture Douban
[美]万志英(Richard von Glahn)
translator:
廖涵缤
publishing house:
社会科学文献出版社
2018
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※财神信仰在中国通俗宗教大框架下的起源与演变
※第一本深入研究中国宗教文化中左道之地位的著作
【内容简介】
对当代中国人而言,财神一直是家庭祭仪和新年礼俗中的标志性神祇,对财神的崇拜是日常生活不可分割的一部分。然而,尽管供桌上的财神神像十分常见,但绝大多数人都不知道财神信仰根源为何。
美国加州大学洛杉矶分校历史学教授、著名汉学家万志英以大众或通俗宗教为大框架,审视了五通(财神)信仰的缘起和漫长演变。这份时间跨度长达三千年的研究,充分展现了中国宗教文化中神灵的邪恶面,及其在道德上的暧昧与矛盾,使我们得以窥视不同时代背景对普通人生活和思想的影响。
万志英认为,中国宗教信仰和实践的历史过程呈现两种基本倾向,一方面是佞神和驱邪,另一方面是相信宇宙中道德平衡的作用,这两种基本倾向总是处于紧张状态之中,并且两者都受到邪魔力量,即具有邪恶本性的神祇和精灵的侵扰。这两种根本倾向对中国宗教文化产生了持久影响。
【媒体获誉】
一个关于五通神信仰的起源、发展,以及中国宗教中的邪魔外道的精彩故事。万志英从商朝讲到了帝制晚期,向我们展现了引人入胜的丰富知识和此前从未公布的数据。
——柏夷(Stephen Bokenkamp)
印第安纳大学,著有《早期道教经文》
没有其他作者可以像万志英这样对旁门左道在中国宗教中的地位进行如此深入细致的探索。这份言辞优雅的优秀研究著作涉及从宋朝到明朝的重要主题。
——伊沛霞(Patricia Ebrey)
著有《内闱:宋代的婚姻和妇女生活》