【最完整的黃仁宇,最經典的史學系列】 ——借人看時代,透事見制度—— 從赫遜河畔回望中國歷史 串聯關鍵人物與時代變局 以大歷史視角揭示五千年文明深層脈絡 本書收錄黃仁宇於 1987 至 1989 年間發表的三...more
歲月遺落的線索潛伏於史料之間, 那些看似熟悉的歷史,早已在反覆書寫中悄然偏離真相。 ➤回到文本,重新審視歷史的形成 本書帶領讀者離開「事件敘述」的習慣,改從史料本身切入歷史。許多被視為常識的記...more
倉頡真的創造了文字嗎? 中國的第一首情歌是誰寫的? 離開課本,重新認識三皇與五帝! ⚑從考古走入想像 本書以獨特的敘事風格與豐富的考證,描繪了上古的人類生活與文明發展。作者善於結合考古資料與古...more
秦皇漢武,唐宗宋祖,這些風流一時的英雄人物都已“俱往矣”。但他們所留給後人的功過是非與政治智慧卻沒有因時代的流逝和朝代的更替而消失。相反,正是隨著時間的流失和朝代的更替,我們對這些帝王將相的一...more
《英國文化與香港:1945–97》探討20世紀下半葉英國文化與香港的互動,闡明香港如何在英國去殖民化敘事中佔據一個特殊的位置,同時作為英國在停滯與衰退時期反思自身文化的偶爾對照。透過廣泛引用歷史檔案...more
The rulers of the Ming dynasty enacted paradigms of hierarchical order. Like imperial families, households, and courts in earlier Chinese dynasties, they articulated patriarchal, patrilineal...more
Sustaining Landscapes: Governance and Ecology in Chinese Visual Culture, 960–1368 CE examines ecological thought contested amid the rise of the Chinese landscape genre, tracing its intersect...more
在《大交流:伍秉鑑的怡和行與十九世紀的全球貿易》中,王迪安通過清代十三行行商伍秉鑑的視角,探討了廣州體制下的貿易網絡如何塑造現代商業世界。當時,伍秉鑑的貿易網絡和金融聯繫從中國延伸至印度、美...more
‘We must have a procedure – if we are going to hang anyone – that is just,’ said Chief Justice Sir Francis Piggott in 1909, on discovering that Chinese accused of murder were being denied in...more
王朝更替是中國古代歷史的重要現象。本書上冊中,作者梳理早期王朝演變脈絡。通過對夏商周至唐宋各朝代分析,揭示王朝興衰的內在邏輯,如政治腐敗、農民起義等因素影響,幫助讀者瞭解古代政治發展的階段性...more
王朝更替在明清至近現代呈現新特徵。本書下冊中,作者剖析元明清至近現代歷史變遷。通過對重大歷史事件解讀,如辛亥革命,揭示傳統王朝體系瓦解與現代國家誕生的歷史邏輯,說明讀者瞭解中國近代化轉型的艱...more
《危機中現轉機:晚清廣府移民與國家》探討晚清西江流域在戰亂與重建時期廣府移民的歷史,以及這些發展對國家與廣西邊疆地方精英關係的影響。麥哲維把廣府人遷居西江上游和移居海外置於同一研究框架中,重...more
In A New Documentary History of Hong Kong, 1945–1997, Florence Mok, Fung Chi Keung Charles, and other contributors analyse newly released archival records from the National Archives in Londo...more
In 1842, the Qing Empire signed a watershed commercial treaty with Great Britain, beginning a century-long period in which geopolitical and global economic entanglements intruded on Qing ter...more
This volume is the first book-length monograph on the most widespread and deadly infectious disease in China, both historically and today: tuberculosis (TB). Weaving together interviews with...more
In Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing: Geopolitics and Informality, 1963–1985, Alan Smart and Fung Chi Keung Charles trace two decades of development of squatting in Hong Kong. The author...more
隨著香港發展成為強大的經濟體,商業航空逐漸成型。王迪安博士認為香港能夠發展成為區域及全球航空業樞紐並非全球流動時代的必然結果。《香港振翅》一書探討香港如何轉變成為航空業樞紐,旨在敘述源於亞洲...more
In Painting Architecture: Jiehua in Yuan China, 1271–1368, Leqi Yu has conducted comprehensive research on jiehua or ruled-line painting, a unique painting genre in fourteenth-century China....more
In The First British Trade Expedition to China, Nicholas D. Jackson explores the pioneering British trade expedition to China launched in the late Ming period by Charles I and the Courteen A...more
Sir Robert Ho Tung (1862–1954) is a compelling figure in Hong Kong history. He is regularly portrayed as the colony’s greatest philanthropist and wealthiest man of his day, the first Chinese...more
This book, Chiang Yee and His Circle: Chinese Artistic and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1930–1950, celebrates the life and work of Chiang Yee (1903–1977), a Chinese writer, poet, and painte...more
Set against the backdrop of regional and international post–Second World War tensions, Grounded at Kai Tak is the most comprehensive account of the complex legal struggle for ownership of 71...more
More Than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment is the wartime journal of Sir Chaloner Grenville Alabaster, former attorney-general of Hong Kong and one of the three highest-ranking B...more
The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China is the first monograph in English on a controversial Ming dynasty literary figure. It examines and r...more
Empowered by Ancestors: Controversy over the Imperial Temple in Song China (960–1279) examines the enduring tension between cultural authority and political power in imperial China by inquir...more
Comfort Women Activism follows the movement championed by pioneer activists in Japan to demonstrate how their activism has kept a critical interpretation of the atrocities against women comm...more
Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific, 1850–1949 sheds new light on the history of charity among Chinese overseas and its place in the history of charity in China and in the wid...more
In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire concludes that early East Asian Cold War history needs to be studied within the framework of post-imperial history. Japan’s surrender did not mean that th...more
The Politics of Higher Education: The Imperial University in Northern Song China uses the history of the Imperial University of the Northern Song to show the limits of the Song emperors’ pow...more