Constructed over a millennium from the fourth to fourteenth centuries CE near Dunhuang, an ancient border town along the Silk Road in northwest China, the Mogao Caves comprise the largest, most continuously created, and best-preserved treasure trove of Buddhist art in the world. Previous overviews of the art of Dunhuang have traced the caves' unilinear history. This book examines the caves from the perspective of space, treating them as physical and historical sites that can be ap...

This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to ‘ruin culture’ in the West. This book explores indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual manifestations, as well as the complex historical interactions between China and the West since the eighteenth century.Wu Hung leads us through an a...

This book contemplates a large problem: what is a traditional Chinese painting? Wu Hung answers this question through a comprehensive analysis of the screen, a major format and a popular pictorial motif in traditional China. With a broad array of examples ranging from the early centuries C.E. to the 1800s, he explores the screen’s position in art – as an important site for artistic imagination, as an illusionary representation on a flat surface, and as an architectural device defining cult...

This book tells two stories about the full-length mirror. One story, through time and space, crisscrosses the globe to introduce a broad range of historical actors: kings and slaves, artists and writers, merchants and craftsmen, courtesans and commoners. The other story explores the connections between object, painting and photography, the full-length mirror providing a new perspective on historical artefacts and their images in art and visual culture.The Full-Length Mirror...

From the first sets of photographic records made by Western travellers to the emergence of ‘Chinese photography’ imbued with national anxiety and individual desire, and from doctored portraits of Chairman Mao to ‘experimental’ representations of urban transformation and avant-garde performances of the post-Cultural Revolution era, the development of photography in China has followed divergent paths through changing sociopolitical contexts, producing images with different agendas, technologi...

No other civilization in the pre-modern world was more obsessed with creating underground burial structures than the Chinese. For at least five thousand years, from the fourth millennium BCE to the early twentieth century, Chinese people devoted an extraordinary amount of wealth and labour to building tombs and furnishing them with exquisite objects and images.In art history these ancient burial sites have mainly been appreciated 'as treasure troves' of exciting and often previously...

Tai Tsun Wu (1933–2024) passed away in July 2024 at the age of 90, leaving behind a towering legacy that continues to shape the frontiers of theoretical and mathematical physics. A prodigious talent, he earned his PhD in applied physics from Harvard University at the age of 22, and was soon named a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows — before beginning a professorship career at Harvard that would span more than six decades.Renowned for his pioneering research in antenna...

A seemingly inexplicable magic takes over the lives of three generations of women in this gripping and romantically steamy novel sure to captivate readers of At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities and The Change.Leeann Wu’s hands have started glowing at the most inconvenient times, and the single mother and midwife doesn’t know why. Could it be perimenopause? A hallucination brought on by a lack of sleep? On top of that concerning development, her daug...

˙參照ACTFL所定語言能力標準設定學習目標˙****依照反向設計的原則為中級學習者制定相應的教學目標˙結合ACTFL的三種交際溝通模式及5C****理念設計教材˙幫助學習者獲得全面性的進步與具體的語言能力˙選詞參照了漢語水準考試**(HSK****)、華語文能力測驗(TOCFL****)****，並兼顧兩岸差異**近年來華語學習者背景趨向多元，中文的自學者人數也日益增長。編者在教學中發現，偏向學校生活和青年文化的主題，常常無法滿足成年學習者的需求和興趣。因此傾力將《前進中文》編寫成一套能同時符合社會職場人士與大學生各自需求，亦...

A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art historyThroughout Chinese history, dynastic time—the organization of history through the lens of successive dynasties—has been the dominant mode of narrating the story of Chinese art, even though there has been little examination of this concept in discourse and practice until now. Chinese Art and Dynastic Time uncovers how the developme...

內容簡介◎本手冊重點除了提供課本習題參考答案與各課聽力文本之外，並提供教師實用的教案與教學操作建議，內容有每單元第一至三課使用說明，包含了課文互動式語法講解操練示範、漢字聚焦、詞彙語法聚焦，及各項任務的重點提示；還有每單元第四課(複習課)建議進行方式，包含朗讀練習、病句練習、閱讀練習、對話練習、角色扮演等，並特別翻譯了ACTFL IPA人際互動與表達演示任務的評分標準，作為教師們客觀而全面評量學習者表現的參考。˙****The learning goals that center on the thematic units are set in accordance with the language proficiency levels, established by the ACTFL˙****To Comply with the pedagogical principle of backw...

Social Policy and Change in East Asia is a collection of essays from a group of indigenous East Asian social policy researchers who met bi-annually to discuss social development issues. The book’s focus is the policy responses of respective East Asian government since the 2008 financial tsunami struck the region. Together, the essays in Social Policy and Change in East Asia argue that traditional social policy approach has failed to account for the problem of economic volatility and to dev...