Hà Noi at Midnight: Stories (Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network) gelinyan “I have no doubt this

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正如作者所说，他在写作宋元明陕西史时，“是把陕西作为中国的一个缩影来写的，其内容表达了我的不少自有观点，和我同时期发表的其他一些著作（如《田园诗与狂想曲》等）也有着逻辑上的联系。”因此，本书也不仅仅只是陕西的历史，更是各王朝的一个缩影。 我写宋元明的陕西， 其实也是把陕西作为中国的一个缩影来写的， 其内容表达了我的不少自有观点， 和我同时期发表的其他一些著作也有着逻辑上的联系。 中国古代史领域过分突出“断代史”，尤其是各地史学界的“断代史”研究重点随“王气”而转移，这确实是一个缺点。历史是不能切断的，只 讲辉煌不讲衰落，难说是真正的历史。何况王气黯然后，民气仍堪歌。近代以来全球王气不再，历史更加异彩纷呈。帝王缺位，历史便成鸡肋，这种状况也应该改变。 ——秦晖

本书是一部研究晚明佛教慈善活动及其对世俗权力影响的学术著作。全书分为三篇九章，另有“导言”和“结论”。其导言和第一篇，主要探讨了晚明社会结构形态、佛教与明代理学之关系，以及其时居士佛教之特点；第二篇从宗亲关系、社会性、宗教性和文化性诸角度，着力研究慈善捐助的机制和动机；第三篇分别考察了地理位置和经济状况迥异的三个县的寺院经济和慈善捐赠的情况；结论部分分析得出了晚明不同于宋、清的世俗权力与佛教之关系。书中附有地图和图片九幅。

It has also been written in an accessible and engaging style that should appeal to a diverse global audience of non-academic professionals as well as scholars

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Hà Noi at Midnight: Stories (Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network) gelinyan “I have no doubt thisBreaking a thirty year silence, Bao Ninh has permitted at last the publication of a new work in English. Ninh is perhaps Vietnams foremost chronicler of the war, which he joined at age 17. Bringing to life the full range of his inventive and poetic language, Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran are granting to English readers Bao Ninhs first book length work since The Sorrow of War, which catapulted him to fame and which was banned in Vietnam until 2006. In H