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Chinese Painting and Its Audiences
A history of the reception of Chinese painting from the sixteenth century to the present 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. Chinese Painting and Its Audiences demonstrates that viewers...
人間到處有青山：四大寇之尢列傳
與孫中山並列「四大寇」的尢列，出身廣東順德富家，本該過?優渥舒適的生活，然而他耳聞目睹清政府的腐敗無能、列強無止境的侵凌，義憤填膺，受時代的感召，毅然踏上革命一途，立下「志不成時誓不還」之宏志。以後為革命大半生飄泊，散盡家財，行蹤無定；又為親近百姓，懸壺濟世，宣揚革命思想；晚年生活貧困，需人接濟，惟仍憂懷國事，四出奔走，至死方休。 本書介紹尢列一生的足跡，也論其同時代人和他所身處的世界，特別是他與香港的種種關係。本書亦是尢列的家族史。過往有關尢列的研究甚少，一方面是尢列生前的藏書、文稿等不是毀於火災，便是早已散佚。另一方面是尢列一生低調，不慕名，不為利，對革命一直抱功成不居的態度，以往事跡亦不彰，故流傳至今的記載不多。本書嘗試多方面搜尋資料，排比考證，客觀地重構尢列的生平面貌。
Decisions and Diplomacy
The growing significance of international history and relations in recent years has been reflected in a growth of research and development of new courses. This collection of essays focus on three broad themes: the League of Nations and collective security, problems in British foreign policy, and European/International security in the interwar years. The book, in memory of Esmonde Robertson and George Grün, distinguished historians of the London School of Economics, contains papers commissioned from some of the most formidable names in international history.
Keeping Democracy at Bay
This thoroughly researched study provides an invaluable account of Hong Kong's political evolution from its founding as a British colony to the present. Exploring the interplay between colonial, capitalist, communist, and democratic forces in shaping Hong Kong's political institutions and culture, Suzanne Pepper offers a fresh perspective on the territory's development and a gripping account of the transition from British to Chinese rule. The author carries her narrative forward through the lives of significant figures, capturing the personalities and issues central to understanding Hong Kong's political history. Bringing a balanced view to her often contentious subject, she places Hong Kong's current partisan debates between democrats and their opponents within the context of China's ongoing search for a viable political form. The book considers Beijing's increasing intervention in local affairs and focuses on the challenge for Hong Kong's democratic reformers in an environment where ultimate political power resides with the communist-led mainland government and its appointees.
The Aura of Confucius
This groundbreaking study highlights the importance of images within Confucianism and to a shrine-tomb for Confucius's buried robe and cap.
Thistle and Bamboo
Colonial civil servant, Confucian scholar, and collector of Chinese art, Sir James Stewart Lockhart spent more than forty years in Hong Kong and Weihaiwei — the former British leased territory in northern China. His career reflects tension and upheaval in the emerging colony of Hong Kong and in a China rapidly giving way to civil war. In her vivid biography of Stewart Lockhart, Shiona Airlie presents a portrait of an imperial official who fought against racism, strove to preserve the Chinese way of life, and was treated by Chinese mandarins as one of their own. Sir James Stewart Lockhart (1858–1937) was a Scot who served for more than 40 years as a colonial official in Hong Kong and Weih...
Clubbing Together
Clubbing Together offers the first global study of Scottish ethnic associationalism, exploring transnationally the evolution and role of Scottish clubs and societies.
British Naval Strategy East of Suez, 1900-2000
Britain's strategic position east of Suez in the twentieth century was a dominant area of interest and had an enormous impact in the overall construction of Great Britain's naval strategic posture.
