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Password: 5vjc Title: Golden Peach in Samarkand

Author: [America] Edward Hetzel Schafer

Translator: Wu Yugui

Douban score: 8.9

Publishing House: Social Science Literature Publishing House

Publication year: 20 16-4-20

Page count: 790

Content introduction:

This book is the latest revised translation of Edward Hetzel Schafer's The Golden Peach of Samarkand, which contains 24 pages of color pictures and 20 black and white pictures in the original style. This book is a masterpiece of Western Sinology and is regarded as a must-read for western scholars to study the ancient society and culture of China. This book selects the Tang Dynasty, the most proud dynasty of the Chinese nation, as the research object, and makes a detailed study of the world cultural exchange and the introduction of civilization at that time. The content covers all aspects of life in the Tang Dynasty, including livestock, wild animals, birds, plants, wood, food, spices, medicines, textiles, pigments, minerals, metal products, secular items, religious items, books and so on. , a total of 18 170, almost covering daily use. This book not only shows a vivid picture of social culture and material life in the Tang Dynasty, but also provides a valuable reference for understanding the social life history and cultural history of the Tang Dynasty. It is also a must-read for understanding the history of Chinese civilization and the exchange of civilizations.

This book is probably the most informative, profound and enjoyable book in the study of China in our time.

-Journal of Asian Studies

This is totally fun ... Mr. Edward Hetzel Schafer hardly missed any aspect of life in the Tang Dynasty, so that he built a reasonable panorama for the whole civilization bit by bit ... Mr. Schaefer writes elegantly and wisely. He likes these fables and tells them well.

-Saturday review

The fascinating investigation of Tang culture can be reflected from the use and demand of imported goods in the Tang Dynasty ... For us, it is rare to see such a pleasant and informative book.

-Journal of the American Oriental Society

The Golden Peach of Samarkand by Edward Hetzel Schafer, an American scholar, is a masterpiece of Western Sinology, and is regarded as a must-read for western scholars to study the ancient society and culture of China. ..... From this book, we can see how colorful the wonders of the Tang Dynasty are. These wonders have had a complex and multifaceted impact on China society and the primitive culture of China, many of which gradually merged into the primitive culture of China and eventually became an integral part of China culture. Today's China culture is diverse. China culture includes Han nationality and other brotherly nationalities. There are both local and foreign ingredients.

—— Chen Gaohua (Member of Academic Committee of China Academy of Social Sciences and President of China Overseas Traffic History Research Association)

Samarkand's Golden Peach —— A Study of Imported Goods in Tang Dynasty is a representative work of Western Sinology, and it is regarded as a must-read for western scholars to study the ancient society and culture of China. This book selects the Tang Dynasty, the most proud dynasty of the Chinese nation, as the research object, and makes a detailed study of the world cultural exchange and the introduction of civilization at that time. The content covers all aspects of life in the Tang Dynasty, including livestock, wild animals, birds, plants, wood, food, spices, medicines, textiles, pigments, minerals, metal products, secular items, religious items, books and so on. , a total of 18 170, almost covering daily use. This book not only shows a vivid picture of social culture and material life in the Tang Dynasty, but also provides a valuable reference for understanding the social life history and cultural history of the Tang Dynasty. It is also a must-read for understanding the history of Chinese civilization and the exchange of civilizations.

About the author:

Edward Hetzel Schafer (1913-1991,translated by Edward? Schaefer), a famous American sinologist and linguist, is a leading figure in the study of the Western Tang Dynasty in the second half of the 20th century. 1938, received a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley; 1947 received a doctorate in oriental linguistics from Harvard University. After that, he taught at the University of California at Berkeley until he retired in 1984. He was the president of the American Oriental Society and the long-term editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Oriental Society (JAOS).

He was deeply influenced by European traditional Sinology and attached importance to the study of historical language documents (he was proficient in more than a dozen ancient and modern languages). His rich knowledge of ethnology, folklore and anthropology made his study of medieval China show the characteristics of broad vision and multi-perspective integration. His main research fields are well-known in Chinese and foreign historians, such as: the social and cultural history of the Tang Dynasty, especially the study of material culture (famous things), foreign civilization in the Tang Dynasty, the integration of Han culture in the Central Plains with the surrounding national cultures, the relationship between Taoism and literature, especially the role of Tang poetry and Taoism in Tang culture.

Brief introduction of translator

Wu Yugui, male, Han nationality, 1956+00, born in Qitai, Xinjiang. 1974 to participate in the work. 1985 the history department of the graduate school of Chinese academy of social sciences obtained a master's degree and then entered the history institute. At present, he is the director, researcher and doctoral supervisor of Marxist historical theory and history research office. The main research directions are historical philology, the history of Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the history of northwest nationalities.

The main achievements are Chronology of Zitongzhi's Identification of Doubts, Research on the Relationship between Turkic Khanate and Sui and Tang Dynasties (won the second prize of the third outstanding scientific research achievement of China Academy of Social Sciences and the outstanding scientific research achievement award of the Institute), Textual Research on the Chronology of the Second Turkic Khanate China, and General History of China Customs? Volumes of Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, Compilation of Tang Books and Tang Culture (co-author); His published papers include A New Examination of West Turkic, Two Food Supply Documents about Gaochang, A Brief Analysis of the Time Errors in Zi Jian, Supplementary Examples of Old Tang Books (won the third prize of the Sixth Excellent Scientific Research Achievement Award of China Academy of Social Sciences and the Excellent Scientific Research Achievement Award of the Institute), and The Biography of Siyi, a new Tang book.