Edward Hetzel Schafer (薛愛華; 23 August 1913 – 9 February 1991) was an American sinologist and a noted expert on the Tang dynasty. Schafer's most famous works include The Golden Peaches of Samarkand and The Vermilion Bird, which both explore China's interactions with new cultures and regions during the Tang dynasty.
Schafer earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1947. He then became a professor of Chinese there and remained at Berkeley until his retirement in 1984. From 1955 to 1968 Schafer served as East Asia Editor of the Journal of the American Oriental Society, and from 1969 to 1984 he held the Agassiz Professorship of Oriental Languages and Literature at Berkeley. He is also known within sinology for his uncompromising belief in the importance of language skills and learning and his differing approach on this subject to John King Fairbank. His publications include over 100 scholarly articles and more than a dozen books. Schafer died in California in 1991.
In the seventh century the kingdom of Samarkand sent formal gifts of fancy yellow peaches, large as goose eggs and with a color like gold, to the Chinese court at Ch'ang-an. What kind of fruit these golden peaches really were cannot now be guessed, but they have the glamour of mystery, and they symbolize all the exotic things longed for, and unknown things hoped for, by the people of the T'ang empire. This book examines the exotics imported into China during the T'ang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907), and depicts their influence on Chinese life. Into the land during the three centuries of T'ang came the natives of almost every nation of Asia, all bringing exotic wares either as gifts or as goods to be sold.Ivory, rare woods, drugs, diamonds, magicians, dancing girls - the author covers all classes of unusual imports, their places of origin, their lore, their effort on costume, dwellings, diet, and on painting, sculpture, music, and poetry. This book is not a statistical record of commercial imports and medieval trade, but rather a "humanistic essay, however material its subject matter."
1963年,年届五十的美国加州伯克利大学教授爱德华·谢弗(Edward Hetzel Schafer, 1913-1991)出版了大部头著作《撒马尔罕的金桃:唐代舶来品研究》(The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T’ang Exotics)。作为汉学家,谢弗的中文名字当令中国人满意:薛爱华。不过...
评分一直想读这本书,可一直也没有得逞,外文的太贵,中文的译本《唐代的外来文明》是中国社科出版社87年的版本了,现在早就买不到了。 外国人研究中国历史的角度与我们的历史研究者不同,他们喜欢从生活细节里寻找某些有历史价值的东西,比如衣饰,食品,植物等等,可以观察出文...
评分零。缘起 最近因缘巧合摸到这本书。沉浸其中无法自拔。作者是加大伯克来的汉学教授Edward H. Schafer,中文名字薛爱华(这名字起得,真是淳朴!)主要内容就是从所有唐代外来物品这个角度来讲述唐代的物质文明。这书简直好玩极了。先看看目录就超级让人兴奋。世界上原来有这么...
评分等我要写历史小说时再仔细研究一下这本牛书 汉学研究从另一个视角为中国历史研究补充了很多有意思的素材 细节
评分等我要写历史小说时再仔细研究一下这本牛书 汉学研究从另一个视角为中国历史研究补充了很多有意思的素材 细节
casual reading for fun...
评分讲的都是很细节的生活方方面面 不要把这个当成小说之类的来读
评分casual reading for fun...
评分博雅杯……
评分casual reading for fun...
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