Hà Noi at Midnight: Stories (Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network) gelinyan extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet

extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet again why she is one of today’s most uncategorizable

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。

贝兹女士具有利剑一般锐利的观察力，回忆往事时轻松明快。二十年间，贝兹女士从一名受欢迎的民谣歌手成长蜕变为时代的佼佼者，从这个鼓舞人心的故事中，可以读到过去二十年间我们的社会价值观的变迁。她的真诚与理想主义，很打动人。 琼贝兹说：“我并不完美。”然后她补充道：“我过着非凡的人生。”对此没人能够否认。 ——《纽约时报书评》

—裴敏欣 美國加州克萊蒙特麥肯納學院教授

Hà Noi at Midnight: Stories (Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network) gelinyan extraordinary novel and demonstrates yetBreaking 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