Exploring Ancient Chinese Cultural System: Using Artefacts as a Research Method
暫譯: 探索古代中國文化系統：以文物作為研究方法

這本書是考古學和中國古代文化研究領域的傑作。它深入探討了古代中國的農業、經濟、宗教和軍事生活。本書為中國考古學領域引入了一種綜合的方法論，所採用的「雙重證據法」和「多重證據法」對於探索古代中國的社會結構和文學發展具有重要價值。本書中使用的數據和證據包括歷史文獻、古代文物、稀有銘文和古代文字。它可以作為古代中國文化和文明領域研究者的綜合參考資料。

Zhongshu Xu (1898-1991) was an influential Chinese historian and philologist. He graduated from the Department of Chinese Studies at Tsinghua University in 1926 and was supervised by renowned scholars including Guowei Wang and Qichao Liang. He held professorship at Fudan University, Jinan University, Peking University and also the Institute of History and Philology at the Academia Sinica. In 1937, he became the head of the Department of History at Sichuan Univeristy and held visiting professorships at Wuhan University, West China Union University, Yenching University, and Central University. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Professor Xu was a member of the Advisory Board (Division of Philosophy and Social Sciences) at Chinese Academic of Sciences and served on the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council.

Zhengrui Han is a professor of English linguistics at Jinan University's College of Foreign Studies. His research interests are applied linguistics, pragmatics, genre analysis, critical discourse studies, and language and professional communication. He publishes in Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics, Pragmatics and Society, Discourse & Society, Discourse and Communication, Critical Discourse Studies and other peer-reviewed journals.

Wen Zhao acquires her PhD from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and is a full professor (PhD supervisor, the former Dean) at the College of Foreign Studies, Jinan University. Professor Zhao is a Honorary Professor at The Education University of Hong Kong and serves as a Vice-Chair of the Ministry of Education Advisory Board for College English Teaching. She has led more than 30 projects funded by the National Social Science Fund and other prestigious state-level research institutions. Her research areas include corpus linguistics, translation, language assessment and second language writing. She has published more than 70 research articles in established linguistic journals including Foreign Languages and Their Teaching, Modern Foreign Languages, Foreign Languages and Literature, Foreign Language World, Foreign Languages in China and International Journal of TESOL Studies.

Lihuan Wu is a Professor and Senior Translator at Guangzhou Huali College. She obtained a Master's degree in British Literature from East China University of Science and Technology in 2007. She has a rich experience of teaching English (listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation) to Chinese college students and has been involved in a number of large-scale Chinese-English translation projects funded by the National Social Science Fund. Professor Wu's research has been published in Critical Discourse Studies, Shanghai Translation, Language Sciences, and Language and Cognition. From the end of 2015 to October 2017, she worked as a contracted translator and editor in the collaborated with the Dutch publisher Brill in Boston, USA, to jointly publish a series of Chinese classic philosophical works.

徐中書（1898-1991）是一位具有影響力的中國歷史學家和語言學家。他於1926年畢業於清華大學中文系，並受到王國維和梁啟超等著名學者的指導。他曾在復旦大學、濟南大學、北京大學以及中央研究院歷史語言研究所擔任教授。1937年，他成為四川大學歷史系的系主任，並在武漢大學、西華大學、燕京大學和中央大學擔任訪問教授。中華人民共和國成立後，徐教授成為中國科學院哲學社會科學部的顧問委員會成員，並在國務院學位委員會任職。

韓正瑞是濟南大學外國語學院的英語語言學教授。他的研究興趣包括應用語言學、語用學、文類分析、批判性話語研究以及語言與專業溝通。他在《語用學期刊》、《語用學》、《語用學與社會》、《話語與社會》、《話語與交流》、《批判性話語研究》等同行評審期刊上發表文章。

趙雯獲得香港中文大學的博士學位，並擔任濟南大學外國語學院的全職教授（博士生導師，前院長）。趙教授是香港教育大學的榮譽教授，並擔任教育部大學英語教學顧問委員會的副主席。她主導了30多個由國家社會科學基金及其他國家級研究機構資助的項目。她的研究領域包括語料庫語言學、翻譯、語言評估和第二語言寫作。她在《外語與其教學》、《現代外語》、《外語與文學》、《外語世界》、《中國外語》和《國際TESOL研究期刊》等知名語言學期刊上發表了70多篇研究文章。

吳麗歡是廣州華立學院的教授和高級翻譯。她於2007年獲得華東科技大學英國文學碩士學位。她擁有豐富的教學經驗，教授中國大學生英語（聽、說、讀、寫和翻譯），並參與了多個由國家社會科學基金資助的大型中英翻譯項目。吳教授的研究成果發表在《批判性話語研究》、《上海翻譯》、《語言科學》和《語言與認知》等期刊上。2015年底至2017年10月，她在美國波士頓與荷蘭出版商Brill合作，擔任合約翻譯和編輯，共同出版一系列中國經典哲學著作。