The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform 共产党 but must then endure the

but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers

中国壁画主要分两类，一类是墓葬壁画，一类是宫殿寺观石窟壁画；一在地下，一在地上，各有千秋。作者的前一本书《观我生》聚焦墓葬壁画，以墓葬壁画的解读还原墓主人的生命故事和其背后的时代历史，而《观无量》一书则针对宫殿寺观石窟壁画展开。 “观无量”，即观照广阔无量之世界。中国的宫殿寺观石窟壁画如浩瀚之洋，其所描绘，上至佛国仙境，下至人间凡尘，可谓万象百态在其中。作者在图像之海中选择九组壁画，发掘图像中隐藏的历史讯息，还原壁画背后更宏大的时空场景，以及在此场景中生息的人的生命故事，构筑起了一部别开生面的中国史。在这部历史中，发言诉说的不仅仅是文字，还有那些色彩、线条和凹凸起伏，那些生动气韵和传神阿堵。

leading in time to the deaths of millions

and celebrating small joys against a breathtaking landscape

The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform 共产党 but must then endure theThe first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history A superb history of Chinas transition into and out of the Cultural Revolution. . . . Chen and Westadtwo of the best archival historians of Communist China writing todaycoolly but vividly recount the extraordinary drama of this metamorphosis.Julia Lovell, Financial Times Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced