The Sichuan region has long been the focus of Terry Kleeman's work. His first book, A God's Own Tale (SUNY Press, 1994), told the story of the development of a local Sichuanese snake spirit into the national god of literature, Wenchang. In the present book, Kleeman addresses a little-known chapter in the history of Sichuan: its independent statehood in the first half of the fou...(展开全部)

杨懋春，山东省人，1904年4月16日生。私立齐鲁大学社会学系毕业，美国康奈尔大学研究院乡村社会学系理科硕士，哲学博士。曾任私立齐鲁大学历史社会学系教授兼系主任，文学院长；美国康奈尔大学，斯坦福大学，密歇根州立大学等校客座教授；华盛顿州立大学研究教授；国立台湾大学农业推广学系教授兼系主任，研究所主任；私立东吴大学社会学系教授兼系主任。著有《乡村社会学》，《一个中国村庄：山东台头》，《社会学》等中英文书籍十种。

蒋彝（Chiang Yee，1903年5月19日－1977年10月26日），中国画家、诗人、作家、书法家。字仲雅，又字重哑，笔名“哑行者”。“中国文化的国际使者”。江西九江人。最为人津津乐道的事，乃翻译Coca Cola为“可口可乐”。他出生于江西九江，自幼随父亲习画，并接受完整的私塾教育，之后政局动荡，日军侵华，他移居庐山山脚，对自然环境与旅行移动保持着极高敏锐的心。日后他任九江县县长，为政清廉，且禁止外商公司贿赂、非法购地，与当政者发生矛盾，出走英国。而此去英国，成为一生命数之转折。他在英国旅居伦敦，被东方学院聘为讲师，讲授东方文化，对活跃于艺文界，1937年出版《湖居画记》以中国笔墨描绘湖居景致，后以Silent Traveller为笔名写作游记，虽然三十来岁才熟用英文，但无碍其文章之精巧、心裁之别出，作品成为西方旅行文学经典，相较之下，他在中...(展开全部)

"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read." THE BOSTON GLOBE Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to t...(展开全部)

"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read." THE BOSTON GLOBE Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to t...(展开全部)

After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patr...(展开全部)

After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patr...(展开全部)

"[A] masterful account of China's long and turbulent quest for modernity." -- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "The best one-volume account of what has happened in China, and to China, during the past two centuries." -- Times Literary Supplement (London)

费正清，世界上最负声望的中国问题观察家，在第二次世界大战期间，他曾在中国研读、旅行、教学。主要著作有《美国与中国》、《伟大的中国革命》、《观察中国》、《中国：传统与变迁》等。