This thesis is an inquiry into a phenomenon unique to the literary culture in 1920s Shanghai: the “violet” as a symbol of modern woman was favored by popular print media for its power sustainably arousing urban sensation and imagination. The symbol of violet was rooted in Zhou Shoujuan's early tragic love, developed by his Saturday colleagues in diverse genres, and finally blos...(展开全部)

This brilliant, readable synthesis of the history of mythology and the function it serves to humanity is the launch title of the groundbreaking publishing event, The Myths. "Human beings have always been mythmakers." So begins Karen Armstrong’s concise yet compelling investigation into myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperately need it. She takes...(展开全部)

In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reexamine the basic geographical divisions we take for granted, and challenge the unconscious spatial frameworks that govern the way we perceive the world. Arguing that notions of East vs. West, First World vs. Third World, and even the sevenfold continental system are simplistic and ...(展开全部)

马丁•E. 刘易士（Martin W. Lewis），斯坦福大学高级讲师，曾任教于乔治•华盛顿大学和杜克大学。当前研究方向为全球空间关系的核心-边缘模型，主要关注其在菲律宾和世界历史问题上的应用。曾出版Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism（1994）和Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital, and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900-1986（1992）等。 —————————— 卡伦•E. 魏根（Kären E. Wigen），斯坦福大学东亚研究中心主任，教授。主要研究领域包括东亚历史地理、日本的早期现代性、想...(展开全部)

In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reexamine the basic geographical divisions we take for granted, and challenge the unconscious spatial frameworks that govern the way we perceive the world. Arguing that notions of East vs. West, First World vs. Third World, and even the sevenfold continental system are simplistic and ...(展开全部)

马丁•E. 刘易士（Martin W. Lewis），斯坦福大学高级讲师，曾任教于乔治•华盛顿大学和杜克大学。当前研究方向为全球空间关系的核心-边缘模型，主要关注其在菲律宾和世界历史问题上的应用。曾出版Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism（1994）和Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital, and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900-1986（1992）等。 —————————— 卡伦•E. 魏根（Kären E. Wigen），斯坦福大学东亚研究中心主任，教授。主要研究领域包括东亚历史地理、日本的早期现代性、想...(展开全部)

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ide...(展开全部)

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ide...(展开全部)

In this new work Michel Serres, France's foremost philosopher of science, explores how traditional images of angels in art and legend foretell the preoccupations of modern life. Divided, as between Heaven and Hell, into First and Third Worlds, our societies search for ways to make contact, both by means of the most basic interpersonal relations and high-tech communications. The...(展开全部)

For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come. Yet whether seen as dream or nightmare, automation, argues Munn, is ultimately a fable that rests on a set of triple fictions. There is the myth of full autonomy, claiming that machines will take over production and supplant humans. But far from being self-acting, technical ...(展开全部)