This book examines at a static level how Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776) was introduced into China at the turn of the twentieth century. In a dynamic socio-economic context, Yan Fu (1854-1921) had The Wealth of Nations in mind as a prescription for China's "Wealth and Power". This book aims answer the question of whether The Wealth of Nations, a book which advocates l...(展开全部)

This book examines at a static level how Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776) was introduced into China at the turn of the twentieth century. In a dynamic socio-economic context, Yan Fu (1854-1921) had The Wealth of Nations in mind as a prescription for China's "Wealth and Power". This book aims answer the question of whether The Wealth of Nations, a book which advocates l...(展开全部)

杰西·诺曼（Jesse Norman） 英国国会议员，伦敦大学哲学博士、名誉院士，英国国家经济社会研究院理事，牛津大学万灵学院访问学者，曾在巴克莱银行任职。著有《埃德蒙·柏克:现代保守政治教父》等书。

The essays assembled here represent a turning point in the study of Chinese economic history. Previous work has emphasized the institutional and social bases of economic change. These studies break new ground, bringing Western economic theory to the study of China's economy since the seventeenth century.

Charles Griswold has written a comprehensive philosophical study of Smith's moral and political thought. Griswold sets Smith's work in the context of the Enlightenment and relates it to current discussions in moral and political philosophy. Smith's appropriation as well as criticism of ancient philosophy, and his carefully balanced defence of a liberal and humane moral and poli...(展开全部)

"Charles Griswold has written the first comprehensive philosophical study of Smith’s moral and political thought. Griswold sets Smith’s work in the context of the continuing debate about the nature and survival of the Enlightenment, and also relates it to current discussions in moral philosophy." "This is a major historical and philosophical reassessment of a key figure in the ...(展开全部)

石约翰（John E. Schrecker），师从汉学大师费正清，布兰代斯（Brandeis）大学历史系教授，同时在美国哈佛大学费正清东亚研究中心从事研究工作。除本书外，尚著有Imperialism and Chinese Nationalism: Germany in Shantung、Reform in nineteenth-century China（与Paul A. Cohen合编）等。

作者简介：伊什特万•洪特（István Hont，1947—2013），英籍匈牙利裔史学家，主要研究经济史和政治思想史。曾是剑桥大学政治思想史教授和国王学院的研究员。 译者简介：康子兴，北京大学法学博士，北京航空航天大学人文与社会科学高等研究院副教授。主要研究领域为政治哲学、古典政治经济学与古典社会理论。已出版专著《社会的立法者科学：亚当•斯密政治哲学研究》，译著《论文明社会史》《亚当•斯密与启蒙德性》《商业社会中的政治》等。

作者简介：伊什特万•洪特（István Hont，1947—2013），英籍匈牙利裔史学家，主要研究经济史和政治思想史。曾是剑桥大学政治思想史教授和国王学院的研究员。 译者简介：康子兴，北京大学法学博士，北京航空航天大学人文与社会科学高等研究院副教授。主要研究领域为政治哲学、古典政治经济学与古典社会理论。已出版专著《社会的立法者科学：亚当•斯密政治哲学研究》，译著《论文明社会史》《亚当•斯密与启蒙德性》《商业社会中的政治》等。

Sociological and psychiatric studies on suicide based on Western ideas about human nature see suicide as social or individual disorder. Suicide in China, however, should be understood differently. By analyzing 30 cases, Wu Fei studies the dynamics of suicide in terms of family politics and local psychology and finds that suicide is committed when a power balance is broken in th...(展开全部)