Suppression and thaw have marked the course of communism in China. Merle Goldman traces that shifting pattern over the last decades of Mao's regime, linking it to the unique role of the intellectual in government Her engrossing account of the relations between the intellectuals and the governing elites provides a map of understanding to some recent events in the turbulent histo...(展开全部)

Merle Goldman is Professor of History, Emerita, at Boston University and Associate of the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University.

Democratic governments are able to elicit, legally and legitimately, both money and men from their populations. Certainly there is tax evasion, draft evasion, and even outright resistance; yet to a remarkable extent citizens acquiesce and even actively consent to the demands of governments, well beyond the point explicable by coercion. This is a puzzle for social scientists, pa...(展开全部)

Democratic governments are able to elicit, legally and legitimately, both money and men from their populations. Certainly there is tax evasion, draft evasion, and even outright resistance; yet to a remarkable extent citizens acquiesce and even actively consent to the demands of governments, well beyond the point explicable by coercion. This is a puzzle for social scientists, pa...(展开全部)

Consent works moral magic. Things that would otherwise be wrong to do to someone are, with that person's consent, made morally permissible. But what is consent, and how does it work? What can be taken for consent (perhaps wrongly) and with what consequences? How does consent come into being and pass out of it? How can consent be conferred, invoked and revoked? What is the role ...(展开全部)

Already an international literary sensation, an intimate and powerful memoir of a young French teenage girl's relationship with a famous, much older male writer—a universal #MeToo story of power, manipulation, trauma, recovery, and resiliency that exposes the hypocrisy of a culture that has allowed the sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked. Sometimes, all it takes is a sing...(展开全部)

瓦内莎·斯普林格拉（Vanessa Springora），1972年3月16日出生于法国巴黎，索邦大学现代文学硕士。曾任法国国立视听研究院的编剧和导演、法国朱利亚尔出版社的出版总监。目前是一名作家和独立出版人。 李溪月，索邦大学文学硕士。译有《消失的塞布丽娜》。

瓦内莎·斯普林格拉（Vanessa Springora），1972年3月16日出生于法国巴黎，索邦大学现代文学硕士。曾任法国国立视听研究院的编剧和导演、法国朱利亚尔出版社的出版总监。目前是一名作家和独立出版人。 李溪月，索邦大学文学硕士。译有《消失的塞布丽娜》。