How did German intellectuals react to unification and how have they conceived the country's national identity and its new international position? This important book not only examines changing notions of nationhood and their complicated relationship to the Nazi past but also charts the wider history of the development of German political thought since World War II -- while crit...(展开全部)

Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends...(展开全部)

Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends...(展开全部)

Contemporary scholars place the rural-urban divide at the center of individual identity in China. This interdisciplinary collection traces the development and distinctions between urban and rural life and the effect on the Chinese sense of identity from the 16th century to the present day. It provides a daunting example of the influence that political ideology may exert on an i...(展开全部)

Another Country is loosely based on the life of the spy Guy Burgess, Guy Bennett in the play, and examines the effect his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism has on his life, and the hypocrisy and snobbery of the English public schools. The setting is a 1930s Eton-esque public school, where Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd are friends because they are both outsiders in their own wa...(展开全部)

'Modern Japanese Cuisine is one of those rare scholarly books that should appeal to the palate of the general literary omnivore as well as to the more specialized tastes of the professional scholar . . . well-researched and concise.' - Monumenta Nipponica 'Culinary history has opened up new perspectives in the study of culture, technology, economics, and politics as well as oth...(展开全部)

'Modern Japanese Cuisine is one of those rare scholarly books that should appeal to the palate of the general literary omnivore as well as to the more specialized tastes of the professional scholar . . . well-researched and concise.' - Monumenta Nipponica 'Culinary history has opened up new perspectives in the study of culture, technology, economics, and politics as well as oth...(展开全部)

【亞洲與戰後日本：去帝國、公民行動與國家認同】 戰爭、敗北與帝國的崩解觸動了戰後日本社會的各方面，深刻地形塑日本人如何重構國家認同，重新與亞洲人接觸。「美國」提供了一個從戰災中再興的願景，「亞洲」卻暴露出戰爭罪行的創傷與種族責任的折磨。潛藏在戰後日本復興陰影裡的，是後帝國時代的幽靈，它的作祟使這個國家的精神復原變得既複雜又錯亂。 《亞洲與戰後日本：去帝國、公民行動與國家認同》（Asia and Postwar Japan: Deimperialization, Civic Activism, and National Identity）檢視1945年至21世紀初期的日本去帝國化。聚焦於進步派的行動者與知識份子的思想與作為，他們致力克服關於「亞洲」的刻板印象，對抗後帝國責任帶來的影響，形成新的區域團結與亞洲想像。Simon Avenell（澳洲國立大學...(展开全部)

【亞洲與戰後日本：去帝國、公民行動與國家認同】 戰爭、敗北與帝國的崩解觸動了戰後日本社會的各方面，深刻地形塑日本人如何重構國家認同，重新與亞洲人接觸。「美國」提供了一個從戰災中再興的願景，「亞洲」卻暴露出戰爭罪行的創傷與種族責任的折磨。潛藏在戰後日本復興陰影裡的，是後帝國時代的幽靈，它的作祟使這個國家的精神復原變得既複雜又錯亂。 《亞洲與戰後日本：去帝國、公民行動與國家認同》（Asia and Postwar Japan: Deimperialization, Civic Activism, and National Identity）檢視1945年至21世紀初期的日本去帝國化。聚焦於進步派的行動者與知識份子的思想與作為，他們致力克服關於「亞洲」的刻板印象，對抗後帝國責任帶來的影響，形成新的區域團結與亞洲想像。Simon Avenell（澳洲國立大學...(展开全部)

The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by s...(展开全部)