Shipping out to China in December 1947 with three ten-year-old German cameras and a plum assignment from Life magazine, Jack Birns was fulfilling a boyhood dream. The reality was something else: refugees and prostitutes, soldiers and beggars, street executions and urban protests photographed in difficult and often dangerous circumstances amidst the poverty, corruption, and chao...(展开全部)

Shipping out to China in December 1947 with three ten-year-old German cameras and a plum assignment from Life magazine, Jack Birns was fulfilling a boyhood dream. The reality was something else: refugees and prostitutes, soldiers and beggars, street executions and urban protests photographed in difficult and often dangerous circumstances amidst the poverty, corruption, and chao...(展开全部)

The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books of all kinds, from the famous Encyclopédie, repository of reason and knowledge, ...(展开全部)

The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books of all kinds, from the famous Encyclopédie, repository of reason and knowledge, ...(展开全部)

Gain a new perspective on photography in this personally guided introduction to photographic images and what they mean by one of the leading writers and curators of our time On Photographs is destined to become an instant classic of photography writing. Rejecting the conventions of chronology and the heightened status afforded to 'classics' in traditional accounts of the histor...(展开全部)

On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a revolutionary from Bulgaria named Insarov. Facing the wrath and disapproval of her family, Yelena abandons her home to follow Insarov to Bulgaria. Their fateful match sets in motion a series of tragic events which challenge notions of love, revolution ...(展开全部)

On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a revolutionary from Bulgaria named Insarov. Facing the wrath and disapproval of her family, Yelena abandons her home to follow Insarov to Bulgaria. Their fateful match sets in motion a series of tragic events which challenge notions of love, revolution ...(展开全部)

This is a comprehensive study on the social history of China during the first half of the 20th century. It draws on abundant sources and studies which have appeared in the People's Republic of China since the early 1980sand which have not been systematically used in Western historiography.

This is a comprehensive study on the social history of China during the first half of the 20th century. It draws on abundant sources and studies which have appeared in the People's Republic of China since the early 1980sand which have not been systematically used in Western historiography.

裴宜理（Elizabeth J. Perry）是著名的中国学家，也是有影响的上海问题研究专家。1948年，她出生于上海。父母都是传教士，1931年到上海，执教于上海的圣约翰大学。1949年中华人民共和国成立，裴宜理父母携家离开上海。隔年即1951年迁居日本东京。裴宜理父母继续在一所教会大学担任教授。裴宜理也在日本长大。后归国。裴宜理在威廉·史密斯学院、1华盛顿大学、密歇根大学分别获得了政治学的学士、硕士和博士学位。她的教学生涯是从1972年开始的，先后美国多所大学执教，而担任教授职务已有十多年。为了中国学研究，裴宜理曾在中国大陆、台湾、日本从事专业学习、研究和讲学多年。 关于中国学研究的缘起，裴宜理回忆说，开始进学院时，还没有想到过要进行东亚问题研究和政治学研究。但当卷入学生反对越南战争的汹涌浪潮后，开始对亚洲的革命和政治感兴趣了。于是，决定到台湾学...(展开全部)