Draws on original personal archive with primary sources between 1893 and 1940 Includes more than one hundred illustrations depicting local life during the tumultuous war period Engages discussions about the everyday interactions between Chinese grassroots society and international players at Manchuria、 To a lively cast of international players that shaped Manchuria during the e...(展开全部)

Focusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing (1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional, and religious identities. The contributors examine the role of the state in a variety of environments on China's "peripheries," paying attention to shifts in law, trade, social stratification, and cultural dialogue. They find th...(展开全部)

Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and including stories of eighteenth-century Detroit, nineteenth-century Seattle, and twentieth-century Los Angeles, Frontier Cities recov...(展开全部)

查尔斯·西格尔（Charles Segal，1936-2002），美国古典学家。1961 年获哈佛大学博士学位。曾先后任教于宾夕法尼亚大学，布朗大学，普林斯顿大学，自1990 年起在哈佛大学担任希腊文和拉丁文教授。西格尔擅长古典文学，研究领域广阔，在奥维德、荷马、塞涅卡和欧里庇得斯的研究方面均有建树，尤以解读诗歌为胜，是20世纪最为高产的古典学家之一。一生发表论文无数，出版专著21 部，除本书外，代表作还包括Landscape in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1969), Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles (1981，中文版三联书店即出), Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides’ Bacchae (1982), Lucretiu...(展开全部)

The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China’s early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating in a nineteenth-century social and ecological crisis. Pushing back against ...(展开全部)

As the world’s largest democracy and a rising international economic power, India has long been heralded for its great strides in technology and trade. Yet it is also plagued by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and a vast array of other social and economic issues. Here, noted journalist and former Financial Times South Asia bureau chief Edward Luce travels throughout India’s ...(展开全部)

Contents: 1.Global and Medieval: India's schizophrenic economy 2.The Burra Sahibs: The long tentacles of India's state 3.Battles of the Righteous:The rise of India's lower Castes 4.The Imaginary Horse: The continuing threat of Hindu Nationalism 5.Long live the Sycophants!: the Congress Party's continuing love affair with the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty 6.Many Crescents:South Asia's di...(展开全部)

本杰明·艾尔曼（Benjamin A. Elman）1946年出生。1968年获美国汉密尔顿学院学士学位，1980年获宾夕法尼亚大学东方学博士学位。1992-1997年任加州大学洛杉矶分校历史系学术副主席，1992-1999年任该校《中国科学》杂志编审，1997-1999年任该校中国研究中心主任。1999-2001年，艾尔曼作为梅隆访问教授在普林斯顿高等研究院从事传统中国文明研究。2002年，正式出任普林斯顿大学东亚系和历史系教授。他的教学和研究领域包括：中国思想与文化史，1000-1900年：中华帝国晚期科技史，1600-1930年；中日文化学术交流史，1600-1850年。艾尔曼教授著述颇丰，著作主要有：《从理学到朴学：中华帝国晚期的思想与社会变化面面观》（1984年第1版，2001年第2版）、《经学、政治和宗族：中华帝国晚期常州今文学派研究》（...(展开全部)

In the early twenty-first century, China occupies a place on center stage in the international art world. But what does it mean to be a Chinese artist in the modern age? This first comprehensive study of modern Chinese art history traces its evolution chronologically and thematically from the Age of Imperialism to the present day. Julia Andrews and Kuiyi Shen pay particular att...(展开全部)

Written by one of the most distinguished experts on China’s economic and business history, China and Capitalism provides a highly original and at the same time clear and readable approach to understanding the development of business in China from 1500 to the 1990s. David Faure then uses the picture he has assembled to shed new light on the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese bu...(展开全部)