This book recounts one of the most fascinating episodes in the encounter between American and Chinese cultures in the twentieth century, the American attempt to convert the Chinese to Protestantism. China has long been recognized as the largest and most important missionary field for American Protestantism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Ever since the fi...(展开全部)

In Revolution and History, Arif Dirlik examines the application of the materialist conception of history to the analysis of Chinese history in a period when Marxist ideas first gained currency in Chinese intellectual circles. His argument raises questions about earlier interpretations of Marxist historiography by scholars who based their opinions primarily on post-1949 writings...(展开全部)

The enormous changes in twentieth-century Chinese higher education up to the Sino-Japanese War are detailed in this pioneering work. Yeh examines the impact of instruction in English and of the introduction of science and engineering into the curriculum. Such innovations spurred the movement of higher education away from the gentry academies focused on classical studies and pro...(展开全部)

叶文心，早年毕业于台湾大学历史系，后赴美深造，1984年获美国伯克利加州大学历史学博士学位。1994—2000年任美国伯克利加州大学中国研究中心主任，现任该校历史系讲座教授暨东亚研究所所长。主要从事中国近现代文化史、社会史、上海都市文化史等方面的研究。英文著作有：The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China，1919-1937 (1990), Provincial Passages: Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism (1996), Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments in the Making of Modern China (2007)等。

In this book Yung-chen Chiang tells the story of the origins, hopes, visions and achievements of the social sciences movement in China during the first half of the twentieth century. He focuses on the efforts of social scientists at three institutions - the Yanjing Sociology Department, Nankai Institute of Economics, and Chen Hansheng's Marxist agrarian research enterprise - to...(展开全部)

江勇振 (Yung-chen Chiang) 台灣師範大學歷史系畢業，美國哈佛大學博士。美國印第安那州私立德堡(DePauw)大學歷史系教授。

江勇振 (Yung-chen Chiang) 台灣師範大學歷史系畢業，美國哈佛大學博士。美國印第安那州私立德堡(DePauw)大學歷史系教授。

In this book Yung-chen Chiang tells the story of the origins, hopes, visions and achievements of the social sciences movement in China during the first half of the twentieth century. He focuses on the efforts of social scientists at three institutions - the Yanjing Sociology Department, Nankai Institute of Economics, and Chen Hansheng's Marxist agrarian research enterprise - to...(展开全部)

The author reminds us that outbreaks of germs like AIDS and Ebola is nothing new, and that the first great "germ panic" in American history peaked in the early 1900s. Exploring the modern disease consciousness, Nancy Tomes shows how advances in bacteriology in the late-19th century showed people that they could prevent disease by taking precautions. Drawing upon sources like ad...(展开全部)

The author reminds us that outbreaks of germs like AIDS and Ebola is nothing new, and that the first great "germ panic" in American history peaked in the early 1900s. Exploring the modern disease consciousness, Nancy Tomes shows how advances in bacteriology in the late-19th century showed people that they could prevent disease by taking precautions. Drawing upon sources like ad...(展开全部)