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)

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)

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。

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。

The China Society for People's Friendship Studies （PFS） in cooperation with the Foreign Languages Press （FLP） in Beijing has arranged for re-publication, in the series entitled Light on China, of some fifty books written in English between the 1860s and the founding years of the People's Republic, by journalistic and other sympathetic eyewitnesses of the revolutionary events de...(展开全部)

伊斯雷尔·爱泼斯坦（Israel Epstein），国际知名记者、作家。1915年出生在波兰华沙，1917年跟随父母移居中国。长年为美国合众社、《纽约时报》等报道中国。抗日战争期间，对正面战场和敌后战场均有深入报道。既奔赴南京、广州、武汉及山东台儿庄前线战场采访，也曾突破重重封锁访问延安。此外，他还应宋庆龄之邀，在香港参加“保卫中国同盟”，积极宣传中国的抗日斗争并争取国际援助。新中国成立之后，爱泼斯坦应宋庆龄的邀请返回中国，后来加入中国国籍。 爱泼斯坦亲身经历了中国从半殖民地到民族独立、从新中国成立到改革开放的历史巨变。他说：“中国实际上成为我写作的唯一主题。”他的七部主要作品包括： 以抗战为主题的“战争四部曲”：《人民之战》《我访问延安：1944年的通讯和家书》《中国未完成的革命》和《从鸦片战争到解放》。 《西藏的变迁》：这是作者1955—1976...(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)