This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history. Further, they show that modernity in material culture and changes in intellectual conscio...(展开全部)

许烺光（1909—1999），出生在中国，毕业于沪江大学，曾留学英国伦敦大学，获博士学位，后回到中国从事实地调查和研究，1947年执教于美国西北大学人类学系，1977年—1978年当选为美国人类学协会主席。许烺光与露丝•本尼迪克特（《菊与刀》的作者）、玛格丽特•米德一样，同属于文化心理学派，独特的经历和东西方文化双重影响下“边缘人”的“身份以及卓越的才识，使他成为最有资格写这样一本书的人”。

芝加哥大学博士，师从李欧梵，现任剑桥大学东亚研究所资深讲师。

芝加哥大学博士，师从李欧梵，现任剑桥大学东亚研究所资深讲师。

Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of psychological anthropology. The contributors explore Chinese modernity through the psychosocial contradictions ex...(展开全部)

The Chinese essay is arguably China’s most distinctive contribution to modern world literature, and the period of its greatest influence and popularity—the mid-1930s—is the central concern of this book. What Charles Laughlin terms "the literature of leisure" is a modern literary response to the cultural past that manifests itself most conspicuously in the form of short, informa...(展开全部)

What role did cinema play in the Chinese Communist Party’s political project of shaping ideal socialist citizens in the early People’s Republic? In Moulding the Socialist Subject, Xiaoning Lu deploys case studies from popular film genres, movie star culture and rural film exhibition practices to argue that Chinese cinema in 1949–1966, at once an important political instrument, ...(展开全部)

The long twentieth century in China and Taiwan has seen both a dramatic process of state-driven secularization and modernization and a vigorous revival of contemporary religious life. "Chinese Religiosities" explores the often vexed relationship between the modern Chinese state and religious practice. The essays in this comprehensive, multidisciplinary collection cover a wide r...(展开全部)

Why has the West for so long and in so many different ways expressed the idea that the Chinese have a special relationship to cruelty and to physical pain? What can the history of that idea and its expressions teach us about the politics of the West's contemporary relation to China? And what does it tell us about the philosophy of modernity? The Hypothetical Mandarin is, in som...(展开全部)

佩里·安德森（PERRY ANDERSON），英国历史学家、社会学家，1938年生于伦敦，现任美国加利福尼亚州立大学洛杉矶分校历史与社会学教授，英国《新左派评论》期刊负责人。《从古代封建主义的过渡》及其续作《绝对主义国家的系谱》出版于1974年（伦敦新左派丛书）是在西方历史学、历史社会学与马克思主义学理论领域有重大影响的生要著作。