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)

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”。

We spend our lives moving through passages, hallways, corridors and gangways, yet they do not feature in architectural histories, monographs or guidebooks. They are overlooked, undervalued and unregarded; seen as unlovely parts of a building’s infrastructure rather than ‘architecture’. This book is the first definitive history of the corridor, from its origins in country houses...(展开全部)

This catalog is a compilation of some of the best calendar posters produced during 1910s to 1930s, with the main theme focuses on Chinese women during those periods. It features artworks by such famous painters in Shanghai as Zheng Mantuo, Zhou Muqiao, Hang Zhiying, Li Mubai, Jin Xuechen and Xie Zhiguang. Also included are essays on the history and aesthetic of calendar posters...(展开全部)

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)

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)