An insightful and entertaining work...gains resonance from its large and momentous backdrop of China in transition. (The New York Review of Books, Pankaj Mishra) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

An insightful and entertaining work...gains resonance from its large and momentous backdrop of China in transition. (The New York Review of Books, Pankaj Mishra) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

《围城(中英文对照)》里，我想写现代中国某一部分社会、某一类人物。写这类人，我没忘记他们是人类，只是人类，具有无毛两足动物的基本根性。角色当然是虚构的，但是有考据癖的人也当然不肯错过索隐的机会、放弃附会的权利的。这《围城(中英文对照)》整整写了两年。两年里忧世伤生，屡想中止。《围城》一九四七年在上海初版，一九四入年再版，一九四九年三版，以后国内没有重印过。偶然碰见它的新版，那都是香港的“盗印”本。没有看到台湾的“盗印”本，据说在那里它是禁书。

Why do central and local government initiatives aiming to curb the proliferation of garbage in Beijing and its disposal continue to be unsuccessful? Is the Uberization of waste picking through online-to-offline (O2O) garbage retrieval companies able to decrease waste and improve the lives of waste pickers? Most citizens of Beijing are well aware of the fact that their city is b...(展开全部)

Xueping Zhong is Assistant Professor in the Department of German/Russian/Asian Languages at Tufts University.

In Masculinity Besieged? Xueping Zhong looks at Chinese literature and films produced during the 1980s to examine male subjectivities in contemporary China. Reading through a feminist psychoanalytic lens, Zhong argues that understanding the nature of male subjectivities as portrayed in literature and film is crucial to understanding China’s ongoing quest for modernity. Before t...(展开全部)