This work examines the history of urban planning and administration during modern China's first age of city-centered politics, focusing on the New Policies of the late Qing and the city administration movement of the 1920s. Between 1895 and 1937, the management of cities emerged as one of the chief challenges for the Chinese state. Through a detailed case study, based on newly ...(展开全部)

Art Wolfe’s immersive photos capture the wonder humans have felt about trees for millennia. From the biblical Tree of Life to the Native American Tree of Peace, trees have played an archetypal role in human culture and spirituality since time immemorial. An integral part of a variety of faiths—from Buddhism and Hinduism to Native American and aboriginal religions—trees were ven...(展开全部)

With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are outside the West. This groundbreaking book establishes a new framework for urban development. It makes the argument that all cit...(展开全部)

Korea Between Empires chronicles the development of a Korean national consciousness. It focuses on two critical periods in Korean history and asks how key concepts and symbols were created and integrated into political programs to create an original Korean understanding of national identity, the nation-state, and nationalism. Looking at the often-ignored questions of representa...(展开全部)

周蕾（Rey Chow），出生于香港，在美国斯坦福大学先后获得硕士、博士学位，曾任教于美国明尼苏达大学与布朗大学，现为美国杜克大学 Firor Scott 文学教授，为华裔文化研究领域最重要的学者之一。研究领域为：现代中国文学，当代女性主义理论，中国电影，后殖民理论，文化研究。

周蕾（Rey Chow），出生于香港，在美国斯坦福大学先后获得硕士、博士学位，曾任教于美国明尼苏达大学，现为美国布朗大学Andrew Mellon人文学讲座教授，为华裔文化研究领域最重要的学者之一。研究领域为：现代中国文学，当代女性主义理论，中国电影，后殖民理论，文化研究。

周蕾（Rey Chow），出生于香港，在美国斯坦福大学先后获得硕士、博士学位，曾任教于美国明尼苏达大学与布朗大学，现为美国杜克大学 Firor Scott 文学教授，为华裔文化研究领域最重要的学者之一。研究领域为：现代中国文学，当代女性主义理论，中国电影，后殖民理论，文化研究。

2014 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one being and another. "Between Man and Man" is the classic work ...(展开全部)

Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. But cinema did not arrive in Japan fully formed at the end of the nineteenth century, nor was it simply adopted into an ages-old culture. Aaron Gerow explores the processes by which film was defined, transformed, and adapted during its first three decades in Japan. He focuse...(展开全部)