Shanghai's illustrious history and phenomenal future is celebrated in this book, which examines the evolution of the city's architecture and urban form in order to contextualise the challenges facing the city today. The physical legacies that reflect Shanghai's uniqueness historically and contemporarily are examined chronologically using specific case studies of exemplary archi...(展开全部)

白吉尔（Marie-Claire Bergère）教授，法国大学荣誉教授。曾任法国社会科学高等研究院当代中国研究和资料中心主任，巴黎东方语言文明学院中国研究中心主任。 主要专著有：《旧政权结束时上海的金融危机》（Une crise financière à Shanghai à la fin de L'Ancien Régime，Mouton出版社，1964年）；《中国资产阶级的黄金时代，1911-1937》（L'Age d'or de la bougeoisie chinoise，1911-1937，Flammarion出版社，1986年）；《中国人民共和国从1949年到今天》（La République populaire de Chine de 1949 à nos jours，Armand Colin出版社，1987年）；《孙中山》（Sun ...(展开全部)

白吉尔（Marie-Claire Bergère）教授，法国大学荣誉教授。曾任法国社会科学高等研究院当代中国研究和资料中心主任，巴黎东方语言文明学院中国研究中心主任。 主要专著有：《旧政权结束时上海的金融危机》（Une crise financière à Shanghai à la fin de L'Ancien Régime，Mouton出版社，1964年）；《中国资产阶级的黄金时代，1911-1937》（L'Age d'or de la bougeoisie chinoise，1911-1937，Flammarion出版社，1986年）；《中国人民共和国从1949年到今天》（La République populaire de Chine de 1949 à nos jours，Armand Colin出版社，1987年）；《孙中山》（Sun ...(展开全部)

From the Sino-Japanese War to the Communist Revolution, the onrushing narrative of modern China can drown out the stories of the people who lived it. Yet a remarkable cache of letters from one of China’s most prominent and influential families, the Lius of Shanghai, sheds new light on this tumultuous era. Sherman Cochran and Andrew Hsieh take us inside the Lius’ world to explor...(展开全部)

For over three decades, China exercised unprecedented control over the reproductive habits of its billion citizens. Now, with its economy faltering just as it seemed poised to become the largest in the world, the Chinese government has brought an end to its one-child policy. It may once have seemed a shortcut to riches, but it has had a profound effect on society in modern Chin...(展开全部)

“an essential read” – TechCrunch In 2012, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance was just a handful of geeks working out of a scrappy four-bedroom apartment in Beijing. Today, it is the world’s fastest-growing tech behemoth worth in excess of $100 billion, unrecognizable from its humble beginnings. Thousands of articles have been written about TikTok and its Chinese parent company B...(展开全部)

The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be l...(展开全部)

Review "I find this book to be wonderful and refreshing. It describes, for the first time, a new point of view in which the overall system and process of construction of the buildings in the world--all of them together--is viewed as a single system: and that system is analyzed for its capacity to create a living world, or not, in different traditional and modern societies. The ...(展开全部)

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 mill...(展开全部)

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 mill...(展开全部)