From Cover Back The China Society for People's Friendship Studies (PFS) in cooperation with the Foreign Language Press (FLP)in Beijing has arranged for re-publication, in the series entitled Light on China , of some fifty books written in English between the 1860s and the founding years of the People's Republic, by journalistic and other sympathetic eyewitnesses of the revolu...(展开全部)

李翔 文 一 危险的中国叙述 每次金奇（James Kynge）坐上北京的出租车，如果司机是一位老北京，他总会感到一阵愉悦。他喜欢他们说话的腔调和他们恣意的议论。这些老北京人喜欢在词语的后面加上“儿”。他跟他们学会了不少中国的谚语，比如“肉包子打狗”，司机用这个词语来比喻对政府的徒劳的抗议；再比如，藕断丝连。金奇会很认真地将这些词语写下来。 他1982年时就已经作为一名学生到中国来了，不过那时候他不在北京，他去的是山东大学，对于这位英国人来说，这也未尝不好，中国最伟大的哲学家孔子出生在山东，那条伟大的河流黄河流经山东。 再次来到中国时，他已经是英国《金融时报》的驻华记者了，他以这个身份在中国渡过了将近十年，目睹了他所说的“饥饿之国的崛起”。 写一本关于中国的书颇具危险性。存在着关于写一本讲中国的书的大量笑谈。一个著名的说法是，当你在中国呆上一周，你会...(展开全部)

李翔 文 一 危险的中国叙述 每次金奇（James Kynge）坐上北京的出租车，如果司机是一位老北京，他总会感到一阵愉悦。他喜欢他们说话的腔调和他们恣意的议论。这些老北京人喜欢在词语的后面加上“儿”。他跟他们学会了不少中国的谚语，比如“肉包子打狗”，司机用这个词语来比喻对政府的徒劳的抗议；再比如，藕断丝连。金奇会很认真地将这些词语写下来。 他1982年时就已经作为一名学生到中国来了，不过那时候他不在北京，他去的是山东大学，对于这位英国人来说，这也未尝不好，中国最伟大的哲学家孔子出生在山东，那条伟大的河流黄河流经山东。 再次来到中国时，他已经是英国《金融时报》的驻华记者了，他以这个身份在中国渡过了将近十年，目睹了他所说的“饥饿之国的崛起”。 写一本关于中国的书颇具危险性。存在着关于写一本讲中国的书的大量笑谈。一个著名的说法是，当你在中国呆上一周，你会...(展开全部)

“Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” Napoleon’s words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China’s awakening reverberate around the globe. Award-winning journalist James Kynge takes measure of the tremors made as China’s ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and food — and its export of goods, workers, and investments — dra...(展开全部)

"Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate across the globe. In China Shakes the World, the former China bureau chief of the Financial Times, James Kynge, traces these tremors from Beijing to Europe to the Midwest as China's ravenous hunger for jobs, raw mat...(展开全部)

“Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” Napoleon’s words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China’s awakening reverberate around the globe. Award-winning journalist James Kynge takes measure of the tremors made as China’s ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and food — and its export of goods, workers, and investments — dra...(展开全部)

"Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate across the globe. In China Shakes the World, the former China bureau chief of the Financial Times, James Kynge, traces these tremors from Beijing to Europe to the Midwest as China's ravenous hunger for jobs, raw mat...(展开全部)

In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multidisciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer War, examining its particular cruelties and its impact on China, foreign imperialism in China, and on the foreign imagination. This war introduced the world to the "Boxers," the see...(展开全部)

In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multidisciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer War, examining its particular cruelties and its impact on China, foreign imperialism in China, and on the foreign imagination. This war introduced the world to the "Boxers," the see...(展开全部)

China has become the world's second biggest economy and its largest exporter. It possesses the world's largest foreign exchange reserves and has 29 companies in the FT 500 list of the world's largest companies. ‘China's Rise' preoccupies the global media, which regularly carry articles suggesting that it is using its financial resources to ‘buy the world'. Is there any truth to...(展开全部)