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)

“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)

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)

On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di’s loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was ‘to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas’ and unite the world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would ...(展开全部)

Many thought China's rise would fundamentally remake the global order. Yet, much like other developing nations, the Chinese state now finds itself in a status quo characterized by free trade and American domination. Through a cutting-edge historical, sociological, and political analysis, Ho-fung Hung details the competing interests and economic realities that temper the dream o...(展开全部)

孔诰烽（Ho-fung Hung），约翰·霍普金斯大学的社会学副教授，主要研究国际政治经济、公民抗议和民族主义。著有《中国特色的抗议：明清时期的游行、骚乱与请愿》和《浮夸中华﹕大国雄起与香港主体的前世今生》，编有《中国和世界资本主义的转型》。 曾在《美国社会学期刊》《发展与变化》《新左派评论》《国际政治经济评论》《亚洲调查》等多家学术期刊发表论文，获得过美国社会学协会颁发的5项著作奖和苏黎世世界社会基金会颁发的最佳论文奖。

本杰明・史华兹（Ben jasmin l．Schwartz），生于1916年12月12日，卒于1999年11月14日。1960年起任哈佛大学教授，并以其博雅和睿智，在该校东亚中心被尊称为“学者的学者”。除了作为其扛鼎之作的本书，还写有《中国的共产主义和毛的兴起》（1951年）、《寻求富强：严复和西方》（1964年）、《共产主义和中国：变动中的思想意识》（1968年）、《中国文化的价值》（1985年）和《中国及其他》（199年）等。

The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese culture thought during the formative period of Chinese culture. Benjamin Schwartz looks at the surviving texts of this period with a particular focus on the range of diversity to be found in them. While emphasizing the problematic and complex nature of this thought he also considers...(展开全部)