Despite the destabilizing pull of a vast territory and a large multicultural population, the centralized government of the People's Republic of China has held together for decades, resisting efforts at local autonomy. By examining Beijing's strategies for maintaining control even in the reformist post-Mao era, Centrifugal Empire reveals the unique thinking behind China's approa...(展开全部)

The Central Asian slave trade swept hundreds of thousands of Iranians, Russians, and others into slavery during the eighteenth–nineteenth centuries. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, and newly-uncovered interviews with slaves, this book offers an unprecedented window into slaves' lives and a penetrating examination of human trafficking. Slavery strained Central A...(展开全部)

The Central Asian slave trade swept hundreds of thousands of Iranians, Russians, and others into slavery during the eighteenth–nineteenth centuries. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, and newly-uncovered interviews with slaves, this book offers an unprecedented window into slaves' lives and a penetrating examination of human trafficking. Slavery strained Central A...(展开全部)

《经济社会体制比较》在中央编译局的支持下于1985年创刊，迄今已经30周年。杂志创刊正值经济改革全面展开之际，30年来一直与中国改革同行。30年后的今天，我国改革又处于攻坚克难的关键时期。愿《经济社会体制比较》一如既往，汲取借鉴国际经验，推动市场化、法治化和民主化改革，为大转型做出新的贡献。 ——吴敬琏（著名经济学家，《经济社会体制比较》创刊主编之一） 杂志在创刊之初目标就很明确，不搞“主义”的比较，不去评论社会主义好还是资本主义好，而是要作体制的比较研究，通过各个体制的比较来吸取经验，探索中国如何从计划经济走向商品经济、市场经济，也就是说怎样从原来的计划经济过渡到市场经济。 ——荣敬本（中央编译局世界发展战略部研究员，《经济社会体制比较》杂志创刊主编之一） 《经济社会体制比较》杂志在中国过去几十年发生的伟大变革中发挥了巨大作用，对精神生活的复兴，以...(展开全部)

作者 | 瞿同祖（1910—2008） 著名社会学家、法学家、历史学家。1939年执教云南大学。1944年执教西南联合大学，历任讲师、副教授、教授；其间撰写出版《中国法律与中国社会》一书，成为学术界的开新之作。1945年春应邀赴美，先后任哥伦比亚大学中国历史研究室研究员、哈佛大学东亚研究中心研究员；出版《清代地方政府》，在西方汉学界产生了相当大的影响。1962年转加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学，任副教授，讲中国通史。1965年回国，待业数年后发回原籍，任省文史馆员。1976年调入中国社科院近代史所。2006年当选为中国社会科学院荣誉学部委员。 著有《中国封建社会》、《中国法律与中国社会》、《清代地方政府》（Local Government in China Under the Ch'ing）、《汉代社会结构》（Han Social Structure）...(展开全部)

This book attempts to describe, analyze, and interpret the structure and functioning of local government at the chou and hsien levels in the Ch'ing dynasty. The chou and hsien were the units of local government that actually carried out administration and dealt directly with the people. An understanding of how they functioned can tell us much about how the populace was ruled in...(展开全部)

This book relates the stories of four leaders under very different political regimes: Colonial, Nationalist and Communist. The authors compare Chinese notions of respect and inspiration with their equivalents in other religious and political histories of colonial and post-colonial modernity, thereby producing a thorough re-working of the idea of charisma. The result is an intri...(展开全部)

This book attempts to describe, analyze, and interpret the structure and functioning of local government at the chou and hsien levels in the Ch'ing dynasty. The chou and hsien were the units of local government that actually carried out administration and dealt directly with the people. An understanding of how they functioned can tell us much about how the populace was ruled in...(展开全部)

作者 | 瞿同祖（1910—2008） 著名社会学家、法学家、历史学家。1939年执教云南大学。1944年执教西南联合大学，历任讲师、副教授、教授；其间撰写出版《中国法律与中国社会》一书，成为学术界的开新之作。1945年春应邀赴美，先后任哥伦比亚大学中国历史研究室研究员、哈佛大学东亚研究中心研究员；出版《清代地方政府》，在西方汉学界产生了相当大的影响。1962年转加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学，任副教授，讲中国通史。1965年回国，待业数年后发回原籍，任省文史馆员。1976年调入中国社科院近代史所。2006年当选为中国社会科学院荣誉学部委员。 著有《中国封建社会》、《中国法律与中国社会》、《清代地方政府》（Local Government in China Under the Ch'ing）、《汉代社会结构》（Han Social Structure）...(展开全部)

This book is a comprehensive survey of the structure, organization and institutionalization of local community religious traditions in north China villages in the twentieth century. These traditions have their own forms of leaders, deities and beliefs. Despite much local variation one everywhere finds similar temples, images, offerings and temple festivals, all supported by pra...(展开全部)