This book, Chiang Yee and His Circle: Chinese Artistic and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1930–1950, celebrates the life and work of Chiang Yee (1903–1977), a Chinese writer, poet, and painter who made his home in London, England during the 1930s and 1940s. It examines Chiang’s relationship with his circle of friends and colleagues in the English capital, and assesses the work h...(展开全部)

This book, Chiang Yee and His Circle: Chinese Artistic and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1930–1950, celebrates the life and work of Chiang Yee (1903–1977), a Chinese writer, poet, and painter who made his home in London, England during the 1930s and 1940s. It examines Chiang’s relationship with his circle of friends and colleagues in the English capital, and assesses the work h...(展开全部)

Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. And his artistic vision remains palpably present today, through the countless statues, fountains, and bu...(展开全部)

This book is a project in comparative history, but along two distinct axes, one historical and the other historiographical. Its purpose is to constructively juxtapose the early modern European and Chinese approaches to historical study that have been called "antiquarian." As an exercise in historical recovery, the essays in this volume amass new information about the range of a...(展开全部)

This book is a project in comparative history, but along two distinct axes, one historical and the other historiographical. Its purpose is to constructively juxtapose the early modern European and Chinese approaches to historical study that have been called "antiquarian." As an exercise in historical recovery, the essays in this volume amass new information about the range of a...(展开全部)

A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist The definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Khrushchev. When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world’s two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost had permanently transformed Soviet Communis...(展开全部)

著者 | 唐纳德·斯托克（Donald Stoker） 美国著名军事历史学家，现任美国国防大学艾森豪威尔学院教授。1999年至2017年，斯托克任美国海军战争学院海军研究生院“蒙特雷（Monterey）项目”的战略与政策教授。2017—2018学术年期间，他受聘担任奥地利外交学院政治科学杰出富布赖特访问教授。他出版或编辑了11本书籍，其中《克劳塞维茨传》（Clausewitz: His Life and Work）（牛津大学出版社，2014年）入选“英国陆军职业阅读书单”，《大设计：1861—1865年美国内战中的战略》（牛津大学出版社，2010年）荣获著名的弗莱彻·普拉特奖，并入选“美国陆军参谋长的阅读书单”。他的最新著作《美国为何战败：从朝鲜战争到当下的有限战争与美国战略》已于2019年由剑桥大学出版社出版，2022年再版。 译者 | 张伶 退役...(展开全部)

When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world’s two superpowers. By 1989 he had transformed Soviet Communism. By 1990 he, more than anyone else, had ended the Cold War, and in December 1991 he unintentionally presided over the collapse of the USSR. In this first comprehensive biography of Gorbachev, William Taubman shows how...(展开全部)

William Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College. His biography, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

作者 伦纳德·夏皮罗（1908—1983），英国学者，英国学术院院士，在伦敦政治经济学院任教多年，担任政治学教授，专注于俄罗斯研究。著有苏俄研究作品数种，译有屠格涅夫《春潮》等。 ———————————— 译者 孔俐颖，中国社会科学院外国文学研究所助理研究员，北京外国语大学俄语学院博士。在《外国文学动态研究》《世界文学》等期刊发表论文、译文二十余篇。译有《死屋：沙皇统治时期的西伯利亚流放制度》《托尔斯泰为伴》等。