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The China Society for People's Friendship Studies （PFS） in cooperation with the Foreign Languages 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 revolutionary events de...(展开全部)

伊斯雷尔·爱泼斯坦（Israel Epstein），国际知名记者、作家。1915年出生在波兰华沙，1917年跟随父母移居中国。长年为美国合众社、《纽约时报》等报道中国。抗日战争期间，对正面战场和敌后战场均有深入报道。既奔赴南京、广州、武汉及山东台儿庄前线战场采访，也曾突破重重封锁访问延安。此外，他还应宋庆龄之邀，在香港参加“保卫中国同盟”，积极宣传中国的抗日斗争并争取国际援助。新中国成立之后，爱泼斯坦应宋庆龄的邀请返回中国，后来加入中国国籍。 爱泼斯坦亲身经历了中国从半殖民地到民族独立、从新中国成立到改革开放的历史巨变。他说：“中国实际上成为我写作的唯一主题。”他的七部主要作品包括： 以抗战为主题的“战争四部曲”：《人民之战》《我访问延安：1944年的通讯和家书》《中国未完成的革命》和《从鸦片战争到解放》。 《西藏的变迁》：这是作者1955—1976...(展开全部)

Mitford's funny and unforgiving book is the best memento mori we are likely to get. It should be updated and reissued each decade for our spiritual health.-- The New York Review of Books Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny...(展开全部)

Mitford's funny and unforgiving book is the best memento mori we are likely to get. It should be updated and reissued each decade for our spiritual health.-- The New York Review of Books Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny...(展开全部)

Joseph W. Esherick was born in Marin County, north of San Francisco, in 1942 and studied Chinese history at Harvard (B.A., 1964, summa cum laude) and UC Berkeley (Ph.D., 1971). He taught at the University of Oregon from 1971 to 1990, when he moved to the University of California at San Diego, where he is now a Distinguished Professor in the History Department. Having participat...(展开全部)

Joseph W. Esherick was born in Marin County, north of San Francisco, in 1942 and studied Chinese history at Harvard (B.A., 1964, summa cum laude) and UC Berkeley (Ph.D., 1971). He taught at the University of Oregon from 1971 to 1990, when he moved to the University of California at San Diego, where he is now a Distinguished Professor in the History Department. Having participat...(展开全部)

刘香成，曾任美联社派驻北京、洛杉矶、新德里、汉城、莫斯科记者/摄影记者。拍摄了大量照片，内容涉及西单民主墙、中国20世纪80年代蓬勃发展的经济改革、斯里兰卡宗教冲突、苏联出兵阿富汗及苏联解体。 1992年，因对苏联解体的杰出报道，与同事一起荣膺“普利策现场新闻摄影奖”与“美国海外俱乐部柯达奖”。1989年，被美联社执行编辑协会评为“最佳摄影师”。 2004年被《巴黎摄影》杂志遴选为当代摄影界最有影响力的百位摄影师之一。 著有《毛以后的中国》（企鹅出版社，1983年版）和《苏联：一个国家的解体》（美联社，1993年版），均广受赞誉。主编有《中国：一个国家的肖像》（塔森出版社，2008年版），六种语言全球同步发行，被评为伦敦《星期日泰晤士报》“2008年度最佳摄影画册”。2010年，与凯伦•史密斯合作编著《上海：1842—2010，一座伟大城市的肖像》（...(展开全部)

Here is the classic anatomy of America's funeral practices, revised, expanded, and brought up-to-date for a new generation. Thirty-five years ago, Jessica Mitford's savage and hilarious The American Way of Death was a number one best-seller and occasioned new legislation intended to reform the funeral industry. By the time of her death in 1996, Mitford had almost finished a com...(展开全部)