Generations of Chinese scholars have made China synonymous with the Great Wall and presented its civilization as fundamentally land-bound. This volume challenges this perspective, demonstrating that China was not a “Walled Kingdom”, certainly not since the Yongjia Disturbance in 311. China reached out to the maritime world far more actively than historians have acknowledged, wh...(展开全部)

Generations of Chinese scholars have made China synonymous with the Great Wall and presented its civilization as fundamentally land-bound. This volume challenges this perspective, demonstrating that China was not a Walled Kingdom, certainly not since the Yongjia Disturbance in 311. China reached out to the maritime world far more actively than historians have acknowledged, whil...(展开全部)

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)

威廉·L.西尔伯(WilliamL.Silber)，纽约大学斯特恩商学院金融学和经济学教授，证券市场格拉斯克曼研究所主任、教授。过去曾担任总统经济顾问委员会高级经济学家，还曾担任纽约联邦储备银行的经济顾问团成员，一直担任联邦储备委员会、美国参议院预算部、银行和金融服务房屋委员会、金融结构和监管协会等部门的顾问。在专业期刊上公开发表学术论文50多篇，担任《金融研究》《经济和统计评论》等杂志的副主编。出版图书和专著共9部。

威廉·L.西尔伯(WilliamL.Silber)，纽约大学斯特恩商学院金融学和经济学教授，证券市场格拉斯克曼研究所主任、教授。过去曾担任总统经济顾问委员会高级经济学家，还曾担任纽约联邦储备银行的经济顾问团成员，一直担任联邦储备委员会、美国参议院预算部、银行和金融服务房屋委员会、金融结构和监管协会等部门的顾问。在专业期刊上公开发表学术论文50多篇，担任《金融研究》《经济和统计评论》等杂志的副主编。出版图书和专著共9部。

In the early twenty-first century, China occupies a place on center stage in the international art world. But what does it mean to be a Chinese artist in the modern age? This first comprehensive study of modern Chinese art history traces its evolution chronologically and thematically from the Age of Imperialism to the present day. Julia Andrews and Kuiyi Shen pay particular att...(展开全部)

"A remarkable achievement...vivid...fluent, graceful.... A publishing event."—Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history....(展开全部)

史景迁（Jonathan D. Spence），1936年出生于英国，是国际知名的中国近现代史专家，1965—2008年在美国耶鲁大学历史系任教。著作极丰，主要有《追寻现代中国》、《雍正王朝之大义觉迷》、《太平天国》、《改变中国》、《曹寅与康熙》、《康熙》、《天安门》、《大汗之国：西方眼中的中国》、《王氏之死》、《利玛窦的记忆宫殿》、《胡若望的疑问》。

"A remarkable achievement...vivid...fluent, graceful.... A publishing event."—Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history....(展开全部)

作者50年代后期进入哈佛大学攻读中国史，60年代初到台湾从事博士论文考察和进修汉语，以后10年先后任《纽约时报》驻台湾临时记者、驻越南和香港特派记者，期间发表有关白宫和越战内幕的专著，获1978年普利策新闻大奖。他自1979年初至1980年末任该报驻北京首席记者，在此期间，足迹遍及中国大陆各省市自治区，采访了工农兵学商各界人士，对我国遭受文革浩劫后的百废待兴局面感触尤甚。离任回国后历时一年有余著成此书，于1982年在美国问世，随后风靡欧美，备受西方读者欢迎，对一般群众的影响也较大。