Suppression and thaw have marked the course of communism in China. Merle Goldman traces that shifting pattern over the last decades of Mao's regime, linking it to the unique role of the intellectual in government Her engrossing account of the relations between the intellectuals and the governing elites provides a map of understanding to some recent events in the turbulent histo...(展开全部)

Merle Goldman is Professor of History, Emerita, at Boston University and Associate of the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University.

Democratic governments are able to elicit, legally and legitimately, both money and men from their populations. Certainly there is tax evasion, draft evasion, and even outright resistance; yet to a remarkable extent citizens acquiesce and even actively consent to the demands of governments, well beyond the point explicable by coercion. This is a puzzle for social scientists, pa...(展开全部)

Democratic governments are able to elicit, legally and legitimately, both money and men from their populations. Certainly there is tax evasion, draft evasion, and even outright resistance; yet to a remarkable extent citizens acquiesce and even actively consent to the demands of governments, well beyond the point explicable by coercion. This is a puzzle for social scientists, pa...(展开全部)

托马斯·索维尔（Thomas Sowell），美国当代杰出的经济学家、最具影响力的社会评论家。先后在康奈尔大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校、哥伦比亚大学以及斯坦福大学讲授经济学课程，现为斯坦福大学胡佛研究所公共政策高级研究员。 托马斯·索维尔在经济学和广泛的人文社科领域均有重要建树。他撰写了包括《基础经济学》、《被掩盖的经济真相》、《美国种族简史》在内的30余部著作，多本被翻译成法文、德文、西班牙文和日文出版，其中多本是亚马逊网上书店的超级畅销书。他还在《福布斯》、《财富》、《新闻周刊》、《时代》周刊、《华尔街日报》、《华盛顿邮报》等主流媒体上发表了大量文章，并担任多家著名媒体的专栏作家，广泛讨论各种社会问题。 他获得的荣誉包括由美国企业研究所颁发的、备受尊敬的“博伊尔奖”（Francis Boyer Award）、美国“国家人文科学奖章”、布莱德雷基金奖等...(展开全部)

The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by s...(展开全部)

The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by s...(展开全部)

托马斯·索维尔（Thomas Sowell），美国当代杰出的经济学家、最具影响力的社会评论家。先后在康奈尔大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校、哥伦比亚大学以及斯坦福大学讲授经济学课程，现为斯坦福大学胡佛研究所公共政策高级研究员。 托马斯·索维尔在经济学和广泛的人文社科领域均有重要建树。他撰写了包括《基础经济学》、《被掩盖的经济真相》、《美国种族简史》在内的30余部著作，多本被翻译成法文、德文、西班牙文和日文出版，其中多本是亚马逊网上书店的超级畅销书。他还在《福布斯》、《财富》、《新闻周刊》、《时代》周刊、《华尔街日报》、《华盛顿邮报》等主流媒体上发表了大量文章，并担任多家著名媒体的专栏作家，广泛讨论各种社会问题。 他获得的荣誉包括由美国企业研究所颁发的、备受尊敬的“博伊尔奖”（Francis Boyer Award）、美国“国家人文科学奖章”、布莱德雷基金奖等...(展开全部)

This much revised and reorganized edition of Intellectuals and Society is more than half again larger than the first edition. Four new chapters have been added on intellectuals and race, including a chapter on race and intelligence. These new chapters show the radically different views of race prevailing among the intelligentsia at the beginning of the twentieth century and at ...(展开全部)

This much revised and reorganized edition of Intellectuals and Society is more than half again larger than the first edition. Four new chapters have been added on intellectuals and race, including a chapter on race and intelligence. These new chapters show the radically different views of race prevailing among the intelligentsia at the beginning of the twentieth century and at ...(展开全部)