The phenomenon of "Chinatown" has been of great interest to the general public as well as scholars. Movies and story books have made Chinatown to be exotic, mysterious, gangster filled, and sometimes, a gilded ghetto, an ethnopolis, a cultural diaspora as well as a model community. The authors of Chinatowns around the World seek to expose the social reality of Chinatowns with e...(展开全部)

During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls smoked cigarettes; they wore high heels and sexy clothes. They applied lipstick and face creams and other cos...(展开全部)

During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls smoked cigarettes; they wore high heels and sexy clothes. They applied lipstick and face creams and other cos...(展开全部)

[美]斯文·贝克特（Sven Beckert），哈佛大学莱尔德·贝尔美国历史教授、古根海姆学者（Guggenheim Fellow）、美国人文与科学院院士，现任哈佛大学资本主义研究项目联合主席、韦瑟海德全球史计划联合主席。研究领域为19世纪美国史、资本主义史、全球史，代表作有《金钱大都市：纽约市与美国资产阶级的巩固》《棉花帝国：一部资本主义全球史》，其作品曾荣获班克罗夫特奖、德国洪堡基金会贝塞尔研究奖、切拉斯科奖等多项奖项。 [德]多米尼克·萨克森迈尔(Dominic Sachsenmaier，中文名夏德明)，德国汉学家、全球史学家，欧洲科学与艺术院院士。现为德国雅各布大学教授，并任首都师范大学全球史中心荣誉访问教授，曾执教于德国哥廷根大学、不来梅大学，以及美国杜克大学、加利福尼亚大学圣芭芭拉分校。主要学术兴趣包括全球史研究，以及跨国视野下的中国政治...(展开全部)

In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement have remained rather provincial in scope. Global History, Globally addresses this lacuna by surveying the state of global hist...(展开全部)

In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement have remained rather provincial in scope. Global History, Globally addresses this lacuna by surveying the state of global hist...(展开全部)

Framed by a century and a half of racialized Chinese American musical experiences, Claiming Diaspora explores the thriving contemporary musical culture of Asian/Chinese America. Ranging from traditional operas to modern instrumental music, from ethnic media networks to popular music, from Asian American jazz to the work of recent avant-garde composers, author Su Zheng reveals t...(展开全部)

Jules Verne's career as a novelist began in 1863, when he struck a new vein in fiction - stories that combined popular science and exploration. In "Around the World in Eighty Days", Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions GBP20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his dail...(展开全部)

This title is to tie in with a major new Channel 4 series: a brilliant mixture of travel, cultural exchange and fair trade.Economist Conor Woodman has decided to test his negotiating skills, charm and eye for a bargain against some of the world's oldest trading cultures. He's sold his house to finance the trip, but if his hunches are right - trading Sudanese camels for Kenyan c...(展开全部)

Economist Conor Woodman has decided to test his negotiating skills, charm and eye for a bargain against some of the world's oldest trading cultures. He's sold his house to finance the trip, but if his hunches are right trading Sudanese camels for Zambian coffee, coffee for South African red wine and then off to China to buy jade with the proceeds he'll return six months later w...(展开全部)