Chinese Characteristics (1894) was the most widely read American work on China until Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth (1931). It was the first to take up the task of analyzing Chinese society in the light of "scientific" social and racial theory. Written as a series of pungent and sometimes comic essays for a Shanghai newspaper in the late 1880s, Chinese Characteristics was among th...(展开全部)

The year 1995, when the Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing, marks a historical milestone in the development of the Chinese feminist movement. In the decades that followed, three distinct trends emerged: first, there was a rise in feminist NGOs in mainland China and a surfacing of LGBTQ movements; second, social and economic developments nurtured new female age...(展开全部)

The year 1995, when the Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing, marks a historical milestone in the development of the Chinese feminist movement. In the decades that followed, three distinct trends emerged: first, there was a rise in feminist NGOs in mainland China and a surfacing of LGBTQ movements; second, social and economic developments nurtured new female age...(展开全部)

中国人究竟是怎么样的？外国人眼中的中国人究竟是怎样的？虽然我们不必以他人的模式来改造自己，却也通过他人来审视自己、改进自己。这是一部100多年前，由旅居中国20多年的美国人所撰写书，可直到今天，我们依然表现出对它越来越强烈的兴趣，为什么？一方面说明了“偏不肯研究自己”的中国人经过一次又一次的挫折和教训，逐步觉出了认识自己的极端重要性，渐渐地肯于研究自己了，另一方面也说明了书里面所批评的中国人的种种毛病并没有得到根治，有些甚至愈加严重了。究竟作者是怎么说的，我们身上到底有没有这样的毛病，就请在书中一窥究竟吧！

This general introduction to the study of the Chinese language traces its history from its beginings in the second millennium BC to the present day and provides a clear picture of the contemporary language and its sociolinguistic status. Chinese in its numerous dialect forms, has more speakers than any language in the modern world, and this vast extension in time and space brin...(展开全部)

The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influential foreign policy thinker, sets out a vision for the coming decades from China's point of view. In the West, Yan Xuet...(展开全部)

The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influential foreign policy thinker, sets out a vision for the coming decades from China's point of view. In the West, Yan Xuet...(展开全部)

This is a broad view of traditional archery in China as seen through the eyes of historians, philosophers, poets, artists, novelists and strategists from 1500 BCE through the present day. The book is written around parallel text translations of classical Chinese sources, both famous and obscure. In English and Chinese.