With the Qing Dynasty reform efforts (1901–1911), abolition of the civil service examination (1905), and the end of the monarchy (1912), the first three decades of the twentieth century brought important changes to the elite of Zhejiang Province. This book examines the social backgrounds, public activities, careers, and decision-making of local and provincial elites—that is, no...(展开全部)

Mark Blyth argues that economic ideas are powerful political tools as used by domestic groups in order to effect change since whoever defines what the economy is, what is wrong with it, and what would improve it, has a profound political resource in their possession. Blyth analyzes the 1930s and 1970s, two periods of deep-seated institutional change that characterized the twent...(展开全部)

Mark Blyth argues that economic ideas are powerful political tools as used by domestic groups in order to effect change since whoever defines what the economy is, what is wrong with it, and what would improve it, has a profound political resource in their possession. Blyth analyzes the 1930s and 1970s, two periods of deep-seated institutional change that characterized the twent...(展开全部)

Mark Blyth argues that economic ideas are powerful political tools as used by domestic groups in order to effect change since whoever defines what the economy is, what is wrong with it, and what would improve it, has a profound political resource in their possession. Blyth analyzes the 1930s and 1970s, two periods of deep-seated institutional change that characterized the twent...(展开全部)

Kexue, or science, captured the Chinese imagination in the early twentieth century, promising new knowledge about the world and a dynamic path to prosperity. Chinese Buddhists embraced scientific language and ideas to carve out a place for their religion within a rapidly modernizing society. Examining dozens of previously unstudied writings from the Chinese Buddhist press, this...(展开全部)

Scholars have described the eighteenth century in China as a time of state activism when the state sought to strengthen its control on various social and cultural sectors. The Taiping Rebellion and the postbellum restoration efforts of the mid-nineteenth century have frequently been associated with the origins of elite activism. However, drawing upon a wide array of sources, in...(展开全部)

For courses in Twentieth Century Europe. Written by a noted intellectual historian, this concise, interpretive history of twentieth-century European society and civilization surveys the full range of social, political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic events - from pre-World War I to the 1990s.

A.J·艾耶尔（1910-1989），英国伦敦大学和牛津大学哲学、逻辑学教授。逻辑实证主义的著名人物，曾参与维与纳小组的活动。

斯蒂芬·R.安德森博士，耶鲁大学语言学教授，美国语言学学会主席，国际语言学常设委员会副主席，美国人文与科学院院士。主要著作：《二十世纪音系学》、《非词素词法学》、《附着语素理论面面观》、《杜利特尔医生的幻觉——论动物与人类语言的独特性》。

斯蒂芬·R.安德森博士，耶鲁大学语言学教授，美国语言学学会主席，国际语言学常设委员会副主席，美国人文与科学院院士。主要著作：《二十世纪音系学》、《非词素词法学》、《附着语素理论面面观》、《杜利特尔医生的幻觉——论动物与人类语言的独特性》。