Noted political and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek and contemporary Chinese scholars share the challenge of reconciling barely compatible if not contradictory ideas. China’s radical assumption of both socialist and capitalist ideologies as well as its increasing economic and political prominence make it a crucial subject for theorizing about global modernity. This issue offers ...(展开全部)

In this book on the post-modern perspective on the curriculum, the author asserts that the post-modern model of organic change is not necessarily linear, uniform, measured and determined, but is one of emergence and growth, made possible by interaction, transaction, disequilibrium and consequent equilibrium. Transformation, not a set course, the book argues, should be the rule,...(展开全部)

The essays assembled here represent a turning point in the study of Chinese economic history. Previous work has emphasized the institutional and social bases of economic change. These studies break new ground, bringing Western economic theory to the study of China's economy since the seventeenth century.

This book brings together the most important articles of the late Joseph F. Fletcher (1934–84), a scholar widely acclaimed for the breadth and brilliance of his historical thought and for his almost unequalled linguistic competence. Fletcher’s mastery of the major languages and historical traditions of East Asia, the Middle East and Europe gave him a unique ability to trace...(展开全部)

路易·迪蒙（1911—1998），是战后法国人类学界的代表人物，马塞尔·莫斯最有成就的弟子之一。他在人类学的理论和方法上都做出了非常重要的贡献：在理论上，他修正并深化了列维-斯特劳斯的结构主义，使结构主义从语言学的仆人回归到民族志的事实，从而复兴了社会学年鉴派的基本主张。在方法上，他结合了田野民族志和意识形态研究，落实了莫斯提出的“总体社会事实”原则。

路易·迪蒙（1911—1998），是战后法国人类学界的代表人物，马塞尔·莫斯最有成就的弟子之一。他在人类学的理论和方法上都做出了非常重要的贡献：在理论上，他修正并深化了列维-斯特劳斯的结构主义，使结构主义从语言学的仆人回归到民族志的事实，从而复兴了社会学年鉴派的基本主张。在方法上，他结合了田野民族志和意识形态研究，落实了莫斯提出的“总体社会事实”原则。

"Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for decades and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. On China illuminates the inner workin...(展开全部)

For more than twenty years after the Communist Revolution in 1949, China and most of the western world had no diplomats in each others' capitals and no direct way to communicate. Then, in July 1971, Henry Kissinger arrived secretly in Beijing on a mission which quickly led to the reopening of relations between China and the West and changed the course of post-war history. For t...(展开全部)