Political elites are a key topic in contemporary China studies, and have been investigated in relation to factional politics, generation politics, technocracy, and crucially, institutionalization. The institutionalization of elite replacement began in China in the 1980s and quickly accelerated after the early 1990s, as mechanisms emerged to regulate political elites’ entry and ...(展开全部)

罗伯特·劳伦斯·库恩博士，是花旗集团全球投资银行的高级顾问；也是全球体育、传媒和娱乐公司国际管理集团（IMG）的高级合伙人，库恩基金会董事长；他还是克莱蒙大学研究生院理事，美国科学促进会科学自由和责任分会会员。同时还担任北京前沿科学研究所副理事长。库恩博士编辑和撰写了《他改变了中国：江泽民传》、《投资银行文库》、《走近真实》等25部著作，是美国《世界经理人》（Chief Executive）杂志和中国人民日报社主管的《环球人物》杂志的特约撰稿人，美国CNBC和彭博 （Bloomberg）电视网的特约评论员。

理查德·尼克松（Richard Nixon，1913～1994年）33岁成为最年轻的美国国会议员，40岁担任美国副总统，1968年当选美国总统，1974年因“水门事件”被迫下台。他经历了20世纪世界最动荡的时期——两次世界大战和一次冷战。美国在全球的地位和尼克松所处的美国权力顶峰的位置，给了他观察世界独特的视角。尼克松从政期间访问过80多个国家，结识了当时世界上几乎所有的二战以后的领袖，同他们有过密切接触和深入交往。他有着罕见而丰富的阅历。 1972年他作为美国总统访问北京，促成中美关系的正常化，这一事件引起了全世界的轰动。也成为尼克松外交生涯中最为传奇的一笔。尼克松确实是一个以美国利益为中心的政治家，但同时也是一个极富全球眼光的国际战略家。 1994年4月22日，尼克松因中风在纽约去世，白宫宣布葬礼当天为全国哀悼日，88个国家的代表参加了葬礼。 他...(展开全部)

The Inside Story of China’s 30-Year Reform gives the reader exclusive access to recently declassified Party material as well as unprecedented personal access to China’s upper echelons of power. An exploration of the present and a forecast of the future, The Inside Story of China’s 30-Year Reform examines how and why China’s current and future leaders think as they do along with...(展开全部)

Theorists working on metaethics and the nature of normativity typically study goodness, rightness, what ought to be done, and so on. In their investigations they employ and consider our actual normative concepts. But the actual concepts of goodness, rightness, and what ought to be done are only some of the possible normative concepts there are. There are other possible concepts...(展开全部)

Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go? Whether mundane or life-altering, these choices define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture? Why do we sometimes choose against our best interests? How much control do we really have over what we...(展开全部)

Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go? Whether mundane or life-altering, these choices define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture? Why do we sometimes choose against our best interests? How much control do we really have over what ...(展开全部)

Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go? Whether mundane or life-altering, these choices define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture? Why do we sometimes choose against our best interests? How much control do we really have over what we...(展开全部)