This work examines the history of urban planning and administration during modern China's first age of city-centered politics, focusing on the New Policies of the late Qing and the city administration movement of the 1920s. Between 1895 and 1937, the management of cities emerged as one of the chief challenges for the Chinese state. Through a detailed case study, based on newly ...(展开全部)

Building upon a previous study of Japan's colonial empire, this volume examines the period from 1895 to 1937 when Japan's economic, social, political, and military influence in China expanded so rapidly that it supplanted the influence of Western powers competing there. These fourteen essays discuss how Japan's "informal empire" emerged in China and how that "empire" influenced...(展开全部)

Review "Tang and Parish carefully mine a mountain of survey evidence to evaluate a wide range of arguments and ideas about the social consequences of China's reforms, and more generally, the transition from a planned to a market economy. By placing China unwaveringly in comparative perspective, their readable narrative offers some surprising new perspectives on such matters as ...(展开全部)

CHINA FROM THE INSIDE is a must read for investors, economists, and anyone with an interest in the global economy! This economics text offers a truly panoramic view of the Chinese economy and a unique, insider's analysis of into the policy and events that have shaped modern reform over the past two decades. Coverage includes topics such as macro-economic policy in the context o...(展开全部)

CHINA FROM THE INSIDE is a must read for investors, economists, and anyone with an interest in the global economy! This economics text offers a truly panoramic view of the Chinese economy and a unique, insider's analysis of into the policy and events that have shaped modern reform over the past two decades. Coverage includes topics such as macro-economic policy in the context o...(展开全部)

Dust jacket notes: "The breakdown of the monarchic system and the success of the Chinese Revolution of 1911 was due largely to the growth of semi-private armies and the rise of the militarists to a position that enabled them to seize power. The basic objectives of this study are twofold: first, to portray the weaknesses of the traditional armed forces - as evidenced by their fa...(展开全部)

王笛，美国得克萨斯A&M大学历史系副教授，美国霍普金斯大学历史学博士，华中师范大学近代史研究中心客座教授，中国社科院近代史研究所特邀研究员，2003和2004年任旅美中国历史学会会长。曾在美国密西根大学中国研究中心、日本东京大学东洋文化研究所等任客员研究员。他的《跨出封闭的世界：长江上游区域社会研究，1644-1911》是中国区域史研究的代表作。2003年在斯坦福大学出版社出版《街头文化：成都公共空间、下层民众与地方政治，1870－1930》。其英文新著《茶馆：成都的小商业、日常文化与公共政治，1900－1950》将由斯坦福大学出版社出版。《街头文化》一书，因“在学术上重要性、原创性、深入的研究、方法的精湛、论证的力度，以及对城市史研究领域的重大贡献”，2005年荣获两年一度颁发的“美国城市史学会最佳著作奖”。