Cosmopolitanism and friendship have become key themes for understanding ethnicity and nationalism. In this deeply original study of the Mongols, leading scholar Uradyn E. Bulag draws on these themes to develop a new concept he terms “collaborative nationalism.” He uses this concept to explore the paradoxical dilemma of minorities in China as they fight not against being exclude...(展开全部)

The most influential of contemporary philosophers explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future.

The most influential of contemporary philosophers explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future.

C. Patterson Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest through comparative frontier history and a pioneering use of indigenous sources. He focuses on the Tai domains of China's Yunnan frontier, part of the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry. Pat...(展开全部)

C. Patterson Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest through comparative frontier history and a pioneering use of indigenous sources. He focuses on the Tai domains of China's Yunnan frontier, part of the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry. Pat...(展开全部)

艾瑞克‧霍布斯邦 Eric J. Hobsbawm 著名歷史學大師艾瑞克‧霍布斯邦（1917-2012）有著不平凡的一生。他流轉在許多城市間，見證並活過許多二十世紀的關鍵時刻。霍布斯邦在學術上以研究十九世紀為主，並延伸及十七、十八和二十世紀；研究地區則從英國、歐洲，廣至拉丁美洲。除了專業領域，也經常撰寫當代政治、社會評論，以及藝術或文化批評等。有關勞工運動、農民叛變和世界史範疇中的研究成果，霍布斯邦堪稱當代史家的頂尖，影響學界甚巨；而其宏觀通暢的寫作風格，更將敘述史學的魅力擴及至一般平民大眾。

I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . . but recognising its enormous force, which must be harnessed for progress if possible. In the last two decades the uses of the term 'nationalism' has increased steeply with the rising tide of nationalist parties. In this collection of historian Eric Hobsbawm'...(展开全部)

The rise of major metropolises across China since the 1990s has been a double-edged sword: although big cities function as economic powerhouses, concentrated urban growth can worsen regional inequalities, governance challenges, and social tensions. Wary of these dangers, China’s national leaders have tried to forestall top-heavy urbanization. However, urban and regional develop...(展开全部)

This comprehensive Handbook provides an insight into the main concepts and academic debates on taxation from a political science perspective. Providing a background to current debates on green taxation, taxation and inequality, taxation and gender, tax evasion and avoidance, and tax compliance, it offers potential avenues for future research. The Handbook explores the historica...(展开全部)