Over the first half of the twentieth century, the lives of millions of urban Chinese were transformed by new ideas, new objects, new jobs, new leisure pursuits, new forms of transportation, new architecture: in a word, new «life-styles» and habits of mind. What did these changes mean to ordinary people? The essays in this book examine how prevailing discourses – on nationalism,...(展开全部)

Fully revised and updated, this new edition updates Novak's theory for meaningful learning and autonomous knowledge building along with tools to make it operational, that is, concept maps, created with the use of CMapTools and the V diagram. It is essential reading for educators at all levels and corporate managers who seek to enhance worker productivity.

Television is a central dimension in our everyday lives and yet its meaning and its potency varies according to our individual circumstances, mediated by the social and cultural worlds which we inhabit. In this fascinating book, Roger Silverstone explores the enigma of television and how it has found its way so profoundly and intimately into the fabric of our everyday lives. Hi...(展开全部)

In China today skyscrapers tower over ancient temples, freeways deliver lines of cars and tour buses to imperial palaces, cinema houses compete with old theaters featuring Peking Opera. The disparity evidenced in the contemporary Chinese cityscape can be traced to the early decades of the twentieth century, when government elites sought to transform cities into a new world that...(展开全部)

译者 衣俊卿，教授、博士生导师，中央编译局局长。1982年毕业于北京大学哲学系，1987年获贝尔格莱德大学哲学博士学位。曾先后担任黑龙江大学哲学系主任，《求是学刊》主编，黑龙江大学副校长，黑龙江大学校长、党委副书记。2007年3月起任黑龙江省委宣传部部长、省社会科学界联合会党组书记，2007年4月起担任黑龙江省委常委、省委宣传部部长、省社会科学界联合会党组书记。2010年2月起担任中央编译局局长。现兼任中国现代外国哲学学会副会长、中国俄罗斯东欧中亚学会副会长、中国辩证唯物主义学会常务理事、中国人学学会常务理事、中国马克思主义哲学史学会理事。 长期从事马克思主义文化哲学、国外马克思主义的研究工作，主要研究领域：马克思的实践哲学、当代马克思主义、现代化进程中的日常生活批判理论。主要著作有：《实践派的探索与实践哲学的述评》、《东欧的新马克思主义》、《现代化...(展开全部)

Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of psychological anthropology. The contributors explore Chinese modernity through the psychosocial contradictions ex...(展开全部)

Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of psychological anthropology. The contributors explore Chinese modernity through the psychosocial contradictions ex...(展开全部)

本论著所要研究的基本对象为现代歌词,共5章：第一章：学堂乐歌与现代大众诗学话语的发生；第二章：歌谣运动与大众诗学的最初构想；第三章：上海流行歌曲的歌词创作与大众诗学的空间开创；第四章：延安“歌唱”与大众诗学的嬗变；第五章：离开“现场”后的思考。

The Chinese essay is arguably China’s most distinctive contribution to modern world literature, and the period of its greatest influence and popularity—the mid-1930s—is the central concern of this book. What Charles Laughlin terms "the literature of leisure" is a modern literary response to the cultural past that manifests itself most conspicuously in the form of short, informa...(展开全部)