Qiaopi is one of several names given to the "silver letters" Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times. Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operation...(展开全部)

约翰·杜威（1859－1952），美国哲学家、教育家，实用主义的集大成者，长期任教于哥伦比亚大学。杜威曾于1919年来华访问，时间长达两年零两个月，对二十世纪上半叶的中国教育界、思想界发生过重大影响。 爱丽丝·Ｃ.杜威 （1859－1927），杜威妻子，1886年毕业于密歇根大学哲学系，曾协助丈夫创办芝加哥大学实验学校，后因病去世。

R.O.布莱克曼，美国著名插画家，写过七本生动有趣的小说。1953年出版处女作《女士的把戏》，并以自由插画师的身份为《纽约时报》、《财富》、《滚石》、《Elle》等出版物创作插画，其作品屡登《纽约客》的封面。布莱克曼的插画作品风格独特，令人过目不忘，曾经在纽约、巴黎、柏林和慕尼黑展出。 他还创立了动画工作室Ink Tank，并经营二十七年之久，将伊戈尔·斯特拉文斯基的《士兵的故事》改编为动画电影并一举获得1983年的艾美奖。 在布莱克曼获得的众多荣誉中，特别值得一提的是他于1999年加入“艺术指导协会名人堂”(Art Directors Club Hail of Fame)。另外，2003年纽约现代艺术博物馆还为他的动画电影举办了个展。

Simon Karlinsky has substantially expanded and revised the first edition of Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson's correspondence to include fifty-nine letters discovered subsequent to the book's original publication in 1979. Since then, five volumes of Edmund Wilson's diaries have been published, as well as a volume of Nabokov's correspondence with other people and Brian Boyd's ...(展开全部)

Simon Karlinsky has substantially expanded and revised the first edition of Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson's correspondence to include fifty-nine letters discovered subsequent to the book's original publication in 1979. Since then, five volumes of Edmund Wilson's diaries have been published, as well as a volume of Nabokov's correspondence with other people and Brian Boyd's ...(展开全部)

In dear elia Mimi Khúc revolutionizes how we understand mental health. Khúc traces the contemporary Asian American mental health crisis from the university into the maw of the COVID-19 pandemic, reenvisioning mental health through a pedagogy of unwellness—the recognition that we are all differentially unwell. In an intimate series of letters, she bears witness to Asian American...(展开全部)

Arthur Rimbaud was one of the wildest, most uncompromising poets of his age, although his brief literary career was over by the time he was twenty-one when he embarked on a new life as a trader in Africa. This edition brings together his extraordinary poetry and more than a hundred of his letters, most of them written after he had abandoned literature. A master of French ver...(展开全部)

The high-spirited correspondence between New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other’s books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and,...(展开全部)

保罗·奥斯特： 小说家、诗人、剧作家、译者、电影导演，被视为美国当代最勇于创新的小说家之一。1947年出生于新泽西州的纽渥克市，从哥伦比亚大学毕业后曾在法国生活数年。 J.M.库切： 南非当代著名小说家，被评论界认为是当代南非最重要的作家之一。曾两度获得布克奖，并于2003年获得诺贝尔文学奖。 1940年出生于南非开普敦，现居澳大利亚。

The high-spirited correspondence between New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other’s books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and,...(展开全部)