Based on extensive oral history interviews, Dreaming the New Woman uncovers the experiences of girls who attended missionary middle schools in Republican China in the first half of the twentieth century. Chinese missionary schoolgirls were often labelled "foreign puppets" or seen as passive recipients of a western-style education. By focusing on the pupils' own perspectives and...(展开全部)

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, her extraordinary second book, Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives. In her search for unde...(展开全部)

This book brings together fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the 'Kommunalka,' the communal apartments that were the norm in housing in the cities of Russia during the whole history of the Soviet Union. The Kommunalka was perhaps the most important social experiment undertaken by the Soviet regime, having arguably as much if not more of an effect on the outlook ...(展开全部)

斯特兹·特克尔，美国口述史权威、著名作家、广播节目制作人。1966年，特克尔的第一本口述史著作《断街》出版，旋即成为畅销书，之后他一部部推出人们颇为关心的讨论话题，每部都在当时引起巨大反响，包括《艰难时代》《美国梦寻》《正义的战争》等，曾获普利策非虚构文学奖。

This book brings together fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the 'Kommunalka,' the communal apartments that were the norm in housing in the cities of Russia during the whole history of the Soviet Union. The Kommunalka was perhaps the most important social experiment undertaken by the Soviet regime, having arguably as much if not more of an effect on the outlook ...(展开全部)

斯特兹·特克尔，美国口述史权威、著名作家、广播节目制作人。1966年，特克尔的第一本口述史著作《断街》出版，旋即成为畅销书，之后他一部部推出人们颇为关心的讨论话题，每部都在当时引起巨大反响，包括《艰难时代》《美国梦寻》《正义的战争》等，曾获普利策非虚构文学奖。

关于作者 安吉拉·卡特（Angela Carter，1940—1992），英国女作家，凭借《染血之室》《马戏团之夜》《焚舟纪》《安吉拉·卡特的精怪故事集》《明智的孩子》等新颖无畏、独树一帜的作品，成为一代人的偶像，被萨尔曼·鲁西迪、伊恩·麦克尤恩、石黑一雄、玛格丽特·阿特伍德等大作家拥戴为一代文学教母。2008年，《泰晤士报》将她列为“1945年以来50位伟大英国作家”第10位。时至今日，她仍是女性主义的象征。 关于译者 曹雷雨，女，四川人，文学博士，北京师范大学外文学院英文系教授。近年致力于文学作品和艺术图书翻译，已出版译著十余部。译有安吉拉•卡特的长篇小说处女作《影舞》（河南大学出版社，2016）。 姜丽，女，山东人，兰州大学英美文学专业硕士，瑞士伯尔尼大学语言学博士。长期在高校从事英语教学工作，有二十多年的翻译经验。

'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all tenderness is false, all beds are minefields. But now Sade has met his match. ...(展开全部)

The Age of Irreverence tells the story of why China’s entry into the modern age was not just traumatic, but uproarious. As the Qing dynasty slumped toward extinction, prominent writers compiled jokes into collections they called “histories of laughter.” In the first years of the Republic, novelists, essayists and illustrators alike used humorous allegories to make veiled critiq...(展开全部)

About the Book By the end of the nineteenth century, after a long period during which the weakness of China became ever more obvious, intellectuals began to go abroad for new ideas. What emerged was a musical genre that Liu Ching-chih terms "New Music." With no direct ties to traditional Chinese music, New Music reflects the compositional techniques and musical idioms of eighte...(展开全部)