The dream of the twentieth century was the construction of mass utopia. As the century closes, this dream is being left behind; the belief that industrial modernization can bring about the good society by overcoming material scarcity for all has been challenged by the disintegration of European socialism, capitalist restructuring, and ecological constraints. The larger social v...(展开全部)

The dream of the twentieth century was the construction of mass utopia. As the century closes, this dream is being left behind; the belief that industrial modernization can bring about the good society by overcoming material scarcity for all has been challenged by the disintegration of European socialism, capitalist restructuring, and ecological constraints. The larger social v...(展开全部)

李约瑟 Dr.Joseph Needham (1900-1995)，全名 Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham，英国人，剑桥大学李约瑟研究所名誉所长，长期致力于中国科技史研究。李约瑟博士是英国著名科学家、英国皇家学会会员(FRS)、英国学术院院士 (FBA)。 早年以生物化学研究而著称，30-40年代出版了《化学胚胎学》(三卷本) 及《生物化学与形态发生》，在国际生化界享有盛誉。1954年，李约瑟出版了《中国科学技术史》第一卷，轰动西方汉学界。他在这部计有三十四分册的系列巨著中，以浩瀚的史料、确凿的证据向世界表明：“中国文明在科学技术史上曾起过从来没有被认识到的巨大作用”，“在现代科学技术登场前十多个世纪，中国在科技和知识方面的积累远胜于西方”。被誉为“20世纪的伟大学者”、“百科全书式的人物”。 译者张卜天，杰出青年译...(展开全部)

The historical civilization of China is, with the Indian and European-Semitic, one of the three greatest in the world, yet only relatively recently has any enquiry been begun into its achievements in science and technology. Between the first and fifteenth centuries the Chinese were generally far in advance of Europe and it was not until the scientific revolution of the Renaissa...(展开全部)

Wu Ching-hsiung (1899-1986) , also known as John C. H. Wu, was an author, lawyer, juristic philosopher, educator, and prominent Catholic convert and layman. He was president of the Special High Court at Shanghai, vice chairman of the Legislative Yuan's constitution drafting committee, founder of the T'ien Hsia Monthly, translator of the Psalms and the New Testament into Chinese...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2012 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication. The famous 1893 Chicago World’s Fair celebrated the dawn of corporate capitalism and a new Machine Age with an exhibit of the world’s largest engine. Yet the noise was so great, visitors ran out of the Machinery Hall to retreat to the peace and quiet of the Japanese pavilion’s Buddhist temp...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2012 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication. The famous 1893 Chicago World’s Fair celebrated the dawn of corporate capitalism and a new Machine Age with an exhibit of the world’s largest engine. Yet the noise was so great, visitors ran out of the Machinery Hall to retreat to the peace and quiet of the Japanese pavilion’s Buddhist temp...(展开全部)

The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia. Traditionally many European historians and theorists have seen the societies of the East as 'static' or 'backward'. Jack Goody challenges these assumptions, beginning with the notion of a special Western rationality which enabled 'us' and not 'them' to modernise. He then turns to book-keeping, which several social and econo...(展开全部)

The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia. Traditionally many European historians and theorists have seen the societies of the East as 'static' or 'backward'. Jack Goody challenges these assumptions, beginning with the notion of a special Western rationality which enabled 'us' and not 'them' to modernise. He then turns to book-keeping, which several social and econo...(展开全部)

Western and East Asian people hold fundamentally different beliefs about learning that influence how they approach child rearing and education. Reviewing decades of research, Dr Jin Li presents an important conceptual distinction between the Western mind model and the East Asian virtue model of learning. The former aims to cultivate the mind to understand the world, whereas the...(展开全部)