This translation of the introduction to Wang Hui’s Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2004) makes part of his four-volume masterwork available to English readers for the first time. A leading public intellectual in China, Wang charts the historical currents that have shaped Chinese modernity from the Song Dynasty to the present day, and along the way challenges the West to rethink...(展开全部)

In nineteenth-century imperial Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, new scientific fields like psychophysics, empirical psychology, clinical psychiatry, and neuroanatomy transformed the understanding of mental life in ways long seen as influencing modernism. Turning to the history of psychiatric classification for mental illnesses, Cate I. Reilly argues that modernist texts...(展开全部)

At the Second World War's end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not resume. W. E. B. Du Bois's The World and Africa, published in 1946, recognized the depth of the crisis that the war had brought to Europe, and hence to Europe's domination over much of the globe. Du Bois believed that Africa's past provided lessons for its future, for international ...(展开全部)

Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including wh...(展开全部)

Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million North Caucasian Muslims sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire. This resettlement of Muslim refugees from Russia changed the Ottoman state. Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis, and others established hundreds of refugee villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most villages still exist today, including wh...(展开全部)

安东尼奥·奈格里（Antonio Negri），著名的意大利籍政治理论与政治哲学家，著有《颠覆的政治：21世纪的宣言》、《愤怒的异类：斯宾诺莎的形而上学和政治学》等。 麦克尔·哈特（Michael Hardt）是美国年轻一代的学者，毕业于美国西雅图的华盛顿大学英文系，目前任教于杜克大学文学系，是公认的德勒兹（Deleuze）专家。

安东尼奥·奈格里（Antonio Negri），著名的意大利籍政治理论与政治哲学家，著有《颠覆的政治：21世纪的宣言》、《愤怒的异类：斯宾诺莎的形而上学和政治学》等。 麦克尔·哈特（Michael Hardt）是美国年轻一代的学者，毕业于美国西雅图的华盛顿大学英文系，目前任教于杜克大学文学系，是公认的德勒兹（Deleuze）专家。

From 1885–1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor. These forty years saw the collapse of Confucian political orthodoxy and the struggle among competing definitions of modern citizenship and the state. ...(展开全部)

作者简介： 沙培德（Peter Zarrow） 美国康涅狄格大学历史系教授，哥伦比亚大学博士。主要研究领域为中国近代思想文化史、比较政治与政治史，对中国近代革命史、晚清至民国的知识与政治转型等问题有专精研究，在海内外中国史学界有广泛影响。著有《帝国之后：近代中国国家观念的转型（1885—1924）》《战争与革命交织的近代中国（1895—1949）》等。 译者简介： 刘芳 北京师范大学历史学院副教授、硕士生导师，历史学博士后，北京大学和美国加州大学洛杉矶分校联合培养历史学博士。研究专长为中国近代政治外交史、中美关系史。近年来主持国家级和省部级课题两项，发表学术论文20余篇，著有《美国政府与庚子事变研究（1899—1901）》等。