The modern university was born in Germany. In the twentieth century, the United States leapfrogged Germany to become the global leader in higher education. Will China challenge its position in the twenty-first? Today American institutions dominate nearly every major ranking of global universities. Yet in historical terms, America’s preeminence is relatively new, and there is no...(展开全部)

Today American institutions dominate nearly every major ranking of global universities. Yet in historical terms, America’s preeminence is relatively new, and there is no reason to assume that US schools will continue to lead the world a century from now. Indeed, America’s supremacy in higher education is under great stress, particularly at its public universities, while Chinese...(展开全部)

Emotion takes place. Rather than an interior state of mind in response to the outside world, emotion per se is spatial, at turns embedding us from without, transporting us somewhere else, or putting us ahead of ourselves. In this book, Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of emotions in Chinese literature and culture centered on the idea of emotion as spa...(展开全部)

This wide-ranging work, consisting of selected essays of Morris Rossabi, reflects the diverse interests of a leading scholar of China and Inner Asia. It encompasses the eras from the thirteenth century to the present, territories stretching from China to Mongolia to Central Asia and to the Middle East, and religions from Islam to Nestorian Christianity to Judaism and Confuciani...(展开全部)

Ho-fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland

In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author re-integrates the history of pre-modern Europe into the study of nationalism, describing it as an unintended and unavoidable co...(展开全部)

作者｜[瑞士]卡斯帕·赫希（Caspar Hirschi） 瑞士弗里堡大学历史学博士，曾任教于苏黎世联邦理工学院人文、社会与政治科学系，现为圣加伦大学人文社会科学学院教授。著有《民族的竞争：中世纪与现代之交德意志荣誉共同体的构建》《丑闻专家，专家丑闻：一个当代问题的历史研究》等。 译者｜X. Li 美国佐治亚大学法学硕士，现从事写作、翻译、设计和插画等工作，译有《迷信与暴力》《价格革命》《无尽的盛宴》等。

安妮·鲁尼（Anne Rooney），英国知名科普作家，剑桥大学博士，皇家文艺学会院士，皇家文学基金会研究员，英国作家协会管理委员会理事并曾担任教育作家委员会主席。她撰写了几十部科普著作，并被翻译为22种语言。其作品《明日科技：人工智能》曾于2004年入围英国皇家学会的“安万特奖”，这一奖项被广泛认为是世界科普图书领域影响力超群的奖项（霍金、彭罗斯等人的作品曾获此奖项）。她还曾入围2015年英国作协的“教育作家奖”最终5 人名单，2018年获得过英国学校图书馆协会的“信息图书奖”，并入围英国皇家学会的“青少年图书奖”最终6人名单。她曾在剑桥大学和约克大学任教，目前居住在剑桥。

菲利普·内莫(Philippe Nemo，1949－），法国当代知名哲学、政治学教授，毕业于法国圣克鲁高师(Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud)，先后任教于图尔大学(Universi te de Tours)和奥吉斯特·孔德学院(Institut Auguste Comte)，现为巴黎高等商学院-欧洲管理学院(ESCP-EAP)的教授。

【作者】 卡丽•吉布森(Carrie Gibson)，获得剑桥大学哲学博士学位，专注于研究海地革命时期西属加勒比地区。她曾经担任《卫报》记者，深入查阅了加勒比地区的档案馆。 · 【译者】 扈喜林，自由译者，内蒙古人，毕业于对外经济贸易大学，主要从事品牌管理、创新研究、心理学、小说等领域的翻译工作，已翻译出版了近30部作品。