Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin's influential novel Family, but few realize how much he shaped his depiction of 1920s China to suit his story and his politics. In Fact in Fiction, Kristin Stapleton puts Ba Jin's bestseller into full historical context, both to ill...(展开全部)

Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin's influential novel Family, but few realize how much he shaped his depiction of 1920s China to suit his story and his politics. In Fact in Fiction, Kristin Stapleton puts Ba Jin's bestseller into full historical context, both to ill...(展开全部)

达妮埃尔·齐布尔斯基（Danièle Cybulskie）十多年来一直在研究中世纪，并围绕着这一主题进行写作。她曾是一名大学教授，也是中世纪文学和文艺复兴戏剧方面的专家，还是Medievalists.net的特约作家。她曾多次在国际杂志上发表作品，主题从百年战争到罗马长袍不一而足。她的目标就是让历史变得生动有趣和引人入胜。

The first of its kind, this collection of critical essays opens up new venues in the comparative study of science and culture by focusing on the formative decades of modern China in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. It provides a wide-ranging examination of the cultural and intellectual history of science and technology in modern China.From anti-imper...(展开全部)

Here, in a new edition, is Nelson Goodman's provocative philosophical classic--a book that, according to Science, "raised a storm of controversy" when it was first published in 1954, and one that remains on the front lines of philosophical debate. How is it that we feel confident in generalizing from experience in some ways but not in others? How ore generalizations that ore ...(展开全部)

史谦德（David Strand），美国狄金森学院查尔斯·A.德纳（Charles A. Dana）政治学教授。1979年获美国哥伦比亚大学博士学位。著有《北京的人力车夫：1920年代的市民与政治》《未竟的共和：近代中国的言行表率》等。 周书垚，美国德州农工大学教育学硕士。译有《上海秘密战》《拜占庭的成就》等。 袁剑，中央民族大学民族学与社会学学院副教授，（教育部基地）中央民族大学中国少数民族研究中心边疆民族研究所所长。著有《边疆的背影：拉铁摩尔与中国学术》，译有《烧钱：中国人生活世界中的物质精神》《危险的边疆：游牧帝国与中国》《假想的”满大人”：同情、现代性与中国疼痛》等。 周育民，上海师范大学历史系教授、博士生导师。著有《中国帮会史》（与邵雍合著）、《晚清财政与社会变迁》、《史海试勺——晚清史管窥》、《上海通史》（第六卷）等。翻译或校译《中国民间...(展开全部)

In the 1920s, revolution, war, and imperialist aggression brought chaos to China. Many of the dramatic events associated with this upheaval took place in or near China's cities. Bound together by rail, telegraph, and a shared urban mentality, cities like Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing formed an arena in which the great issues of the day--the quest for social and civil peace, ...(展开全部)

This monumental work provides a new perspective on the historical significance of famines in China over the past three hundred years. It examines the relationship between the interventionist state policies of the eighteenth-century Qing emperors (0;the golden age of famine relief1;), the environmental and political crises of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (when Ch...(展开全部)