This book seeks to reconcile the dual forces of war and economic globalization in tracing China's early modernity. For late imperial China, there were two forms of encounter with the West; the guns of invading Europeans, and the ledgers by which trade between China and the West was measured and regulated. Even today, China's reactions to the West oscillate between business-driv...(展开全部)

Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China. This is the first book to demonstrate the role China played in creating a globalized biomedicine between 1850 and 1950. This was China's ""Century of Humiliation"" whe...(展开全部)

Published originally in 1990 to critical acclaim, Robert Wade's "Governing the Market" quickly established itself as a standard in contemporary political economy. In it, Wade challenged claims both of those who saw the East Asian story as a vindication of free market principles and of those who attributed the success of Taiwan and other countries to government intervention. Ins...(展开全部)

In this major new study, Nicolas Tackett proposes that the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) witnessed both the maturation of an East Asian inter-state system and the emergence of a new worldview and sense of Chinese identity among educated elites. These developments together had sweeping repercussions for the course of Chinese history, while also demonstrating that there has ex...(展开全部)

In this major new study, Nicolas Tackett proposes that the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) witnessed both the maturation of an East Asian inter-state system and the emergence of a new worldview and sense of Chinese identity among educated elites. These developments together had sweeping repercussions for the course of Chinese history, while also demonstrating that there has ex...(展开全部)

胡司德（Roel Sterckx），剑桥大学“中国历史、科学与文明”李约瑟讲座教授，克莱尔学院院士。著作有《早期中国食物、祭品与圣贤》（Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China），纽约剑桥大学出版社（New York: Cambridge University Press）2011年出版；主编《论鼎与品味：古代中国宗教与饮食文化》（Of Tripod and Palate: Food, Politics and Religion in Traditional China），纽约帕尔格雷夫·麦克米兰出版社（New York: Palgrave MacMillan）2005年出版。撰有古代中国文化史及思想、宗教等方面论文及专著章节多种。2013年当选为英国国家学术院院士。

Summary Read First Chapter image missing Explores early Chinese beliefs regarding the animal world and how these informed ideals of sagehood and political authority. Exploring the cultural perception of animals in early Chinese thought, this careful reading of Warring States and Han dynasty writings analyzes how views of animals were linked to human self perception and investig...(展开全部)

Few observers are unimpressed by the economic ambition of China or by the nation's remarkable rate of growth. But what does the future hold? This meticulously researched book closely examines the strengths and weaknesses of the Chinese economic system to discover where the nation may be headed and what the Chinese experience reveals about emerging market economies. The authors ...(展开全部)

In recent years, scholars have successfully challenged the perception that Chinese civilization, especially in its early phase, existed in isolation with little or no influence from other regions of the world. Similarly, the passive role of Chinese dynasties in their interactions with neighboring societies, emphasized in earlier studies, also has come under serious scrutiny. Ta...(展开全部)

If medieval China, that vast commercial empire glimpsed by Marco Polo, had gunpowder, paper, a huge army, the compass and other technological wonders, then why didn't the Industrial Revolution occur there instead of Western Europe? Why did the Chinese remain technically backwards for centuries and fall prey to the West's political dominance? These questions are addressed in thi...(展开全部)