Originally published by Harvard University Press in 1958.

Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China from the early 1900s through the founding of the People’s Republic, the installation of the socialist realist aesthetic...(展开全部)

Perceptive commentary, notes on well-known myths, and case studies from the author's private therapy practice accompany a collection of classic folktales that reveal the complexity, duality, and meaning of femininity and femaleness.

Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament. At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, a battle Wilberfor...(展开全部)

Timur (or Tamerlane) is famous as the fourteenth-century conqueror of much of Central Eurasia and the founder of the Timurid dynasty. His reputation lived on in his native lands and reappeared some three centuries after his death in the form of fictional biographies, authored anonymously in Persian and Turkic. These biographies have become part of popular culture. Despite a dir...(展开全部)

In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner's presents five of what she calls her most heroic and memorable patients. Among them: a successful, first generation Chinese immigrant musician suffering sexual dysfunction; a young woman whose father abandoned her at age nine with her younger siblings in an isolated cottage in the depth of winter; and a glamorous work...(展开全部)

The novel Forgotten Tales of the Sui (Sui shi yiwen 隋史遺文, 1633) was in fact nearly forgotten in China, because much of its best parts were copied into the better known Romance of the Sui and the Tang (Sui Tang yanyi 隋唐演義, 1695). Those best parts were the adventures of Qin Shubao 秦叔寶. But the earlier novel has a fuller version and that is what is translated here: the coming-of-a...(展开全部)

In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner's presents five of what she calls her most heroic and memorable patients. Among them: a successful, first generation Chinese immigrant musician suffering sexual dysfunction; a young woman whose father abandoned her at age nine with her younger siblings in an isolated cottage in the depth of winter; and a glamorous work...(展开全部)

作者簡介 鮑伯．德魯里（Bob Drury）、湯姆．克萊文（Tom Clavin） 鮑伯．德魯里（Bob Drury）和湯姆．克萊文合寫過兩本著作，《海爾賽的颱風》（Halsey’s Typhoon）和《F連的背水一戰》（The Last Stand of Fox Company）。他目前擔任《男性健康》（Men’s Health）雜誌的特約編輯和國外通訊員。 湯姆．克萊文（Tom Clavin）擁有十一本親自撰寫和與別人合作的著作。曾經擔任紐約時報特約撰述長達十五年。 譯者簡介 莊勝雄 台灣屏東縣人，私立中國文化大學英文系畢業。資深編譯，曾在《台灣時報》、《聯合報》和《聯合晚報》從事國際新聞與編譯工作；也是資深文字工作者。 著作：《突擊摩加迪休》，《我愛鳥．零距離》。 主要譯作有：《時間萬歲》、《2052：下一個40年的全球生態、經濟與人類生活總預...(展开全部)

作者簡介 鮑伯．德魯里（Bob Drury）、湯姆．克萊文（Tom Clavin） 鮑伯．德魯里（Bob Drury）和湯姆．克萊文合寫過兩本著作，《海爾賽的颱風》（Halsey’s Typhoon）和《F連的背水一戰》（The Last Stand of Fox Company）。他目前擔任《男性健康》（Men’s Health）雜誌的特約編輯和國外通訊員。 湯姆．克萊文（Tom Clavin）擁有十一本親自撰寫和與別人合作的著作。曾經擔任紐約時報特約撰述長達十五年。 譯者簡介 莊勝雄 台灣屏東縣人，私立中國文化大學英文系畢業。資深編譯，曾在《台灣時報》、《聯合報》和《聯合晚報》從事國際新聞與編譯工作；也是資深文字工作者。 著作：《突擊摩加迪休》，《我愛鳥．零距離》。 主要譯作有：《時間萬歲》、《2052：下一個40年的全球生態、經濟與人類生活總預...(展开全部)