约瑟夫·洛克（Joseph F.Rock，1884—1962）是中国研究民族学、纳西学和藏学的学者比较熟悉的一位西方学者。19世纪和20世纪之交，不少西方探险家、学者、传教士和旅行家怀有各种目的，开始来到中国西部边疆地区。他们寻求考古发现，以西方人文科学的方法对当地的社会和风土人情进行观察、记录。早期的西方探险家和学者主要热衷于中国西部的地下文物，比如，敦煌古代写卷和黑水城文书的发现过程中都有这些外国人的身影。到了20世纪的二三十年代，外国探险家们对世界这一块土地的热情依然不减。不过，他们追寻的目标逐渐从考古发现转向了对自然地理环境、人文习俗和社会制度的考察和研究，有些人在中国西部长期居住下来，对某一地区进行长期的跟踪考察和记录，还把他们的文稿寄往国外的刊物发表。直到20世纪50年代初，由于中国政治形势的巨变，他们才不得不离开中国。在后期的这些西方探...(展开全部)

约瑟夫·洛克（Joseph F.Rock，1884—1962）是中国研究民族学、纳西学和藏学的学者比较熟悉的一位西方学者。19世纪和20世纪之交，不少西方探险家、学者、传教士和旅行家怀有各种目的，开始来到中国西部边疆地区。他们寻求考古发现，以西方人文科学的方法对当地的社会和风土人情进行观察、记录。早期的西方探险家和学者主要热衷于中国西部的地下文物，比如，敦煌古代写卷和黑水城文书的发现过程中都有这些外国人的身影。到了20世纪的二三十年代，外国探险家们对世界这一块土地的热情依然不减。不过，他们追寻的目标逐渐从考古发现转向了对自然地理环境、人文习俗和社会制度的考察和研究，有些人在中国西部长期居住下来，对某一地区进行长期的跟踪考察和记录，还把他们的文稿寄往国外的刊物发表。直到20世纪50年代初，由于中国政治形势的巨变，他们才不得不离开中国。在后期的这些西方探...(展开全部)

What was it you said again? "You have a strange look in your eyes -- like a bystander observing the world. You're not French, are you?"So the letter from one near stranger to another begins, and so begins Tonu Onnepalu's novel of a life lived on the margin where East and West uneasily meet. At home in neither his native land nor his adopted country, the unnamed narrator writes ...(展开全部)

Madeleine Reeves is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is the coauthor of Surviving the Transition? Case Studies of Schools and Schooling in the Kyrgyz Republic Since Independence, editor of Movement, Power and Place in Central Asia and Beyond: Contested Trajectories, and coeditor of Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia: Performing Politi...(展开全部)

This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women’s history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the process, Hershatter offers keen analytic insight...(展开全部)

This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women’s history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the process, Hershatter offers keen analytic insight...(展开全部)

In less than three decades, China has grown from playing a negligible role in world trade to being one of the world's largest exporters, a substantial importer of raw materials, intermediate outputs, and other goods, and both a recipient and source of foreign investment. Not surprisingly, China's economic dynamism has generated considerable attention and concern in the United S...(展开全部)

In less than three decades, China has grown from playing a negligible role in international trade to being one of the world's largest exporters, a substantial importer of raw materials, intermediate outputs, and other goods, and both a recipient and source of foreign investment. Not surprisingly, China's economic dynamism has generated considerable attention and concern in the ...(展开全部)

Michelson's analysis of almost 150,000 divorce trials reveals routine and egregious violations of China's own laws upholding the freedom of divorce, gender equality, and the protection of women's physical security. Using 'big data' computational techniques to scrutinize cases covering 2009–2016 from all 252 basic-level courts in two Chinese provinces, Henan and Zhejiang, Michel...(展开全部)