本杰明·史华兹，生于1916年12月12日，卒于1999年11月14日。1960年起任哈佛大学教授，并以其博雅和睿智，在核校东亚中被尊称为“学者的学者”。除了作为其扛鼎之作的本书，还写有《中国的共产主义和毛的兴起》、《共产主义和中国：变动中的思想意识》、《中国文化的价值》和《中国及其他》等。

Hailed as "the most dramatic and comprehensive account" of the early years of Russian capitalism (New York Times Book Review) David Hoffman, former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light onto the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these cunning and ruthless men--Alexander Smolensky, Yuri Luzhkov, Anatoly Ch...(展开全部)

This is an updated edition of 'the most dramatic and comprehensive account' of the early years of Russian capitalism, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Dead Hand". "The New York Times". David Hoffman, former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, exposes the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these cunning and ...(展开全部)

戴维•霍夫曼（David E. Hoffman），美国作家、记者。1982年加入《华盛顿邮报》，在里根及老布什的任期内报道白宫新闻，包括美苏首脑峰会；随后负责国外新闻，1992年出任耶路撒冷记者站站长；于牛津大学学习俄语后派驻俄罗斯，1995年至2001年间出任《华盛顿邮报》莫斯科记者站站长；现为《华盛顿邮报》特约编辑。 2002年出版第一本书《寡头：新俄罗斯的财富与权力》，被誉为终结这一主题的里程碑之作；2010年出版的《死亡之手：超级大国冷战军备竞赛及苏联解体后的核生化武器失控危局》获美国普利策非虚构作品奖。

China's rural industrial sector has been the engine driving much of the Chinese economy's dynamism during the reform period. The nature and development of this sector, also referred to as township and village enterprises (TVEs) defy easy explanation. Across regions, there is dramatic variation in property rights among TVEs, ranging from local government ownership to outright pr...(展开全部)

Both utilitarian objects and examples of textile design of wondrous beauty, Chinese rank badges were developed in the Ming and Qing dynasties to indicate the bearer’s station in the civil or military bureaucracies. Employing birds for civil officials’ insignia and four-legged animals―some of them fantastical―for the military, these rank badges additionally contain motifs spring...(展开全部)

From one of the world’s leading economists and his coauthors, a cutting-edge analysis of what drives economic growth and a blueprint for prosperity under capitalism. Crisis seems to follow crisis. Inequality is rising, growth is stagnant, the environment is suffering, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed every crack in the system. We hear more and more calls for radical change...(展开全部)

Rollo May defines power as the ability to cause or prevent change; innocence, on the other hand, is the conscious divesting of one's power to make it seem a virtuea form of powerlessness that Dr. May sees as particularly American in nature. From these basic concepts he suggests a new ethic that sees power as the basis for both human goodness and evil. Dr. May discusses five lev...(展开全部)