China has become the world's second biggest economy and its largest exporter. It possesses the world's largest foreign exchange reserves and has 29 companies in the FT 500 list of the world's largest companies. ‘China's Rise' preoccupies the global media, which regularly carry articles suggesting that it is using its financial resources to ‘buy the world'. Is there any truth to...(展开全部)

From Cover Back The China Society for People's Friendship Studies (PFS) in cooperation with the Foreign Language Press (FLP)in Beijing has arranged for re-publication, in the series entitled Light on China , of some fifty books written in English between the 1860s and the founding years of the People's Republic, by journalistic and other sympathetic eyewitnesses of the revolu...(展开全部)

Who is the world for? asks the baby bear in her winter cave and the lion cub on his grassy plain and the baby hippo in the slow brown river. All over the world - in deep roomy seas, on high, green trees, in ice and snow - baby animals ask their parents this question. In a house in the city, the boy asks his father too - receiving the same emphatic proclamation in reply, The wor...(展开全部)

Cosmetic surgery in China has grown rapidly in recent years of dramatic social transition. Facing fierce competition in all spheres of daily life, more and more women consider cosmetic surgery as an investment to gain "beauty capital" to increase opportunities for social and career success. Building on rich ethnographic data, this book presents the perspectives of women who hav...(展开全部)

On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di’s loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was ‘to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas’ and unite the world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would ...(展开全部)

Many thought China's rise would fundamentally remake the global order. Yet, much like other developing nations, the Chinese state now finds itself in a status quo characterized by free trade and American domination. Through a cutting-edge historical, sociological, and political analysis, Ho-fung Hung details the competing interests and economic realities that temper the dream o...(展开全部)

孔诰烽（Ho-fung Hung），约翰·霍普金斯大学的社会学副教授，主要研究国际政治经济、公民抗议和民族主义。著有《中国特色的抗议：明清时期的游行、骚乱与请愿》和《浮夸中华﹕大国雄起与香港主体的前世今生》，编有《中国和世界资本主义的转型》。 曾在《美国社会学期刊》《发展与变化》《新左派评论》《国际政治经济评论》《亚洲调查》等多家学术期刊发表论文，获得过美国社会学协会颁发的5项著作奖和苏黎世世界社会基金会颁发的最佳论文奖。

托马斯·弗里德曼是《纽约时报》的专栏作家，曾三次赢得普利策奖。在其1999年出版的经典著作《了解全球化：凌志汽车与橄榄树》当中，他提出了新科技和全球化与传统文化的联系，引发了西方学界一场关于全球化问题的大争论。他认为现在的社会必定抵挡不了全球化的浪潮，全球化的趋势是不可阻挡的。在《世界是平的：21世纪简史》出版之前，他已经是美国公认最有影响力的新闻工作者。

本杰明・史华兹（Ben jasmin l．Schwartz），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，在该校东亚中心被尊称为“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》（1951年）、《寻求富强：严复和西方》（1964年）、《共产主义和中国：变动中的思想意识》（1968年）、《中国文化的价值》（1985年）和《中国及其他》（199年）等。

The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese culture thought during the formative period of Chinese culture. Benjamin Schwartz looks at the surviving texts of this period with a particular focus on the range of diversity to be found in them. While emphasizing the problematic and complex nature of this thought he also considers...(展开全部)