Jon L. Saari defines the generation of educated Chinese born around the turn of the century as "the last to have the world of Confucian learning etched into their memories as schoolboys, yet the first as a group to confront the intrusive Western world." The legacies of growing up in a changing environment deeply affected this generation's responses to the further changes in the...(展开全部)

大卫·帕金翰（David Buckingham），伦敦大学教育学院副教授，是近年来在英国媒介素养教育研究领域颇有建树的学者。主要论著有《守望媒介的学问》《在孩子面前》《解读受众》《儿童说电视》等。

What will be the fate of childhood in the twenty-first century? Will children increasingly be living 'media childhoods', dominated by the electronic screen? Will their growing access to adult media help to abolish the distinctions between childhood and adulthood? Or will the advent of new media technologies widen the gaps between the generations still further? In this book, Dav...(展开全部)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers. He spent his 1930s childhood as the apple of his mother's eye, before attending school to slake what is considered a bizarre thirst for learning. As he grows up, the wider political and social changes occurring in Kenya begin to i...(展开全部)

By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood. Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of Africa’s leading writers was the fifth child of the third wife. Even as World War II affecte...(展开全部)

By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood. Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of Africa’s leading writers was the fifth child of the third wife. Even as World War II affecte...(展开全部)

蒋彝（Chiang Yee，1903年5月19日－1977年10月26日），中国画家、诗人、作家、书法家。字仲雅，又字重哑，笔名“哑行者”。“中国文化的国际使者”。江西九江人。最为人津津乐道的事，乃翻译Coca Cola为“可口可乐”。他出生于江西九江，自幼随父亲习画，并接受完整的私塾教育，之后政局动荡，日军侵华，他移居庐山山脚，对自然环境与旅行移动保持着极高敏锐的心。日后他任九江县县长，为政清廉，且禁止外商公司贿赂、非法购地，与当政者发生矛盾，出走英国。而此去英国，成为一生命数之转折。他在英国旅居伦敦，被东方学院聘为讲师，讲授东方文化，对活跃于艺文界，1937年出版《湖居画记》以中国笔墨描绘湖居景致，后以Silent Traveller为笔名写作游记，虽然三十来岁才熟用英文，但无碍其文章之精巧、心裁之别出，作品成为西方旅行文学经典，相较之下，他在中...(展开全部)

The idea for "Philosophy in a Time of Terror" was born hours after the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and came to realization just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, in separate interviews, in New York City. Guided by Borradori, Habermas and Derrida evaluated the significance of the most destructive terrorist attack ever perpetrate...(展开全部)

In "Dreams in a Time of War", Ngugi wa Thiong'o paints a mesmerizing portrait of a young boy's experiences in an African nation in flux. Beginning in the late 1930s, this moving and entertaining memoir describes Ngugi's day-to-day life as the fifth child of his father's third wife in a family that included twenty-four children born to four different mothers. Against the backdro...(展开全部)