'The bitter tragedy of human life-- horrors of death, attack, retreat, advance, and the great game of Destiny and Chance. ' In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem during t...(展开全部)

It's China, 1907. Sixteen-year-old orphan Cassia is sold by her aunt to a brothel. There, she works as a lowly maid for Madame Emerald until a powerful and dangerous client plucks her from obscurity. Master Chang is the boss of the fearsome Shanghai Triad and he always gets what he wants. Despite her unbound feet and breasts, Cassia swiftly becomes Chang's favourite mistress. H...(展开全部)

周采芹（Tsai Chin），1936年11月30日出生于天津，美国华裔演员、作家、教师，先后毕业于英国皇家戏剧学院和塔夫茨大学。 1957年，参演个人首部电影《扬子江突围记》 。 1958年，参演的剧情片《六福客栈》上映 。 1959年，主演舞台剧《苏丝黄的世界》 。 1966年，参演的悬疑片《放大》上映 。 1967年，参演的动作片《007之雷霆谷》上映 。 1972年，凭借电视剧《斗争对象》获得第25届英国电影学院奖英国最佳电视演员提名 。 1988年，出版英文自传《上海的女儿》 。 1993年，参演剧情片《喜福会》 。 1998年，主演百老汇话剧《金童》 。 2001年，获得第53届黄金时段艾美奖终身成就奖 。 2002年，参演剧情片《福禄寿》 。 2005年，参演的剧情片《艺伎回忆录》上映 2006年，参演的动作片《007：...(展开全部)

From the Sino-Japanese War to the Communist Revolution, the onrushing narrative of modern China can drown out the stories of the people who lived it. Yet a remarkable cache of letters from one of China’s most prominent and influential families, the Lius of Shanghai, sheds new light on this tumultuous era. Sherman Cochran and Andrew Hsieh take us inside the Lius’ world to explor...(展开全部)

From the Sino-Japanese War to the Communist Revolution, the onrushing narrative of modern China can drown out the stories of the people who lived it. Yet a remarkable cache of letters from one of China’s most prominent and influential families, the Lius of Shanghai, sheds new light on this tumultuous era. Sherman Cochran and Andrew Hsieh take us inside the Lius’ world to explor...(展开全部)

<center>The Book That Started A Revolution</center></p> Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past. In this newly revised and expan...(展开全部)

Shanghai's tumultuous history has resulted in the progressive and stylish city of today. For more than a century and a half artists have been both documenting the city's changes and leading its way into the future. Timed to coincide with the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 (and a city-wide Shanghai Celebration in San Francisco, its sister city), Shanghai catalogs the first exhibiti...(展开全部)

Shanghai's tumultuous history has resulted in the progressive and stylish city of today. For more than a century and a half artists have been both documenting the city's changes and leading its way into the future. Timed to coincide with the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 (and a city-wide Shanghai Celebration in San Francisco, its sister city), "Shanghai" catalogs the first exhibi...(展开全部)

弗列德利希‧邁涅克(von Friedrich Meinecke, 1862-1954)是以「理念史」研究而聞名當世的德國史家。他的三本大作：《世界公民主義與民族國家》(1908)、《近代國家利益至上的理念》(1924)和《歷史主義的形成》(1936)，至今仍是值得一讀的作品。他的研究主題圍繞在近代的民族(精神)和國家(權力)的相互關係上。1946年，84歲的邁涅克又出版《德意志的災殃：觀察與回憶》，深刻地檢討德國為何走入納粹的歧途。他的研究方法和觀點或許引起爭議，但是他在學術上的成就和自我檢討方面卻是值得敬佩的。