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)

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。

MacArthur genius and Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of December The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justi...(展开全部)

Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan cities such as Suzhou and Yangzhou and Shanghai’s early twentieth-century rise, the ...(展开全部)

In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call this city home? In this account—part microhistory, part memoir—Jie Li salvages intimate recollections by successive generations of inhabitants of two vibrant, culturally mixed Shanghai alleyways from the Republican, Maoist, and post-Mao eras. Exploring three dimensions of private life—territories, artifact...(展开全部)

约瑟夫·弗兰克（Joseph Frank，1918—2013） 普林斯顿大学比较文学荣誉教授，斯坦福大学比较文学和斯拉夫语语言文学荣誉教授。代表作五卷本《陀思妥耶夫斯基》（1976—2002）曾获美国全国图书评论俱乐部奖（传记类），两次（美国大学优秀学生联谊会的）克里斯蒂安·高 斯奖，两次（现代语言协会的）詹姆斯·拉塞尔·洛厄尔奖，《洛杉矶时报》图书奖以及另外一些荣誉。另著有《现代小说的空间形式》（1991）、《宗教与理性之间：俄国文学与文化随笔》（2010）、《回应现代性：文化政治随笔》（2012）等。

If you've never visited Shanghai, I should probably point out that most of the city doesn't look the way it does in these photographs. Of you know the city, you'll know that much of it still does. These are photographs of the Shanghai that will not survive the vision the city has for itself. That these homes, shops, lanes and buildings survived as long as they did, and in the w...(展开全部)

金宇澄，生于上海，祖籍吴江黎里，著有中短篇集《迷夜》、随笔集《洗牌年代》，主编《城市地图》、《飘泊在红海洋——我的大串联》等。现任《上海文学》常务副主编。

金宇澄，生于上海，祖籍吴江黎里，著有中短篇集《迷夜》、随笔集《洗牌年代》，主编《城市地图》、《飘泊在红海洋——我的大串联》等。现任《上海文学》常务副主编。

Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant, and this fleeting moment of stardom becomes the pinn...(展开全部)