作者 | 瞿同祖（1910—2008） 著名社会学家、法学家、历史学家。1939年执教云南大学。1944年执教西南联合大学，历任讲师、副教授、教授；其间撰写出版《中国法律与中国社会》一书，成为学术界的开新之作。1945年春应邀赴美，先后任哥伦比亚大学中国历史研究室研究员、哈佛大学东亚研究中心研究员；出版《清代地方政府》，在西方汉学界产生了相当大的影响。1962年转加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学，任副教授，讲中国通史。1965年回国，待业数年后发回原籍，任省文史馆员。1976年调入中国社科院近代史所。2006年当选为中国社会科学院荣誉学部委员。 著有《中国封建社会》、《中国法律与中国社会》、《清代地方政府》（Local Government in China Under the Ch'ing）、《汉代社会结构》（Han Social Structure）...(展开全部)

This book attempts to describe, analyze, and interpret the structure and functioning of local government at the chou and hsien levels in the Ch'ing dynasty. The chou and hsien were the units of local government that actually carried out administration and dealt directly with the people. An understanding of how they functioned can tell us much about how the populace was ruled in...(展开全部)

罗伯特·L.比什（Robert L.Bish）不列颠哥伦比亚的维多利亚大学经济学和公共行政学教授，1968年在印第安纳大学获的经济学、公共事务、城市研究和公共行正等院（系）工作。主要著作有：《大城市区的公共经济》（1971年）等。目前比什博士正在完成与维多利亚大学的同事弗兰克·卡斯迪（Frank Cassidy）合作进行的一项题为《印第安人的自治政府：实践中的意义》的研究，并继续致力于公共服务签约外包方面的研究工作。 文森特.奥斯特罗姆（Vincent Ostrom），布卢明顿的印第安纳人学阿瑟·F.本特利政府研究教授、政治理论与政策分析中心主任之一。1950年在加州大学洛杉矶分校获政治学博士学位。曾先后任教于怀俄明大学、俄勒冈大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校、印第安纳大学；主持“未来资源”项目的研究；并先后提任社会科学研究会、行为科学高级研究中心、比尔福德...(展开全部)

This book is a comprehensive survey of the structure, organization and institutionalization of local community religious traditions in north China villages in the twentieth century. These traditions have their own forms of leaders, deities and beliefs. Despite much local variation one everywhere finds similar temples, images, offerings and temple festivals, all supported by pra...(展开全部)

This book examines the connection between central-local government relations and the transition of contemporary China, the urbanization process and social development. Based on empirical investigations and theoretical research, it argues that this is the key to understanding the transition of central-local government relations from the overall fiscal rationing system in the 198...(展开全部)

The Mongolian Yuan dynasty, 1272-1368, is a short but interesting chapter in the long history of Sino-Mongolian relations. Faced with the challenge of governing a huge sedentary empire, the traditionally nomadic Mongols acceded to some Chinese institutional precedents, but, in large part, adhered to their own Inner Asian practices of staffing and administering the government ap...(展开全部)

This book relates the stories of four leaders under very different political regimes: Colonial, Nationalist and Communist. The authors compare Chinese notions of respect and inspiration with their equivalents in other religious and political histories of colonial and post-colonial modernity, thereby producing a thorough re-working of the idea of charisma. The result is an intri...(展开全部)

《The Government and Politics of China 中国的政府与政治》内容简介：This book has several parts. Chapters Ⅱ and Ⅲ are brief reviews of the political ideas and institutions of ancent China. The four chapters that follow give a brief account of political and institutional development during the generation preceding the Kuomintang Government of 1928. Chapters VIII and IX describe the Kuomintang a...(展开全部)

Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economic stagnation, thrust into the modern world when the western gunboats arrived in the 1840s, by providing an account of the indigenous evolution of the Chinese state. The Magistrate's Tael makes it possible to judge the impact of the West on modern China's development.