Since its initial publication, Loft Living has become the classic analysis of the emergence of artists as a force of gentrification and the related rise of “creative city” policies around the world. This 25th anniversary edition, with a new introduction, illustrates how loft living has spread around the world and that artists’ districts—trailing the success of SoHo in New York...(展开全部)

The city is one of the greatest unsung heroes in cinema -- a modernist inspiration for silent classics such as Metropolis (1926) and a dense urban jungle in The Matrix (1999) -- yet there have been few attempts to grasp the cultural and aesthetic nature of its role in film. This volume is an ambitious collection of writings and photo-essays discussing this complex yet enduring ...(展开全部)

Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point. Concentrating on the Muslim ci...(展开全部)

Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point. Concentrating on the Muslim ci...(展开全部)

This volume aims both to establish cinema as a vital force in Shanghai culture and to direct attention to early Chinese cinema, a crucial chapter in Chinese cultural history long neglected by Western scholars.

张英进，美国斯坦福大学比较文学博士，现任圣地亚哥加州大学文学系教授，上海交通大学人文学院访问讲席教授，曾任印第安纳大学教授。英文书籍包括专著《中国现代文学与电影中的城市》（1996，中文版2007）、《中国电影百科全书》（1998）、《影像中国》（2002，中文版2008）、《中国电影史》（2004）、《全球化中国的电影，空间与多地性》（2010），编辑论文集《中国比较文学论文集》（1998）、《民国时期的上海电影与城市文化》（1999，中文版2011）、《当代中国的另类电影文化》（2006）、《华语电影明星研究》（2010，中文版2011）、《中国电影指南》（即出）。另出版中文书籍《审视中国》（2006）、《电影的世纪末怀旧》（2006）、《多元中国》（2011）等，以及在中英文的学术期刊与论文集中发表的大量文章。

This volume aims both to establish cinema as a vital force in Shanghai culture and to direct attention to early Chinese cinema, a crucial chapter in Chinese cultural history long neglected by Western scholars.

Based on in-depth ethnographic research - and using an approach that seeks to understand how migration is experienced by the migrants themselves - this is a fascinating study of the experiences of women in rural China who joined the vast migration to Beijing and other cities at the end of the twentieth century. It focuses on the experiences of rural-urban migrants, the particul...(展开全部)

Based on in-depth ethnographic research - and using an approach that seeks to understand how migration is experienced by the migrants themselves - this is a fascinating study of the experiences of women in rural China who joined the vast migration to Beijing and other cities at the end of the twentieth century. It focuses on the experiences of rural-urban migrants, the particul...(展开全部)

This 1970s scholarly book provides a lot of information about the history of Jinan between 1890 and 1949, much of it in English for the first time. As a source for facts and research ideas, it is very good. It has drawbacks in other areas, however. First, the entire point of the book seems flawed. Buck wanted to take a Chinese city that had all the ingredients needed to turn it...(展开全部)