"There is a Beijing in my heart, but I can't articulate it," wrote Lao She, the great Chinese writer, in 1936. Mapping Modern Beijing explores the various ways authors sought to understand and articulate this ancient capital, modern city, and socialist metropolis. Song investigates five modes of representing Beijing: as a warped hometown, a city of snapshots and manners, an aes...(展开全部)

In the 1990s, as China continues to embrace—and grapple with—the global market economy, Qiu Shui and his friends attend med school, an ambition that has more to do with getting out of the country than with actually becoming doctors. Following the exploits of a young student and his classmates, from drinking binges, sex, and playing video games all night to military training, ho...(展开全部)

Beijing Record, the result of ten years of research on the urban transformation of Beijing in the last fifty years, brings to an extended Western audience the inside story on the key decisions that led to Beijing's present urban fragmentation and its loss of memory and history in the form of bulldozing its architectural heritage. Wang's publication presents a survey of the main...(展开全部)

This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes--including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias--to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's wide-ranging history of ideas traces changing conceptions and representations of ...(展开全部)

Michelle N. Shiota　美国亚利桑那州立大学心理学副教授。2003年，她从加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校获得了博士学位；2006年，她入职亚利桑那州立大学，创立了以自己的名字命名的“情绪测验生理心理实验室”，专注研究各类情绪课题。 James W. Kalat　美国北卡罗来纳州立大学心理学终身教授，研究兴趣广泛，且擅长课堂教学，常年为本科生讲授心理学导论与生理心理学课程。其所著的《生物心理学》一书在美国长销不衰，成为该领域内最为经典的教材之一。

What happens when the cerebral - that is, theories of literature and of affect - encounters the corporeal, the human body? In this study by Jane Thrailkill, what emerges from the convergence is an important vision of late-19th Century American realist literature and the role of emotion and physiology in literary criticism. "Affecting Fictions" offers a new understanding of Amer...(展开全部)

Banned in China for its candid exploration of a young girl's sexual awakening yet widely acclaimed as being "the first novel of 'tough youth' in China" ( Beijing Today ), Beijing Doll cuts a daring path through China's rock-and-roll subculture. This cutting edge novel -- drawn from the diaries the author kept throughout her teenage years -- takes readers to the streets of Bei...(展开全部)

These folk-tales come from Beijing Legends, compiled by Jin Shousen, a member of the Manchu gentry who lived in Beijing for many years. Based on the tales told by many generations of Beijing story-tellers, they were first published by the People's Publishing House in 1957. Revised edition, with illustrations.

Beginning with agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the late nineteenth century, followed by shell shock and panic fear after World War I, phobias and anxiety came to be seen as the mental condition of modern life. They became incorporated into the media and arts, in particular the spatial arts of architecture, urbanism, and film. This "spatial warping" is now being reshaped by di...(展开全部)