Museums in China have undergone tremendous transformations since they first appeared in the country in the late nineteenth century. Futuristic, state-of-the-art museums have today become symbols of China's global cultural, economic and technological prominence, and over the last two decades, the number of Chinese museums has increased at an unprecedented rate, with China set to...(展开全部)

From the earliest museums established by Western missionaries in order to implement religious and political power, to the role they have played in the formation of the modern Chinese state, the origin and development of museums in mainland China differ significantly from those in the West. The occurrence of museums in mainland China in the late nineteenth century was primarily ...(展开全部)

During the Mao era, China’s museums served an explicit and uniform propaganda function, underlining official Party history, eulogizing revolutionary heroes, and contributing to nation building and socialist construction. With the implementation of the post-Mao modernization program in the late 1970s and 1980s and the advent of globalization and market reforms in the 1990s, Chin...(展开全部)

In The Book of Politics, Michael Dutton offers an affective theorization of the political and a political theorization of affect. Drawing on Western and Chinese social theory and practice, Dutton rethinks Carl Schmitt’s insistence that the political can be thought of only within the antagonistic pairing of friend and enemy. Dutton shows how the power of the friend/enemy binary ...(展开全部)

本书收录了刘香成自1976年到1983年间驻留北京时拍摄的将近200帧照片，是改革开放初期中国人日常生活的视觉记录。彼时的中国，对毛泽东的个人崇拜结束了；工业化、现代化的时代悄然拉开序幕：西方的物质文化进入中国，人们接受着新鲜的生活方式。 刘香成的镜头抓住了社会变革的初现，许多来自日常生活中幽默与感人的画面体现了时尚与保守、舶来品与原生态并存的情景。政界领导人、知识分子、文艺界的个体影像，普通老百姓的特写，也被一一定格在画面中。这短短八年时间拍摄的照片合在一起，展现了当时的中国所走过的、从“文革”后的困境中解脱的复兴之路。拍摄这些照片的时间到现在已经30年了，今天的中国经过经济和社会改革的发展，也已经成为一个伟大的现代化国家。刘香成的照片就是中国在如此短的时间里发生翻天覆地巨变的影像记录。 这些珍贵图片最早于1983年由英国企鹅出版社出版，香港Asi...(展开全部)

美国西雅图华盛顿大学教授，还著有《中华人民共和国基本手册》、《共产党中国的政治参与》等。 美国弗吉尼亚大学政府和外交事务系教授，还著有《共产党国家的开放与外交政策改革》、《从历史眼光看当代中国政治》、《媒体与中国大众》和《毛泽东政治思想的基础》等。

美国西雅图华盛顿大学教授，还著有《中华人民共和国基本手册》、《共产党中国的政治参与》等。 美国弗吉尼亚大学政府和外交事务系教授，还著有《共产党国家的开放与外交政策改革》、《从历史眼光看当代中国政治》、《媒体与中国大众》和《毛泽东政治思想的基础》等。

In this volume, William Watson and Chuimei Ho begin with discussions of “fine” art and painting and progress to an analysis of carving and sculpture, ceramics, glassware, and textiles. The authors demonstrate how, in the age of the Emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, the “decorative” arts rose to prominence in a way quite unlike the western experience. Avoiding misrepresen...(展开全部)

Shih-Diing Liu is Professor of Communication at the University of Macau. He completed his PhD at the University of Westminster. His research has appeared in journals including Dushu (Beijing), Positions, and New Left Review. Wei Shi is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Macau. She completed her PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her articles...(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)