How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals—revolution, war, and again revolution—that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chinese history, our understanding of the daily li...(展开全部)

How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals--revolution, war, and again revolution--that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chinese history, our understanding of the daily ...(展开全部)

How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals--revolution, war, and again revolution--that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chinese history, our understanding of the daily ...(展开全部)

How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals—revolution, war, and again revolution—that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chinese history, our understanding of the daily li...(展开全部)

Ghost Lights stars an IRS bureaucrat named Hal a man baffled by his wife s obsession with her young employer, T., and haunted by the accident that paralyzed his daughter, Casey. In a moment of drunken heroism, Hal embarks on a quest to find T. the protagonist of Lydia Millet s much-lauded novel How the Dead Dream who has vanished in a jungle. On his trip to Central America, Hal...(展开全部)

The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.

迈克尔•柯林斯 大学毕业后开过出租车，做过建筑工人，一次偶然的经历让他有了成为医生的梦想。在芝加哥洛约拉大学医学院毕业后，到梅奥医疗研究中心实习，直至担任梅奥的骨外科住院总医生。后来回到家乡芝加哥开办了自己的医院，与妻子帕蒂和12个子女一起生活在那里，业余时光用来写作，还会参与The Narrowbacks乐队的表演。

杰伊·麦金纳尼（Jay McInerney，1955— ） 美国作家。1955年生于康涅狄格州哈特福德，曾任职于美国《纽约客》杂志。 1981年师从雷蒙德·卡佛和托拜厄斯·沃尔夫学习写作。1982年在《巴黎评论》上发表第一部短篇小说《现在清晨六点，你知道你在哪吗？》，从此走上作家道路。1984年，他的短篇小说集《如此灿烂，这个城市》出版，创造了口碑奇迹，畅销至今。这部书被誉为“1980年代的《麦田里的守望者》”。此后，他又陆续出版了《赎金》《我生活的故事》《最后一个野蛮人》《他们是怎样玩完的》等著作，均大获好评，奠定了他当代美国文坛优秀作家的地位。他最新的作品是2016年出版的《闪亮而珍贵的日子》。

Hal is a mild-mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. At a drunken dinner party, Hal volunteers to fly to Belize in search of Susan's employer, T. the protagonist of Lydia Millet's much-lauded novel How the Dead Dream who has vanished in a tropical jungle, initiating a darkly humorous descent into strange and unpred...(展开全部)