James Farrer is professor of sociology and global studies at Sophia University, Tokyo, and author of Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Andrew David Field is the author of Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919–1954 and Mu Shiying: China’s Lost Modernist.

The pulsing beat of its nightlife has long drawn travelers to the streets of Shanghai, where the night scene is a crucial component of the city’s image as a global metropolis. In Shanghai Nightscapes, sociologist James Farrer and historian Andrew David Field examine the cosmopolitan nightlife culture that first arose in Shanghai in the 1920s and that has been experiencing a rev...(展开全部)

Understanding “what something is” is a project that has long occupied philosophers. Perhaps no thinker in the Western tradition has had more influence on how we approach this question than Aristotle, whose Metaphysics remains the locus classicus of rigorous examinations into the nature of being. Now, in an elegantly argued new study, Aryeh Kosman reinterprets Aristotle’s ontolo...(展开全部)

Understanding “what something is” is a project that has long occupied philosophers. Perhaps no thinker in the Western tradition has had more influence on how we approach this question than Aristotle, whose Metaphysics remains the locus classicus of rigorous examinations into the nature of being. Now, in an elegantly argued new study, Aryeh Kosman reinterprets Aristotle’s ontolo...(展开全部)

安娜·韦尔特曼是一名来自美国加利福尼亚州的教师，她一直满怀热情地给孩子们教授数学知识，讲解数学如何构成我们周围世界的一部分，说明数学如何在音乐和美术中呈现出来。安娜除了喜欢与别人分享自己对数学的热爱，还喜欢美术、手工、烹饪和作曲。

安娜·韦尔特曼是一名来自美国加利福尼亚州的教师，她一直满怀热情地给孩子们教授数学知识，讲解数学如何构成我们周围世界的一部分，说明数学如何在音乐和美术中呈现出来。安娜除了喜欢与别人分享自己对数学的热爱，还喜欢美术、手工、烹饪和作曲。

Nocturnal Fabulations is an essay in intercessing. This is not a book that is simply ‘about’ Apichatpong Weerasethakul, though it does engage his work in detail. It is a book that deeply questions what else might be at stake in setting up the conditions for collaboration across two genres: cinema and writing. This collective project is animated by a shared curiosity in the prag...(展开全部)