In the west, the idea of autonomy is often associated with a sense of freedom – a self-interested state of being unfettered by rules or obligations to others. This original anthropological study explores a type of “obedient” autonomy that thrives on setbacks, blossoms as more rules are imposed, and flourishes in adversity. Obedient Autonomy analyzes this model, and explains its...(展开全部)

It is widely accepted, both inside China and in the West, that contemporary Chinese history begins with the May Fourth Movement. Vera Schwarcz's imaginative new study provides China scholars and historians with an analysis of what makes that event a turning point in the intellectual, spiritual, cultural and political life of twentieth-century China.

舒衡哲（Vera Schwarcz） 著名汉学家，主要从事中国现代史研究。生于罗马尼亚，犹太人。现任教于美国康州威斯理安大学（Wesleyan University）。1980年曾作为首批美国留学生在北京大学中文系学习。除了历史研究之外，她还写作诗歌和短篇小说。 著有《中国启蒙运动》（1990）、《张申府访谈录》（Time for Telling Truth is Running Out: Conversations with Zhang Shenfu，1992）、《在断裂的时间之河架桥：论中国人和犹太人的文化记忆》（Bridge Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory，1998）、《漫漫回家路：一部中国日志》（Long Road Home: A China Journal，198...(展开全部)

The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society examines how a group of Chinese intellectual elites referred to as the liberals or ziyou pai edified the civil society project beginning in the 1990s to build an independent space to constrain state power, increase political participation, and promote China’s democratization. In the early 2000s, activists in movements such as the env...(展开全部)

One of the most striking phenomena in the recent history of China is the large number of Chinese youths who went abroad to study. Each year, from the beginning of this century, hun­ dreds and then thousands of young men and women broke away from the confines of their own culture and immersed themselves for a few years of study in the modernizing worlds of Japan, the United Stat...(展开全部)

It is generally believed that Mao Zedong’s populism was an abrupt departure from traditional Chinese thought. This study demonstrates that many of its key concepts had been developed several decades earlier by young May Fourth intellectuals, including Liu Fu, Zhou Zuoren, and Gu Jiegang. The Chinese folk-literature movement, begun at National Beijing University in 1918, changed...(展开全部)

Achieve personal fulfilment in your career, relationship, and performance with Success: The Psychology of Achievement. Success: The Psychology of Achievement will unlock your potential and help you raise your game by equipping you with the tools you need to achieve success in every aspect of life. Give your confidence a boost, master your resources, and raise your self-awarenes...(展开全部)

雷蒙·阿隆（1905-1983），当代法国著名社会学家、哲学家。主要著作有：《历史哲学导论》、《连锁战争》、《工业社会十八讲》、《知识分子的鸦片》、《政治研究》、《阶级斗争》等。

With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illumina...(展开全部)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite America...(展开全部)