Starting from a Marxist analysis of the ideas of Max Weber on China and India's "hydraulic-bureaucratic official-state" and building on Marx's sceptical view of the Asiatic Mode of Production, Wittfogel came up with an analysis of Oriental despotism which emphasized the role of irrigation works, the bureaucratic structures needed to maintain them and the impact that these had o...(展开全部)

卡尔·奥古斯特·魏特夫（Karl August Wittfogel，1896年9月6日－1988年5月25日），德裔美国历史学家，汉学家，犹太裔。出生于德国汉诺威。他提出的东方专制主义理论，引起了很大争论和影响。于1919年加入德国共产党，曾任共产国际教育宣传委员。先后在美因河畔法兰克福社会研究所和威廉中国研究所从事研究。1919年起关心中国革命，写了一系列研究中国的著述。 徐式谷，男，1935年11月生，我国著名双语辞书专家和翻译家、国家级有突出贡献专家。曾任商务印书馆副总编辑，《英语世界》杂志社社长，第九届、第十届全国政协委员。1992年起享受政府特殊津贴，获北京市统战系统建设四化优秀个人称号，1998年被授予“百佳出版工作者”称号。 奚瑞森，1929年生于南京1951年毕业于燕京大学西方语言文学系，曾在新华通讯社总社任英文翻译，在中国科技大学教...(展开全部)

The concepts of economic backwardness, Asiatic despotism and orientalism have strongly influenced perceptions of modernization, democracy and economic growth over the last three centuries. This book provides an original view of Russian and Asian history that views both in a global perspective. Via this analysis, Alessandro Stanziani opens new dimensions in the study of state fo...(展开全部)

Alessandro Stanziani Alessandro Stanziani is Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France

For Anthropology of Art courses and courses in Aesthetics. This book looks at the visual and performing arts of the world's societies, describing the varied ways in which people in other cultures think about their arts and examining the theoretical basis of art's role in human affairs. Anderson focuses on ten diverse societies, noting the similarities and differences found in ...(展开全部)

This book looks at the visual and performing arts of the world's societies, examining such issues as the origin of art, the ultimate nature of art, and the theoretical basis of art's role in human affairs. Anderson focuses on ten diverse societies, noting the similarities and differences found in these and other traditional aesthetic systems. The author examines San Aesthetics:...(展开全部)

This book offers the first detailed comparative study of the seven best-documented early civilizations: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Shang China, the Aztecs and adjacent peoples in the Valley of Mexico, the Classic Maya, the Inka, and the Yoruba. Unlike previous studies, equal attention is paid to similarities and differences in their sociopolitical organization, economic sys...(展开全部)

This book offers the first detailed comparative study of the seven best-documented early civilizations: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Shang China, the Aztecs and adjacent peoples in the Valley of Mexico, the Classic Maya, the Inka, and the Yoruba. Unlike previous studies, equal attention is paid to similarities and differences in their sociopolitical organization, economic sys...(展开全部)

A variety of new patterns of industrial development--from the export-led growth of the Republic of Korea and Taiwan to the more inward-oriented growth of Colombia and Turkey--has emerged in the postwar period. This book provides an examination of these patterns. Applying a common analytical framework to the postwar experiences of nine industrializing economies, the authors dete...(展开全部)

特里·伊格尔顿（Terry Eagleton），生于1943年，英国著名文学理论家、批评家。出版著作超过四十本，代表作有《权力的神话》（1975）《批评与意识形态》（1976）《文学理论：导论》（1983）《批评的功能》（1984）《美学意识形态》（1990）《理论之 后》（2003）《理性，信仰，革命》（2009）《马克思为什么是对的》（2011）《文学事件》（2012）《激进的牺牲》（2018）。凭借深厚广博的学识和独树一帜的批评，伊格尔顿不论在文学研究者还是爱好者那里，都具有无可替代的崇高地位。 译者：高晓玲，北京大学文学博士，郑州大学外语学院教授，英国剑桥大学访问学者。译有《文化与社会》。