What is “Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese confronted such constitutional questions as: How does the scope of political participation affect state power? How is the state to sec...(展开全部)

What is “Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese confronted such constitutional questions as: How does the scope of political participation affect state power? How is the state to sec...(展开全部)

What is “Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese confronted such constitutional questions as: How does the scope of political participation affect state power? How is the state to sec...(展开全部)

What is “Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese confronted such constitutional questions as: How does the scope of political participation affect state power? How is the state to sec...(展开全部)

彼得·比格尔（Peter Burger），1936年生，1971年起任德国不来梅大学法国文学与比较文学教授。著有《先锋派理论》、《现代主义的衰弱》、《唯心主义美学批判》、《中介一接受一功能》（论文集）和《艺术体制：现代德国文化与文学》（与克丽斯塔·比格尔合著）等。

彼得·比格尔（Peter Burger），1936年生，1971年起任德国不来梅大学法国文学与比较文学教授。著有《先锋派理论》、《现代主义的衰弱》、《唯心主义美学批判》、《中介一接受一功能》（论文集）和《艺术体制：现代德国文化与文学》（与克丽斯塔·比格尔合著）等。

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, construc...(展开全部)

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, construc...(展开全部)