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。

奥克塔维奥·帕斯（Octavio Paz，1914—1998），墨西哥诗人、散文家。生于墨西哥城。早年对哲学与政治兴趣很浓，先后被墨西哥政府派驻多国使馆任职。后致力于文学创作、学术研究和讲学活动。出版有诗集、散文集多种，主要作品有长诗《太阳石》等。帕斯的创作融合了拉美本 土文化及西班牙语系的文学传统，继承欧洲现代主义的形而上追索以及用语言创造自由境界的信念。曾获比利时国际诗歌大奖、墨西哥国家文学奖、西班牙塞万提斯文学奖、美国纽斯塔特国际文学奖、英国艾略特奖、法国文学艺术最高勋章等一系列重要奖项。1990年，由于“他的作品充满激情，视野开阔，渗透着感悟的智慧并体现了完美的人道主义”而获得诺贝尔文学奖。 译者简介 陈东飚，翻译家。1967年生，现居上海。1990年代以来的翻译作品有《坛子轶事》（史蒂文斯著）、《说吧，记忆》（纳博科夫著）、《博尔赫斯诗选》...(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)