Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalist government collapsed in 1949 despite United States support for the regime during the anti-Communist civil war. American policymakers were then forced to choose between rescuing the Nationalists or coming to terms with China's Communist government. The Truman Administration, caught up in the calculations of cold war diplomacy, refused to mak...(展开全部)

The story of an elderly black farmer arrested for the murder of a white man and threatened by a lynch mob in America's Deep South. A characteristically Faulknerian tale of dark omen, its sole ray of hope the character of a young white boy who repays on old favour by proving the farmer's innocence.

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)

This book positions the lyrical as key to rethinking the dynamics of Chinese modernity and emphasizes Chinese lyricism's deep roots in its own native traditions, along with Western influences. Although the lyrical may seem like an unusual form for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, David Der-wei Wang contends that national cataclysm a...(展开全部)

勒内·韦勒克（René Wellek，1903—1995），捷克裔美国籍文学理论家、文学批评史家和比较文学家，美国比较文学的奠基者及新批评派后期的代表性人物，曾任美国比较文学协会、国际比较文学协会主席。韦勒克毕生著作颇丰，代表作有《英国文学史起源》（The Rise of English Literary History，1941）、《批评的概念》（Concepts of Criticism，1963）、《四位批评家：克罗齐、瓦里莱、卢卡契、英加登》（Four Critics: Croce, Valery, Lukacs, and Ingarden，1982）、《近代文学批评史》（A History of Modern Criticism，1955—1992）等。 寿晨霖，复旦大学外国语言文学学院英语语言文学系讲师，研究方向为英国中世纪文学、中世纪政...(展开全部)