This book examines two large and generally overlooked diaspora communities, one Jewish and the other Slavic, which found refuge in Shanghai during the period 1900-1950. Victims of discrimination and persecution in their own lands—Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Ukraine—they chose Shanghai as their destination because no documentation was required to enter the city and s...(展开全部)

[日]滨下武志，1943年生，日本著名历史学家、汉学家，曾任日本东京大学、京都大学和龙谷大学等大学教授，成为日本汉学界第一位在东大、京大这两所日本最高学府中同时任职的双聘教授。此外，先后在法国社会科学高等研究院、美国康奈尔大学、香港大学等著名学府任客座研究员、客座教授。主要研究领域为中国社会经济史、东亚经济史、东南亚华侨华人史等。滨下武志教授著述宏富，著有《中国近代经济史研究》《近代中国的国际契机》《朝贡体系与近代亚洲》《中国、东亚与全球经济》等，在国际学术界享有盛誉，具有很高的学术地位。

[日]滨下武志，1943年生，日本著名历史学家、汉学家，曾任日本东京大学、京都大学和龙谷大学等大学教授，成为日本汉学界第一位在东大、京大这两所日本最高学府中同时任职的双聘教授。此外，先后在法国社会科学高等研究院、美国康奈尔大学、香港大学等著名学府任客座研究员、客座教授。主要研究领域为中国社会经济史、东亚经济史、东南亚华侨华人史等。滨下武志教授著述宏富，著有《中国近代经济史研究》《近代中国的国际契机》《朝贡体系与近代亚洲》《中国、东亚与全球经济》等，在国际学术界享有盛誉，具有很高的学术地位。

Marcia Reynders Ristaino is Senior Chinese Acquisitions Specialist at the Library of Congress. She is the author of China's Art of Revolution: The Mobilization of Discontent, 1927 and 1928.

张琳德，又译林达·约翰逊（Linda Gooke Johnson）出生于英国伦敦，在美国弗吉尼亚州长大。卫斯理学院文学学士，曾在斯坦福大学学习中国艺术史，并获加利福尼亚大学圣克鲁兹分校与伯克利分校合办课程的历史学博士学位。在密歇根州立大学历史系从事中国历史教研工作长达25年以上，著有《帝国晚期的江南城市》（Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China）、《征服王朝的妇女：中国辽金时期的性别与身份》（Women of the conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China）。

张琳德，又译林达·约翰逊（Linda Gooke Johnson）出生于英国伦敦，在美国弗吉尼亚州长大。卫斯理学院文学学士，曾在斯坦福大学学习中国艺术史，并获加利福尼亚大学圣克鲁兹分校与伯克利分校合办课程的历史学博士学位。在密歇根州立大学历史系从事中国历史教研工作长达25年以上，著有《帝国晚期的江南城市》（Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China）、《征服王朝的妇女：中国辽金时期的性别与身份》（Women of the conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China）。

Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chinese concept, weisheng—which has been rendered into English as "hygiene," "sanitary...(展开全部)

Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chinese concept, weisheng—which has been rendered into English as "hygiene," "sanitary...(展开全部)

Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chinese concept, weisheng—which has been rendered into English as "hygiene," "sanitary...(展开全部)