From the Taiping Rebellion in the mid-nineteenth century to the Chinese Communist movement in the twentieth, no province in China gave rise to as many reformers, military officers, and revolutionaries as did Hunan. Stephen Platt offers the first comprehensive study of why Hunan wielded such disproportionate influence. Covering a span of eight decades, this book portrays three g...(展开全部)

Controversy over the medicinal uses of wild animals in China has erupted around the ethics and efficacy of animal-based drugs, the devastating effect of animal farming on wildlife conservation, and the propensity of these practices to foster zoonotic diseases. In Mao's Bestiary, Liz P. Y. Chee traces the history of the use of medicinal animals in modern China. While animal part...(展开全部)

龍安志，社會活動家、國際危機調停人、政治經濟學家和作家。20世紀90年代，他以專業律師和經濟學家身份擔任越南、老撾和柬埔寨央行的顧問，指導這些國家在社會主義轉型期的金融改革，並指導蒙古國的企業改制。在整個20世紀90年代，龍安志向中國的領導人就國有企業改革建言獻策。 自2002年以來，龍安志在喜馬拉雅的高原地帶，以新的模式恢復和發展藏族的文化傳統工藝，開發生態旅遊，將古舊藏族建築修復改造為精品客棧，為底層女性和殘疾人提供小額貸款，為邊遠地區的牧民提供醫療、興建學校。龍安志創辦了非政府組織香巴拉。他還作為北京和達賴喇嘛之間的橋樑，擔任談判中的對話者。 龍安志的著作主題廣泛，關於亞洲的有20多本。他是香港《南華早報》和《亞洲觀察》雜誌的專欄作家和評論員。目前，龍安志主要致力於“喜馬拉雅共識”非政府組織的工作和“非洲共識決議”的創立。

A biography of the Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping, which examines his life in the context of the events of Chinese history: the ascent of communism, the Long March, the Japanese invasion, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and...

"A remarkable achievement...vivid...fluent, graceful.... A publishing event."—Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history....(展开全部)

In the early twenty-first century, China occupies a place on center stage in the international art world. But what does it mean to be a Chinese artist in the modern age? This first comprehensive study of modern Chinese art history traces its evolution chronologically and thematically from the Age of Imperialism to the present day. Julia Andrews and Kuiyi Shen pay particular att...(展开全部)

"A remarkable achievement...vivid...fluent, graceful.... A publishing event."—Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history....(展开全部)

史景迁（Jonathan D. Spence），1936年出生于英国，是国际知名的中国近现代史专家，1965—2008年在美国耶鲁大学历史系任教。著作极丰，主要有《追寻现代中国》、《雍正王朝之大义觉迷》、《太平天国》、《改变中国》、《曹寅与康熙》、《康熙》、《天安门》、《大汗之国：西方眼中的中国》、《王氏之死》、《利玛窦的记忆宫殿》、《胡若望的疑问》。

The cultural fascination with and imagination of theater has long been overlooked as an important historical and literary context for reading Water Margin and Journey to the West. This study focuses on the concept of "the theatrical" to read those novels and their commentaries. Imbued with performances, playacting, spectacles, and spectatorship, the early modern theatrical nove...(展开全部)

Since the Cold War ended, China has become a global symbol of disregard for human rights, while the United States has positioned itself as the world's chief exporter of the rule of law. How did lawlessness become an axiom about Chineseness rather than a fact needing to be verified empirically, and how did the United States assume the mantle of law's universal appeal? In a serie...(展开全部)