A widespread conviction in the need to rescue China’s children took hold in the early twentieth century. Amid political upheaval and natural disasters, neglected or abandoned children became a humanitarian focal point for Sino-Western cooperation and, ultimately, intervention in family life. Chinese academics and officials sought new scientific measures, educational institution...(展开全部)

Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin's influential novel Family, but few realize how much he shaped his depiction of 1920s China to suit his story and his politics. In Fact in Fiction, Kristin Stapleton puts Ba Jin's bestseller into full historical context, both to ill...(展开全部)

Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin's influential novel Family, but few realize how much he shaped his depiction of 1920s China to suit his story and his politics. In Fact in Fiction, Kristin Stapleton puts Ba Jin's bestseller into full historical context, both to ill...(展开全部)

How does African literature written in French change the way we think about nationalism, colonialism, and postcolonialism? How does it imagine the encounter between Africans and French? And what does the study of African literature bring to the fields of literary and cultural studies? This text explores these and other questions in. Christopher Miller ranges from the beginnings...(展开全部)

The twelve case studies in Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice and Transformation, 1530s to 1950s, edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin, open a new window onto the historical foundation and transformation of Chinese law and legal culture in late imperial and modern China. Their interdisciplinary analyses provide valuable insights into the multiple roles of law and legal knowledge...(展开全部)

Containing page after page of fabulous Art Deco fashions, 1920s Fashion documents comprehensively the seasonal fashion styles of the Twenties. Sumptuously illustrated with over 600 original photographs, drawings, and prints, this title is a must-have reference work for not only students of fashion and vintage collectors, but for all fashionistas. 1920s Fashion focuses on the Ar...(展开全部)

陆威仪（Mark Edward Lewis），1954年生，师从何炳棣，毕业于芝加哥大学。美国著名中国古代史专家，斯坦福大学李国鼎中华文化讲座教授。他的研究关注中国文明的不同方面，尤其擅长从政治和社会层面考察中国问题。著有“哈佛中国史”丛书中前3卷《早期中华帝国：秦与汉》、《分裂的帝国：南北朝》《世界性的帝国：唐朝》，以及《早期中国的写作与权威》《早期中国的空间构造》等。 ---------- 译者简介 张晓东，历史学博士，上海社会科学院历史研究所助理研究员，上海郑和研究中心兼职助理研究员，上海社会科学院“中国现代史”创新型学科团队成员，专攻中国运河史、中国军事史和东亚海洋史、海上丝绸之路问题，以及当前海洋地缘战略问题。著有《汉唐漕运与军事》《汉唐军事史论集》等。 冯世明，苏州大学社会学院历史系讲师，研究方向为汉唐史、中国古代民族史。

What does it mean to be Taiwanese? This question sits at the heart of Taiwan’s modern history and its place in the world. In contrast to the prevailing scholarly focus on Taiwan after 1987, Becoming Taiwanese examines the important first era in the history of Taiwanese identity construction during the early twentieth century, in the place that served as the crucible for the for...(展开全部)

Modernizing Nature contributes to the debate regarding the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial frameworks of environmental management. It departs from the widely prevalent scholarly perspective that colonial science can be understood predominantly as a handmaiden of imperialism. Instead, it argues that the myr...(展开全部)