The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West’s colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever. Now however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of Europe and China rising to challenge the post-194...(展开全部)

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics,...(展开全部)

【作者】 凯茜·帕克·洪（Cathy Park Hong，1976— ） 美籍韩裔作家、诗人，成长于洛杉矶。著有诗集《引擎帝国》《舞蹈革命》等，曾获巴纳德女诗人奖、古根海姆奖金、美国国家艺术基金奖金和国家书评人协会奖，入围普利策奖决选名单。因写作和倡导亚裔女性权利被《时代》评为2021年度百大人物。目前是《新共和》杂志的诗歌编辑，并在大学教授创意写作。 【译者】 张婷，本硕毕业于北京大学外国语学院，主要研究十九世纪英国小说。现居上海，从事教育相关工作，译作发表于《外国文艺》等。

Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to do now? When to look, when to turn away? Genre-busting author Maggie Nel...(展开全部)

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics,...(展开全部)

【作者】 凯茜·帕克·洪（Cathy Park Hong，1976— ） 美籍韩裔作家、诗人，成长于洛杉矶。著有诗集《引擎帝国》《舞蹈革命》等，曾获巴纳德女诗人奖、古根海姆奖金、美国国家艺术基金奖金和国家书评人协会奖，入围普利策奖决选名单。因写作和倡导亚裔女性权利被《时代》评为2021年度百大人物。目前是《新共和》杂志的诗歌编辑，并在大学教授创意写作。 【译者】 张婷，本硕毕业于北京大学外国语学院，主要研究十九世纪英国小说。现居上海，从事教育相关工作，译作发表于《外国文艺》等。

An in-depth depiction of radical changes and challenges in Japan-China relations in the post-war period, thoroughly researched and rich in storytelling. In the course of tumultuous relations with China, Japan has had to trail blaze in the face of the rise of China. Japan's naked exposure to the unfolding Realpolitik with China at its core is for the first time comprehensively r...(展开全部)

A National Book Award finalist’s unforgettable account of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothers When Megan Stack left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have a baby and work from her home in Beijing writing a book, she quickly realized that childcare and housework would consume the time she needed to wr...(展开全部)

With this book—his most ambitious yet—Ken McGoogan delivers a vivid, comprehensive recasting of Arctic-exploration history. Dead Reckoning challenges the conventional narrative, which emerged out of Victorian England and focused almost exclusively on Royal Navy officers. By integrating non-British and fur-trade explorers and, above all, Canada’s indigenous peoples, into the his...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION 2021 A New York Times Top Book of 2020 Chosen as a Guardian Book of 2020 A BBC Culture Best Books of 2020 Nominated for Good Reads Books of 2020 One of Time's Must-Read Books of 2020 'Unputdownable ... Hong's razor-sharp, provocative prose will linger ...(展开全部)