The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorized account of Mao’s life, as well as a history of the famous Long March and the men and women who were responsible for the Chinese revolution. Out of that experience came Red Star Over China, a classic work that remains one of the most important books ...(展开全部)

He-Yin Zhen (ca. 1884-1920?) was a theorist who figured centrally in the birth of Chinese feminism. Unlike her contemporaries, she was concerned less with China's fate as a nation and more with the relationship among patriarchy, imperialism, capitalism, and gender subjugation as global historical problems. This volume, the first translation and study of He-Yin's work in English...(展开全部)

Communism was one of the most powerful political and intellectual movements the world has ever seen. At the height of their influence, Communists controlled more than a third of the earth’s surface. But perhaps more astonishing than its rapid rise and extraordinary reach was Communism’s sudden, devastating collapse in November of 1989. In The Red Flag , Oxford professor David ...(展开全部)

作者简介 本杰明·I·史华慈，美国著名历史学家和政治学家，中国问题研究专家。哈佛大学历史与政治学教授，兼费正清研究中心副主任。美国历史协会会员，亚洲研究会会员。《中国季刊》和《哈佛亚洲研究会杂志》编委会成员。1999年逝世。早年获哈佛大学历史学博士学位。1951—1956年任哈佛大学中国经济政治研究计划委员会委员。1960年任哈佛大学历史与政治学教授直至逝世。 主要著作有：《中国的共产主义与毛泽东的崛起》（1951）、《中国共产主义文献史》（1954）、《毛泽东主义的“传说”的传说》（1960）、《共产主义与中国：思想和变革》（1968）、《古代中国的思想世界》（1985）、《中国研究》（1990）等。

作者简介 本杰明·I·史华慈，美国著名历史学家和政治学家，中国问题研究专家。哈佛大学历史与政治学教授，兼费正清研究中心副主任。美国历史协会会员，亚洲研究会会员。《中国季刊》和《哈佛亚洲研究会杂志》编委会成员。1999年逝世。早年获哈佛大学历史学博士学位。1951—1956年任哈佛大学中国经济政治研究计划委员会委员。1960年任哈佛大学历史与政治学教授直至逝世。 主要著作有：《中国的共产主义与毛泽东的崛起》（1951）、《中国共产主义文献史》（1954）、《毛泽东主义的“传说”的传说》（1960）、《共产主义与中国：思想和变革》（1968）、《古代中国的思想世界》（1985）、《中国研究》（1990）等。

The story of the love that ended an empire In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish ...(展开全部)

In 1970, Chris Bonington and his now-legendary team of mountaineers were the first climbers to tackle a big wall at extreme altitude. Their target was the south face of Nepal's Annapurna: 12,000 feet of steep rock and ice leading to a 26, 454-ft. summit. As serious armchair climbers will tell you, Annapurna South Face is better than all but a handful of equally gripping clas...(展开全部)

The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the beginning of a new geological epoch. It has been called the Anthropocene. The Birt...(展开全部)

扎卡里·赛尔·席夫曼（Zachary Sayre Schiffman），美国当代著名历史学家，1980年毕业于芝加哥大学历史系，获博士学位。1987年至今一直任教于美国东北伊利诺伊大学历史系，现担任该系伯纳德J.布勒梅尔杰出研究教授。研究重点：文艺复兴和近代早期欧洲历史，在法国启蒙运动史方面着力尤多。先后出版四部著作，其中影响大的就是《过去的诞生》，该书奠定了其在美国史学界的重要地位。 梅义征，安徽省太湖县人，历史学博士，现居上海市。历年在期刊、报纸发表各类论文近30篇，出版专著2本，译著2本，主编著作1本，参与编写著作1本。