In China today skyscrapers tower over ancient temples, freeways deliver lines of cars and tour buses to imperial palaces, cinema houses compete with old theaters featuring Peking Opera. The disparity evidenced in the contemporary Chinese cityscape can be traced to the early decades of the twentieth century, when government elites sought to transform cities into a new world that...(展开全部)

Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of psychological anthropology. The contributors explore Chinese modernity through the psychosocial contradictions ex...(展开全部)

Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of psychological anthropology. The contributors explore Chinese modernity through the psychosocial contradictions ex...(展开全部)

王笛，1982年和1985年分别获四川大学历史学学士和硕士学位，并留校任教，1987年提为副教授。1999年获美国约翰霍普金斯大学历史学博士，现为得克萨斯A&M大学历史系教授，2003-2005年任旅美中国历史学会会长，2006-2007年度为美国国家人文中心研究员。2009年，任华东师范大学思勉人文高等研究院紫江讲座教授。主要研究领域为中国近代社会史、城市史、大众文化史。

This is the first book-length history of Chinese teahouses in the English-speaking world or in China. The Teahouse examines economic, social, political, and cultural changes as funneled through the teahouses of Chengdu during the first half of the twentieth century. The images brought together in this work paint a complete picture of everyday culture in the most basic unit of p...(展开全部)

This is the first book-length history of Chinese teahouses in the English-speaking world or in China. The Teahouse examines economic, social, political, and cultural changes as funneled through the teahouses of Chengdu during the first half of the twentieth century. The images brought together in this work paint a complete picture of everyday culture in the most basic unit of p...(展开全部)

王笛，1982年和1985年分别获四川大学历史学学士和硕士学位，并留校任教，1987年提为副教授。1999年获美国约翰霍普金斯大学历史学博士，现为得克萨斯A&M大学历史系教授，2003-2005年任旅美中国历史学会会长，2006-2007年度为美国国家人文中心研究员。2009年，任华东师范大学思勉人文高等研究院紫江讲座教授。主要研究领域为中国近代社会史、城市史、大众文化史。

Over the first half of the twentieth century, the lives of millions of urban Chinese were transformed by new ideas, new objects, new jobs, new leisure pursuits, new forms of transportation, new architecture: in a word, new «life-styles» and habits of mind. What did these changes mean to ordinary people? The essays in this book examine how prevailing discourses – on nationalism,...(展开全部)

《大转型时代:全球帝国的阵痛1900-1950》讲述了：20世纪上半叶的美国，就是一幅大变革和大转型的图画，就是一个国家走向全球权力顶峰的历史。在这50年间，美国得到了快速发展：人均收入从到500美元，增长到1600美元，并实现了广泛的社会保险体系；曾经多达26％的童工受到法律的禁止；黑人已经在名义上享受美国公民的全部权利；登记在册的汽车由13.824辆（人130.76亿），增长到4400万辆（人口158亿），每4人即有一辆；全美由一条地铁，增加到已有10多个城市拥有地铁；电话则从、33万部，增加到4300万部。美国将令人叹为观止的生产力跟这个世界曾目睹过的最广泛的繁荣结合起来。实现了从科技到社会诸领域的广泛变革．实现了美利坚民族的伟大转型。每个人都深信：在所有可能存在的世界中，这里是最好的世界．而且，每时每刻都在变得更好。 而“美国大发现”的本质就...(展开全部)