Prasenjit Duara offers the first systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and including discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of postcolonial nation-states have adopted a linear, evolutionary history of the Enlightenment/colonial model. As a result, they have wri...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·A. 赖利（James A. Reilly），史学家，多伦多大学历史学教授，毕生专门研究叙利亚城市的社会史。詹姆斯于1981年在贝鲁特美国大学获得文学硕士学位，1987年在美国乔治敦大学获得博士学位。自1987年以来，他一直在多伦多大学教授中东现代史，经常在黎巴嫩和叙利亚生活和研究。他曾于1974~2010年间两次旅居叙利亚，深入了解了当地的社会与文化。其代表作有《叙利亚小镇》（2002）与《奥斯曼帝国时期的黎巴嫩城镇》（2016）。 王静，西安外国语大学英文学院副教授、硕士生导师，本科翻译实践报告优秀指导教师。日本国立广岛大学教育学研究科英语教育学博士，美国加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校国家公派访问学者，精通中日英三种语言，研究领域为跨文化语用学、二语习得、英语教育学、笔译、口译、复语翻译等，擅长实证研究。近年来从事口译、同传和笔译工作研究，为陕西...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·A. 赖利（James A. Reilly），史学家，多伦多大学历史学教授，毕生专门研究叙利亚城市的社会史。詹姆斯于1981年在贝鲁特美国大学获得文学硕士学位，1987年在美国乔治敦大学获得博士学位。自1987年以来，他一直在多伦多大学教授中东现代史，经常在黎巴嫩和叙利亚生活和研究。他曾于1974~2010年间两次旅居叙利亚，深入了解了当地的社会与文化。其代表作有《叙利亚小镇》（2002）与《奥斯曼帝国时期的黎巴嫩城镇》（2016）。 王静，西安外国语大学英文学院副教授、硕士生导师，本科翻译实践报告优秀指导教师。日本国立广岛大学教育学研究科英语教育学博士，美国加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校国家公派访问学者，精通中日英三种语言，研究领域为跨文化语用学、二语习得、英语教育学、笔译、口译、复语翻译等，擅长实证研究。近年来从事口译、同传和笔译工作研究，为陕西...(展开全部)

How did the lands that are today Syria survive the vicissitudes of centuries of Ottoman, Egyptian, and French rule, only to stand in ruins today, shattered by a brutal civil war? To provide answers, James Reilly traces five centuries of Syrian history, from the Ottoman period to the present. Reilly brings to life the myriad historical, cultural, social, economic, and political ...(展开全部)

An Intellectual History of Modern China is the only comprehensive book on modern China's intellectual development from the nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century.While existing studies tend to focus on individual Chinese thinkers, this book includes all the major Chinese thinkers, as well as political figures who have influenced China's modern history. Merle Goldman and...(展开全部)

Is environmental degradation an inevitable result of economic development? Can ecosystems be restored once government officials and the public are committed to doing so? These questions are at the heart of An Ecological History of Modern China, a comprehensive account of China's transformation since the founding of the People's Republic from the perspective not of the economy b...(展开全部)

'Head and shoulders above almost all other new books about China, this unflinching and yearningly compassionate portrait of the lives and loves of ordinary Chinese workers is quite unforgettable' - Simon Winchester. Every year in China millions of migrant workers leave their rural towns to find jobs in the cities. These people are the driving forces behind China's economic boom...(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)

Narratives of Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary study of cosmopolitan approaches to the past. It reappraises the work of five of the most important narrative historians of the century - Voltaire, David Hume, William Robertson, Edward Gibbon and the historian of the American Revolution, David Ramsay - in the context of political and national debates in France, Scotland, Engl...(展开全部)

In this vivid and highly original reading of recent Chinese history, Xuelei Huang documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese life from the High Qing through to the Mao period. Utilising interdisciplinary methodology and critically engaging with scholarship in the expanding fields of sensory and smell studies, she shows how this period of tumultuous change in ...(展开全部)