This book, the first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 B.C. through the nineteenth century and provides literal translations of all accessible codes of ethics in the known Chinese medical literature. The inclusion in addition of writings possessing ethical implications makes possible cultural comparisons with the co...(展开全部)

陈翰笙（1897~2004），中国早期马克思主义的农村经济学家、社会学家、历史学家、社会活动家，中国社会科学院世界历史研究所名誉所长。20世纪 30年代中国农村经济研究会的创始人。他坚持以马克思主义立场、观点、方法，分析研究中国农业、农民和农村问题，以第一手的农村调查材料论证中国农村半封建、半殖民地的社会性质，指明中国农业发展的道路。2004年3月13日逝世。

Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at opposite ends of Eurasia. Although their territories constituted only a small percentage of the global land mass, these two Eurasian polities controlled up to half of the world population and endured longer than most pre-...(展开全部)

沃尔特·沙伊德尔（Walter Scheidel），美国斯坦福大学人文学科迪卡森讲席教授、古典学和历史学教授，古罗马研究领域当前最重要、最活跃的学者之一。所涉领域主要包括古代社会和经济史，前现代历史人口学以及世界历史的比较和跨学科研究。其作品已被翻译成中文出版的有《罗马与中国：比较视野下的古代世界帝国》《不平等社会：从石器时代到21 世纪，人类如何应对不平等》。

Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at opposite ends of Eurasia. Although their territories constituted only a small percentage of the global land mass, these two Eurasian polities controlled up to half of the world population and endured longer than most pre-...(展开全部)