Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5-billion-dollar global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes—younger, more physically attractive brides from non-Western countries being paired with older Western men. These ideas are more myth than fact, Monica Liu finds in Seeking Western Men. Her study of China'...(展开全部)

潘成鑫，毕业于北京大学和澳大利亚国立大学，澳大利亚迪肯大学国际关系学高级讲师、阿尔弗雷德·迪肯公民与全球化研究所研究员。研究领域包括中国外交、中美关系、中澳关系、西方中国学研究及批判性国际关系理论。曾任世界知识出版社《国际关系学名著系列》的编委，先后在墨尔本大学、香港科技大学、澳门大学、北京大学任访问学者，2015年秋应邀到外交学院讲学，2016年获澳大利亚联邦政府的Endeavour Research Fellowship。 张旗，北京大学博士。2012～2016年就读于北京大学国际关系学院，获北京大学法学（国际政治）博士学位，被评为北京大学和北京市优秀毕业生。2012年获山东大学法学（国际政治）硕士学位，所撰写的硕士论文被评为山东大学和山东省优秀硕士学位论文。主要研究方向是中国外交和全球治理。

Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official. Asked to spy on the family of the assassin--his close friend--Razumov must come to terms with timeless questions of accountability and human integrity. One of Conrad's finest lite...(展开全部)

Whenever two Russians come together, the shadow of autocracy is with them...haunting the secret of their silences.' First published in 1911, Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student of philosophy who is uninvolved in politics or protest. Against his will he finds himself caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing directed against t...(展开全部)

After bringing outstanding prosperity to Egypt, Ramses had hoped to enjoy a serene old age. But he must continue to rule. Above all, Ramses must strive to preserve Egypt's hard-won peace. But under threat of a new war, the Hittite Emperor is exhorting him to wed his daughter; and the Libyans, greedy for revenge, are rebelling...Ramses is still the miracle worker, the Son of the...(展开全部)

In the final novel in the bestselling series, Christian Jacq writes of the Hittite king who wants Ramses to marry his daughter, while revolt is brewing among the revenge-driven Libyans.

As evacuation gets underway and Britain waits for the Luftwaffe to arrive, the lives of five very different women are about to collide in the sleepy little village of Crowmarsh Priors. Evangeline has eloped from New Orleans with naval captain Richard Fairfax. A Sussex village is about as far away from home as she can possibly imagine, but brings her nearer to her true love - La...(展开全部)

As evacuation gets underway and Britain waits for the Luftwaffe to arrive, the lives of five very different women are about to collide in the sleepy little village of Crowmarsh Priors. Evangeline has eloped from New Orleans with naval captain Richard Fairfax. A Sussex village is about as far away from home as she can possibly imagine, but brings her nearer to her true love - La...(展开全部)

This book explores how China had already established political and economic dualisms—political by the Common Era and economic by the 10th century—long before the West developed its dualism of state and society in the 17th and 18th centuries. In traditional China, social relations were shaped through market-like contractual means, with land freely traded and disputes resolved in...(展开全部)

费正清(John King Fairbank，1907—1991)是美国最负声望的中国问题观察家。在第二次世界大战期间，他曾在中国研读、旅行、教学。1955—1973年费正清任哈佛大学东亚研究中心主任，并任哈佛大学希根森(Francis Lee Higginson)历史讲座教授。20世纪美国众多有影响的中国问题专家皆出其门下。在中美正式建立外交关系前夕，美国高层领导人案头摆放的就是他的《美国与中国》。 费正清的主要著作中译本：《美国与中国》(The United States and China)、《伟大的中国革命(1800—985年)》(The Great Chinese Revolution 1800—1985)、《观察中国》(China Watch)及《中国：传统与变迁》(China：Tradition and Transformat...(展开全部)