This volume takes readers on a journey into a central aspect of life in China, so-called “self-development.” Whether prompted by the cultural values of educational success, capitalist competition for wealth, or the Chinese Communist Party’s prescriptions for “good” citizenship, few people in China are immune to the impetus to “improve” themselves and thus bring about a better f...(展开全部)

Arguably his most famous book, Moral Man and Immoral Society is Reinhold Niebuhr's important early study (1932) in ethics and politics. Widely read and continually relevant, this book marked Niebuhr's decisive break from progressive religion and politics toward a more deeply tragic view of human nature and history. Forthright and realistic, Moral Man and Immoral Society argues ...(展开全部)

《现化社会与人》名著译丛R.尼布尔，美国当代最著名的基督教哲学家，一生著述甚丰，本书是他的代表作之一，系统阐述了他的伦理学和政治学观点。作者认为，在不可避免的人类分裂及冲突面前，集团主义的残酷，理性主义者和社会科学者的无能都加剧了人类经济斗争和政治斗争带来的悲剧，道德的人在这不道德的社会中能否生存下，成了我们当代面临的最大问题。

This 1970s scholarly book provides a lot of information about the history of Jinan between 1890 and 1949, much of it in English for the first time. As a source for facts and research ideas, it is very good. It has drawbacks in other areas, however. First, the entire point of the book seems flawed. Buck wanted to take a Chinese city that had all the ingredients needed to turn it...(展开全部)

美国西雅图华盛顿大学教授，还著有《中华人民共和国基本手册》、《共产党中国的政治参与》等。 美国弗吉尼亚大学政府和外交事务系教授，还著有《共产党国家的开放与外交政策改革》、《从历史眼光看当代中国政治》、《媒体与中国大众》和《毛泽东政治思想的基础》等。

美国西雅图华盛顿大学教授，还著有《中华人民共和国基本手册》、《共产党中国的政治参与》等。 美国弗吉尼亚大学政府和外交事务系教授，还著有《共产党国家的开放与外交政策改革》、《从历史眼光看当代中国政治》、《媒体与中国大众》和《毛泽东政治思想的基础》等。

Drawing on a wide range of anthropological case studies, this book focuses on ordinary ethics in contemporary China. The book examines the kinds of moral and ethical issues that emerge (sometimes almost unnoticed) in the flow of everyday life in Chinese communities. How are schoolchildren judged to be good or bad by their teachers and their peers - and how should a 'bad' studen...(展开全部)

Love’s Uncertainty explores the hopes and anxieties of urban, middle-class parents in contemporary China. Combining long-term ethnographic research with textual analyses of popular child-rearing manuals, television dramas, and government documents, Teresa Kuan bears witness to the dilemmas of ordinary Chinese parents, who struggle to reconcile new definitions of good parenting ...(展开全部)

This series makes available in English some important work by German philosophers on major figures in the German philosophical tradition. The volumes will provide critical perspectives on philosophers of great significance to the Anglo-American philosophical community, perspectives that have been largely ignored except by a handful of writers on German philosophy. The dissemina...(展开全部)

From the earliest museums established by Western missionaries in order to implement religious and political power, to the role they have played in the formation of the modern Chinese state, the origin and development of museums in mainland China differ significantly from those in the West. The occurrence of museums in mainland China in the late nineteenth century was primarily ...(展开全部)