Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan cities such as Suzhou and Yangzhou and Shanghai’s early twentieth-century rise, the ...(展开全部)

What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that occur one after the other, aiming to show how the unexpected arises, happiness transforms into unhappiness and ign...(展开全部)

What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course of events that occur one after the other, aiming to show how the unexpected arises, happiness transforms into unhappiness and ign...(展开全部)

From the Sino-Japanese War to the Communist Revolution, the onrushing narrative of modern China can drown out the stories of the people who lived it. Yet a remarkable cache of letters from one of China’s most prominent and influential families, the Lius of Shanghai, sheds new light on this tumultuous era. Sherman Cochran and Andrew Hsieh take us inside the Lius’ world to explor...(展开全部)

彼得·希瑟（Peter Heather） 伦敦国王学院中世纪史教授，曾执教于伦敦大学学院、耶鲁大学、牛津大学。他研究古典时代晚期、中世纪早期欧洲史30余年，尤其关注被罗马人视为蛮族的群体，从这类群体的迁徙、帝国边缘与核心地带的互动出发，提出了诸多学术创见。除“罗马史诗三部曲”外，希瑟还著有《罗马复兴：查士丁尼时代的战争与帝国》《从迁徙时期到7世纪的西哥特人：民族志视角》《4世纪的政治、哲学与帝国》《哥特人》等书。他的作品被翻译为西班牙语、德语、波兰语、意大利语、中文等多种文字，具有国际影响力。 希瑟擅长在学术界与大众、历史与当下间建立联系，这方面尤为突出的代表作是“罗马史诗三部曲”（《罗马帝国的陨落：一部新的历史》《罗马的复辟：帝国陨落之后》《帝国与蛮族：从罗马到欧洲的千年史》）。三部著作融分析于叙事，多角度呈现从古代晚期到中世纪早期的千年欧洲史，既...(展开全部)

彼得·希瑟（Peter Heather） 伦敦国王学院中世纪史教授，曾执教于伦敦大学学院、耶鲁大学、牛津大学。他研究古典时代晚期、中世纪早期欧洲史30余年，尤其关注被罗马人视为蛮族的群体，从这类群体的迁徙、帝国边缘与核心地带的互动出发，提出了诸多学术创见。除“罗马史诗三部曲”外，希瑟还著有《罗马复兴：查士丁尼时代的战争与帝国》《从迁徙时期到7世纪的西哥特人：民族志视角》《4世纪的政治、哲学与帝国》《哥特人》等书。他的作品被翻译为西班牙语、德语、波兰语、意大利语、中文等多种文字，具有国际影响力。 希瑟擅长在学术界与大众、历史与当下间建立联系，这方面尤为突出的代表作是“罗马史诗三部曲”（《罗马帝国的陨落：一部新的历史》《罗马的复辟：帝国陨落之后》《帝国与蛮族：从罗马到欧洲的千年史》）。三部著作融分析于叙事，多角度呈现从古代晚期到中世纪早期的千年欧洲史，既...(展开全部)

彼得·希瑟（Peter Heather） 伦敦国王学院中世纪史教授，曾执教于伦敦大学学院、耶鲁大学、牛津大学。他研究古典时代晚期、中世纪早期欧洲史30余年，尤其关注被罗马人视为蛮族的群体，从这类群体的迁徙、帝国边缘与核心地带的互动出发，提出了诸多学术创见。除“罗马史诗三部曲”外，希瑟还著有《罗马复兴：查士丁尼时代的战争与帝国》《从迁徙时期到7世纪的西哥特人：民族志视角》《4世纪的政治、哲学与帝国》《哥特人》等书。他的作品被翻译为西班牙语、德语、波兰语、意大利语、中文等多种文字，具有国际影响力。 希瑟擅长在学术界与大众、历史与当下间建立联系，这方面尤为突出的代表作是“罗马史诗三部曲”（《罗马帝国的陨落：一部新的历史》《罗马的复辟：帝国陨落之后》《帝国与蛮族：从罗马到欧洲的千年史》）。三部著作融分析于叙事，多角度呈现从古代晚期到中世纪早期的千年欧洲史，既...(展开全部)

To a degree uncommon among Chinese cities, Republican Shanghai had no center. Its territory was divided among three (sometimes more) municip al governments integrated into various national states and empires. Yet, amidst deep cleavages, the city functioned as a coherent whole. What held Shanghai together? This book answers that question.

To a degree uncommon among Chinese cities, Republican Shanghai had no center. Its territory was divided among three (sometimes more) municip al governments integrated into various national states and empires. Yet, amidst deep cleavages, the city functioned as a coherent whole. What held Shanghai together? This book answers that question.

The break-up of the Ottoman empire and the disintegration of the Russian empire were watershed events in modern history. The unravelling of these empires was both cause and consequence of World War I and resulted in the deaths of millions. It irrevocably changed the landscape of the Middle East and Eurasia and reverberates to this day in conflicts throughout the Caucasus and Mi...(展开全部)