Through a beautiful and compelling narrative, Schoppa traces the lives and history at Xiang Lake, a reservoir from its creation in 1112 to the present. Combining evocative historical description and cogent analysis, Song Full of Tears is a chronicle of nine hundred years of life in southeast China. It reveals the workings of Chinese society in times of environmental and m...(展开全部)

Through a beautiful and compelling narrative, Schoppa traces the lives and history at Xiang Lake, a reservoir from its creation in 1112 to the present. Combining evocative historical description and cogent analysis, Song Full of Tears is a chronicle of nine hundred years of life in southeast China. It reveals the workings of Chinese society in times of environmental and militar...(展开全部)

For close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. From the novels of Lao She and Lin Shu to Lu Xun's search for a Chinese "Shakespeare," and from Feng Xiaogang's martial arts films to labor camp memoirs, Soviet-Chinese theater, Chinese opera in Europe, and silen...(展开全部)

For close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. From the novels of Lao She and Lin Shu to Lu Xun's search for a Chinese "Shakespeare," and from Feng Xiaogang's martial arts films to labor camp memoirs, Soviet-Chinese theater, Chinese opera in Europe, and silen...(展开全部)

Chinese painting might be called "philosophy in action," for it is one of the highest expressions of Chinese spirituality. Both a medium for contemplation leading to self-transcendence and a microcosm embodying universal principles and primal forces, it is a means for making manifest the Chinese worldview. At the heart of this worldview is the notion of emptiness, the dynamic p...(展开全部)

The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image; of the nature of children. Aries traces the evolution of the concept of childhood from the end of the Middle Ages, when the child was regarded as a small adult, to the present child-centered society, by means of diaries, paintings, games, and school curricula. Ir...(展开全部)

Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts. At ninety, Jimmy Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds detail and emotion about his youth in rural Georgia that he described in his magnificen...(展开全部)

吉米•卡特——美国第39任总统，原名詹姆斯•厄尔•卡特，但他一生中都使用昵称吉米•卡特。 卡特1924 年 10 月 1 日生于美国佐治亚州普兰斯一个农场主家庭，早年在海军服役，父亲过世之后返乡经营农场并进入政界。 1970年，卡特竞选成功，成为佐治亚州第76届州长。卡特在任内精简机构、整顿财政、保护自然和历史资源，被誉为“最有成就州长”。 1976年11月，卡特击败在职总统杰拉尔德•福特当选为美国总统。卡特任内实现中美正式建交，帮助埃及与以色列达成停战协议，取得了出色的外交成就。但由于1979年伊朗人质危机的影响，卡特未能获得连任。 卸任后，卡特建立卡特中心，协调战争冲突、促进人权与和平。2002年，由于“数十年来一直坚持不懈为国际冲突寻找和平解决方案，致力于增进民主、改善人权以及促进经济和社会发展的努力”，卡特获得诺贝尔和平奖。 卡特与夫人罗莎琳...(展开全部)

吉米•卡特——美国第39任总统，原名詹姆斯•厄尔•卡特，但他一生中都使用昵称吉米•卡特。 卡特1924 年 10 月 1 日生于美国佐治亚州普兰斯一个农场主家庭，早年在海军服役，父亲过世之后返乡经营农场并进入政界。 1970年，卡特竞选成功，成为佐治亚州第76届州长。卡特在任内精简机构、整顿财政、保护自然和历史资源，被誉为“最有成就州长”。 1976年11月，卡特击败在职总统杰拉尔德•福特当选为美国总统。卡特任内实现中美正式建交，帮助埃及与以色列达成停战协议，取得了出色的外交成就。但由于1979年伊朗人质危机的影响，卡特未能获得连任。 卸任后，卡特建立卡特中心，协调战争冲突、促进人权与和平。2002年，由于“数十年来一直坚持不懈为国际冲突寻找和平解决方案，致力于增进民主、改善人权以及促进经济和社会发展的努力”，卡特获得诺贝尔和平奖。 卡特与夫人罗莎琳...(展开全部)

In this pioneering and important book, Philippe Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. The first section of the book explores the gradual change from the medieval attitude to children, looked upon as small adults as soon as they were past infancy, to the seventeenth and eighteenth century awareness of the...(展开全部)