This manual for students focuses on archival research in the economic and business history of the Republican era (1911–1949). Following a general discussion of archival research and research aids for the Republican period, the handbook introduces the collections of archives in the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan that contain materials in the areas...(展开全部)

This manual for students focuses on archival research in the economic and business history of the Republican era (1911–1949). Following a general discussion of archival research and research aids for the Republican period, the handbook introduces the collections of archives in the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan that contain materials in the areas...(展开全部)

[英] 麦大维（David McMullen），有名唐史研究专家，英国学术院院士、剑桥大学圣约翰学院终身院士，曾任剑桥大学中国学讲座教授、亚非学院东亚研究所所长、中国研究中心主任，以及全英中国研究协会主席、李约瑟中国学讲席教授、花园委员会主席。张达志，厦门大学学士、复旦大学与美国宾夕法尼亚大学联合培养博士、武汉大学博士后，现任华中师范大学历史文化学院副教授，兼任台湾地区大学访问学者、中国魏晋南北朝史学会理事。蔡明琼，华中师范大学硕士，现任湖北省天门中学教师。

Discussions of China’s early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there. As a result, the communist peasant revolution appears as a decisive historical break. Kate Merkel-Hess corrects that misconception by demonstrating how crucial the countryside was for reformers in China long ...(展开全部)

Focusing on the evolving relations between the state and market in the post-Mao reform era, Yongnian Zheng and Yanjie Huang present a theory of Chinese capitalism by identifying and analyzing three layers of the market system in the contemporary Chinese economy. These are, namely, a free market economy at the bottom, state capitalism at the top, and a middle ground in between. ...(展开全部)

Focusing on the evolving relations between the state and market in the post-Mao reform era, Yongnian Zheng and Yanjie Huang present a theory of Chinese capitalism by identifying and analyzing three layers of the market system in the contemporary Chinese economy. These are, namely, a free market economy at the bottom, state capitalism at the top, and a middle ground in between. ...(展开全部)

Marginalia are a variety of writings and symbols written by readers in book margins. This study focuses on marginalia and explores the reading practices and the scholarly culture of late Imperial China. Beginning in the late Ming and early Qing, more scholars devoted themselves to reading and collating ancient texts. They developed the habit of writing marginalia while reading,...(展开全部)

This wholly original reassessment of critical issues in modern Chinese history traces social, economic, and ecological change in inland North China during the late Qing dynasty and the Republic. Using many new sources, Kenneth Pomeranz argues that the development of certain regions entailed the systematic underdevelopment of other regions. He maps changes in local finance, farm...(展开全部)

逍遙法外、來去無蹤，做賊也是一門專業？ 開鎖破牆、倒櫃翻箱，犯罪只為速速發財！ 櫛比鱗次的店鋪下，潛伏著一批「身懷奇技」的法外之徒！清代巴縣作為大江南北貿易樞紐、往來四川雲貴地區的必經要道，光鮮亮麗的熱鬧大街匯聚各路商賈鉅子，卻也成為犯罪滋生的溫床……。這群小偷們如何挑選受害者？如何神不知鬼不覺地竊走財物？遭竊者該怎麼報案？官府又有哪些處理方式？讓我們從今日留存的衙門檔案中，窺探城市最陰暗的角落，揭開盜匪不為人知、更不欲人知的一面！ ▍Who／誰來偷？ 在熙來攘往的城市中，請看管好自己的錢包，因為小偷可不會把「小偷」兩個字寫在臉上！不管是來自外地的臨時工，店舖裡面的學徒，甚至是家裡面的親人，都有可能伸出第三隻手。小心！竊賊就潛伏在您身邊！ ▍When／何時偷？ 月黑風高，正是發大財的好時機！不管是夜半酣眠還是出門遠行，又或者貨物暫且堆放路邊，只要盜匪...(展开全部)

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)