易劳逸，美国汉学家。1929年出生于美国北达科他州新罗克福德。他在读华盛顿大学时学中文，被征召参军韩战期间继续学中文，后来被派到日本当《星条旗报》记者。1957年，他受惠于士兵福利法案到哈佛大学师从费正清研究中国历史。1962年，他开始在康乃狄克学院教书，1966年到俄亥俄州立大学当助理教授，1967年到伊利诺伊大学-香槟分校教书。因为他对中国研究的杰出贡献，香槟分校1989年授予他“大学资深学者”的荣誉。 易劳逸出版的第一本书Throne and Mandarins: China's Search for a Policy During the Sino-French Controversy, 1880-1885是关于晚清历史。此后他开始研究中国近代史，成为研究民国时期的先锋。1974年出版的The Abortive Revolution: Chi...(展开全部)

Harvard East Asian Series No. 78

A common generalization about the Nationalist Government in China during the 1927-1937 decade has been that Chiang Kai-shek's regime was closely allied with the capitalists in Shanghai. This book brings to light a different picture--that Nanking sought to control the capitalists politically, to prevent them from having a voice in the political structure, and to milk the wealth ...(展开全部)

A common generalization about the Nationalist Government in China during the 1927-1937 decade has been that Chiang Kai-shek's regime was closely allied with the capitalists in Shanghai. This book brings to light a different picture--that Nanking sought to control the capitalists politically, to prevent them from having a voice in the political structure, and to milk the wealth ...(展开全部)

Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, Comitern secret agents. Frederic Wakeman's masterful study of the most colorful and corrupt city in the world at the time provides a panoramic view of the confrontation and collaboration between the Nationalist secret police and the Shanghai underworld....(展开全部)

魏斐德（1937—2006），美国历史学家、美国艺术与科学院院士，曾任加州大学伯克利分校东亚研究所所长、美国历史学会会长、美国社会科学研究理事会主席。代表作有《洪业：清朝开国史》《间谍王：戴笠与中国特工》《中华帝国的衰落》《大门口的陌生人：1839—1861年间华南的社会动乱》等。

In recent years historians of China have focused increased attention on the critical decades of National rule on the mainland. This recent scholarship has substantially modified our understanding of the political events of this momentous period, shedding light on the character of Nationalist rule and on the sources of the Communist victory in 1949. Yet no existing textbook on m...(展开全部)

In 1911, Joseph Bailie, a professor at Nanjing University, often took his Chinese students to tour Nanjing's shantytowns. One student, the son of a district magistrate, followed Bailie from hut to hut one rainy day, and was grateful that Bailie opened his eyes to the poverty in his own city. However, twenty years later, when M. R. Schafer, another Nanjing University professor, ...(展开全部)

In 1911, Joseph Bailie, a professor at Nanjing University, often took his Chinese students to tour Nanjing's shantytowns. One student, the son of a district magistrate, followed Bailie from hut to hut one rainy day, and was grateful that Bailie opened his eyes to the poverty in his own city. However, twenty years later, when M. R. Schafer, another Nanjing University professor, ...(展开全部)

《上海政商互动研究(1927-1937)》借用历史学、政治学、社会学的相关理论和方法，从上海近代社会变迁的角度，对1927—1937年工商界、上海市政府、中国国民党上海市党部三者关系的演变进行了较系统的研究。《上海政商互动研究(1927-1937)》参考大量原始档案、报刊资料和民国名人未刊日记，从上海城市的地位和市政布局、地方自治的传统、社会整合方式和政治控制空间、角色定位和利益诉求等方面，为读者勾勒出一幅生动的近代上海政治生活图景。