Many thought China's rise would fundamentally remake the global order. Yet, much like other developing nations, the Chinese state now finds itself in a status quo characterized by free trade and American domination. Through a cutting-edge historical, sociological, and political analysis, Ho-fung Hung details the competing interests and economic realities that temper the dream o...(展开全部)

孔诰烽（Ho-fung Hung），约翰·霍普金斯大学的社会学副教授，主要研究国际政治经济、公民抗议和民族主义。著有《中国特色的抗议：明清时期的游行、骚乱与请愿》和《浮夸中华﹕大国雄起与香港主体的前世今生》，编有《中国和世界资本主义的转型》。 曾在《美国社会学期刊》《发展与变化》《新左派评论》《国际政治经济评论》《亚洲调查》等多家学术期刊发表论文，获得过美国社会学协会颁发的5项著作奖和苏黎世世界社会基金会颁发的最佳论文奖。

在中国快速发展日益引起西方国家重视和警惕的背景下，着重分析了对“中国热”的常见误解，客观地评价了“中国热”对世界的积极影响和价值，从某种程度上是对“中国威胁论”的一种否定。 以西方国家的视角介绍了中国崛起对南半球国家的影响，对旧有的政治经济秩序的冲击，以及崛起背后的问题，较为客观地阐述了中国不会统治世界的缘由就是自身实力有所局限，以及中国对现有世界秩序的依赖和维护。 一提到中国的崛起，很多人便会想到其将会改变现有的全球秩序。然而，如同许多其他发展中国家一样，中国发现其所置身于的全球秩序依旧是以自由贸易和美国控制为特点。 孔诰烽教授还在本书中重点讨论了四个常识性的概念错误：1、中国作为另外一种经济增长模式的出现将会改变正统的经济增长模式；2、中国正在剧烈地改变东西之间的权利对比；3、中国有能力替代美国的全球霸权地位；4、中国经济发展将能恢复2008年金...(展开全部)

From Cover Back The China Society for People's Friendship Studies (PFS) in cooperation with the Foreign Language Press (FLP)in Beijing has arranged for re-publication, in the series entitled Light on China , of some fifty books written in English between the 1860s and the founding years of the People's Republic, by journalistic and other sympathetic eyewitnesses of the revolu...(展开全部)

Scott Hartley first heard the terms fuzzy and techie while studying political science at Stanford University. If you majored in humanities or social sciences, you were a fuzzy. If you majored in computer or hard sciences, you were a techie. While Silicon Valley is generally considered a techie stronghold, the founders of companies like Airbnb, Pinterest, Slack, LinkedIn, PayPal...(展开全部)

Financial Times Business Book of the Month Finalist for the 2016 Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize A leading venture capitalist offers surprising revelations on who is going to be driving innovation in the years to come Scott Hartley first heard the terms fuzzy and techie while studying political science at Stanford University. If you majored in the humanities or soc...(展开全部)

Where do we come from? Are we merely a cluster of elementary particles in a gigantic world receptacle? And what does it all mean? In this highly original new book, the philosopher Markus Gabriel challenges our notion of what exists and what it means to exist. He questions the idea that there is a world that encompasses everything like a container life, the universe, and everyth...(展开全部)

China has become the world's second biggest economy and its largest exporter. It possesses the world's largest foreign exchange reserves and has 29 companies in the FT 500 list of the world's largest companies. ‘China's Rise' preoccupies the global media, which regularly carry articles suggesting that it is using its financial resources to ‘buy the world'. Is there any truth to...(展开全部)

On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di’s loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was ‘to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas’ and unite the world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would ...(展开全部)

The author, in his twenties, who is fluent in Chinese, examines the future of China through the lens of the Jiu Ling Hou―the generation born after 1990. A close up look at the Chinese generation born after 1990 exploring through personal encounters how young Chinese feel about everything from money and sex, to their government, the West, and China’s shifting role in the world--...(展开全部)