托马斯· 奥特 托马斯· 奥特（Thomas G. Otte）教授执教于英国东安格利亚大学，主要研究领域为外交史、国际关系史和军事史。他的著作和编选作品已有15 部之多，他的最新作品是《7月危机：世界如何滑向战争》， 这是一部分析“一战”爆发的获奖作品，他也在《英国历史评论》《历史杂志》《历史》等主流刊物上发表了大量文章。奥特教授是英国外交与联邦事务部（FCO）的顾问，兼该部历史收藏馆的理事，也是英国历史学会下属的英国国际史研究组的委员。

https://profilebooks.com/great-state-hb.html China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at the height of their power coul...(展开全部)

[英]克里斯托弗·科克尔（Christopher Coker）伦敦政治经济学院的国际关系教授，外交政策智囊团主任。著有《野蛮的哲学家——从赫拉克利特到海森堡对战争本质的思考》（Barbarous Philosophers: Reflections on the Nature of War from Heraclitus to Heisenberg）《战争极客》（Warrior Geeks）《Men at War: what fiction has to tell us about conflict from the Iliad to Catch 22》(Hurst 2014)《Future War》(Polity 2016)。

[英]克里斯托弗·科克尔（Christopher Coker）伦敦政治经济学院的国际关系教授，外交政策智囊团主任。著有《野蛮的哲学家——从赫拉克利特到海森堡对战争本质的思考》（Barbarous Philosophers: Reflections on the Nature of War from Heraclitus to Heisenberg）《战争极客》（Warrior Geeks）《Men at War: what fiction has to tell us about conflict from the Iliad to Catch 22》(Hurst 2014)《Future War》(Polity 2016)。

The British have always been a nation of gardeners. Our gardening history began even before the Romans, who brought Mediterranean plants which still flourish across Britain. Gardening grew in the sixt

What the British 'knew' about China changed fundamentally in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. During this period, China became a key focus of British commercial and missionary interests, creating urgent demand for new knowledge about the country. This change in British understanding of and views about Chinese language, culture, politics and economy has typica...(展开全部)

What the British 'knew' about China changed fundamentally in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. During this period, China became a key focus of British commercial and missionary interests, creating urgent demand for new knowledge about the country. This change in British understanding of and views about Chinese language, culture, politics and economy has typica...(展开全部)

In the twenty-first century, China has emerged as the leading challenger to U.S. global dominance. China is often seen as a sleeping giant, emerging out of poverty, backwardness, and totalitarianism and moving toward modernization. However, history shows that this vast country is not newly awakening, but rather returning to its previous state of world eminence. With this compel...(展开全部)

Vincent Goossaert is deputy director of the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris. He is the author of The Taoists of Peking, 1800–1949: A Social History of Urban Clerics, among other books. David A. Palmer is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Qigong Fever: Body, Scie...(展开全部)