In this groundbreaking volume, based on extensive research in Chinese archives and libraries, Jan Kiely explores the pre-Communist origins of the process of systematic thought reform or reformation (ganhua) that evolved into a key component of Mao Zedong’s revolutionary restructuring of Chinese society. Focusing on ganhua as it was employed in China’s prison system, Kiely’s tho...(展开全部)

In this groundbreaking volume, based on extensive research in Chinese archives and libraries, Jan Kiely explores the pre-Communist origins of the process of systematic thought reform or reformation (ganhua) that evolved into a key component of Mao Zedong’s revolutionary restructuring of Chinese society. Focusing on ganhua as it was employed in China’s prison system, Kiely’s tho...(展开全部)

hree decades of dizzying change in China’s economy and society have left a tangible record of successes and failures. Less readily accessible but of no less consequence is the story, as illuminated in this book, of what China’s reform has done to its people as moral and spiritual beings. Jiwei Ci examines the moral crisis in post-Mao China as a mirror of deep contradictions in ...(展开全部)

Three decades of dizzying change in China's economy and society have left a tangible record of successes and failures. Less readily accessible but of no less consequence is the story, as illuminated in this book, of what China's reform has done to its people as moral and spiritual beings. Jiwei Ci examines the moral crisis in post-Mao China as a mirror of deep contradictions in...(展开全部)

Joseph W. Esherick was born in Marin County, north of San Francisco, in 1942 and studied Chinese history at Harvard (B.A., 1964, summa cum laude) and UC Berkeley (Ph.D., 1971). He taught at the University of Oregon from 1971 to 1990, when he moved to the University of California at San Diego, where he is now a Distinguished Professor in the History Department. Having participat...(展开全部)

本•A. 敏特尔（Ben A. Minteer），亚利桑那州立大学生命科学院教授，主要研究领域为环境伦理与保护，论文刊登于《科学》《自然》《美国国家科学院院刊》等刊物。《景观革新》是他研究美国环境思想的代表作。

本杰明・史华兹（Ben jasmin l．Schwartz），生于1916年12月12日，卒于1999年11月14日。1960年起任哈佛大学教授，并以其博雅和睿智，在该校东亚中心被尊称为“学者的学者”。除了作为其扛鼎之作的本书，还写有《中国的共产主义和毛的兴起》（1951年）、《寻求富强：严复和西方》（1964年）、《共产主义和中国：变动中的思想意识》（1968年）、《中国文化的价值》（1985年）和《中国及其他》（199年）等。

The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese culture thought during the formative period of Chinese culture. Benjamin Schwartz looks at the surviving texts of this period with a particular focus on the range of diversity to be found in them. While emphasizing the problematic and complex nature of this thought he also considers...(展开全部)