Chinese in America endured abuse and discrimination in the late nineteenth century, but they had a leader and a fighter in Wong Chin Foo (1847--1898), whose story is a forgotten chapter in the struggle for equal rights in America. The first to use the term "Chinese American," Wong defended his compatriots against malicious scapegoating and urged them to become Americanized to w...(展开全部)

苏思纲（Scott D. Seligman），美国作家、历史学家，本科就读于普林斯顿大学历史系，获哈佛大学硕士学位。他能讲流利的汉语普通话和粤语，曾旅居中国八年。主要著作有《堂斗》《梅氏三雄》《中国商业礼仪》等。 ★译者简介 卢欣渝，资深英美文学、社科图书翻译，已出版的主要译作有 《美国公子》（Less Than Zero）、《英雄与败类》（One Police Plaza）、《鲁滨逊飘流记》（Robinson Crusoe）、《重新出山》（Licence Renewed）、《移情无悔》（Under the Covers）、《临界地带》（Borderlands）、《战争的果实》（The Fruits of War）、《智商测试》（IQ）、《美国阴谋》（American Conspiracies）、《追寻美之音符》（Notes on the Need ...(展开全部)

A history both musically and culturally, of the Chinese lute

Chocolate chippers, lemon bars, madeleines, brownies, shortbread, thumbprints, rugelach, biscotti, mandelbrot, and fortune cookies we all love them. We love them even better when they are home-baked. The ultimate comfort food, fresh-baked cookies offer instant reassurance, consolation, and community. One of the reasons we hesitate to bake cookies is that all too frequentl...(展开全部)

"Narrative history in the great tradition . . ." Chicago Tribune Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and bestselling author Barbara W. Tuchman analyzes the American Revolution in a brilliantly original way, placing the war in the historical context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland. This compellingly written history paints a magnifice...(展开全部)

Chocolate chippers, lemon bars, madeleines, brownies, shortbread, thumbprints, rugelach, biscotti, mandelbrot, and fortune cookies we all love them. We love them even better when they are home-baked. The ultimate comfort food, fresh-baked cookies offer instant reassurance, consolation, and community. One of the reasons we hesitate to bake cookies is that all too frequentl...(展开全部)

"Narrative history in the great tradition . . ." Chicago Tribune Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and bestselling author Barbara W. Tuchman analyzes the American Revolution in a brilliantly original way, placing the war in the historical context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland. This compellingly written history paints a magnifice...(展开全部)

Many books in Japanese have been devoted to the poet and critic Ishikawa Takuboku (1886–1912). Although he died at the age of twenty-six and wrote many of his best-known poems in the space of a few years, his name is familiar to every literate Japanese. Takuboku's early death added to the sad romance of the unhappy poet, but there has been no satisfactory biography of his life ...(展开全部)

Many books in Japanese have been devoted to the poet and critic Ishikawa Takuboku (1886–1912). Although he died at the age of twenty-six and wrote many of his best-known poems in the space of a few years, his name is familiar to every literate Japanese. Takuboku's early death added to the sad romance of the unhappy poet, but there has been no satisfactory biography of his life ...(展开全部)

This work provides a striking analysis of the struggles faced by American society from an outsider’s perspective, outlining the failings which troubled the development of the young nation, as well as the problems which yet linger on the horizon, and vividly describing the decay within American social and political institutions. The United States is the land where Cho-yun Hsu pu...(展开全部)