Chiang Ching-kuo, son and political heir of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, was born in 1910, when Chinese women, nearly all illiterate, hobbled about on bound feet and men wore pigtails as symbols of subservience to the Manchu Dynasty. In his youth Ching-kuo was a Communist and a Trotskyite, and he lived twelve years in Russia. He died in 1988 as the leader of Taiwan, a Chinese...(展开全部)

Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasizze men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. But this emphasis has left many important gaps in our knowledge of Chinese life. This study seeks to fill some of these gaps by examining the ways rural Taiwanese women manipulate men and each other in the pursuit of their person...(展开全部)

Yi-Tang Lin presents the historical process by which statistics became the language of global health for local and international health organizations. Drawing on archival material from three continents, this study investigates efforts by public health schools, philanthropic foundations, and international organizations to turn numbers into an international language for public he...(展开全部)

作者 | 瞿同祖（1910—2008） 著名社会学家、法学家、历史学家。1939年执教云南大学。1944年执教西南联合大学，历任讲师、副教授、教授；其间撰写出版《中国法律与中国社会》一书，成为学术界的开新之作。1945年春应邀赴美，先后任哥伦比亚大学中国历史研究室研究员、哈佛大学东亚研究中心研究员；出版《清代地方政府》，在西方汉学界产生了相当大的影响。1962年转加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学，任副教授，讲中国通史。1965年回国，待业数年后发回原籍，任省文史馆员。1976年调入中国社科院近代史所。2006年当选为中国社会科学院荣誉学部委员。 著有《中国封建社会》、《中国法律与中国社会》、《清代地方政府》（Local Government in China Under the Ch'ing）、《汉代社会结构》（Han Social Structure）...(展开全部)

This book attempts to describe, analyze, and interpret the structure and functioning of local government at the chou and hsien levels in the Ch'ing dynasty. The chou and hsien were the units of local government that actually carried out administration and dealt directly with the people. An understanding of how they functioned can tell us much about how the populace was ruled in...(展开全部)

This is an ambitious comparative study of regime consolidation in the 'revolutionary' People's Republic of China and the 'conservative' Republic of China (Taiwan) in the years following the communist victory against the nationalists on the Chinese mainland in 1949.Julia C. Strauss argues that accounting for these two variants of the Chinese state solely in terms of their diverg...(展开全部)

Robert P. Weller's richly documented account describes the extraordinary transformations which have taken place in Chinese and Taiwanese responses to the environment across the twentieth century. Indeed, both places can be said to have 'discovered' a new concept of nature. The book focuses on nature tourism, anti-pollution movements, and policy implementation to show how the gl...(展开全部)

Robert Weller's richly documented account describes the extraordinary transformations which have taken place in Chinese and Taiwanese responses to the environment across the twentieth century. The book focuses on nature tourism, anti-pollution movements, and policy implementation to show how the global spread of western ideas about nature has interacted with Chinese traditions....(展开全部)

胡司德（Roel Sterckx），剑桥大学“中国历史、科学与文明”李约瑟讲座教授，克莱尔学院院士。著作有《早期中国食物、祭品与圣贤》（Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China），纽约剑桥大学出版社（New York: Cambridge University Press）2011年出版；主编《论鼎与品味：古代中国宗教与饮食文化》（Of Tripod and Palate: Food, Politics and Religion in Traditional China），纽约帕尔格雷夫·麦克米兰出版社（New York: Palgrave MacMillan）2005年出版。撰有古代中国文化史及思想、宗教等方面论文及专著章节多种。2013年当选为英国国家学术院院士。