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)

孟德卫（David E. Mungello） 美国汉学家。出生于1943年，1973年获得加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校博士学位。现为贝勒大学（Baylor University）历史与亚洲研究教授。 另著有《莱布尼兹和儒学》（Leibniz and Confucianism: The Search for Accord）、《神奇的土地：耶稣会士的调适策略和汉学的起源》(Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology)、《被遗忘的杭州基督徒》（The Forgotten Christians of Hangzhou）、《灵肉之争中的山东（1650-1785）》（The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650–1785）等。

D.E. Mungello is professor of history and director of Asian Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

For too long, the history of contact between China and the West has been portrayed as a one-sided encounter: Europeans were said to have "discovered" China, while Chinese responses to the West went largely unnoticed. In this book, D.E. Mungello dispels the myth that China was a silent partner in the dialogue between Eastern and Western civilizations. Although they did not recip...(展开全部)

Since the 1990s, the world's economies have become ever more globalized and interdependent, but political power has not readjusted. Mahbubani shows why power must shift, reflecting the new global realities, to avoid disunity and conflict in our future. Globalization began in earnest in the 1990s with the end of the Cold War. It accelerated dramatically when China joined the Wor...(展开全部)

马凯硕，新加坡国立大学李光耀公共政策学院院长，被认为是新加坡内阁资政李光耀的第一智囊，任职新加坡外交部30余年，曾担任新加坡常驻联合国大使、联合国安理会轮值主席。2005年，他被美国《外交政策》杂志及英国《展望》杂志评选为“全球百大杰出知识分子”。著有《亚洲人会思考吗？》、《新亚洲半球》等。

威廉·克罗农（1954—），美国威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的历史学、地理学与环境研究领域的弗雷德里克•杰克逊•特纳和维拉斯研究教授；美国人文与科学学院院士、美国历史学会会长。

Awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1991. In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Crono...(展开全部)