The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and fa...(展开全部)

The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and fa...(展开全部)

苏童，男，1963年生。1980年考入北京师范大学中文系。1983年开始发表小说，出版了中短篇小说集《妻妾成群》、《伤心的舞蹈》、《妇女乐园》、《红粉》等，长篇小说《米》《我的帝王生涯》、《武则天》、《城北地带》等。小说《米》《红粉》先后被搬上银幕，《妻妾成群》被张艺谋改编成《大红灯笼高高挂》获得威尼斯电影节大奖，《妇女生活》改编为电影《茉莉花开》后，获得了上海国际电影节金奖。现任江苏作协副主席，为中国当代文学先锋代表作家之一，多部作品翻译成英、法、德、意等各种文字。

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)

This volume provides a history of how the human has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present.

This volume provides a history of how the human has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present.

The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China presents a major new approach in research on the formation of the Qing empire (1636–1912) in early modern China. Focusing on the symbolic practices that structured domination and legitimized authority, the book challenges traditional understandings of state-formation, and argues that in addition to war making and institution build...(展开全部)

The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China presents a major new approach in research on the formation of the Qing empire (1636–1912) in early modern China. Focusing on the symbolic practices that structured domination and legitimized authority, the book challenges traditional understandings of state-formation, and argues that in addition to war making and institution build...(展开全部)