张嘉璈（1889-1979），字公权，江苏宝山人，民国著名银行家。早年求学于日本庆应大学，学习现代经济、金融理论。回国初期受梁启超提携，曾在袁世凯政府有短暂经历。后进入金融界，先后担任中国银行副总裁、总裁，中央银行总裁、中央信托局局长；期间还曾担任铁道部部长、交通部部长。任职银行界时，张嘉璈先生用其所学现代经济和银行知识，重塑中国的银行业，更以其刚毅的性格和掌握的现代商业规则，最大程度地保证了银行的独立性，引领了中国新式商业银行的发展方向，尤其奠定了中国银行后续近百年的国际声望；其关于中央银行的思想，在当时同步于世界，对半个世纪之后的中国仍有影响。他因此获得了“中国现代银行之父”“民国银行先行者”的美誉。任职铁道/交通部部长期间，张嘉璈积极推动铁路、公路事业发展，为支持抗战做出了重大贡献；其于1938年命令卢作孚先生的民生公司转运入川人员和军品商货，...(展开全部)

Barbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 in 1972. She uses the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache to China in 1935-39 and commander of United States forces and allied chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in 1942-44, to explore the history of China from the revolution of 1911 to the turmoil of World War II, when...(展开全部)

Barbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 in 1972. She uses the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache to China in 1935-39 and commander of United States forces and allied chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek in 1942-44, to explore the history of China from the revolution of 1911 to the turmoil of World War II, when...(展开全部)

The principle behind this book is that buildings aren't just buildings, but rather iconic symbols that reflect who we are as people, cities and economies-in that sense, they represent a "brand" of sorts. Carrying that logic several steps short of its logical conclusion, architect and writer Klingmann looks at the "brandscapes" that cityscapes have become: "As a strategic tool f...(展开全部)

https://www.routledge.com/China-in-the-Eyes-of-the-Japanese/Xiuli-Wei-Yunxiang/p/book/9780367685843 The relation between China and Japan is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world but how did the Japanese view China in ancient times? How did views change throughout the course of history? How could China’s image be improved in Japanese people’s eyes? This ...(展开全部)

帕特南·威爾（Putnam Weale），即伯特倫·萊諾克斯·辛普森（Bertram Lenox simpson, 1877—1930），英國人，生於寧波，是中國海關一位英籍官員的兒子。早年留學瑞士，除母語英語外，還能流利地運用法語，德語和漢語。回到中國後，曾在中國海關總稅務司署任職，1902年辭職，投身新聞業，先後任幾家英國報紙駐北京的通訊員、倫敦《每日電訊報》（The Daily Telegraph）駐北京記者，1916年被中華民國總統黎元洪聘為總統府顧問，負責對外宣傳，1922—1925年兼任奉系軍閥張作霖的顧問，期間還主持了當時北京的英文報紙《東方時報》（The Far Eastern Times 1923—1928）。1930年他轉而支持閻錫山，後於同年11月遇刺身亡。 辛普森是知名的中國通，出版過《遠東的新調整》《滿人和俄國人》《來自北京...(展开全部)

Winner of the 1983 National Book Award! "...a perfectly marvelous book about the Queen of Sciences, from which one will get a real feeling for what mathematicians do and who they are. The exposition is clear and full of wit and humor..." - The New Yorker (1983 National Book Award edition) Mathematics has been a human activity for thousands of years. Yet only a few people from t...(展开全部)

We tend to think of mathematics as uniquely rigorous, and of mathematicians as supremely smart. In his introduction to The Mathematical Experience, Gian-Carlo Rota notes that instead, "a mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof ... is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks....(展开全部)