A penetrating examination of the central issues, trends, and developments of the coming decades and the problems and opportunities they present to America and the world.

War and Change in World Politics introduces the reader to an important new theory of international political change. Arguing that the fundamental nature of international relations has not changed over the millennia, Professor Gilpin uses history, sociology, and economic theory to identify the forces causing change in the world order. The discussion focuses on the differential g...(展开全部)

Popular operas in late imperial China were a major part of daily entertainment, and were also important for transmitting knowledge of Chinese culture and values. In the twentieth century, however, Chinese operas went through significant changes. During the first four decades of the 1900s, led by Xin Wutai (New Stage) of Shanghai and Yisushe of Xi’an, theaters all over China exp...(展开全部)

In this wide-ranging study, Sucheta Mazumdar offers a new answer to the fundamental question of why China, universally acknowledged as one of the most developed economies in the world through the mid-eighteenth century, paused in this development process in the nineteenth. Focusing on cane-sugar production, domestic and international trade, technology, and the history of consum...(展开全部)

贝淡宁(Daniel A．Bell) 清华大学《北京)伦理学和政治理论教授。贝教授生于蒙特利尔，受学麦吉尔大学和牛津大学，曾在新加坡和香港的大学任教，还在普林斯顿大学和斯坦福大学从事研究工作。著有《社群主义及其批评》(牛津大学出版社1993年，生活·读书·新知三联书店2001年)，另有四本有关亚洲政治和哲学的著作均在普林斯顿大学出版社出版。他还在北京的《读书》、美国的《异见者》和《新闻周刊》等杂志发表文章，并在英国《卫报》之”自由评论博客”、美国《纽约时报》、《国际先驱者论坛报》、中国《环球时报》、加拿大多伦多《环球邮报》的媒体发表评论。他还接受了NPR、BBC、CBC以及中国数家媒体的专访。

What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In this entertaining and illuminating book, one of the few Westerners to teach at a Chinese university draws on his personal exper...(展开全部)

Arguably his most famous book, Moral Man and Immoral Society is Reinhold Niebuhr's important early study (1932) in ethics and politics. Widely read and continually relevant, this book marked Niebuhr's decisive break from progressive religion and politics toward a more deeply tragic view of human nature and history. Forthright and realistic, Moral Man and Immoral Society argues ...(展开全部)

《现化社会与人》名著译丛R.尼布尔，美国当代最著名的基督教哲学家，一生著述甚丰，本书是他的代表作之一，系统阐述了他的伦理学和政治学观点。作者认为，在不可避免的人类分裂及冲突面前，集团主义的残酷，理性主义者和社会科学者的无能都加剧了人类经济斗争和政治斗争带来的悲剧，道德的人在这不道德的社会中能否生存下，成了我们当代面临的最大问题。