In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

雅克·当斯（Jacques M. Downs），美国新英格兰大学（缅因州比迪福德）历史学教授。

雅克·当斯（Jacques M. Downs），美国新英格兰大学（缅因州比迪福德）历史学教授。

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers ...(展开全部)

麦高登（Gordon Mathews），香港中文大学人类学系主任。著作包括《全球文化/个人身份：在文化超市中寻求家园》（Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket）、《人生的意义是什么？日本人和美国人如何理解他们的世界》（What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds）及《香港，中国：培育国家认同》（Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation），并合编过多本书籍。 译者杨玚，香港中文大学学能提升研究中心研究助理。译著包括《香港重庆大厦：世界中心的边缘地带》、...(展开全部)

麦高登（Gordon Mathews），香港中文大学人类学系主任。著作包括《全球文化/个人身份：在文化超市中寻求家园》（Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket）、《人生的意义是什么？日本人和美国人如何理解他们的世界》（What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds）及《香港，中国：培育国家认同》（Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation），并合编过多本书籍。 译者杨玚，香港中文大学学能提升研究中心研究助理。译著包括《香港重庆大厦：世界中心的边缘地带》、...(展开全部)

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers ...(展开全部)