The Opium War of 1839-42, the first military conflict to take place between China and the West, is a subject of enduring interest. Mao Haijian, one of the most distinguished and well-known historians working in China, presents the culmination of more than ten years of research in a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists. Mao examines the Qing part...(展开全部)

The Opium War of 1839-42, the first military conflict to take place between China and the West, is a subject of enduring interest. Mao Haijian, one of the most distinguished and well-known historians working in China, presents the culmination of more than ten years of research in a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists. Mao examines the Qing part...(展开全部)

赵世瑜，1959年生，北京师范大学历史学硕士、文学博士。现为历史系教授、博士生导师。主要著作有《清皇父摄政王多尔衮全传》（合著）、《吏与中国传统社会》、《眼光向下的革命》及译著《欧洲史学新方向》等。重点研究16世纪以来的基层社会与民间文化。

Occupying much of imperial China's Yangzi River heartland and costing over twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions was the Taiping faith of the rebels. Inspired by a Protestant missionary tract, the core of the Taiping faith focused on the belief that Shangdi, ...(展开全部)

The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historia...(展开全部)

In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy, The Opium War explores the disastrous British foreign-relations move that became a founding myth of modern Chinese nationalism, and depicts China’s hero...(展开全部)

雷蒙·阿隆（1905-1983），当代法国著名社会学家、哲学家。主要著作有：《历史哲学导论》、《连锁战争》、《工业社会十八讲》、《知识分子的鸦片》、《政治研究》、《阶级斗争》等。

An engaging, highly readable, character-driven account of the war that transformed China, and which continues to loom large over modern Chinese history. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy,...(展开全部)

作者：蓝诗玲（Julia Lovell)，现为英国伦敦大学伯贝克学院讲师，教授中国近代史、中国文学；已出版数种与中国近代历史相关的著作，且以英文翻译了鲁迅、张爱玲、朱文、韩少功、阎连科等中国作家的部分作品；现在正致力于研究毛泽东思想的全球史，并重译《西游记》（节译本）。 译者：刘悦斌，中国近代史研究专家、教授；在各类专业期刊发表论文60余篇，出版专著数种，并翻译出版《朋友•客人•同事——晚清的幕府制度》（合译）、《寻求中国民主》（合译）等著作。

Although it is on occasion important and useful to distinguish between factual claims and value judgments, the distinction becomes, Hilary Putnam argues, positively harmful when identified with a dichotomy between the objective and the purely "subjective." Lively, concise, and wise, his book prepares the way for a renewed mutual fruition of philosophy and the social sciences.