Kexue, or science, captured the Chinese imagination in the early twentieth century, promising new knowledge about the world and a dynamic path to prosperity. Chinese Buddhists embraced scientific language and ideas to carve out a place for their religion within a rapidly modernizing society. Examining dozens of previously unstudied writings from the Chinese Buddhist press, this...(展开全部)

Recent scholarship has revealed that pioneering Victorian scientists endeavored through voluminous writing to raise public interest in science and its implications. But it has generally been assumed that once science became a profession around the turn of the twentieth century, this new generation of scientists turned its collective back on public outreach. "Science for All" de...(展开全部)

When Buddhism was introduced into China at about the beginning of the Christian era, the Chinese were captivated at first by its overpowering world view. Consequently, Buddhism in China has usually been discussed in terms of the Indianization of Chinese life and thought, but Kenneth Ch'en shows that as Indian ideas were gaining ground the Chinese were choosing among them and mo...(展开全部)

With the Qing Dynasty reform efforts (1901–1911), abolition of the civil service examination (1905), and the end of the monarchy (1912), the first three decades of the twentieth century brought important changes to the elite of Zhejiang Province. This book examines the social backgrounds, public activities, careers, and decision-making of local and provincial elites—that is, no...(展开全部)

In a groundbreaking approach to avant-garde Chinese art, the 1999 exhibition “Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century” established a historical framework for current artistic production in China. Organized by the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, the show and its catalog highlighted the diverse responses of twent...(展开全部)

瑞贝卡·卡尔教授 (Rebecca Karl)自2003年起担任美国纽约大学历史系和东亚系教授，中国问题专家，清华大学特聘教授，此前她曾在佛罗里达大学历史系(1995-1997)、纽约大学东亚系和历史系(1997-2003)担任副教授。她先后就读于纽约BarnardCollege(现为哥伦比亚大学巴纳德学院)、纽约大学、杜克大学(DukeUniversity)，并于1995年在杜克大学获得历史学博士学位。卡尔曾于1990年在南京大学进修中文。她对于中国近代政治，深厚的研究。瑞贝卡·卡尔教授曾撰写了多本有关中国的著作，包括《概念的魔术：二十世纪中国的经济哲学》、《毛泽东在中国和二十世纪的世界：一本简史》(杜克大学2010年出版)、《世界大舞台——十九二十世纪之交中国的民族主义》(杜克大学2002年出版)(本书中译本于2008年由北京三联书店出版)。

瑞贝卡·卡尔教授 (Rebecca Karl)自2003年起担任美国纽约大学历史系和东亚系教授，中国问题专家，清华大学特聘教授，此前她曾在佛罗里达大学历史系(1995-1997)、纽约大学东亚系和历史系(1997-2003)担任副教授。她先后就读于纽约BarnardCollege(现为哥伦比亚大学巴纳德学院)、纽约大学、杜克大学(DukeUniversity)，并于1995年在杜克大学获得历史学博士学位。卡尔曾于1990年在南京大学进修中文。她对于中国近代政治，深厚的研究。瑞贝卡·卡尔教授曾撰写了多本有关中国的著作，包括《概念的魔术：二十世纪中国的经济哲学》、《毛泽东在中国和二十世纪的世界：一本简史》(杜克大学2010年出版)、《世界大舞台——十九二十世纪之交中国的民族主义》(杜克大学2002年出版)(本书中译本于2008年由北京三联书店出版)。

This book contains several contributions on the most outstanding events in the development of twentieth century mathematics, representing a wide variety of specialities in which Russian and Soviet mathematicians played a considerable role. The articles are written in an informal style, from mathematical philosophy to the description of the development of ideas, personal memorie...(展开全部)

This book contains several contributions on the most outstanding events in the development of twentieth century mathematics, representing a wide variety of specialities in which Russian and Soviet mathematicians played a considerable role. The articles are written in an informal style, from mathematical philosophy to the description of the development of ideas, personal memorie...(展开全部)