王笛，1982年和1985年分别获四川大学历史学学士和硕士学位，并留校任教，1987年提为副教授。1999年获美国约翰霍普金斯大学历史学博士，现为得克萨斯A&M大学历史系教授，2003-2005年任旅美中国历史学会会长，2006-2007年度为美国国家人文中心研究员。2009年，任华东师范大学思勉人文高等研究院紫江讲座教授。主要研究领域为中国近代社会史、城市史、大众文化史。

This is the first book-length history of Chinese teahouses in the English-speaking world or in China. The Teahouse examines economic, social, political, and cultural changes as funneled through the teahouses of Chengdu during the first half of the twentieth century. The images brought together in this work paint a complete picture of everyday culture in the most basic unit of p...(展开全部)

This is the first book-length history of Chinese teahouses in the English-speaking world or in China. The Teahouse examines economic, social, political, and cultural changes as funneled through the teahouses of Chengdu during the first half of the twentieth century. The images brought together in this work paint a complete picture of everyday culture in the most basic unit of p...(展开全部)

王笛，1982年和1985年分别获四川大学历史学学士和硕士学位，并留校任教，1987年提为副教授。1999年获美国约翰霍普金斯大学历史学博士，现为得克萨斯A&M大学历史系教授，2003-2005年任旅美中国历史学会会长，2006-2007年度为美国国家人文中心研究员。2009年，任华东师范大学思勉人文高等研究院紫江讲座教授。主要研究领域为中国近代社会史、城市史、大众文化史。

To understand a city fully, writes Di Wang, we must observe its most basic units of social life. In The Teahouse under Socialism, Wang does just that, arguing that the teahouses of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, are some of the most important public spaces―perfect sites for examining the social and economic activities of everyday Chinese. Wang looks at the transforma...(展开全部)

Uses game theory to create a set of basic strategic principles for sports, politics, business, and personal life.

Uses game theory to create a set of basic strategic principles for sports, politics, business, and personal life.

In China today skyscrapers tower over ancient temples, freeways deliver lines of cars and tour buses to imperial palaces, cinema houses compete with old theaters featuring Peking Opera. The disparity evidenced in the contemporary Chinese cityscape can be traced to the early decades of the twentieth century, when government elites sought to transform cities into a new world that...(展开全部)

In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values. It is in this context that historian Andrea S. Goldman harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural...(展开全部)

In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values. It is in this context that historian Andrea S. Goldman harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural...(展开全部)