The “May Fourth Movement” of 1919 is generally seen as the central event in China’s transformation from the traditional to the modern. It signalled the arrival of effective student activism on the political scene; it heralded the success of outspoken anti-imperialist ideologies; its slogans and pamphlets demonstrated the rhetorical qualities of the new vernacular writing; some ...(展开全部)

An Intellectual History of Modern China is the only comprehensive book on modern China's intellectual development from the nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century.While existing studies tend to focus on individual Chinese thinkers, this book includes all the major Chinese thinkers, as well as political figures who have influenced China's modern history. Merle Goldman and...(展开全部)

Is environmental degradation an inevitable result of economic development? Can ecosystems be restored once government officials and the public are committed to doing so? These questions are at the heart of An Ecological History of Modern China, a comprehensive account of China's transformation since the founding of the People's Republic from the perspective not of the economy b...(展开全部)

This deeply informed and clearly written text provides, previously published with the slightly different title China: Its Environment and History, a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Now updated to include recent political events and scientific research, China: An Environmental History focuses on the interaction of humans and thei...(展开全部)

马立博（Robert B. Marks， 又译罗伯特•B•马克斯），1978 年获威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校中国史专业博士学位，长期任教于加州惠特尔学院， 现任Richard and Billie Deihl历史学讲座教授。马立博教授在中国史、全球史和环境史等领域均著作颇丰， 他的论文“Commercialization without Capitalism: Processes of Environmental Change in South China,1550-1850” 曾获1997 年美国环境史学会Environmental History 杂志最佳论文奖。除本书以外，他的主要著作还包括RuralRevolution in South China (1984)，TheMaking of the Modern World ( 合著，1988，19...(展开全部)

周策纵（1916—2007） 著名历史学家。抗战时期在中央政治大学获得学士学位，战后赴美国，获密歇根大学硕士、博士学位，美国威斯康星大学东亚系终身教授。曾担任哈佛大学访问学者、研究员，哈佛大学、哥伦比亚大学荣誉研究员，以及香港中文大学、新加坡国立大学、斯坦福大学客座教授。曾获美国福特基金会学术奖、美国卡耐基基金会学术奖、美国古根汉学术奖、美国科学院学术奖，专长研究中国哲学、五四运动史等领域。

周策纵（1916—2007） 著名历史学家。抗战时期在中央政治大学获得学士学位，战后赴美国，获密歇根大学硕士、博士学位，美国威斯康星大学东亚系终身教授。曾担任哈佛大学访问学者、研究员，哈佛大学、哥伦比亚大学荣誉研究员，以及香港中文大学、新加坡国立大学、斯坦福大学客座教授。曾获美国福特基金会学术奖、美国卡耐基基金会学术奖、美国古根汉学术奖、美国科学院学术奖，专长研究中国哲学、五四运动史等领域。

This landmark account of China’s environmental history, written by an internationally pre-eminent China specialist, "should stand for decades to come as a unique statement on motives, processes, perceptions and consequences of environmental change in China.” (Jennifer L. Mnookin, American Scientist) This is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand year...(展开全部)

This landmark account of China’s environmental history, written by an internationally pre-eminent China specialist, "should stand for decades to come as a unique statement on motives, processes, perceptions and consequences of environmental change in China.” (Jennifer L. Mnookin, American Scientist) This is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand year...(展开全部)

Author David Chandler covers two thousand years of Cambodian history in a candid and concise assessment that focuses on transformation and the historic implications and myths surrounding these changes. This clear and concise volume provides a timely overview of Cambodia, a small but increasingly visible Southeast Asian nation. Hailed by the Journal of Asian Studies as an "o...(展开全部)