Anthropologist Susan Brownell, heptathlon gold medallist in the 1986 National College Games of the People's Republic of China, draws on her direct experience of Chinese athletics to provide an insight into the culture of sports and the body in China. The book introduces the notion of "body culture" to analyze Olympic sports as one element in a whole set of Chinese body practice...(展开全部)

Anthropologist Susan Brownell, heptathlon gold medallist in the 1986 National College Games of the People's Republic of China, draws on her direct experience of Chinese athletics to provide an insight into the culture of sports and the body in China. The book introduces the notion of "body culture" to analyze Olympic sports as one element in a whole set of Chinese body practice...(展开全部)

Anthropologist Susan Brownell, heptathlon gold medallist in the 1986 National College Games of the People's Republic of China, draws on her direct experience of Chinese athletics to provide an insight into the culture of sports and the body in China. The book introduces the notion of "body culture" to analyze Olympic sports as one element in a whole set of Chinese body practice...(展开全部)

帕特南·威爾（Putnam Weale），即伯特倫·萊諾克斯·辛普森（Bertram Lenox simpson, 1877—1930），英國人，生於寧波，是中國海關一位英籍官員的兒子。早年留學瑞士，除母語英語外，還能流利地運用法語，德語和漢語。回到中國後，曾在中國海關總稅務司署任職，1902年辭職，投身新聞業，先後任幾家英國報紙駐北京的通訊員、倫敦《每日電訊報》（The Daily Telegraph）駐北京記者，1916年被中華民國總統黎元洪聘為總統府顧問，負責對外宣傳，1922—1925年兼任奉系軍閥張作霖的顧問，期間還主持了當時北京的英文報紙《東方時報》（The Far Eastern Times 1923—1928）。1930年他轉而支持閻錫山，後於同年11月遇刺身亡。 辛普森是知名的中國通，出版過《遠東的新調整》《滿人和俄國人》《來自北京...(展开全部)

Maverick environmental writers William J. Kelly and Chip Jacobs follow up their acclaimed Smogtown with a provocative examination of China’s ecological calamity already imperling a warming planet. Toxic smog most people figured was obsolete needlessly kills as many as died in the 9/11 attacks every day, while sometimes Grand Canyon-sized drifts of industrial particles aloft on ...(展开全部)

From its founding 65 years ago, the People's Republic of China has evolved from an important yet chaotic and impoverished state whose power was more latent than real into a great power on the cusp of possessing the largest economy in the world. Its path from the 1949 revolution to the present has been filled with twists and turns, including internal upheavals, a dramatic break ...(展开全部)

From its founding 65 years ago, the People's Republic of China has evolved from an important yet chaotic and impoverished state whose power was more latent than real into a great power on the cusp of possessing the largest economy in the world. Its path from the 1949 revolution to the present has been filled with twists and turns, including internal upheavals, a dramatic break ...(展开全部)