This timely collection of essays examines Sino-American relations during the Second World War, the Chinese Civil War and the opening of the Cold War. Drawing on new sources uncovered in China, Taiwan, the UK and the US, the authors demonstrate how 'grassroots' engagements - not just elite diplomacy - established the trans-Pacific networks that both shaped the postwar order in A...(展开全部)

A landmark history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Appeasing Hitler ‘An astonishing achievement. Compellingly told, immensely wide-ranging and utterly fascinating … Superb’ Tom Holland After the fall of France in June 1940, only Britain stood between Hitler and total victory. Desperate for allies, Winston Churchill d...(展开全部)

Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalist government collapsed in 1949 despite United States support for the regime during the anti-Communist civil war. American policymakers were then forced to choose between rescuing the Nationalists or coming to terms with China's Communist government. The Truman Administration, caught up in the calculations of cold war diplomacy, refused to mak...(展开全部)

Joshua Fogel offers an incisive historical look at Sino-Japanese relations from three different perspectives. Using first a wide lens, he suggests a new way to capture the relationship between China and Japan by characterizing the nature of their contact. From the first century ce, the primary reasons for contact moved from political and ceremonial to cultural, and on to commer...(展开全部)

Joshua Fogel offers an incisive historical look at Sino-Japanese relations from three different perspectives. Using first a wide lens, he suggests a new way to capture the relationship between China and Japan by characterizing the nature of their contact. From the first century ce, the primary reasons for contact moved from political and ceremonial to cultural, and on to commer...(展开全部)

After centuries of virtual isolation, during which time international sea travel was forbidden outside of Japan’s immediate fishing shores, Japanese shogunal authorities in 1862 made the unprecedented decision to launch an official delegation to China by sea. Concerned by the fast-changing global environment, they had witnessed the ever-increasing number of incursions into Asia...(展开全部)

本书为中英文对照版马宏杰摄影作品集，共选入159幅摄影作品。

中国共产党成立初期所创办的报刊杂志，就重视摄影图片的采用。在第一、二次国内革命战争时期，由于战争的残酷和环境的艰难，还不具备建立摄影工作的条件。许多珍贵的照片，是由爱好摄影的军政干部或邀请照相馆拍摄的。

韦斯特（Philip West），曾任教于美国印第安纳大学，现为美国蒙大拿大学教授，1971年获哈佛大学博士学位。他是哈佛东亚研究中心成立后，毕业的费正清的学生中，较有名的一位。