Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s is a study of formal and informal meanings of Haipai ("Shanghai School" or "Shanghai Style"), as seen through the paintings of the Shanghai school as well as other media of visual representation. The book provides us a point of entry into the nexus of relationships that structured the encounter between China and the West as experienced by...(展开全部)

弗雷德里克·刘易斯·艾伦，研究美国20世纪前半时期的知名历史学家。曾任《世纪》杂志和《哈珀》杂志主编。 其最为著名的著作就是人们津津乐道的“美利坚帝国成长三部曲”系列：《大繁荣时代》（Only Yesterday）、《大衰退时代》（Since Yesterday）和《大转型时代》（The Big Change ）。此外，他还著有《保罗·R.雷诺兹》、《伟大的摩根》、《万物之灵》、《看美国》等书。

In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster sha...(展开全部)

In this fascinating book, Catherine Yeh explores the Shanghai entertainment world at the close of the Qing dynasty. Established in the 1850s outside the old walled city, the Shanghai Foreign Settlements were administered by Westerners and so were not subject to the strict authority of the Chinese government. At the centre of this dynamic new culture that emerged was the courtes...(展开全部)

李欧梵：美国哈佛大学中国文学教授，曾任芝加歌大学、加州大学洛杉矶校区文学教授。著述包括：《铁屋中的呐喊：鲁迅研究》（中英文版）、《中国现代作家中浪漫的一代》（英文）、《狐狸洞话语》、《现代性的追求》、《范柳原忏情录》（小说）。

This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking forward to its upcoming hosting of China’s first World’s Fair, the 2010 Expo. As such, Global Shanghai is a lively and informative read for students and scholars of Chinese studies and u...(展开全部)

The crisis of masculinity surfaced and converged with the crisis of the nation in the late Qing, after the doors of China were forced open by Opium Wars. The power of physical aggression increasingly overshadowed literary attainments and became a new imperative of male honor in the late Qing and early Republican China. Afflicted with anxiety and indignation about their increasi...(展开全部)

This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city's colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of self-contained households, towns, and natural landscapes in a continuous spread, producing a new set of fragmented as well as fluid spaces. In this process, Chinese sojourners act...(展开全部)