Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising nav...(展开全部)

埃里克•多林 (Eric Jay Dolin)在纽约和康涅狄格州州沿海附近长大，毕业于布朗大学，主修生物和环境研究。在耶鲁大学森林和环境研究学院获得环境管理硕士学位后，取得麻省理工学院环境政策和规划博士学位。 多林曾任美国环保署项目经理，在美国和伦敦从事环境顾问，还担任过国家野生动物联合会和国会山实习生，国家海洋渔业服务局渔业政策顾问，《商业周刊》“推动科学大众媒体科学和工程学者”美国学者。 多林的大部分作品反映了他对野生动物、环境和美国历史的兴趣。

Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising nav...(展开全部)

A history of capitalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China and India exploring the competition between their tea industries Tea remains the world's most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, ...(展开全部)

'The American dream is dead,' Donald Trump said when announcing his candidacy for president in 2015. How would he revive it? By putting 'America First'. The 'American Dream' and 'America First' are two of the most loaded phrases in America today, and also two of the most misunderstood. The American Dream began as a pledge for equality rather than as a dream of supremacy and 'ma...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 莎拉·丘奇威尔，伦敦大学高级研究院美国文学教授、公众理解人文学科协会主席。她编著多部作品，现居于伦敦。 【译者简介】 詹涓，武汉大学传播学硕士毕业后任职多家媒体，负责编译及审校工作。业余主要从事二战和战后历史著作翻译，译有《战争的余烬：法兰西殖民帝国的灭亡及美国对越南的干预》。 【媒体评价】 这本书恰逢其时。这也是一本发人深思之作……丘奇威尔是一位优雅的作家， 当“美国优先”和“美国梦”在她书中的第二次世界大战前夕正面交锋时，意想不到（且令人震惊）的历史巧合开始像着了魔的风铃一样产生共鸣……《美国优先和美国梦》阐明了有多少历史是在人们的言与行之间的鸿沟上发生。——《纽约时报》 “美国优先”和“美国梦”盘根错节的历史有了引人入胜的新视角。——《纽约》杂志 丘奇威尔在她的研究中撒下了一张大网，不仅网罗了政治家和专家，还囊括了记者、小说家、牧...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 莎拉·丘奇威尔，伦敦大学高级研究院美国文学教授、公众理解人文学科协会主席。她编著多部作品，现居于伦敦。 【译者简介】 詹涓，武汉大学传播学硕士毕业后任职多家媒体，负责编译及审校工作。业余主要从事二战和战后历史著作翻译，译有《战争的余烬：法兰西殖民帝国的灭亡及美国对越南的干预》。 【媒体评价】 这本书恰逢其时。这也是一本发人深思之作……丘奇威尔是一位优雅的作家， 当“美国优先”和“美国梦”在她书中的第二次世界大战前夕正面交锋时，意想不到（且令人震惊）的历史巧合开始像着了魔的风铃一样产生共鸣……《美国优先和美国梦》阐明了有多少历史是在人们的言与行之间的鸿沟上发生。——《纽约时报》 “美国优先”和“美国梦”盘根错节的历史有了引人入胜的新视角。——《纽约》杂志 丘奇威尔在她的研究中撒下了一张大网，不仅网罗了政治家和专家，还囊括了记者、小说家、牧...(展开全部)

In Behold, America, Sarah Churchwell offers a surprising account of twentieth-century Americans' fierce battle for the nation's soul. It follows the stories of two phrases--the "American dream" and "America First"--that once embodied opposing visions for America. Starting as a Republican motto before becoming a hugely influential isolationist slogan during World War I, America ...(展开全部)

The Age of Irreverence tells the story of why China’s entry into the modern age was not just traumatic, but uproarious. As the Qing dynasty slumped toward extinction, prominent writers compiled jokes into collections they called “histories of laughter.” In the first years of the Republic, novelists, essayists and illustrators alike used humorous allegories to make veiled critiq...(展开全部)

The Age of Irreverence tells the story of why China’s entry into the modern age was not just traumatic, but uproarious. As the Qing dynasty slumped toward extinction, prominent writers compiled jokes into collections they called “histories of laughter.” In the first years of the Republic, novelists, essayists and illustrators alike used humorous allegories to make veiled critiq...(展开全部)