H. R. Davies (1865-1950) was an English army officer and member of the British intelligence service. Between 1894 and 1900 he was asked by the British government to lead survey expeditions into the modern Chinese province of Yunnan to discover possible routes for a railway connecting British-occupied Burma with the upper Yangtze river and through to Sichuan. This book contains ...(展开全部)

In The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China, twelve scholars examine how knowledge, things and people moved within, and between, the East and the West from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The collection starts by looking at the ways and means that knowledge circulated, first in Europe, but then beyond to India and China. It engages the kno...(展开全部)

The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Ro...(展开全部)

帕特里克•莱斯•弗莫尔（Patrick Leigh Fermor，1915—2011），爱尔兰裔，出生于一个英格兰上流社会家庭，他的父亲是知名的地质学家。弗莫尔是一位勇敢的旅行者，也被誉为是二十世纪英国最优秀的旅行作家之一。弗莫尔在结束自己的学校生涯后，于18岁那年只身出走，逃离了他所处的上流社会以及循规蹈矩的生活。他徒步穿越了欧洲，在欧洲各地游历和生活。在第二次世界大战期间，他应征入伍加入了爱尔兰卫队，在阿尔巴尼亚战斗；他还参与了英国特别行动处（SOE）突袭德占克里特岛的行动，俘虏了德军驻克里特岛的指挥官海因里希•克莱佩将军。他因此被授予了“优质服务勋章”（DSO）和大英帝国官佐勋章（OBE）。战后，他与他未来的妻子琼•蒙赛尔周游巴尔干和希腊，并定居希腊开始写作。2011年，弗莫尔与世长辞。

塔那西斯•科茨（1975— ）美国当代著名作家、记者，2015年获得麦克阿瑟“天才”奖，2016年入选《时代周刊》“全球最具影响力100人”。2008年出版《美丽的抗争》；2015年出版《在世界与我之间》，获得美国国家图书奖、美国有色人种促进会形象奖，并入围普利策奖、全美书评家协会奖终选名单。

Hailed by Toni Morrison as "required reading", a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by "the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States" (The New York Observer). "This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it." In a profound work that pivots from the biggest...(展开全部)

Kaveh Yazdani s work is hugely ambitious. It seeks simultaneously to attempt a micro-history of two advanced commercial regions of India Mysore and Gujarat in the eighteenth century and to intervene more broadly in the ongoing debates on modernity and its origins in the context of the great divergence between the west and the rest. In embarking on such a study, Yazdani treads a...(展开全部)

The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm’s employ. Exploring trade network dynamics, decision-making ...(展开全部)

Franco Moretti 弗朗哥·莫莱蒂 意大利文学史学家、理论家。1972年毕业于罗马大学现代文学专业，曾于萨莱诺大学和维罗纳大学任教，2000年起任教于斯坦福大学。2014年凭借《远读》荣获“美国国家书评人协会奖”。他创办了小说研究中心和文学实验室，并提出了“世界文学体系”和“远读”两个重要概念。代表作有《布尔乔亚》《远读》《世界之路》《现代史诗》《欧洲小说地图：1800—1900》《表图、地图、树图》等。 译者简介 朱康，文学博士，副教授，毕业于华东师范大学中文系，现任教于华东师范大学国际汉语文化学院，研究方向为中国现当代文学、西方批评理论。著有《现实主义的变奏：当代视域中的文学批评与文化分析》，译有《词语的肉身》（主译）、《根本恶》（合译）、《布尔乔亚》等。