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“The prosperous period: China 2013″ by Chen Guanzhong Available Online Now

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:02:52 +0000

“The prosperous period: China 2013″ by Chen Guanzhong.
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The Literature of the United States by Marcus Cunliffe

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:04:30 +0000

“The Literature of the United States” is a general introduction to the main themes and figures of the American literary scene, from colonial times to the present day. It was first introduced to China by the US Embassy in the middle of 1980s. This book inspired generations of Chinese students to pursue the beauty of English language.

Marcus Cunliffe (1922–1990) was incontestably an important figure in American studies. In the early part of his academic career he helped to found the subject area in Britain, and he was later both awarded professorial appointments at the Universities of Manchester and Sussex and elected to the chairmanship of the British Association for American Studies, from which positions he served as a personal inspiration and professional mentor to several “generations” of UK American studies academics. Those who knew him and worked with him were invariably struck by his tall good looks, charisma and charm – characteristics that no doubt also contributed to his successful career, in Britain and in the United States, first as a visiting scholar, and later, during his final years, as the occupant of an endowed chair at George Washington University in Washington, DC. As the correspondence in his papers attest, he was held in high – and warm – regard by many of the leading US historians of his heyday.

美国的文学

The Literature of the United States

〔英〕马库斯．坎利夫着
Marcus Cunliffe

序
 作者简介
1. 殖民时代的美国
2. 美国与欧洲──独立带来的问题
3. 独立──最初的果实(欧文、库珀、坡)
4. 新英格兰时(爱默生、梭罗、霍桑)
5. 梅尔维尔与惠特曼
6. 其他新英格兰作家(绅士派诗人和史家)
7. 美国幽默和西部的兴起(马克．吐温)
8. 地方情调的文学(狄更生和其他作家)
9. 美国小说中的现实主义(从豪威尔斯到德莱塞)
10. 旅外作家 (亨利．詹姆斯、伊迪丝、毕顿、亨利．亚当斯、格特鲁德．斯泰因)
11. 新诗
12. 第一次世界大战后的小说
13. 美国的戏剧
14. 第一次世界大战后的诗与批评
15. 一九四五年以后的美国与作家

"When China Rules the World."

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:20:00 +0000

About the Book
For well over two hundred years we have lived in a western-made world, one where the very notion of being modern is inextricably bound up with being western. The twenty-first century will be different. The rise of China, India and the Asian tigers means that, for the first time, modernity will no longer be exclusively western. The west will be confronted with the fact that its systems, institutions and values are no longer the only ones on offer. The key idea of Martin Jacques’s ground-breaking new book is that we are moving into an era of contested modernity. The central player in this new world will be China. Continental in size and mentality, China is a ‘civilisation-state’ whose characteristics, attitudes and values long predate its existence as a nation-state. Although clearly influenced by the west, its extraordinary size and history mean that it will remain highly distinct, and as it exercises its rapidly growing power it will change much more than the world’s geo-politics. The nation-state as we understand it will no longer be globally dominant, and the Westphalian state-system will be transformed; ideas of race will be redrawn. This profound and far-sighted book explains for the first time the deeper meaning of the rise of China.

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About the Author
Martin Jacques is currently a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. He has recently been a visiting professor at Remnin University, Beijing, the International Centre for Chinese Studies, Aichi University and at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, and was a senior visiting research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He was editor of the highly respected journal Marxism Today until its closure in 1991. He was founder of the UK think-tank Demos, has been a columnist for The Times and the Sunday Times and was deputy editor of the Independent. He currently writes a regular column for the Guardian. He is the co-editor and co-author of The Forward March of Labour Halted? (1981), The Politics of Thatcherism (1983) and New Times (1989).