Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Bridging the Sino-American Divide
Within China, the discipline of American Studies spans a wide variety of concerns and preoccupations, reflecting its practical diversity in a transnational setting. Essays in this volume by close to forty scholars, the majority most of them based in mainland China, reflect on the past history and current teaching of American Studies within China, placing these in comparative perspectives. The nature of globalization, the transmission of ideas and practices across cultural boundaries, the formulation and meaning of identity in cross-national communications, constitute major themes in contemporary American Studies in China. For officials and commentators alike, the past, present, and future state of Sino-American relations are also an overriding preoccupation of China’s America-watchers. Overall, this collection allows the reader to sample and appreciate the state of the field of American Studies in today’s China.
Dao Companion to Contemporary Confucian Philosophy
This edited volume presents a comprehensive examination of contemporary Confucian philosophy from its roots in the late 19th century to the present day. It provides a thorough introduction to the major philosophers and topics in contemporary Confucian philosophy. The individual chapters study the central figures in 20th century Confucian philosophy in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, as well as the important influences on recent Confucian philosophy. In addition, topical chapters focus on contemporary Confucian theory of knowledge, ethics, politics, aesthetics, and views of human nature. The volume brings together scholars from around the world to provide a sound overview of the philosophy of t...
Hong Kong History
This book aims at providing an accessible introduction to and summary of the major themes of Hong Kong history that has been studied in the past decades. Each chapter also suggests a number of key historical figures and works that are essential for the understanding of a particular theme. However, the book is by no means merely a general survey of the recent studies of Hong Kong history; it tries to suggest that the best way to approach Hong Kong history is to put it firmly in its international context.
China-Taiwan Relations in a Global Context
This book traces the development of Taiwan's relations with its diplomatic partners and its policy towards the political opponents of its political opponent - mainland China. Paying particular attention to the powers that could exercise great influence in the future of East Asia, China-Taiwan Relations in a Global Context examines the main diplomatic strategies of Taiwan and its counterparts and the major problems for Taiwanese foreign relations. To date there is very little scholarship which examines the 'Taiwan Issue' outside of the triangular Beijing-Washington-Taipei framework, this book does exactly that. The contributors examine the development of Taiwan's relationship with less promin...
Asia First
This is the first book to examine the role that China played in the evolution of conservatism in postwar America. Historian Joyce Mao shows how, as the Cold War crystallized, political survival demanded that the Right s emphasis on small government be tempered by a proactive foreign policy that could contend with the communist threat. As an alternative to containment, their new platform combined hostility toward the United Nations, assertion of American sovereignty in diplomatic affairs, selective military intervention, strident anticommunism, and the promotion of a technological defense state. These conservative tenets, which are now so familiar to observers of American politics, were artic...
Unsettling Exiles
The conventional story of Hong Kong celebrates the people who fled the mainland in the wake of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. In this telling, migrants thrived under British colonial rule, transforming Hong Kong into a cosmopolitan city and an industrial and financial hub. Unsettling Exiles recasts identity formation in Hong Kong, demonstrating that the complexities of crossing borders shaped the city’s uneasy place in the Sinophone world. Angelina Y. Chin foregrounds the experiences of the many people who passed through Hong Kong without settling down or finding a sense of belonging, including refugees, deportees, “undesirable” residents, and members of...
Chinese Émigré Intellectuals and Their Quest for Liberal Values in the Cold War, 1949–1969
This book will inspire readers who are concerned about the prospects for democracy in contemporary China by painting a picture of the Chinese self-exiles’ experiences in the 1950s and 1960s.
即凡見聖
唐君毅先生是近代中國最受人注目的一位思想家，惟大部分關於他的討論均忽視了其思想背後的問題意識：唐先生的思想實是對「唯物主義」所作的一個回應。至於唐先生回應唯物主義的方法，並非純然破斥唯物主義的不足，而是強調吾人當開拓一己的心靈，藉以從唯物主義中超拔出來。簡言之，唐先生是希望我們成為更健全的人，從而由最平凡的道理中察看出神聖的價值。 本書嘗試以一嶄新的角度闡釋唐君毅先生的思想及其當代意義，系統地論述唐先生的哲學視域、文化理論與修養工夫，全書不但內容豐富，並有作者的獨特見解，其當對讀者了解唐先生思想的價值乃至當代新儒學的特色有所啟發。
如何啟蒙 , 怎樣運動：近代中國「啟蒙運動」的概念史
晚清以降，東西文化交流劇增，大量新名詞如潮水般湧向中國。本書結合概念史和全球史的取徑，探索英語世界的“Enlightenment”傳入東亞後，如何在1880–1980這百年間的中國轉譯為「啟蒙運動」，進而發展出獨特的意涵。 本書首先考察清末民初的翻譯活動，檢視字典、百科全書和教科書等文本，分析近代中國從標準化乃至普及化的知識生產過程中，「啟蒙運動」作為「字詞」的語意流變。20世紀以降，「啟蒙運動」廣為中國知識人所用，琅琅上口，成為他們表達現實處境、表述未來想像的概念工具。因此，本書進一步剖析1930年代的新啟蒙運動、1949年後殷海光的「啟蒙方案」與1980年代王元化的第二次新啟蒙運動等案例，闡明近代中國的啟蒙運動並不是歐洲啟蒙運動的複製品，而是一場新生的運動，具有自身的國族和歷史特質。
