政客商人宋子文

贝祖贻之所以受到蒋介石南京国民政府的重用,一方面由于他才干出众,另一方面,也因为他在广东时与南京政府财政要员宋子文颇有交往。     

近代中国城市大众文化史研究笔谈

The studies of urban popular culture in modern China in recent years have attracted wide attention from scholars in China and abroad. The symposium, which is composed by Ma Min’s “Injecting vitality into the studies of urban cultural history,” Jiang Jin’s “Issues in the studies of urban popular culture in modern China,” Wang Di’s “The microcosm of Chinese cities: The perspective and methodology of studying urban popular culture from the case of teahouses in Chengdu,” Joseph W. Esherick’s “Remaking the Chinese city: Urban space and urban culture” and Lu Hanchao’s “From elites to common people: The downward trend in the studies of Chinese urban history in the United States,” provide valuable insights on the perspective, trend, and methodology of the studies. Four articles of the symposium are translated by Yang Kai-chien and Jin Xueqin from Shixue Yuekan 史学月刊 (Journal of Historical Science), 2008, (5): 5–19; Joseph W. Esherick provides the English version of his article.     

从精英到大众:近年美国中国城市史研究的"从上到下"取向

美国中国城市史研究有一个引人注意的现象,即"从上到下"取向.1990年代以后,不少城市史著作与社会学、政治学、人类学相结合,使这个趋向具有多学科交叉的特点.