Frontier Issues and Thoughts: Tracking and Exploring Contemporary Western Academic Frontiers

Author: Xue Xiaoyuan
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features:
The Global Risk World: Interviews with Professor Ulrich Beck, the renowned German sociologist and founder of the "Risk Society" theory;
The Tension between Understanding and Interpretation: Interviews with Professor Gerhard Bonner, the renowned German sinologist.
This book is a response from a young scholar to the various cutting-edge issues brought about by globalization. Through face-to-face dialogues with academic masters from both China and the West, it organizes and introduces academic discourses on Western cutting-edge issues, placing the urgency and modernity of these issues right before our eyes, making them impossible to ignore.