From Sea to Sea: A Series on Marine Wind

Author: Wang Hailong
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The articles included in this book can be summarized into three themes. One is the anecdotes and stories of Chinese students who studied at Columbia University in the early 20th century. They played significant roles in both the modern political history and academic history of China. Another is the two world-class scholars at Columbia, Clifford Geertz and Edward Said. The author has worked with these two scholars for many years, and describing them from his perspective is undoubtedly a different view. The third is the author's anthropological insights. The author transitioned from Chinese studies to anthropology, and his anthropological research and teaching career at Columbia have made him constantly use anthropological terminology to explain the little things happening around him. The 28 articles, abandoning the face of rigorous academic papers, depict the past scholars and politicians with a light touch, and recount history in a literary language, making it highly readable.