Hanoi at Midnight: Stories 章詒和 Two Paths to Prosperity traces

Two Paths to Prosperity traces the emergence of two very different social organizations in premodern China and Europe—the clan and the corporation—showing how they were key factors in the economic and political divergence of these two great civilizations

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本書展現了北京內城、外城和皇城自1860 年北京首次有照片資料到20世紀60 年代的圖片資料，本書精選了450+幅圖，呈現了這一百年間老北京城門城垣較清晰的舊影。通過這些影像的拍攝者和傳播者，使我們如今得以領略關於這片土地的記憶——老北京的城池建築和風貌。紫禁城榮幸留存至今，暫不在此書之列。本書以歷史影像作為時間軸線，加以敘述北京城門、城垣演變和消失的過程。每座城門搭配小傳和影像注釋，是作者翻閱大量關於北京的史料、民俗典故，以及考證判定後所擬，力求通過不同的視角來還原這座古城不同時代的舊影，展現北京城的變遷、繁榮、和平和戰亂，帶給讀者充實而豐富的體驗。每一幅影像都是凝固的歲月切片，或許讀者還能在書頁中與那些消逝的城門、湮滅的市井喧囂發生共鳴。這不是一本冰冷的圖集，而是一部帶著情感和熱愛的民間記憶檔案，也是一位普通北京人對故土最深沉的告白。

tracing the roots of Donald Trump’s “authoritarian experiment” to the earliest days of the republic

Hanoi at Midnight: Stories 章詒和 Two Paths to Prosperity tracesBreaking a thirty year silence, Bo Ninh has permitted at last the publication of a new work in English. Ninh is perhaps Vietnams foremost chronicler of the war, which he joined at age 17. Bringing to life the full range of his inventive and poetic language, Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran are granting to English readers Bo Ninhs first book length work since The Sorrow of War, which catapulted him to fame and which was banned in Vietnam until 2006. In H Ni