● 白先勇、董橋、陳子善、許禮平、王安祈、朱嘉雯,
● 收錄文史學者蔡登山七十二篇散文,細數晚清到民初的人物往事,
‧龔定庵 ‧程硯秋 ‧林庚白
‧王闓運 ‧劉喜奎 ‧張默君
‧羅振玉 ‧汪笑儂 ‧陳寅恪
‧張之洞 ‧章太炎 ‧張大千
‧辜鴻銘 ‧黃季剛 ‧蔣夢麟
‧康有為 ‧汪榮寶 ‧趙元任
‧朱祖謀 ‧白崇禧 ‧錢鍾書
‧羅癭公 ‧張宗昌 ‧葉恭綽
‧董小宛 ‧喬大壯 ‧葉公超
‧溥雪齋 ‧謝无量 ‧張愛玲
近代史雖說距離我們最近,但某種程度卻最隱晦不明。
This book offers a profoundly different vision of Russia under Nicholas I. Drawing on an extensive array of sources, it reveals that many of modern Russia's most distinctive and outstanding features can be traced back to an inconspicuous ...
This is my ground, and I am sitting on it.” In May, Sioux leaders traveled to the capital, where Grant renewed efforts to persuade them to relocate to Indian Territory, “south of where you now live, where the climate is very much better ...
After whites massacred black militia in South Carolina, Grant warned that unchecked persecution would lead to "bloody revolution." As violence spread, Grant struggled to position limited forces where they could do the most good.
Initial enthusiasm soon gave way to rancor, as factions split over where to place the fair. Grant favored Central Park, but public sentiment intervened, and funding evaporated. By March, Grant resigned.
Notified of his nomination for a second term in June 1872, Ulysses S. Grant accepted, promising "the same zeal and devotion to the good of the whole people for the future of my official life, as shown in the past.
Its spelling and grammar were not perfect , but it was clear , original , to the point , and the editor of the Dispatch , George Madden , saw in it a raw talent . He wanted to commission an article from its author , a task that would ...
The millwrights ' and millers ' resistance to Evans's message was so great that their first recorded reaction was : “ It will not do ! it cannot do !! it is impossible that it should do !!! " 9 Nevertheless , Evans persisted in his ...
本書將英語學界的清史研究精華置入整體性的框架中, 提供我們不同於教科書習見說法的清史敘述。 ...
Throughout the eighteenth and early nineteeenth centuries, French regimes developed strategies to control the crucial grain trade.
有人證明唐鬍子在衡山殺過好些個革命黨,因此有人主張要懲罰他。但是這個意思,並不是黨裏開會討論議決執行的,不過幾個人坐下來隨便一說,就白己去幹。我當時被朋友推為執行者,他們叫我帶著手鑰去質問唐鬍子,讓他捐錢了事。我當然聽他們的話,就跑到唐家, ...