Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives
Volume 5, 2019
Volume 5, 2019
Author: Alan Macfarlane
Volume number: 5
Year of publication: 2019
Language: English
Publisher: Global Century Press (London)
ISSN 2633-9544 (print)
ISSN 2633-9552 (online)
ISBN 978-1-913522-29-4
DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/JCGCP.en.2019.2
作者:艾伦·麦克法兰
期号:第5期
出版年份:2019年
语言:英文
出版社:环球世纪出版社 (伦敦)
ISSN 2633-9560 (印刷版)
ISSN 2633-9579 (电子版)
ISBN 978-1-913522-29-4
DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/JCGCP.en.2019.2
Abstract: This paper was originally given as one of the lectures at Clare Hall, Cambridge, on 28 May 2016, celebrating the founding of Clare Hall fifty years ago. The lecture was filmed and is available on the University of Cambridge Streaming Media Site and on Youtube.
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Alan Macfarlane (艾伦·麦克法兰) FBA, taught at the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University, for thirty-four years and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropological Science and a Life Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. As an anthropologist and historian he has worked on England, Nepal, Japan and China. He has focused on a comparative study of the origins and nature of the modern world. His website contains a variety of materials including video which is streamed from the Streaming Media Service at Cambridge University. He is author of two dozen books including China, Japan, Europe and the Anglo-sphere: A Comparative Analysis (2018), The Invention of the Modern World (2014), Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction, 1300-1840 (1986), and The Origins of English Individualism: Family, Property and Social Transition (1979).
Alan Macfarlane, ‘Five Civilizations Compared: China, Japan, Islam, Europe and the Anglosphere’, Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives, Volume 5, 2019, London: Global Century Press. DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/JCGCP.en.2019.2 (艾伦·麦克法兰,‘ ’,《全球中国比较研究》,2019年第5期,伦敦:全球世纪出版社。DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/JCGCP.en.2019.2)
Alan Macfarlane, ‘Five Civilizations Compared: China, Japan, Islam, Europe and the Anglosphere’, Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives, Volume 5, 2019, London: Global Century Press. DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/JCGCP.en.2019.2 (艾伦·麦克法兰,‘ ’,《全球中国比较研究》,2019年第5期,伦敦:全球世纪出版社。DOI https://doi.org/10.24103/JCGCP.en.2019.2)
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Editor’s note / Xiangqun Chang
Articles
The concept of civilization and the civilization of China / Stephan Feuchtwang
Five civilizations compared: China, Japan, Islam, Europe and the Anglosphere / Alan Macfarlane
Civilization and its conceptualizations in ethnology, social anthropology and sociology / WANG Mingming
Commentaries
Anthropology and the LSE’s links with India and China / Chris Fuller
Fei Xiaotong (Fei Hsiao-t’ung) at LSE and beyond / Stephan Feuchtwang
Some thoughts on the differential self and Professor Fei Xiaotong in October 2016 / Stephan Feuchtwang
Revisiting the morality of China in Africa / Stephen Chan
Interview
How can anthropology become directly involved in Eurasian studies? / ZHANG Fan and WANG Mingming
Methodology
Comprehending China (countries) computationally / Hans Kuijper
Computational social sciences in China / Jiaojiang Luo
Book reviews
Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires / Review by John Ashbourne
Enemies of Civilization: Attitudes toward Foreigners in Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and China / Review by Huili Zheng
War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe / Review by Hilde De Weerdt
After the Event: the Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan / Reviews by Martin Albrow / Sascha Klotzbücher
Politics and Religion in Ancient and Medieval Europe and China / Review by Lik Hang Tsui
Racial Frontiers: Africans, Chinese and Mexicans in Western America, 1848-1890 / Review by Laurent Bachmann
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