“One of the most momentous, yet all but invisible, psychological changes in human history has been the intensification of a sense of insecurity and alienation from the world around us that arose when we became no longer able easily to… — Mark Elvin Copy Share Image
“One of the most momentous, yet all but invisible, psychological changes in human history has been the intensification of a sense of insecurity and… — Mark Elvin Copy Share
“It must be remembered: fields end freedom. Whatever the astonishing subsequent achievements of civilization, it had a little recognized price: humanity itself became one… — Mark Elvin Copy Share
“Perhaps the most overpowering contrast [with the West] is the virtual absence in premodern China of the idea of a transcendent creator God who… — Mark Elvin Copy Share
“[There is a] gulf that can exist between different emotional and perceptual worlds—all 'Chinese'—in recent times [post-Deng Xiaoping].” — Mark Elvin Copy Share
“The resurrection of this once popular work [Ping Jinya's forgotten bestseller of the 1930s, Tides in the Human Sea ] is a reminder that… — Mark Elvin Copy Share
“I have taken a different approach. One that I hope is more easily accessible to the reader’s emotional imagination, though less analytically systematic. I… — Mark Elvin Copy Share
