"Kronfelder carefully details all the arguments for memetics over a range of disciplines where different formulations are given, designed to solve problems and meet criticisms. Her detailed conceptual analyses expose their ambiguities and incoherencies and systematically demolish them all." - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews An examination of how Darwinism has been used to explain novelty and change in culture.

In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zurcher traveled for the first time to China, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zurcher s personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao s China offers not only new insights about the great scholar, but also a rich picture of communist China, which was in those days still almost completely inaccessible to Westerners.
During a tumultuous time in world politics, as Nikita Khrushchev was deposed, Lyndon Johnson won the US presidential election against Barry Goldwater, and China...