A Financial Times best book of the year and one of The New Yorker’s “Political Books to Help Us Make Sense of 2024”

An eye-opening account of offshore finance: a secretive system making the rich richer while corroding democracy, capitalism, and the environment. How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? From playboy billionaires avoiding taxes on private islands to Russian oligarchs sailing away from sanctions on their superyachts, the ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore. Hidden from view, the world’s ultra-rich can use offshore finance to escape tax obligations, labor and environmental safety regulations, campaign finance rules, and other laws that get in their way. In Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism, sociologist Brooke Harrington reveals how this system works, as well as how it degrades democracy, the economy, and the public goods on which we all depend. Harrington spent eight years infiltrating this secretive world by training as a wealth manager, traveling from glossy European and North American capitals to developing countries in South America and Africa, to islands in the Indian Ocean, Caribbean, and South Pacific regions. Through interviews with dozens of wealth managers in nineteen countries, Harrington uncovered how this global network of offshore financial centers arose from the remnants of colonialism and has created a new, hidden imperial class This engrossing deep dive reveals what offshore finance costs all of us, and how it has colonized the world—not on behalf of any one country, but to benefit a largely invisible empire of a few thousand billionaires, who help themselves to the best society has to offer while sticking us with the bill. As politicians struggle to address the deepening economic and political inequality destabilizing the world, Harrington’s exposé of the offshore system is a vital resource for understanding the most pressing crises of our time.

中國正處身一個競爭激烈的全球市場，不但走上發展經濟的高速公路，更重新定義了全球資本主義的發展軌道。出生在後社會主義時代的八、九十後新生代農民工，滿懷夢想地踏上進城打工的不歸路，卻發現了「風光」背後的另一種現實，美好的願望灰飛煙滅。年輕工人的夢想為何與經濟增長充滿矛盾？ 本書的作者聯同20所大學的教師和學生組成研究組，於2010至2014年間對富士康及其工人、全球生產鏈、國家與企業的關係等，展開了為期四年的大規模調查和研究，期望通過受訪工人的眼睛呈現出高科技世界工廠的不公體制，並審問蘋果和其他與富士康合作的公司，為何對工人的訴求置若罔聞。 作者通過深入的調查，全面記錄了富士康工人如夢魘般的經歷，並見證工人正不斷地通過抗爭行動，形塑一個新工人階級。同時，本書亦會向讀者展示富士康的中國工人，以及其他被捲入全球製造業生產鏈之中的勞動者，如何鑄造了世界勞工政治的新圖像。 本書與英語、意大利語和西班牙語版同步出版。

一部考察宋代以来传统中国社会的人类学著作，展示中国古代社会发展的动力机制，通过对生产方式和社会结构的分析，解读传统中国民间风俗的形成和精神世界的塑造。
以经济视角重新思考传统中国人的家庭体系和精神生活，学者王铭铭、魏乐博推荐，杜赞奇、马立博等曾为英文原版撰写书评。
☆ 内容简介
一部考察宋代以来传统中国社会的人类学著作，重新思考传统中国民间风俗的形成与精神世界的塑造。作者认为，基于家族和市场进行的生产为“小资本主义”生产方式，它与国家运作的贡赋制生产方式之间的互动，形成了中国古代社会发展的动力机制，即中国“马达”。通过对生产方式和社会结构的分析，本书阐明了传统中国的社会结构，揭示“宗族”这一重要民间组织的形成与发展。同时，本书透过经济视角，分析了民间嫁娶习俗、信仰塑造、男女地位的地区性差异等文化现象，描绘出中国人依据现实世界构建的神鬼形象，揭示了中国人的精神世界。
☆ 本书亮点
1.一部考察宋代以来传统中国社会的人类学著作。学者王铭铭、魏乐博推荐，杜赞奇、马立博、梅丽莎•麦柯丽等著名汉学家曾为英文原版撰写书评；
2.提出“小资本主义”生产方式，重新界定推动中国历史发展的经济因素。本书将“小资本主义”生产方式定义为基于家族和市场进行的生产，并将其视作中国古代社会发展的动力机制（中国“马达”）；
3.揭示“宗族”这一重要民间组织的形成与发展，以及其与“小资本主义”生产方式的联系。本书提出了两种生产方式，即由国家主导的贡赋制和以家族为主体的“小资本主义”，通过分析两者的互动，阐明传统中国的社会结构；
4.基于经济互动，揭示传统中国民间风俗的形成与精神世界的塑造。书中运用经济视角呈现了民间嫁娶习俗、男女地位的地区性差异及其与生产方式的相关性，也描绘出中国人依据现实世界构建的神鬼形象，揭示了中国人的精神世界，从另一个角度展示了中国文化的延续性和整体性；
5.综合运用多种材料。作者不仅运用了传统史料、已有研究成果，还通过田野调查把握民间风俗，利用与各地居民的访谈资料，以及流传于广东、香港等地的“哭嫁歌”等民谣，在书写宏观历史的同时，勾勒出一个个具体而鲜活的历史面容。
☆ 名家推荐
四十多年来，中国的经济成就举世瞩目。中国的巨大经济增长能力来自哪里？其现代性何以如此发达？《中国“马达”》一书提供了一个隐含的答案：中国的“现代性”，依然是中国文化（尤其是其中的朝贡生产方式和“小资本主义”因素）的延伸形态，而不可能是别的。
——王铭铭 北京大学社会学系教授
就西方学界的中国研究而言，《中国“马达”》堪称最具创新性的著作之一。它对一代人的历史学和人类学研究产生了影响。葛希芝所展示的是，应该如何重新界定推动现代历史发展的经济因素。她指出，我们应该像对待其他生产方式一样认真思考小商品生产方式所发挥的作用。借此，她又向我们揭示了不同生产模式之间的互动作用，并引导我们不仅重新认识经济领域，而且重新思考家庭体系和精神生活层面的问题。这部著作不仅敢为人先，而且颇具独创性，重塑了我们在这些领域的研究。
——魏乐博（Robert P. Weller） 波士顿大学人类学系教授
在对历史学和民族志的微观分析展露出不同时空的巨大差异时，《中国“马达”》却面临书写宏观历史的挑战。葛希芝的论点主要基于英语研究，具有启发性，并抓住了中国社会关系的重要方面。
——杜赞奇（Prasenjit Duara） 杜克大学历史学系教授
人类学家葛希芝写了一本关于中国的非常吸引人、非常可读的书，这将引起历史学家的兴趣。葛希芝讲述了关于中国人类学的主题，如中国家族和血缘组织、性别和婚姻中的性习俗，以及民间宗教，同时提出了关于中国过去一千年历史王朝学的有力论点。
——马立博（Robert B. Marks） Richard and Billie Deihl历史学讲座教授
向这位把风险抛之脑后，大胆地从宋朝（960—1279）开始将中国复杂的政治经济学系统化的学者致敬！葛希芝运用大量引人注目的关于中国国家和社会的二次文献，提供了一个富有解释力和可能性的动力理论。
——梅丽莎•麦柯丽（Melissa Macauley） 美国西北大学历史系教授
☆ 编辑推荐
◎编辑推荐1：婚姻，自古以来就是一桩生意
人类学家葛希芝在描述婚姻时用了一个有趣的说法：婚姻是传统家庭再生产的根本之道。这完全是从经济视角来看待婚姻的。揭开温情的面纱，婚姻的本质就是一桩充满利益考量的生意。
《中国“马达”》一书通过对嫁妆与聘礼的考察讨论了历史中的各种婚姻模式，试图剖析其中隐含的贡赋制与“小资本主义”逻辑。在贡赋制下，女性的价值被定义为人口再生产者兼家庭主妇，因此她更有必要用自己的嫁妆来保障日常生活，否则就会在生育之前一直被视为挤占了不属于她的家庭资源，在家中处于非常尴尬的境地。而近年来不断引起社会争议的“天价彩礼”实际上来自“小资本主义”的逻辑，背后隐含着对女性的高度商品化——女方家庭获得的聘礼多少取决于新娘的劳动力是否有价值；通俗地说就是：她能否为家里挣钱？她的出嫁对原生家庭而言是损失了劳动力还是减轻了负担？同理，对嫁入的家庭而言，她是能创造价值的劳动者，还是资源的消费者？
◎编辑推荐2
本书的独特之处在于，作者在考察传统中国社会民间风俗的同时，试图解释这些风俗背后隐含的共同逻辑。在“小资本主义”这一“马达”下，作为血缘组织的“宗族”拥有了重要的经济属性，家庭成员被作为劳动力来衡量价值；民间嫁娶等风俗隐含着经济的考量，女性的价值所在——生产人口还是劳动挣钱——决定了嫁妆和聘礼的多少；民间信仰塑造的神鬼世界映照出充满利益纠葛的现实关系，鬼反映出“小资本主义”组织对陌生人的厌恶和恐惧，要求贡品的神灵则可以和索取贿赂的地方官画上隐秘的等号……
值得一提的是，作者不仅运用了传统史料，还到中国进行了田野调查，抓住了当代民间风俗中那些属于传统社会的蛛丝马迹。她利用与各地居民的访谈资料，以及流传于广东、香港等地的“哭嫁歌”等民谣，让那些遥远而模糊的人物形象变得鲜活，也让本书看似宏大的理论研究变得具体而生动。

《高贵与卑贱的距离:学校文化的社会学研究》的主体内容共分四章，分别为“差别”、“控制”、“对抗”、“抉择”，也即反映了学校文化作为社会控制的手段被生产利用的四个不同过程。第一章主要对学校文化中的差别利用及制造的过程进行分析。以学校为核心的整个教育体系是实施社会控制的一个重要机制，第二章主要对以学校为核心的教育行为中的“控制”问题进行考察。在反映学校文化的日常生活中，各种控制与反控制的对抗技术总是被教师与学生灵活机巧地运用着。第三章主要对学校文化中的这种抵制术进行深入剖析。对于社会的控制，作为个体的人时常处于“两难”的状态，人们不得不通过一种观念的“换算”权衡利益得失，以便做出合适的选择。第四章即描述了学校文化中所表现出的种种“换算”与“选择”现象。在结语部分对全书进行了总结，并提出了一种教育的理想。

During the eventful summer of 2019 in Hong Kong, the Be Water Revolution formed to resist the proposed extradition of fugitives to mainland China’s courts. With its name derived from martial arts master Bruce Lee’s adage to be “formless and shapeless like water,” the movement turned out to be the city’s largest episode of contentious politics and was unique for using impromptu communication among participants and the absence of central leadership.

In Be Water, Ming-sho Ho examines the dynamics of the city-wide uprising from the perspective of agency power. He seeks to understand how numerous and anonymous Hongkongers contributed to this epoch-making campaign as well as how they responded to the full-scale state repression that enveloped them. Ho praises and questions the durability of the inventive Be Water Revolution and how the activists encouraged protests spontaneously, through interpersonal networks and by voluntarily collaborating with strangers at great personal risk.

Ho posits a new concept of “collective improvisation” to make sense of such a decentralized yet creative way of protesting. Be Water seeks to understand the rise and long afterlife of this movement and illustrate its efficacy. As Ho shows, these dynamics of collective improvisation have implications for contemporary protest movements around the world.

This book explores different approaches to peasant studies; the origins of peasantry; major agricultural adaptations; social organizations; aspects of religion and ideology; peasant movements; the peasant's relation to markets and non-peasant groups; and their problems in the modern world.

本书是刑事法译丛之一，是一部关于犯罪形成研究的理论专著，内容涉及逐级年龄非正式社会控制理论，青少年违法犯罪行为揭秘理论及其后续研究，数据的重新整理、增补和确认，学校、伙伴和兄弟姐妹的角色，行为的连贯性等，适合法律研究人员参考学习。
犯罪是一项紧迫的社会问题，亟待更多的关注。作者两在过去都曾写过相关的著作，包括犯罪的毁灭性影响在社会中引起的恐惧感，尤其是涉及到社会稳定性的和生活质量方面的内容（Samp-son，1987，1988；Garofalo和Laub，1978；Laub，1983a）。鉴于此种顾虑，作者在本书中提出了一种经验上的及理论上的框架，用以开辟刑事政策的新思路。关于犯罪的公开讨论通常由电视秀、电台节目、论坛等来主导。作者认为这些对于讨论犯罪成因和解决犯罪问题是不合适的。企图将对犯罪问题的学习减至仅十秒钟的说教，这是一种鲁莽的想法。而事实上，在过去作者一直被要求这样做。虽然媒体无法做到，但作者相信大部分市民会通过作者下面的分析理解并意识到犯罪问题的复杂性。有时这些分析也许看起来令人十分气馁，但它们却是一个非常重要的基础，通过这个基础可以窥见犯罪学研究的“大图”。通过这上基础，作者期望让那些关心犯罪问题的人以及那些像作者一样的人继续对此保持乐观，那就是社会科学研究可以服务于刑事政策的制定。

Probing the ominous side of career advice to "follow your passion," this data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender, and race; and it suggests how we can reconfigure our relationships to paid work.
"Follow your passion" is a popular mantra for career decision-making in the United States. Passion-seeking seems like a promising path for avoiding the potential drudgery of a life of paid work, but this "passion principle"—seductive as it is—does not universally translate. The Trouble with Passion reveals the significant downside of the passion principle: the concept helps culturally legitimize and reproduce an exploited, overworked white-collar labor force and broadly serves to reinforce class, race, and gender segregation and inequality.
Grounding her investigation in the paradoxical tensions between capitalism's demand for ideal workers and our cultural expectations for self-expression, sociologist Erin A. Cech draws on interviews that follow students from college into the workforce, surveys of US workers, and experimental data to explain why the passion principle is such an attractive, if deceptive, career decision-making mantra, particularly for the college educated. Passion-seeking presumes middle-class safety nets and springboards and penalizes first-generation and working-class young adults who seek passion without them. The ripple effects of this mantra undermine the promise of college as a tool for social and economic mobility. The passion principle also feeds into a culture of overwork, encouraging white-collar workers to tolerate precarious employment and gladly sacrifice time, money, and leisure for work they are passionate about. And potential employers covet, but won't compensate, passion among job applicants. This book asks, What does it take to center passion in career decisions? Who gets ahead and who gets left behind by passion-seeking? The Trouble with Passion calls for citizens, educators, college administrators, and industry leaders to reconsider how we think about good jobs and, by extension, good lives.

Bottom-up voluntary associations, it is commonly thought, are among the fundamental building blocks of democracy, preparing people for engaged citizenship. A great deal of interest in Chinese civil society is premised on the idea that such groups might foster the emergence of democracy. But in a society where virtually all major institutions—from schools to workplaces to government—bear the deep imprint of authoritarian rule, can voluntary associations still spur social and political change?

Everyday Democracy is a groundbreaking study of bottom-up organizations in China, arguing that even in an authoritarian state, they nurture the skills and habits of democracy. Anthony J. Spires offers an in-depth look at two youth-based, youth-led volunteer groups, showing how their values and practices point the way toward the emergence of new, more democratic forms of association. In mainstream Chinese organizational life, even in grassroots civil society groups, hierarchy and autocracy are pervasive. In these groups, however, ideals of equality, mutual respect, and dignity have motivated young people to invent new practices and norms that contrast greatly with typical top-down organizational culture. Drawing on more than a decade of field-based research with a diverse array of participants, Everyday Democracy pinpoints the seeds of a democratic culture inside an authoritarian regime.

After four decades of market reform, China has developed a fast-growing, prosperous economy-the second largest in the world. Despite this prosperity, social inequality has persisted and expanded, particularly among rural migrant workers, and oppressive labor conditions have given rise to an increase in worker protests. In China’s authoritarian political context, worker strikes often face suppression and receive little attention in mainstream media, which has led burgeoning forms of alternative mediated practices to become key, if complicated, components of worker resistance. In Contesting Inequalities, Siyuan Yin traces the historical and structural forces surrounding the plight of migrant workers, especially women workers, and examines the relationship between media and different forms of collective action in China. Moving beyond considerations of short-term strikes, she analyzes how mediated practices have been incorporated as both means and ends in labor activism.Based on long-term, multi-sited, and digital ethnography, and drawing on feminist methodologies, Yin examines different forms of mediated labor activism-including theater performance, advocacy music, and digital community media-to survey the politics and impact of worker mobilization and actions. By explicating how mediated labor activism has enabled new subjectivities, counter-discourses, and informal networks, Yin demonstrates that the surge in Chinese working-class resistance highlights the interconnectedness of class struggles and feminist activism.