When Portuguese explorers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in the subcontinent in the late fifteenth century, Europeans had little direct knowledge of India. The maritime passage opened new opportunities for exchange of goods as well as ideas. Traders were joined by ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars from Portugal, England, Holland, France, Italy, and Germany, all hoping to learn about India for reasons as varied as their particular nationalities and professions. In the following centuries they produced a body of knowledge about India that significantly shaped European thought.
Europe’s India tracks Europeans’ changing ideas of India over the entire early modern period. Sanjay Subrahmanyam brings his expertise and erudition to bear in exploring the connection between European representations of India and the fascination with collecting Indian texts and objects that took root in the sixteenth century. European notions of India’s history, geography, politics, and religion were strongly shaped by the manuscripts, paintings, and artifacts—both precious and prosaic—that found their way into Western hands.
Subrahmanyam rejects the opposition between “true” knowledge of India and the self-serving fantasies of European Orientalists. Instead, he shows how knowledge must always be understood in relation to the concrete circumstances of its production. Europe’s India is as much about how the East came to be understood by the West as it is about how India shaped Europe’s ideas concerning art, language, religion, and commerce.

This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. A senior scholar of this epoch, F. W. Mote highlights the personal characteristics of the rulers and dynasties and probes the cultural theme of Chinese adaptations to recurrent alien rule. No other work provides a similar synthesis: generational events, personalities, and the spirit of the age combine to yield a comprehensive history of the civilization, not isolated but shaped by its relation to outsiders. </p>
This vast panorama of the civilization of the largest society in human history reveals much about Chinese high and low culture, and the influential role of Confucian philosophical and social ideals. Throughout the Liao Empire, the world of the Song, the Mongol rule, and the early Qing through the Kangxi and Qianlong reigns, culture, ideas, and personalities are richly woven into the fabric of the political order and institutions. This is a monumental work that will stand among the classic accounts of the nature and vibrancy of Chinese civilization before the modern period. </p>

《道德与市场》是杰出社会学家维维安娜·泽利泽的首部专著，此次也是在国内第一次出版中文译本。本书自1979年首版后在近四十年间长盛不衰，最新修订版2017年由哥伦比亚大学出版社出版。
本研究以人寿保险为例：曾在美国被斥为亵渎人类生命的赌博的人寿保险，最终是怎样被人们接受，成为一种对家庭未来的可靠保障的？书中，泽利泽将经济史、社会史和社会学视角结合起来，提出了对人寿保险行业的新颖阐释，开创了对于经济行动的道德以及新的经济行动的正常化和制度化这两个重要的研究领域。她为我们展示了与美国的工业革命同时进行的美国社会对于死亡、金钱、家庭关系、财产和个人遗产的观念的演进，提供了解答此类问题全新的分析手段。
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人寿保险看起来是如此简单明了的一种产品，直到泽利泽告诉我们，事实并非如此。购买人寿保险现在被当作一种道德义务，但当我们得知这曾经竟是一种可耻的做法时，消费所蕴含的社会和符号意义的巨大转变让人望而生叹。这是一部突破性的著作，每一章都会给人丰厚的启示。
——马克·格兰诺维特，全球最知名的社会学家之一，新经济社会学奠基人，嵌入理论和弱连接优势理论提出者
维维安娜·泽利泽革新了我们对于现代经济的思考。此前，波兰尼详细描述了英国精英怎样放弃了对农民的道义责任转而接受自由劳动市场，为历史提供全新注脚；泽利泽则展示了为什么所有新型市场的创造者都必须为其打下道德基础。《道德与市场》永远不会过时。
——弗兰克·多宾，哈佛大学教授，组织、经济行为和公共政策研究方面著名学者
这是一项里程碑式的研究，开创了两个重要的研究领域——对经济行动道德性的研究（亚当·斯密将其作为核心议题，但被他的追随者抛弃）；以及新的经济规范的正常化和制度化；现在，美国正在道德层面就健康保险展开争论，全世界也忙于应对比特币以及其他私人货币的崛起。这项研究层面无可挑剔并且拥有惊人的洞察力的作品，在此时无疑极具现实意义。
——保罗·迪马乔，纽约大学社会学教授，新制度主义理论著名学者
在今天，这本书中的论点及其极富创造力的研究路径，同它1979年初版之时一样鲜活。同泽利泽所有作品一样，书中论点兼具社会学学理意义与现实意义。
她的研究路径是一种巧妙而独特的经济社会学理论方法，兼顾了价值观和社会关系。这本《道德与市场》是一部难能可贵的经典。
——理查德·斯威德伯格，康奈尔大学教授，新经济社会学代表人物

Weijian Shan'sOut of the Gobiis a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in America.
Shan, a former hard laborer who is now one of Asia's best-known financiers, is thoughtful, observant, eloquent, and brutally honest, making him well-positioned to tell the story of a life that is a microcosm of modern China, and of how, improbably, that life became intertwined with America.Out of the Gobidraws a vivid picture of the raw human energy and the will to succeed against all odds.
Shan only finished elementary school when Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution tore his country apart. He was a witness to the brutality and absurdity of Mao's policies during one of the most tumultuous eras in China's history. Exiled to the Gobi Desert at age 15 and denied schooling for 10 years, he endured untold hardships without ever giving up his dream for an education. Shan's improbable journey, from the Gobi to the "People's Republic of Berkeley" and far beyond, is a uniquely American success story - told with a splash of humor, deep insight and rich and engaging detail.
This powerful and personal perspective on China and America will inform Americans' view of China, humanizing the country, while providing a rare view of America from the prism of a keen foreign observer who lived the American dream.
Says former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen: "Shan's life provides a demonstration of what is possible when China and the United States come together, even by happenstance. It is not only Shan's personal history that makes this book so interesting but also how the stories of China and America merge in just one moment in time to create an inspired individual so unique and driven, and so representative of the true sprits of both countries."

Game theory has revolutionized economics research and teaching during the past two decades. There are few undergraduate or graduate courses in which it does not form a core component. Game theory is the study of multi-decision problems and such problems occur frequently in economics. Industrial organization provides many examples where firms must consider the reactions of others. But there are many other areas in which it is applicable - from individual workers vying for promotion to countries competing or colluding to choose trade policies. Bob Gibbons provides an introduction to the branches of game theory that have been widely applied in economics. He emphasizes the applications as much as the pure theory. This not only helps to teach the theory, but also illustrates the process of model building - the process of translating an informal description of a multi-person decision situation into a formal, game theoretic problem to be analyzed. The approach aims to serve as both an introduction to those who will go on to specialize as pure game-theorists. It also introduces game theory to those who will later construct (or at least use) game-theoretic models in applied fields of economics.