How did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi explores the myriad ways that families fulfilled their obligations to provide a soldier to the army. The complex strategies they developed to manage their responsibilities suggest a new interpretation of an important period in China's history as well as a broader theory of politics.
Using previously untapped sources, including lineage genealogies and internal family documents, Szonyi examines how soldiers and their families living on China's southeast coast minimized the costs and maximized the benefits of meeting government demands for manpower. Families that had to provide a soldier for the army set up elaborate rules to ensure their obligation was fulfilled, and to provide incentives for the soldier not to desert his post. People in the system found ways to gain advantages for themselves and their families. For example, naval officers used the military's protection to engage in the very piracy and smuggling they were supposed to suppress. Szonyi demonstrates through firsthand accounts how subjects of the Ming state operated in a space between defiance and compliance, and how paying attention to this middle ground can help us better understand not only Ming China but also other periods and places.

☆铁道、火车、城市、时间、空间……一次19世纪人类精神与工业文明交织的探索旅程。
☆城市规划、心理学、建筑学、经济学等诸多视角，探索人类工业意识之起源。
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工业文明给人类的生产生活带来哪些变化，人们又是如何在这其中 适应了工业革命带来的新规则、新秩序？
《铁道之旅》通过工业革命的代表之一—铁路——其创制、发展对于人类生活、生产方式的影响，试图重新思考工业文明如何发生于个体，而不仅仅只是简单的生产力、社会结构变化。
铁路出行给人们对于时间、速度、距离、危险、精神伤痛等方面的变化，以及对于城市—历史关系、事故、防御性措施等等方面的重新思考，试图去阐述，工业文明不仅在技术、建筑、生产生活方式带来改变，更重要的是，人们在这些变化其中，也发展出更多的设备、条例、思维去适应由工业革命带来的新规则、新秩序。
由此，工业化不仅是一场技术、生产方式的变革，也是人们精神与身体、行动与思维对新秩序、新制度的一次适应过程。
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希弗尔布施是一位非常了不起的文化历史学家。
——Los Angeles Times Book Review
这是一本令人惊叹的书，惊喜、独具探索性、奇特充斥着这本铁道革命精神病理学分析的著作。
——The Village Voice
沃尔夫冈从城市规划、心理学、建筑学、经济学以及技术史等角度深入阐述了铁路在19世纪对人们心灵形塑的重要作用。
——Gregory McNamee
《铁道之旅》充满了令人信服的见解，其论述、观点与我们当下的生活状态密切相连。这本书涉略范围极广，已成为交通研究的经典作品，同时被社会学、现代性文化研究、感知研究广泛征引，成为这些领域进一步研究的奠基之作。二次修订相信会使得本书更令人信服。
——Javier Caletrío

国家间政治：权力斗争与和平（简明版），ISBN：9787301190197，作者：（美）汉斯·摩根索 著 徐昕，郝望，李保平 译

所谓城市的士绅化，是指在西方发达国家城市中心区的更新中出现的一种社会空间现象，其特征是城市中产阶级以上阶层取代低收入阶级重新由郊区返回内城（城市中心区）。尼尔•史密斯是西方士绅化理论的开拓者和重要阐释者，而《新城市前沿》则是理解西方城市士绅化及阶级对立的代表性著作。本书对西方发达城市重构和转型的理论阐释和经验总结，对于中国主要城市的旧城改造和转型无疑具有极其重要的启示意义。
本书是一部有关城市重构和转型的重要学术著作，它从阶级分析的视角解读了西方主要城市在20世纪的转型努力。传统观点认为，士绅化是新中产阶级出现的结果，是城市生活的一种需求；而本书认为，士绅化是20世纪后期政治、经济、文化巨大转型的一部分。作者巨细无遗地记录了士绅化所造成的新城市前沿的冲突，探讨了城市政策、投资模式、驱逐和无家可归之间的相互联系，并由此得出结论：自由主义的城市政策已然失败，20世纪80年代的金融繁荣也已结束，20世纪末的城市变得更加黑暗和危险。城市的公共政策与自由市场联合起来，共谋反对少数族裔、劳工、穷人和无家可归者，这是从未出现过的情况。在新兴的恢复失地运动者之城，士绅化已成为这种复仇政策的一部分。

本书主要讨论齐美尔、克拉考尔和本雅明的现代性思想及其方法。作者认为，与哈贝马斯、韦伯等诸多学者试图建构无所不包的抽象的现代性理论不同，三位学者的现代性研究是从破译现代性碎片的奥秘入手的：齐美尔《货币哲学》中透显的“现实的偶像性碎片”，克拉考尔《大众装饰》、《白领雇员》中表述的“无关宏旨的表面现象”，以及本雅明《拱廊街计划》中的“辨证意象”或“单子论”的阐述，都在日常生活世界的层面上救赎了最为细微的现代性痕迹。全书内容新颖，文字细腻，是一部从审美的，政治的或历史的方式解读现代性的佳作。

"Of those who created the intellectual capital used to launch the enterprise of professional sociology, Georg Simmel was perhaps the most original and fecund. In search of a subject matter for sociology that would distinguish it from all other social sciences and humanistic disciplines, he charted a new field for discovery and proceeded to explore a world of novel topics in works that have guided and anticipated the thinking of generations of sociologists. Such distinctive concepts of contemporary sociology as social distance, marginality, urbanism as a way of life, role-playing, social behavior as exchange, conflict as an integrating process, dyadic encounter, circular interaction, reference groups as perspectives, and sociological ambivalence embody ideas which Simmel adumbrated more than six decades ago."--Donald N. Levine
Half of the material included in this edition of Simmel's writings represents new translations. This includes Simmel's important, lengthy, and previously untranslated "Group Expansion and Development of Individuality," as well as three selections from his most neglected work, "Philosophy of Money"; in addition, the introduction to "Probleme der Geschichtsphilosophie," chapter one of the "Lebensanschauung," and three essays are translated for the first time.

Few writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics clearly and engagingly. In Chaos, James Gleick, a former science writer for the New York Times, shows that he resides in this exclusive category. Here he takes on the job of depicting the first years of the study of chaos--the seemingly random patterns that characterise many natural phenomena.
This is not a purely technical book. Instead, it focuses as much on the scientists studying chaos as on the chaos itself. In the pages of Gleick's book, the reader meets dozens of extraordinary and eccentric people. For instance, Mitchell Feigenbaum, who constructed and regulated his life by a 26-hour clock and watched his waking hours come in and out of phase with those of his coworkers at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
As for chaos itself, Gleick does an outstanding job of explaining the thought processes and investigative techniques that researchers bring to bear on chaos problems. Rather than attempt to explain Julia sets, Lorenz attractors and the Mandelbrot Set with gigantically complicated equations, Chaos relies on sketches, photographs and Gleick's wonderful descriptive prose. --Christine Buttery

When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, the author follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live. The author also wrote "Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland".

《中国生育革命纪实(1978-1991)》内容简介：从上个世纪70年代末期至80年代初，中国生育政策发生了革命性的变化，即从“晚稀少”到“一胎化”，再到“独女户”，为什么会发生这样的急剧变化，这是怎样的演变历程，又付出了怎样代价？《中国生育革命纪实(1978-1991)》对“提倡一对夫妇只生育一个孩子”为主要内容的现行生育政策的演变、形成过程进行了梳理，并侧重就上个世纪80年代生育政策演变轨迹进行概要描述，并对这一政策实施所付出的代价以及未来面临的诸多挑战进行阐述。

本书是阿多诺从“否定的辩证法”出发, 献给世人的一部建立在美学和哲学基础之上的音乐理论著作。全书从音乐类型和音乐接受的角度阐释了作者对音乐社会这一主题的思考。他认为艺术是对现实的否定性认识, 即艺术不是对于存在的把握, 而是对于尚不存在的追求。

谣言，自古有之，于今尤甚；传统社会中有之，转型社会中尤甚；现实生活中有之，虚拟网络上尤甚。当代中国社会的网络谣言层出不穷，吸引了众多学者的目光。本书报告了国内首次针对网络谣言的综合性应用型实证研究的成果。在对中外文献进行全面梳理的基础上，作者选取过去十年间中国社会最为典型的网络谣言，以个案研究和模拟实验为主导框架，采用内容分析、文本分析、问卷调查、焦点小组和深入访谈等方法深入细致地考察了不同网络谣言的产生、传播和影响过程。最终，总结实证研究的成果，作者认为，中国已经进入“新谣言时代”，谣言的本质特征、传播媒介与社会功能都呈现出不同于以往的重要转变。

“当我踏进模特经纪公司办公室的那一刻，就走进了一个充满伦理、政治、女性主义的研究困境。”曾在纽约和伦敦做过模特的社会学家阿什利·米尔斯，以内行人的视角展现了模特世界的规则，检视了人们习以为常的“美丽”是如何定义的。书中涉及对男模、女模、经纪人、客户、摄影师、造型师等角色的广泛访谈，展现了魅力产业背后的政治与经济，甚至随意性。在这条深藏不露的文化生产流水线上，好看不是唯一的标准，合适的外形才是时尚的起源，人们接受训练、推销、打造成珍贵的商品。该书对新文化经济中的社会分析，经济社会学中性别与阶层研究带来了新的启发。

《理解媒介:论人的延伸(增订评注本)》是“20世纪为数不多的重要思想著作之一”。这是神使墨丘利的杰作，洞悉未来，深入分析，是思想史转折的路标。麦克卢汉将传播媒介作为主要动因，以异乎寻常的方式解释历史。他认为，媒介是塑造历史和社会的隐蔽力量，常常被人忽视；媒介的“讯息”在于其如何“扭曲”现存的社会秩序；由于忽视媒介，我们常常对其熟视无睹，被其遮蔽，这是“书面文化”或西方式感知能力的失败。书面文化执著于媒介的内容，它必须在新的电子环境里革故鼎新。麦克卢汉邀请我们抛弃旧的思维习惯，采纳感知和知识的新标准。
《理解媒介:论人的延伸(增订评注本)》初版于1964年，麦克卢汉借以登上世界舞台，成为我们时代最杰出的公共知识分子之一。在这部极富胆略的著作里，他把媒介解释推向新的高度。他向我们发出挑战，让我们与他一道纵身投入他所谓的“创新认知过程”。

- The book argues that ignorance, not knowledge, is what drives science
- The book provides a fascinating inside-view of the way every-day science is actually done
- The book features intriguing case histories of how individual scientists use ignorance to direct their research
Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance—not knowledge—that is the true engine of science.
Most of us have a false impression of science as a surefire, deliberate, step-by-step method for finding things out and getting things done. In fact, says Firestein, more often than not, science is like looking for a black cat in a dark room, and there may not be a cat in the room. The process is more hit-or-miss than you might imagine, with much stumbling and groping after phantoms. But it is exactly this "not knowing," this puzzling over thorny questions or inexplicable data, that gets researchers into the lab early and keeps them there late, the thing that propels them, the very driving force of science. Firestein shows how scientists use ignorance to program their work, to identify what should be done, what the next steps are, and where they should concentrate their energies. And he includes a catalog of how scientists use ignorance, consciously or unconsciously—a remarkable range of approaches that includes looking for connections to other research, revisiting apparently settled questions, using small questions to get at big ones, and tackling a problem simply out of curiosity. The book concludes with four case histories—in cognitive psychology, theoretical physics, astronomy, and neuroscience—that provide a feel for the nuts and bolts of ignorance, the day-to-day battle that goes on in scientific laboratories and in scientific minds with questions that range from the quotidian to the profound.
Turning the conventional idea about science on its head, Ignorance opens a new window on the true nature of research. It is a must-read for anyone curious about science.

《公共舆论》是传播学领域的奠基之作，它第一次对公共舆论做了全景式的描述，自1922年问世以来，已被翻译成几十种文字，至今仍然保持着这个领域中的权威地位。其影响力经久不衰的奥秘在于，它卓有成效地梳理了舆论研究中一系列难以回避的问题，比如舆论从哪里来？它是怎样形成的？它能造成什么样的结果？谁是公众？公共舆论是什么意思？它是仅仅在公众中传播还是由公众自己形成的？它什么时候才能成为独立的力量？该书对成见、兴趣、公意的形成和民主形象等问题做了精辟而深刻的探讨，完成了新闻史上对舆论传播现象的首次全面论述，为后人的研究奠定了基础。

基层迎检、开发纷争、征收税费、产业调整、征地“种房”、维权争利……“喧嚣”一词，释尽乡镇日常政治种种人事与结构交织碰撞的众声嘈杂。本书以后现代叙事策略，围绕基层政权、村级组织和农民在复杂的乡村权力场域中博弈共生的过程和状况，深度阐释了21世纪初中国中部地区某乡镇“乡域政治”的运作实践与支配逻辑。
本书出版十年来，获得学术界内外的广泛好评，被权威专家和普通读者誉为数十年来少见的以“抵近现场”“深度描写”的方式、以“比小说还精彩”的叙述来“复杂化理解”中国基层社会的作品。重读此书，不难发现，虽然它研究的是十多年前的乡镇，但是，对于“故事”背后种种复杂因素的颇有见地的理论探讨，让它在今天仍然极具启示。

與以往學界對中國基督教活躍於內陸鄉村社會的認識有所不同，本書側重描繪基督教在發達的沿海商業中心溫州迅猛崛起的軌跡，並以溫州為例，剖析宗教實踐、宗教空間和宗教話語在中國城市現代性變遷中所扮演的重要角色，內容涉及政教關係、民營資本主義發展、日常消費、性別關係、道德文化、階層關係、城鄉差異以及農民工的城市融入。作者為寫作本書所做的人類學田野調查和生活史素材的收集歷時近兩年，勾勒出一幅新興城市商業精英所引領的宗教復興之圖景。通過著重記錄商人基督徒群體在日常框架下對現代性與經濟發展的理解以及他們的身份建構，力圖從社會文化層面揭秘改革時期都市基督教的驚人增長。本書強調基督教並非一個內部高度同質的意義體系，而可將其當作一面棱鏡，多角度透視當代中國社會文化變遷的宏觀過程。本書可用作中國人類學／社會學、都市研究、宗教研究以及定性研究方法的大學教材。
「對於對政教關係或對現代中國宗教實踐有興趣的人士來說，這是一本必讀書，作者淺白易懂的文字適合用於本科教材。」──《中國季刊》(The China Quarterly)
「這是第一部關於中國基督新教的民族志專著。曹南來博士成功地粉碎基督教在中國作為洋教的刻板認識，讓讀者窺見一個已高度本地化、去政治化的宗教，而這一宗教又與資本主義經濟行為形成高度互滲。」──《亞洲人類學》(Asian Anthropology)