The authors consider new views of the classical versus vernacular dichotomy that are especially central to the new historiography of China and East Asian languages. Based on recent debates initiated by Sheldon Pollock's findings for South Asia, we examine alternative frameworks for understanding East Asian languages between 1000 and 1919. Using new sources, making new connections, and re-examining old assumptions, we have asked whether and why East and SE Asian languages (e.g., Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian, Jurchen, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese) should be analysed in light of a Eurocentric dichotomy of Latin versus vernaculars. This discussion has encouraged us to explore whether European modernity is an appropriate standard at all for East Asia. Individually and collectively, we have sought to establish linkages between societies without making a priori assumptions about the countries' internal structures or the genealogy of their connections.

China's sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an unprecedented explosion in the production and circulation of woodblock-printed books. What can surviving traces of that era's print culture reveal about the makers and consumers of these books? Home and the World addresses this question by carefully examining a wide range of late Ming books, considering them not merely as texts, but as material objects and economic commodities designed, produced, and marketed to stand out in the distinctive book marketplace of the time, and promising high enjoyment and usefulness to readers. Although many of the mass-market commercial imprints studied here might have struck scholars from the eighteenth century on as too trivial, lowbrow, or slipshod to merit serious study, they prove to be an invaluable resource, providing insight into their readers' orientations toward the increasingly complex global stage of early modernity and toward traditional Chinese conceptions of textual, political, and moral authority. On a more intimate scale, they tell us about readers' ideals of a fashionable and pleasurable private life. Through studying these works, we come closer to recapturing the trend-conscious, sophisticated, and often subversive ways readers at this important moment in China's history imagined their world and their place within it.

The role of contract in early modern Chinese economic life, when acknowledged at all, is usually presented as a minor one. This volume demonstrates that contract actually played a critical role in the everyday structure of many kinds of relationships and transactions; contracts are, moreover, of enormous value to present-day scholars as transcriptions of the fine details of day-to-day economic activity.
Offering a new perspective on economic and legal institutions, particularly the closely related institutions of contract and property, in Qing and Republican China, the papers in this volume spell out how these institutions worked in specific social contexts. Drawing on recent research in far-flung archives, the contributors take as givens both the embeddedness of contract in Chinese social and economic discourse and its role in the spread of commodification. Two papers deal with broad issues: Zelin's argues for a distinctively Chinese heritage of strong property rights, and Ocko's examines the usefulness of American legal scholarship as a comparative analytic framework.

In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. He also analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database.Manovich uses concepts from film theory, art history, literary theory, and computer science and also develops new theoretical constructs, such as cultural interface, spatial montage, and cinegratography. The theory and history of cinema play a particularly important role in the book. Among other topics, Manovich discusses parallels between the histories of cinema and of new media, digital cinema, screen and montage in cinema and in new media, and historical ties between avant-garde film and new media.

多くの大学院では入学試験の際に「研究計画書」の提出が求められるが、ほとんどの人は学部時代までに研究計画書を書いた経験などない。
本書は、入試で求められる研究計画書について、「研究」や「計画」に関する基本的な考え方から実際の書き方に至るまでを、いままで計画書を書いたことがない人、特に社会人の大学院志望者に向けて、わかりやすく解説したものである。
大学卒業後、企業勤務を経て英国の大学院で博士課程を修了し、現在は慶應義塾大学大学院教授である著者は、自身の経験から、社会人が大学院を目指す場合の受験者の立場、また入試を行う立場の両方を知っており、読者としては心強い。
本書の特徴の第1は、タイトルにあるように「書き方のハウツー」ではなく「研究についての考え方」を重視した点にある。この点が明確になっていない計画書は、しょせん底が浅いものになるだろう。第2の特徴は計画書作成の過程を重視していることにある。研究計画を練る中で、自分自身の思考や志向などについて思いめぐらすことも含め、作成それ自体を学ぶ場としてとらえているのである。この点は、しばらく大学を離れていた社会人にはリハビリにも、またこれからの研究生活の準備にもなりうるだろう。
さらに本書には、実際の研究計画書をサンプルとしてそれに対する筆者の詳しいコメントがつけられた事例が28件掲載されている。
本書は、月刊「Executive」誌に不定期に連載されたものをもとに大幅加筆したものだが、連載時の読者には大学院在籍中の学生が多数いたのも特徴といえる。大学院入学後の研究計画にも役立つし、研究機関や企業における計画書や企画書づくりにも参考になる部分があるようだ。（佐伯秀子）

In this multidimensional analysis, Benjamin A. Elman uses over a thousand newly available examination records from the Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, 1315-1904, to explore the social, political, and cultural dimensions of the civil examination system, one of the most important institutions in Chinese history. For over five hundred years, the most important positions within the dynastic government were usually filled through these difficult examinations, and every other year some one to two million people from all levels of society attempted them.
Covering the late imperial system from its inception to its demise, Elman revises our previous understanding of how the system actually worked, including its political and cultural machinery, the unforeseen consequences when it was unceremoniously scrapped by modernist reformers, and its long-term historical legacy. He argues that the Ming-Ch'ing civil examinations from 1370 to 1904 represented a substantial break with T'ang-Sung dynasty literary examinations from 650 to 1250. Late imperial examinations also made "Tao Learning," Neo-Confucian learning, the dynastic orthodoxy in official life and in literati culture. The intersections between elite social life, popular culture, and religion that are also considered reveal the full scope of the examination process throughout the late empire.

使節たちの報告書が映しだす世界と中国——。イギリス、ロシア、アメリカなど欧米に派遣された常駐公使が、途上や任地での見聞・交渉と、変動する本国のはざまで記した 「出使日記」。中国外交形成期の在外公館というプリズムを通して、日本を含む各国の状況や国際関係、そして中国の政治・社会・思想の姿が鮮やかに浮かび上がる。

Marking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book takes as its starting point the notion of "biopower," studying the foundations of this new technology of power over populations. Distrinct from punitive disciplinary systems, the mechanisms of power are here finely entwined with the technologies of security. In this volume, though, Foucault begins to turn his attention to the history of "governmentality," from the first centuries of the Christian era to the emergence of the modern nation state--shifting the center of gravity of the lectures from the question of biopower to that of government. In light of Foucault's later work, these lectures illustrate a radical turning point at which the transition to the problematic of the "government of self and others" would begin.

In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society. This book is an ambitious attempt to offer both a method and a framework for analyzing Chinese social history in the state-making era.The author constructs a prismatic view of village-level society that shows how marketing, kinship, water control, temple patronage, and other structures of human interaction overlapped to form what he calls the cultural nexus of power in local society. The author's concept of the cultural nexus and his tracing of how it was altered enables us for the first time to grapple with change at the village level in all its complexity.The author asserts that the growth of the state transformed and delegitimized the traditional cultural nexus during the Republican era, particularly in the realm of village leadership and finances. Thus, the expansion of state power was ultimately and paradoxically responsible for the revolution in China as it eroded the foundations of village life, leaving nothing in its place.The problems of state-making in China were different from those of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe; the Chinese experience heralds the process that would become increasingly common in the emergent states of the developing world under the very different circumstances of the twentieth century.

Urbanization was central to development in late imperial China. Yet its impact is heatedly debated, although scholars agree that it triggered neither Weberian urban autonomy nor Habermasian civil society. This book argues that this conceptual impasse derives from the fact that the seemingly continuous urban expansion was in fact punctuated by a wide variety of “dynastic urbanisms.” Historians should, the author contends, view urbanization not as an automatic by-product of commercial forces but as a process shaped by institutional frameworks and cultural trends in each dynasty.
This characteristic is particularly evident in the Ming. As the empire grew increasingly urbanized, the gap between the early Ming valorization of the rural and late Ming reality infringed upon the livelihood and identity of urban residents. This contradiction went almost unremarked in court forums and discussions among elites, leaving its resolution to local initiatives and negotiations. Using Nanjing—a metropolis along the Yangzi River and onetime capital of the Ming—as a central case, the author demonstrates that, prompted by this unique form of urban-rural contradiction, the actions and creations of urban residents transformed the city on multiple levels: as an urban community, as a metropolitan region, as an imagined space, and, finally, as a discursive subject.

著名哲学教授张汝伦多年研究成果
以海解海，紧扣文本
以中国古典注疏方式逐字解读海德格尔经典哲学著作《存在与时间》
填补国内研究空白
《存在与时间》被国际学术界公认为“难治”，从出版到现在，80年间不知有多少人为读懂这部重要的著作伤透了脑筋。在这种情况下，一部可靠的释义加导读的著作应该是一般读者甚至学界中人所需要的。因此，国外从上个世纪七八十年代开始陆陆续续出版了一些解释注疏《存在与时间》的导读行著作，我国至今还未见有这样的著作出版。这部《<存在与时间>释义》，就是为了填补这个空白。
——张汝伦
《存在与时间》是一部伟大的哲学经典，其深刻意义在于，揭示了人们正在经历的西方文化的危机及其深层次的问题，从哲学上解剖了西方文明的内在病理，使人们对现代性危机的本质有了清楚的认识。《存在与时间》也是二十世纪西方哲学著作中被人读得最多、讨论得最多、评论得最多和争论得最多的著作之一，它的影响远远超出了哲学的范围，深入到了神学、史学、社会学、文学理论、人类学、心理学等诸多领域。
然而，《存在与时间》被国际学术界公认为“难治”，一般读者以及学界人士都需要一部可靠的释义加导读的著作。国外从20世纪七八十年代开始，陆陆续续出版了一些解释注疏《存在与时间》的导读性著作，但在我国，至今还未有这样的著作出版。这部《<存在与时间>释义》的出版，就是为了填补这个空白。
本书借鉴中国古代传统的经典章句的典范，采取逐章逐节逐句解释的方法，对《存在与时间》这部经典著作进行释义。作者张汝伦先生在广泛阅读西方大家、名家解读《存在与时间》的诸多文本和专著基础上，用中国古人注疏经典的办法，逐节逐段解读，力图将这样一部晦涩、复杂的作品的文本意义和背后复杂的深意都揭示出来。