Who exactly are China's new rich? This pioneering investigation introduces readers to the private lives—and the nightlives—of the powerful entrepreneurs and managers redefining success and status in the city of Chengdu. Over the course of more than three years, anthropologist John Osburg accompanied, and in some instances assisted, wealthy Chinese businessmen as they courted clients, partners, and government officials.
Drawing on his immersive experiences, Osburg invites readers to join him as he journeys through the new, highly gendered entertainment sites for Chinese businessmen, including karaoke clubs, saunas, and massage parlors—places specifically designed to cater to the desires and enjoyment of elite men. Within these spaces, a masculinization of business is taking place. Osburg details the complex code of behavior that governs businessmen as they go about banqueting, drinking, gambling, bribing, exchanging gifts, and obtaining sexual services.
These intricate social networks play a key role in generating business, performing social status, and reconfiguring gender roles. But many entrepreneurs feel trapped by their obligations and moral compromises in this evolving environment. Ultimately, Osburg examines their deep ambivalence about China's future and their own complicity in the major issues of post-Mao Chinese society—corruption, inequality, materialism, and loss of trust.

Editors Nina Bandelj and Dorothy J. Solinger bring together prominent experts on Eastern Europe and China to examine the respective trajectories of political, economic, and social transformations that unfolded in these two areas, while also comparing the changes that ensued within the two regions. The volume features paired comparisons, with one chapter on the countries from the former Soviet bloc and one on China for each of the following themes: the reinstitutionalization of politics, the recasting of state-society relations, the reform of economic systems, changes in economic behavior, and transformations of social institutions. Despite differences in the specific substantive focus and disciplinary grounding among individual chapters, all chapters share a concern with the fate of the state in postsocialism. They elaborate on topics such as the transformations of the old socialist state and its nature, activities and roles; civil society before and after 1989; the ways in which the state has, or has not, acted to encourage new forms of economic behavior; and the state's responsibility for societal trends, whether in family formation, in protest or in inequality. Taking a unique approach to understand twentieth-century socialism on a global scale, Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged uncovers insights about political models and economic patterns that have emerged in the grand project of the transition from socialism.
Readership: Students and scholars of: comparative politics; international studies; political history; socialism and political movements; development studies; area studies of China, Eastern Europe; twentieth-century history.

“香樟树，阮家阿婆，巧星美发屋，连同整个小区，都成了昨日的世界。”
《小花旦》是作家王占黑的最新小说集，收录近三年来创作的六部中短篇作品。这一次作家从生龙活虎的街道走向城市的更深处，从上一辈走向自己的同龄人，也尝试走入每个普通人内心的秘密森林。人和空间的关系，总是承载着人和时间的关系，跑进去看，去探险，是不变的志趣，也是新的成长。
从嘉兴到上海的绿皮火车，最后一趟去大润发的免费班车，时隐时现的人民公园同志舞蹈角，拆迁废墟之下，那些渐渐被人忘记的报亭、桥洞和鸽子笼，正在悄悄被另一些人拾起不放。走出街道的英雄，是一颗颗脱轨的旧卫星，在城市风景的新与旧中穿梭游荡，时间冲刷后，用强健的快乐，筑起对自在生长的人与世界的不灭信心。
你也会从中发现那个社区小宇宙里的神奇关联，《空响炮》里的赖老板的炮仗店，曾是小花旦的巧星美发屋，瘸脚阿兴戳完气球之后，和两个残疾朋友约定寻找一个陌生女人，还有永远的老王……他们四处游动，在城市的泳池里时起时沉，大口呼吸。
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1、首届宝珀理想国文学奖得主，王占黑最新小说集，蜕变成熟之作——2018年凭借处女作《空响炮》摘得首届宝珀理想国文学奖，90后作家王占黑带来蜕变成熟之作《小花旦》。六个中短篇作品，一部野生浪漫的公路电影，带你在城市丛林漫游。这一次占黑小伙从街道江湖走向城市的更深处，从上一辈民间爷叔的生活走向自己的同龄人，也尝试走入每个普通人内心的秘密森林，小说质地更加开朗阔达。
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2、走出街道的英雄，在城市风景的新与旧中穿梭游荡；时间冲刷后，用强健的快乐，筑起对自在生长的人与世界的不灭信心——十二块五的绿皮火车，从小城去往大都市流浪；最后一班去大润发的免费班车，驶向和陌生人短暂邂逅的超市奇妙夜；人民公园的同志跳舞角、被遗忘在马路角落的海宝，是电视和海报里看不见的风景；渐渐废弃的桥洞下，有自在生长的人和世界……走出街道的英雄，小花旦阮巧星、大黑鱼阿三、嗡鼻头、瘸脚阿兴、永远的老王，他们像一颗颗从旧地界脱轨、发射的卫星，去往巨兽般的都市游荡、发光。

This compelling book explores the explosive pace of change in China and how its citizens are grappling with a dramatically new world, both in the public and private spheres. China’s stratospheric growth has made it the second largest economy in the world—and one of the most unequal. Marxist ideology and socialist ideals have almost completely collapsed, replaced by a combination of materialism and assertive nationalism. The vast migration of labor from countryside to city has continued apace. The pressures of a hypercompetitive market economy are ripping apart the traditional family and threatening the environment. Corruption has reached new heights. The political system is even more rigid, but perhaps more brittle, than a decade ago.
There is enormous popular pride in the ascension of China to the rank of global superpower and general satisfaction in the material benefits that the poor as well as the rich have been gaining from an expanding economy. But there is also great restlessness, anger about structural injustice and political corruption, and a search for new forms of spirituality and ethics to replace a collapsing moral order. The question “What does it mean, in the new day, to be Chinese?” lurks just beneath the surface. This unique interdisciplinary book frames this central issue through an innovative set of case studies on such cutting-edge topics as reality dating shows, countercultural invented language, star bloggers, faith healers, and subversive jokes.

本书收录了作者自20世纪90年代以来发表的13篇文稿。这些文章从社会学的独特视角出发，围绕中国社会结构的变迁，对改革开放20年业中国社会生活发生的一系列变化进行了系统的分析。这些文章指出：改革以来中国社会变迁意义最重大、最引人注目之处就是结构的剧烈、持续、深刻的变化。作者用：“转型与断裂”的概念来表明目前现象及其背后的原因，表明20世纪90年代后的中国社会是一个不同以往、有着自已特征的社会。从经济的、历史的、比较的角度诠释了国家、民间统治精英和民众的关系，以及农民工流动、社会稳定，市场转型等当今中国近切需要澄清和解决的问题。
本书的读者对象是社会学专业的教师，学生和研究者，也适合对中国社会感兴趣的人士阅读。

《个体家庭iFamily:中国城市现代化进程中的个体、家庭与国家》主要采用访谈和观察等质性方法来深描家庭结构和家庭关系，从个体化的理论视角分析上海家庭的多元和流动背后的逻辑，展示个体、家庭与社会三者之间的关系，并建构了个体家庭（iFamily）的概念，强调以个体为中心但受制于社会条件而代际关系紧密的家庭模式。作者认为今天中国的家庭变迁并不在于从主干到核心这样一种转变，而是在于年轻一代逐渐脱离了家庭主义，每个个体都站在自己的立场上界定家庭，在自己的利益上选择和决定家庭的结构和关系；在这一实践过程中，传统和社会变迁以交织的方式影响着家庭结构和内部关系；而个体的选择和决定并非是自主决定的，它是在具体的语境下与相关家人的互动、协商、妥协中形成的。