没有人工，就没有人工智能
3位牛津大学学者×穿越6个大洲×访问200余人
深度对话AI全球产业链上7类核心角色
深挖AI产业链全球劳动力不平等问题
揭露技术伦理与资本权力博弈真相
田丰、严飞、吴桐雨、孙萍 诚意推荐
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【内容简介】
薪酬过低、工作过载、心理创伤、版权掠夺，
无数工人、工程师、创作者，成为“投喂AI”的饵料。
当自动驾驶汽车平稳驶过路口时，
当你网购点击“立即下单”时，
当AI帮你生成图片、PPT、视频时，
你是否想过，是谁在为这些“智能”提供运行养料？
这本书带你穿越人工智能发展的狂欢与喧嚣，直击产业最隐秘的源头：
在肯尼亚，有人在审核用户上传的斩首视频时被吓到崩溃；
在乌干达，有人每天标注模糊的图像，时薪仅为1.16美元；
在英国，有人每小时要处理300件中转快递，速度不达标就会被系统抓出；
在爱尔兰，有配音演员被擅自用AI生成新声音而丢了饭碗……
这本书聚焦那些被数字浪潮吞噬的底层劳动者，
他们是喂养人工智能的“隐形父母”，却鲜少出现在技术的赞歌中。
他们的血汗汇成数据流，他们的困境拷问技术时代的公平与正义。
翻开这本书，读懂这个时代最该被看见的沉默与呐喊。
3位牛津大学学者，穿越6个大洲，访问200余人，
直击全球人工智能盛世背后的“数字劳工”真实困境。
【编辑推荐】
1.直击“数字劳工”真实困境，揭秘AI产业链隐秘真相
是谁在为人工智能提供“养料”？
·在乌干达，有人每天标注模糊的图像，时薪仅为1.16美元；
·在伦敦，科创公司因赶进度而忽视伦理审查，致大语言模型输出低俗语言；
·在谷歌，大量临时工、外聘人员及合同工，待遇低、无长期福利，在公司中被看作“二等公民”……
他们又如何成为“投喂AI”的饵料？
·自动驾驶系统安全的背后，是无数标注员在进行数据清洗和精准标注；
·视频与社交平台的背后，是数以万计的审核员在高压下过滤不良内容；
·AI生成内容的背后，是大量创意者的作品在未经同意下被纳入训练数据集……
3位牛津大学学者、穿越6个大洲、访问200余人，走访肯尼亚、乌干达、冰岛、美国等多国，深度对话AI全球产业链上7类核心角色，直击“数字劳工”真实困境，揭秘AI产业链隐秘真相。
2.一本书读懂AI产业链的“血汗地图”
从冰岛数据中心的技术员，到亚马逊仓库的算法管控员工，再到东非的底层标注员，通过全球企业案例与跨国数据，拆解AI产业链的全球分工暗链——权力集中于“全球北方”科技巨头，“全球南方”劳动者沦为低成本劳动力，资本如何通过技术操控固化不平等。
3.洞见技术伦理之困，推动科技向善之力
书中提出5项核心措施，破解AI产业的剥削逻辑，为劳动者呼吁技术时代的公平与正义。如果你是：
·担心被AI替代的普通职场人
·关注数字不平等的社会观察者
·科技行业从业者与政策制定者
·技术伦理、劳动权益的研究者
·对资本运作感兴趣的投资者
读懂这本书，你才算真正理解AI。
4.知名社会科学专家诚意荐读
田丰（中国社会科学院社会学研究所研究员） 严飞（清华大学社会学系副教授） 吴桐雨（浙江大学社会学系研究员、《牛马游戏》作者） 孙萍（中国社会科学院大学新闻传播学院副教授） 诚意推荐。
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【名人推荐】
最近几年，AI的飞速发展引发了全世界的巨大震动，AI甚至成为大国竞争的关键领域。在全球范围内，当政治家、企业家、科学家和专业技术人员畅想AI所蕴含的改变社会的巨大潜力时，这本书给读者送来振聋发聩的反思声音：“人正在成为AI的生产原料。”这是一个近乎残忍的现实，AI源自人类行为、人类智慧和人类知识的数据积累，却在不断拉大不同人群之间的权力和财富差距。这本书的作者关注到AI生产的整个流程，对流程中的不同职业群体进行了细致入微的观察和调研，深刻透视了AI领域的社会不平等问题，也意味着未来只有采用全供应链管理的模式等方法，才有可能对抗AI时代资本主义的逐利本性。这本书颇具可读性，同时也展现出深邃的思想性，是一本帮助社会大众理解当下数字社会的重要著作。
——田 丰 中国社会科学院社会学研究所研究员
这本书揭示了AI背后不为人所见的劳动体系，从数据中心的技术员到亚马逊仓库的员工，再到肯尼亚的外包标注员，这条跨越了阶级、种族与地理的权力链条让我们看见，AI的成长不仅源于大语言模型的算法进步，更依赖成千上万隐身的“数据工人”的“投喂”。这是一本讲述AI发展的书，更是对数字不平等与人类尊严的深刻追问。
——严 飞 清华大学社会学副教授
在早已喧嚣不休的AI研究领域中，这本书脱颖而出，通过“投喂”这一富有穿透力的隐喻，串联了AI发展各环节中隐蔽的劳动—从数据流水线的标注与清洗到模型训练中的工程劳动，再到被AI系统压缩与再配置的创意劳动与仓储劳动。它以冷静而尖锐的书写发出追问：当人类劳动面临被降格为AI运转“燃料”的风险时，我们能否拒绝并开辟另一种未来？这正是当下围绕AI与劳动的公共讨论中所亟需的声音。
——吴桐雨 浙江大学社会学系研究员、《牛马游戏》作者
AI在人类的欢呼雀跃声中突飞猛进，也在警惕与哀叹声中创造着一批又一批“数字难民”。这本书以广博的全球视野和翔实的第一手数据，向我们展现了新的技术结构如何重塑人们的劳作与生活。其中不乏对殖民主义、资本主义、加速主义的重新思考。技术与人类的关系正在进入新的阶段，伴随AI产生的数字劳动者越发值得我们关注，因为，自始至终他们的故事就是我们的故事。
——孙 萍 中国社会科学院大学新闻传播学院副教授

Swamp or bog? Guilt or shame? Club soda or sparkling water? From food to fashion, ethics to architecture, there are thousands of words and ideas that we tend to collapse, conflate, or confuse. For hairsplitters and language lovers, Dictionary of Fine Distinctions explores the world of the vanishingly small, offering up witty deep dives and lively illustrations to help sharpen these differences and bring us clarity at last.
"A great idea, beautifully realized. I shall never have a latte again without thinking of this book! A joy to read." --David Crystal, Linguist and Author of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language.
"Mark Twain once advised, 'Use the right word, not its second cousin.' Eli Burnstein's delightful book will help you figure out just the right word to use when nuances matter. And it will even help you figure out your cousins: What's the difference between a second cousin and a cousin twice removed, anyway? The answer lies within!" ---Ben Zimmer, Wall Street Journal language columnist
"Like bringing a blurry image into focus, the fine distinctions we make in English sharpen our view of the world. Eli Burnstein‘s witty explanations clarify our choice of words and remind us that, with language, precision is its own reward." --―Peter Sokolowski, Editor at Large, Merriam Webster

This revolutionary approach to cleaning and organizing helps free you from feeling ashamed or overwhelmed by a messy home.
If you’re struggling to stay on top of your to-do list, you probably have a good reason: anxiety, fatigue, depression, ADHD, or lack of support. For therapist KC Davis, the birth of her second child triggered a stress-mess cycle. The more behind she felt, the less motivated she was to start. She didn’t fold a single piece of laundry for seven months. One life-changing realization restored her sanity—and the functionality of her home: You don’t work for your home; your home works for you.
In other words, messiness is not a moral failing. A new sense of calm washed over her as she let go of the shame-based messaging that interpreted a pile of dirty laundry as “I can never keep up” and a chaotic kitchen as “I’m a bad mother.” Instead, she looked at unwashed clothes and thought, “I am alive,” and at stacks of dishes and thought, “I cooked my family dinner three nights in a row.”
Building on this foundation of self-compassion, KC devised the powerful practical approach that has exploded in popularity through her TikTok account, @domesticblisters. The secret is to simplify your to-do list and to find creative workarounds that accommodate your limited time and energy. In this book, you’ll learn exactly how to customize your cleaning strategy and rebuild your relationship with your home, including:
-How to see chores as kindnesses to your future self, not as a reflection of your worth
-How to start by setting priorities
-How to stagger tasks so you won’t procrastinate
-How to clean in quick bursts within your existing daily routine
-How to use creative shortcuts to transform a room from messy to functional
With KC’s help, your home will feel like a sanctuary again. It will become a place to rest, even when things aren’t finished. You will move with ease, and peace and calm will edge out guilt, self-criticism, and endless checklists. They have no place here.

In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, the National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the “pride paradox” that has given the right’s appeals such resonance
For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we’ve ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens, Arlie Russell Hochschild asks, when a proud people in a hard-hit region suffer the deep loss of pride and are confronted with a powerful political appeal that makes it feel “stolen”?
Hochschild’s research drew her to Pikeville, Kentucky, in the heart of Appalachia, within the whitest and second-poorest congressional district in the nation, where the city was reeling: coal jobs had left, crushing poverty persisted, and a deadly drug crisis struck the region. Although Pikeville was in the political center thirty years ago, by 2016, 80 percent of the district’s population voted for Donald Trump. Her brilliant exploration of the town’s response to a white nationalist march in 2017—a rehearsal for the deadly Unite the Right march that would soon take place in Charlottesville, Virginia—takes us deep inside a torn and suffering community.
In Stolen Pride, Hochschild focuses on a group swept up in the shifting political landscape: blue-collar men. In small churches, hillside hollers, roadside diners, trailer parks, and Narcotics Anonymous meetings, Hochschild introduces us to unforgettable people, and offers an original lens through which to see them and the wider world. In Stolen Pride, Hochschild incisively explores our dangerous times, even as she also points a way forward.

Inequalities of Love uses the personal narratives of college-educated black women to describe the difficulties they face when trying to date, marry, and have children. While conventional wisdom suggests that all women, regardless of race, must sacrifice romance and family for advanced educations and professional careers, Averil Y. Clarke’s research reveals that educated black women’s disadvantages in romance and starting a family are consequences of a system of racial inequality and discrimination. The author analyzes the accounts of black women who repeatedly return to incompatible partners as they lose hope of finding “Mr. Right” and reject unwed parenting because it seems to affirm a negative stereotype of black women’s sexuality that is inconsistent with their personal and professional identities. She uses national survey data to compare college-educated black women’s experiences of romance, reproduction, and family to those of less-educated black women and those of white and Hispanic women with degrees. She reports that degreed black women’s lives include less marriage and sex, and more unwanted pregnancy, abortion, and unwed childbearing than college-educated white and Hispanic women. Black women’s romantic limitations matter because they constitute deprivation and constraint in romance and because they illuminate important links between race, class, and gender inequality in the United States. Clarke’s discussion of the inequities that black women experience in romance highlights the connections between individuals’ sexual and reproductive decisions, their performance of professional or elite class identities, and the avoidance of racial stigma.

Sociologist Sharon M. Quinsaat sheds new light on the formation of diasporic connections through transnational protests.
When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form a diaspora? In Insurgent Communities, Sharon M. Quinsaat explains the dynamic process through which a diaspora is strategically constructed. Quinsaat looks to Filipinos in the United States and the Netherlands—examining their resistance against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, their mobilization for migrants’ rights, and the construction of a collective memory of the Marcos regime—to argue that diasporas emerge through political activism. Social movements provide an essential space for addressing migrants’ diverse experiences and relationships with their homeland and its history. A significant contribution to the interdisciplinary field of migration and social movements studies, Insurgent Communities illuminates how people develop collective identities in times of social upheaval.

This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy - a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s - its statutory architecture, judicial genealogies, administrative enforcement, differential treatment of European and non-European migrants, and long-term effects. In well-drawn historical portraits, Ngai peoples her study with the Filipinos, Mexicans, Japanese, and Chinese who comprised, variously, illegal aliens, alien citizens, colonial subjects, and imported contract workers.She shows that immigration restriction, particularly national-origin and numerical quotas, re-mapped the nation both by creating new categories of racial difference and by emphasizing as never before the nation's contiguous land borders and their patrol. This yielded the "illegal alien," a new legal and political subject whose inclusion in the nation was a social reality but a legal impossibility - a subject without rights and excluded from citizenship. Questions of fundamental legal status created new challenges for liberal democratic society and have directly informed the politics of multiculturalism and national belonging in our time. Ngai's analysis is based on extensive archival research, including previously unstudied records of the U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration and Naturalization Service. Contributing to American history, legal history, and ethnic studies, "Impossible Subjects" is a major reconsideration of U.S. immigration in the twentieth century.

Dangerous Women addresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization and decolonialization of the Korean nation. The contributors explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a marginalized and colonized nation. But Korean women are not merely configured here as metaphors for an emasculated and infantilized "homeland;" they are also shown to be products of a problematic gender construction that originates in Korea, and extends even today to Korean communities beyond Asia. Representations of Korean women still attempt to confine them to the status of either mother or prostitute: Dangerous Women rectifies that construction, offering a feminist intervention that might recuperate womanhood.

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出版社:新星出版社
出版时间:2010-01-01
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分类:家庭教育|素质教育

An eye-opening look at how all American workers, even the highly educated and experienced, are vulnerable to the stigma of unemployment.

After receiving a PhD in mathematics from MIT, Larry spent three decades working at prestigious companies in the tech industry. Initially he was not worried when he lost his job as part of a large layoff, but the prolonged unemployment that followed decimated his finances and nearly ended his marriage. Larry's story is not an anomaly. The majority of American workers experience unemployment, and millions get trapped in devastating long-term unemployment, including experienced workers with advanced degrees from top universities. How is it possible for even highly successful careers to suddenly go off the rails?

In The Stigma Trap , Ofer Sharone explains how the stigma of unemployment can render past educational and professional achievements irrelevant, and how it leaves all American workers vulnerable to becoming trapped in unemployment. Drawing on interviews with unemployed workers, job recruiters, and career coaches, Sharone brings to light the subtle ways that stigmatization prevents even the most educated and experienced workers from gaining middle-class jobs. Stigma also means that an American worker risks more than financial calamity from a protracted period of unemployment. One's closest relationships and sense of self are also on the line.

Eye-opening and clearly written, The Stigma Trap is essential reading for anyone who has experienced unemployment, has a family member or friend who is unemployed, or who wants to understand the forces that underlie the anxiety-filled lives of contemporary American workers. The book offers a unique approach to supporting unemployed jobseekers. At a broader level it exposes the precarious condition of American workers and sparks a conversation about much-needed policies to assure that we are not all one layoff away from being trapped by stigma.

Michael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future “Meritocracy.” Indeed, the word is now part of the English language. It would appear that the formula: IQ+Effort=Merit may well constitute the basic belief of the ruling class in the twenty-first century. Projecting himself into the year 2034, the author of this sociological satire shows how present decisions and practices may remold our society.
It is widespread knowledge that it is insufficient to be somebody's nephew to obtain a responsible post in business, government, teaching, or science. Experts in education and selection apply scientific principles to sift out the leaders of tomorrow. You need intelligence rating, qualification, experience, application, and a certain caliber to achieve status. In a word, one must show merit to advance in the new society of tomorrow.
In a new opening essay, Young reflects on the reception of his work, and its production, in a candid and lively way. Many of the critical ambiguities surrounding its original publication are now clarified and resolved. What we have is what the Guardian of London called “A brilliant essay.” and what Time and Tide described as “a fountain gush of new ideas. Its wit and style make it compulsively enjoyable reading from cover to cover.”

"A book that explores the disconnect between the ideals of the Great Awokening and the realities of fixing structural inequality. This book aims to explain how a new elite has risen to prominence and established a social order that is fundamentally premised on exclusion, exploitation and condescension even as its members define themselves in terms of their commitments to uplifting the marginalized and disadvantaged. The book will illustrate how this core tension within the new elite explains a number of trends we've seen, from the Great Awokening to growing political polarization and beyond. We Have Never Been Woke will draw from and build upon al-Gharbi's work over the last six years that has examined the rise of Trump, the crisis of expertise, tensions over 'identity politics' and growing social inequality. It will demonstrate each of these domains as a 'front' of a broader social and cultural conflict - a conflict between those who have come to dominate the 'knowledge economy' and institutions of cultural production and those who feel excluded therefrom. It will highlight the ways symbolic analysts - those elites who have not attained their social position by owning material assets but by trafficing in symbols and rhetoric, images and narratives, data and analysis - deploy wokeness as a weapon in this conflict, often at the expense of those who are actually marginalized and disadvantaged in the prevailing order. As We Have Never Been Woke will demonstrate, the Americans who are the primary producers and consumers of content on antiracism, socialism, feminism, etc. also happen to be the primary beneficiaries of gendered, racialized and other forms of inequality - and not passive beneficiaries. We are active participants in exploiting and reproducing inequalities. However, it is difficult for us to 'see' how we contribute to the problem -- precisely because of our deeply felt commitments to social justice. This book aims to deflate these self-serving narratives while dismantling popular (and self-serving) narratives about the 'losers' in the system - leaving readers with a totally different understanding of how social inequality is produced (and by whom), and unnerving questions about what it would take to meaningfully address it"--

一本日常姿势的百科书，纠正的是姿势，拯救的是生活。
生活中我们常常做的舒适姿势，如跷二郎腿、单侧背包、趴着睡午觉等，其实都是有问题的，这些不良姿势和难看体态之间存在恶性循环。
本书包含全面易懂的骨骼和肌肉硬核知识，通过爆笑漫画演绎了30个生活中的常见姿势，一次性将姿势的错误原因和后果讲清楚，并用简单有效的科学锻炼法带领读者逐个击破姿势带来的问题。本书还科学制订颈肩腰保护计划，帮助读者告别疼痛及不良体态。
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★ 知名作家马伯庸，丁香园创始人、董事长李天天，联袂推荐！
★ 骨科殿堂级大医施杞、上海中医药大学副校长王拥军、上海长征医院骨科副主任陈华江，专业指导！
★ 那些丑丑的体态和烦人的小病小痛，都与你的姿势有关！
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★ 把骨科医生请回家，从调整姿势开始，让骨骼更健康、体态更好看、病痛都远离！
★ 爆笑格漫演绎30个常见姿势，超详细动作图详解每种科学锻炼法！

A sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary women striving for a better future in a highly unequal society

While serving as the deputy Beijing bureau chief of the Financial Times , Chinese-British journalist Yuan Yang began to notice common threads in the lives of her Chinese peers—women born during China’s turn toward capitalism in the 1980s and 1990s, who, despite the country's enormous economic gains during their lifetimes, were coming up against deeply entrenched barriers as they sought to achieve financial stability.

The product of seven years of intimate, in-depth reporting, this transporting and indelible book traces the journey of four such women as they try to make better lives for themselves and their families in the new Chinese economy. June and Siyue are among the few in their villages to graduate high school. Each makes her way to Beijing, June as a young professional and Siyue an entrepreneur. Like Siyue, Leiya lives with her grandparents in their village while her parents send money home; yearning for a different life than those of the women she sees around her, Leiya soon joins her parents in Shenzhen as an underage factory worker. Born to an urban middle-class family, Sam is outraged when her eyes are opened the poor treatment of workers, and becomes a labor activist, increasingly under threat by the authorities.

As the women grapple with government policies that threaten their businesses, their children's access to education, their choice of where to make a home, and, in Sam’s case, their lives, a vivid, damning, and urgent picture emerges of the previously unseen human cost of China’s rising economic tide—and the courage and perseverance of those caught in the swell.

本書是首部關於中國的拉拉（女同性戀、雙性戀及跨性別）社群與政治的民族志研究。在多年深度訪談的基礎上，本書集中討論上海的拉拉們如何在一個否定女性性自主權的文化中自處，以及在同性慾望與強調家庭和諧及強迫婚姻之間掙扎。作者解讀了包括「華人寬容傳統」在內的中式恐同話語，揭示異性戀正統主義如何將其要求強加於同志主體之上。作者將「公共正確政治」視為一種新的同志實踐，在中國式管控下，建立同志的生存策略和自我認同。
本書結合了作者自身的酷兒經歷和堅實的研究成果，詳盡刻劃當今中國都市的女同志社群與政治的現狀，為關於同性關係、恐同、出櫃政治及性管治的全球探討和辯論作出了寶貴貢獻。

◆脏话一定辱“她”？男人讲话不能“娘”吗？女人总是“婆婆妈妈”？
◇日常语言中处处隐藏着性别偏见！是时候掀起一场女性主义语言革命了！
◇和炫词狂魔阿曼达·蒙特尔一起，用恶女力重构我们的语言
◇在嬉笑怒骂中粉碎父权制的堡垒
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◆人从一出生就在学习语言，但你有没有想过：我们为什么这样说话？性别是否会影响我们讲话的方式？日常语言中是否也存在着性别偏见？语言本身是厌女的吗？
是时候挑战我们最习以为常的语言了！在这本书中，你将知道：许多脏话最初并不“辱女”；男人比女人更容易喋喋不休；八卦从来不是女性的专属……语言学家阿曼达·蒙特尔教你从容击破语言背后的父权结构，游刃有余地发挥语词的力量，用重新定义的语言创造每个人都能得到尊重的世界。
◆准备好了吗？在轻松科普、爆笑评论和引人入胜的女性主义思想中，开启一场酣畅淋漓的语言学冒险！
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◆语言“恶”女？直击日常语言背后的性别偏见！
◇为什么大多数脏话都有侮辱女性的意味？为什么默认“保洁”为女而“保安”为男？为什么男人不可以“娘娘腔”“像个娘们”？为什么女人讲话总被认为肤浅做作？我们习以为常的语言的表层之下，隐藏着性别偏见。翻开这本书，跟着语言学家阿曼达·蒙特尔去父权制的语言系统大搅一局！深入思考性别如何影响我们说话和理解他人的方式，向贬低和限制女性的日常语言发起挑战。
◆发挥恶女之力，用话语粉碎父权制，从语言中重获力量！
◇这是一本女性主义语言指南，囊括各种实用策略：怎样不厌女地说脏话，怎样性别友好地称呼他人，如何反击那些打断女性发言、攻击女性的声音，如何轻松自在地表达自己……这本恶女宝典将教你打破语言背后的不平等结构，重塑语言的使用方式，用语言为自己赋权，用收复回来、重新定义的语言，建立一个更平等、更放松、更富有同情心、更少人会被冒犯的世界。
◆语言学原来这么有趣！
◇坐上酷飒语言学家的探险飞船，前往性别和语言交叉的迷幻宇宙，穿梭在历史和流行文化之间，领略脏话侮辱、闲聊八卦、流行俚语、气泡音和夹子音的奥秘。不必担心令人眼花缭乱的语言学知识和语言变革潮流产生的颠簸，沿途有轻松有趣的故事、犀利俏皮的评论，也有让每个人乐在其中的女性主义思想始终相伴，让你在大笑之余思考语言的力量。
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每读完一段书中对英语的充满活力的迷人批评，你都会感觉自己变得更聪明了。——《破产姐妹》编剧、制片人 惠特妮·卡明
一口气读完这本书之后，你就可以在聚会上迅速拿出书中有趣的知识来让那些喋喋不休的男人闭嘴。——《时尚》

After China officially “decriminalized” same-sex behavior in 1997, both the visibility and public acceptance of tongzhi , an inclusive identity term that refers to nonheterosexual and gender nonconforming identities in the People’s Republic of China, has improved. However, for all the positive change, there are few opportunities for political and civil rights advocacy under Xi Jinping’s authoritarian rule.

Words like Water explores the nonconfrontational strategies the tongzhi movement uses in contemporary China. Caterina Fugazzola analyzes tongzhi organizers’ conceptualizations of, and approaches to, social change, explaining how they avoid the backlash that meets Western tactics, such as protests, confrontation, and language about individual freedoms. In contrast, the groups’ intentional use of community and family-oriented narratives, discourses, and understandings of sexual identity are more effective, especially in situations where direct political engagement is not possible.

Providing on-the-ground stories that examine the social, cultural, and political constraints and opportunities, Words like Water emphasizes the value of discursive flexibility that allows activists to adapt to changing social and political conditions.

既中國又美國的故事……過去與現在記憶交融……
　　一九六四年，我高中畢業。高考極其順利，心裡很高興。從來不參加成人舞會的我，就在這個時候，去了一次國際俱樂部，身穿白衫黑裙跳了一支舞。我母親朝著周恩來搖頭擺尾，一臉諂媚。周看看我，問她，「這，就是那個孩子嗎？」她回答說，「就是那個孩子。」臉上陰晴不定，只是卑微地伸出手。周沒有理睬她，卻和顏悅色地問我，「慢四步，好吧？」樂隊就等這句話，於是樂聲響起，我跟著這位交誼舞高手慢慢地踏著步子。這是唯一的一次，我離他這樣近，而且，別人聽不到我們說甚麼。我問了一個問題……
　　故事是有生命的，如果不能大聲地講出來，故事是會死亡、會消失、會永遠消失的。但是，世間的故事還是在迅速地消失著，因為能夠講故事的人在不斷地走向生命的盡頭。最近三十年，我都在講故事，大聲地講。但是，還是有一些故事，從來未曾碰觸過，因為太黑暗，因為太匪夷所思，因為太過讓人傷痛，或者，實在是太荒謬。二○○三年，我被瘋狂的疼痛折磨已經一年。雖然我們都知道疼痛是生命的孿生姐妹，人還在疼痛中，證明此人還活著。但是，不間歇的疼痛是會讓人感覺消沉的，終於，命運再次展現其威力。二○一一年春夏之交，一個極其偶然的機會，我巧遇一味相當古老的藥物，它抑制了疼痛。我抓緊時機，奮力書寫，講出了這許多近三十年來沒有機會寫下來的故事。現在，我把這些故事交給了出版社。剩下來的事情，便交給了親愛的讀者朋友們。
—韓秀
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韓秀
　　一個四海為家的紐約人，在臺海兩岸度過漫長歲月。曾任教於美國國務院外交學院與約翰霍普金斯國際關係研究所。
　　近二十年來以中文寫作為志業，出版過長篇小說《折射》、《團扇》；短篇小說集《濤聲》、《親戚》、《一個半小時》；散文集《風景》、《與阿波羅對話》、《與書同在》、《雪落哈德遜河》；以及傳記、童書等二十餘種。
　　在臺灣與美國的報刊雜誌上撰寫近二十個專欄的過程，正是一個大量閱讀、擁抱人群、探索時代脈動、回顧人類文明殘片以及前瞻人類命運走向的過程。