One of the world's foremost scholars offers an insightful and multidisciplinary argument for reenvisioning the idea of "China"in a global context
Offering critical perspectives on a number of ideological issues that have figured prominently in Chinese intellectual discourse since the beginning of the so-called reform and opening ( gaige kaifang 改革開放) in the late 1970s, these essays range widely in subject matter, from Marxist historiography to sociology and anthropology in China to guoxue/national studies. Together they are conceived as different windows into a basic problem: the deployment of culture and history in postrevolutionary Chinese thought. Dirlik touches on a number of themes, including the repudiation of the revolutionary past after 1978, which has led to a rise of cultural nationalism. He further places these developments within a global context, ultimately making a case methodologically for "worlding"China: bringing China into the world, and the world into China.

“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 text focuses on the theory of class as it relates to women. It debates questions such as: how do women define themselves in terms of social class and why?; is definition important or not?; what part does education play in our understanding of class?; and how does class affect relationships?

The widely acclaimed study of what's gone wrong in American higher education.
What do we know about the history, origin, design, and purpose of the SAT? Who invented it, and why? How did it acquire such a prominent and lasting position in American education? The Big Test reveals the ideas, people, and politics behind a fifty-year-old utopian social experiment that changed this country. Combining vibrant storytelling, vivid portraiture, and thematic analysis, Lemann shows why this experiment did not turn out as planned. It did create a new elite, but it also generated conflict and tension—and America's best educated, most privileged people are now leaders without followers.
Drawing on unprecedented access to the Educational Testing Service's archives, Lemann maintains that America's meritocracy is neither natural nor inevitable, and that it does not apportion opportunity equally or fairly. His important study not only asks profound moral and political questions about the past and future of our society but also carries implications for current social and educational policy. As Brent Staples noted in his New York Times editorial column: "Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts announced that prospective students would no longer be required to submit SAT scores with their applications. . . . Holyoke's president, Joanne Creighton, was personally convinced by reading Nicholas Lemann's book, The Big Test, which documents how the SAT became a tool for class segregation."
All students of education, sociology, and recent U.S. history—especially those focused on testing, theories of learning, social stratification, or policymaking—will find this book fascinating and alarming.

This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses the development of cultural meanings of objectivity over two centuries. How are we to account for the current prestige and power of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is seen as desirable in social and economic investigation as a result of its successes in the study of nature. Theodore Porter is not content with this. Why should the kind of success achieved in the study of stars, molecules, or cells be an attractive model for research on human societies? he asks. And, indeed, how should we understand the pervasiveness of quantification in the sciences of nature? In his view, we should look in the reverse direction: comprehending the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research will teach us something new about its role in psychology, physics, and medicine.
Drawing on a wide range of examples from the laboratory and from the worlds of accounting, insurance, cost-benefit analysis, and civil engineering, Porter shows that it is "exactly wrong" to interpret the drive for quantitative rigor as inherent somehow in the activity of science except where political and social pressures force compromise. Instead, quantification grows from attempts to develop a strategy of impersonality in response to pressures from outside. Objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts, quantification becoming most important where elites are weak, where private negotiation is suspect, and where trust is in short supply.

A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
This provocative and compelling book examines how jobs, schools, the streets, and prisons have shaped the lives and choices of a generation of Puerto Rican youth at the turn of the twenty-first century.
At the center of this riveting account–based on an unprecedented eighteen-year study–are three engaging, streetwise brothers from Springfield, Massachusetts: Fausto, incarcerated for seven years and in and out of drug treatment, an insightful and sensitive street warrior playing on the edges of self-destruction; Julio, the family patriarch, a former gang member turned truck driver, fiercely loyal to his family and friends; and Sammy, a street maven, recovering drug addict, father of four, straddling two realms–the everyday world of low-wage work and the allure of the drug economy–as he shuttles between recovery and relapse.
Timothy Black spent years with the brothers and their parents, wives and girlfriends, extended family, coworkers, criminal partners, friends, teachers, lawyers, and case workers. He closely observed street life in Springfield, including the drug trade; schools and GED programs; courtrooms, prisons, and drug treatment programs; and the young men’s struggle for employment both on and off the books. The brothers, articulate and determined, speak for themselves, providing powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. The result is a singularly detailed and empathetic portrait of men who are often regarded with fear or simply rendered invisible by society.
With profound lessons regarding the intersection of social forces and individual choices, Black succeeds in putting a human face on some of the most important public policy issues of our time.

In the spirit of Nickel and Dimed, a necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web—and that foreshadows the true future of work. Hidden beneath the surface of the web, lost in our wrong-headed debates about AI, a new menace is looming. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force. These people doing "ghost work" make the internet seem smart. They perform high-tech piecework: flagging X-rated content, proofreading, designing engine parts, and much more. An estimated 8 percent of Americans have worked at least once in this “ghost economy,” and that number is growing. They usually earn less than legal minimums for traditional work, they have no health benefits, and they can be fired at any time for any reason, or none. There are no labor laws to govern this kind of work, and these latter-day assembly lines draw in—and all too often overwork and underpay—a surprisingly diverse range of workers: harried young mothers, professionals forced into early retirement, recent grads who can’t get a toehold on the traditional employment ladder, and minorities shut out of the jobs they want. Gray and Suri also show how ghost workers, employers, and society at large can ensure that this new kind of work creates opportunity—rather than misery—for those who do it.

A widespread conviction in the need to rescue China’s children took hold in the early twentieth century. Amid political upheaval and natural disasters, neglected or abandoned children became a humanitarian focal point for Sino-Western cooperation and, ultimately, intervention in family life. Chinese academics and officials sought new scientific measures, educational institutions, and social reforms to improve children’s welfare. Successive regimes encouraged teachers to shape children into Qing subjects, Nationalist citizens, or Communist comrades.
In Raising China’s Revolutionaries, Margaret Mih Tillman offers a novel perspective on the political and scientific dimensions of experiments with early childhood education from the early Republican period through the first decade of the People’s Republic. She traces transnational advocacy for child welfare and education, examining Christian missionaries, philanthropists, and the role of international relief during World War II. Tillman provides in-depth analysis of similarities and differences between Nationalist and Communist policy and cultural notions of childhood. While both drew on preschool institutions to mobilize the workforce and shape children’s political subjectivity, the PRC rejected the Nationalists’ commitment to the modern, bourgeois family. With new insights into the roles of experts, the cultural politics of fundraising, and child welfare as a form of international exchange, Raising China’s Revolutionaries is an important work of institutional and transnational history that illuminates the evolution of modern concepts of childhood in China.

A dollar is a dollar—or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it? Distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author Viviana Zelizer argues against this conventional wisdom. She shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendship and family relations, and otherwise varying the process by which spending and saving takes place. Zelizer concentrates on domestic transactions, bestowals of gifts and charitable donations in order to show how individuals, families, governments, and businesses have all prescribed social meaning to money in ways previously unimagined.

The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that past, most of the writings that have recorded it are scattered across many archives and, in many cases, have yet to be translated into English. With this book, Paul Reitter, Chad Wellmon, and Louis Menand bring a wealth of these important texts together, assembling a fascinating collection of primary sources many translated into English for the first time that outline what would become the university as we know it. The editors focus on the development of American universities such as Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and the Universities of Chicago, California, and Michigan. Looking to Germany, they translate a number of seminal sources that formulate the shape and purpose of the university and place them next to hard-to-find English-language texts that took the German university as their inspiration, one that they creatively adapted, often against stiff resistance.
Enriching these texts with short but insightful essays that contextualize their importance, the editors offer an accessible portrait of the early research university, one that provides invaluable insights not only into the historical development of higher learning but also its role in modern society.

Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human—and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador’s Upper Amazon, Eduardo Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the world’s most complex ecosystems. Whether or not we recognize it, our anthropological tools hinge on those capacities that make us distinctly human. However, when we turn our ethnographic attention to how we relate to other kinds of beings, these tools (which have the effect of divorcing us from the rest of the world) break down. How Forests Think seizes on this breakdown as an opportunity. Avoiding reductionistic solutions, and without losing sight of how our lives and those of others are caught up in the moral webs we humans spin, this book skillfully fashions new kinds of conceptual tools from the strange and unexpected properties of the living world itself. In this groundbreaking work, Kohn takes anthropology in a new and exciting direction–one that offers a more capacious way to think about the world we share with other kinds of beings.

The breathless pace of China’s economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people’s inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological counseling to grapple with their mental distress. This book offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times. Li Zhang shows that anxiety—broadly construed in both medical and social terms—has become a powerful indicator for the general pulse of contemporary Chinese society. It is in this particular context that Zhang traces how a new psychotherapeutic culture takes root, thrives, and transforms itself across a wide range of personal, social, and political domains.

邓小南、李连江、应星、项飙一致推荐！
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现代社会的节奏越来越快，就连大学的象牙塔内也难以容下安静的书桌。校园的时钟滴答作响，大学变得像公司一样，不断催促教授们速度能再快些，效率能再高些，成果能再多些，却全然不考虑这些考核会如何破坏我们的学习和思考。在《慢教授》一书中，伯格和西伯两位教授呼吁在学者生活中引入“慢原则”，用“慢”来修复人文学科的生态。整本书以学者的职业生活作为方法，从教学、科研到同事相处，依次展开，揭示并分析了当今学界的绩效文化和速度焦虑，在此基础上提出了种种解困之道。在提升教学、科研和学院生态的同时，又能减缓个体所承受的焦虑和压力。学界朋友，在你们觉得快得停不下脚步时，不妨试着翻开这本《慢教授》。
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在一个推崇效率的时代中，《慢教授》带给我们不同的启示。该书就其本质而言是理想主义的。书中讨论在大学“公司化”的取向下，追求思想智识的师生如何面对今日的挑战与焦虑。作者强调学人在制度语境内的行动力，娓娓道来的是校园内习见的日常，尝试疏解的是抉择的困惑与纠结，呈现的不是答案而是贴切的建议。所谓“慢”与“宽”相关联，关系到我们对于“时间”与“空间”的重新理解与感知。自主地“慢下来”，让学术过程更从容、回旋天地更舒缓，通过情感的融通和智识的韧性，激活学人交流对话与深度思考的能动力。
——邓小南，北京大学人文社会科学研究院院长、北京大学中国古代史研究中心教授
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田雷教授翻译《慢教授》，固然因为与作者会心不远，更多因为他自爱与博爱。自爱助他超脱，在考核杠杠重压下谋定了生存，就踏实耐心地培养发扬才能，不在虚荣鞭子驱赶下荒废生命。博爱令他度人，不忍见谋定生存的同仁匆忙依旧，费心费力分享他了然于胸的智慧。
——李连江，香港中文大学政治与行政学系教授，《不发布，就出局》作者
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在国内学界热火朝天、你追我赶的所谓“学科建设”中，我们实在是太需要读一读《慢教授》这样的著作了。两位作者给我们清晰地还原和展示了一个基本的常识：学术终究是比慢而非比快的。急促、焦躁与跟风不仅会毁了教授，也会毁了学科，最后只能看到一代又一代的“新父”们在学术舞台上自鸣得意的拙劣表演，而且各领风骚的时间也会越来越短促。只有慢才是真正“以科学作为天职”的学人的守身之道！
——应星，清华大学社会学系教授，《清华社会科学》主编
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一个人走进博物馆，对讲解员的述说很不耐烦，而不断问这些展品值多少钱。只有钱数让他对艺术品产生有意义的感知。不要嘲笑这个人的无知。这正是大学教授们对待同事的研究、甚至对待自己的工作的方式。研究的具体内容不重要，脑子里想的只是发表了多少、在哪里发表、这些发表在职称和奖金上如何兑现。强调早出、快出、多出成果，不是让学者多做贡献，而是相反，是让学者避免深度分析、避免干预历史、影响现实。无法控制自己时间的人，最容易被控制。慢下来，不仅是降速，而且可能带来根本的转向。对少数以快为乐的人，《慢教授》可以是一个及时的惊醒；更少数的已经在“慢性抵制”的学者，可以从这本书里获取力量；对大部分在快和慢之间挣扎的学者，这本书也许能够为你开出一片新天地。
——项飙，英国牛津大学社会人类学教授、德国马克斯·普朗克社会人类学研究所所长

这是一部开拓性地将历史分析的视角深入教育观变迁的专著。通过肖像画、育儿习俗等微观史料，分析17—19世纪的英国社会，解读儿童观与育儿意识变迁。儿童观的社会史研究旨在把握新历史学方法论，在历史考察的过程中厘清社会中的儿童发展与教育问题。全书从构成儿童世界的社会性经验事实出发，探究共同体、家庭、儿童等相关教育要素的历史变迁，力图构建一部儿童、家庭及其观念的历史长卷。

鸦片战争常被认为是传统中国由盛转衰的转折点，此书根据时人观点及更多分析指出，鸦片战争前后中国因拉丁美洲白银减产而起的危机，比战争本身带来的影响更深。拉丁美洲白银的骤减几乎颠覆了清王朝，其稍后的骤增，虽协助清廷平定相当因白银不足所引发的大规模动乱，但也使得中国的地位相对较不依赖美洲白银的东亚邻邦邻夷。在王权备受挑战之际，支持多元权威并存的传统思想涌现，于王权再行稳固之时，绝对权威的思想抬头而留存至今。全书可供了解世界货币史、清朝中衰史、清朝经学史、清朝文学史及中西政治经济思想比较之参考。

While the eradication of smallpox has long been documented, not many know the Chinese roots of this historic achievement. In this revelatory study, Mary Augusta Brazelton examines the PRC's public health campaigns of the 1950s to explain just how China managed to inoculate almost six hundred million people against this and other deadly diseases.
Mass Vaccination tells the story of the people, materials, and systems that built these campaigns, exposing how, by improving the nation's health, the Chinese Communist Party quickly asserted itself in the daily lives of all citizens. This crusade had deep roots in the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, when researchers in China's southwest struggled to immunize as many people as possible, both in urban and rural areas. But its legacy was profound, providing a means for the state to develop new forms of control and of engagement. Brazelton considers the implications of vaccination policies for national governance, from rural health care to Cold War-era programs of medical diplomacy. By embedding Chinese medical history within international currents, she highlights how and why China became an exemplar of primary health care at a crucial moment in global health policy.
"By challenging the conventional understanding of the celebrated 'Chinese model' of public health, Mass Vaccination succeeds brilliantly in revealing how the Chinese state developed a stunning capability to protect, as well as to control, life."
- Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei, Academia Sinica, author of Neither Donkey nor Horse
"Well-written and impressively researched, Mass Vaccination will engage scholars of modern Chinese history, history of science and medicine, and global health. It also offers a unique perspective on the history of the PRC and the role of 'medical diplomacy' in its international engagements during the 1960s and '70s."
- Daniel Asen, Rutgers University–Newark, author of Death in Beijing

Social Capital, the advantage created by location in social structure, is a critical element in business strategy. Who has it, how it works, and how to develop it have become key questions as markets, organizations, and careers become more and more dependent on informal, discretionary relationships. The formal organization deals with accountability; Everything else flows through the informal: advice, coordination, cooperation friendship, gossip, knowledge, trust. Informal relations have always been with us, they have always mattered. What is new is the range of activities in which they now matter, and the emerging clarity we have about how they create advantage for certain people at the expense of others. This is done by brokerage and closure. Ronald S. Burt builds upon his celebrated work in this area to explore the nature of brokerage and closure. Brokerage is the activity of people who live at the intersection of social worlds, who have a vision advantage of seeing and developing good ideas, an advantage which can be seen in their compensation, recognition, and the responsibility they're entrusted with in comparison to their peers. Closure is the tightening of coordination in a closed network of people, and people who do this do well as a complement to brokers because of the trust and alignment they create. Brokerage and Closure explores how these elements work together to define social capital, showing how in the business world reputation has come to replace authority, pursued opportunity assignment, and reward has come to be associated with achieving competitive advantage in a social order of continuous disequilibrium.

Bonilla-Silva, although he brings up good points (the fact that color-blind racism is the dominant ideology) his arguments are one sided. For example: he believes that blacks who claim that they didn't get a job because of their color are justified and valid. However, when whites claim that they didn't get a job because of a minority (as a result of affirmative action), that whites use this storyline so that they never have to believe that they weren't qualified for a job or promotion. Also, Bonilla-Silva states that if a white person were more qualified than a minority and still lost the job over a minority, he suggests that perhaps the white applicant didn't interview well, but doesn't make the same excuses for the black applicant. Basically he's saying that if a black person doesn't get a job then it's because of discrimination no matter what. Bonilla-Silva is completely one-sided.
He completely rebukes reverse discrimination. His studies which are supposed to prove his theories are also weak. He interviewed many whites about their views on blacks but he only interviewed a handful of blacks about their views on whites. I would have felt better about the book if he admitted to being as racist as he claims that whites are.

●存在并非合理，当代女性生存困境需要直面应对
●孩子既是家庭的，更是社会的；育儿应是全社会共同承担的事业
●《每日新闻》大热专栏“育儿幸存战”结集出版；东亚社会共同痛点
●孤身育儿（ワンオペ育児）一词来源于“一人当班”（ワンオペ）的过劳工作模式，由于
母亲们从事育儿和家务劳动的情况与之相似，这个词在整个东亚社会引起广泛的共鸣
生育率持续走低；焦虑、疲惫成为现代妈妈，特别是职场妈妈的情绪特征；遭遇职场天花板，被逼入“妈妈赛道”，劳累却几无成就感；项目管理式育儿，使妈妈们面临前所未有的挑战……这一切让人不禁想问：我们身处一个对生孩子并不友好的社会吗？经过近十年田野观察和理论研究，社会学家藤田结子将自己的研究成果写成《孤身育儿》一书，摹写在工作和育儿之间苦苦挣扎的现代妈妈们，希望为她们找到可能的出路。