A vivid look at China’s shifting place in the global political economy of technology production
How did China’s mass manufacturing and “copycat” production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets? Prototype Nation offers a rich transnational analysis of how the promise of democratized innovation and entrepreneurial life has shaped China’s governance and global image. With historical precision and ethnographic detail, Silvia Lindtner reveals how a growing distrust in Western models of progress and development, including Silicon Valley and the tech industry after the financial crisis of 2007–08, shaped the rise of the global maker movement and the vision of China as a “new frontier” of innovation.
Lindtner’s investigations draw on more than a decade of research in experimental work spaces—makerspaces, coworking spaces, innovation hubs, hackathons, and startup weekends—in China, the United States, Africa, Europe, Taiwan, and Singapore, as well as in key sites of technology investment and industrial production—tech incubators, corporate offices, and factories. She examines how the ideals of the maker movement, to intervene in social and economic structures, served the technopolitical project of prototyping a “new” optimistic, assertive, and global China. In doing so, Lindtner demonstrates that entrepreneurial living influences governance, education, policy, investment, and urban redesign in ways that normalize the persistence of sexism, racism, colonialism, and labor exploitation.
Prototype Nation shows that by attending to the bodies and sites that nurture entrepreneurial life, technology can be extricated from the seemingly endless cycle of promise and violence.
Cover image: Courtesy of Cao Fei, Vitamin Creative Space and Sprüth Magers

《华侨华人研究丛书：国际移民与社会发展》主要内容包括：美国国际迁移系统中的移民产业：以墨西哥移民为例、美国以色列移民跨国网络的运作基础、跨国主义的实践与移民祖籍国的发展：美国墨西哥裔和华裔社团的比较、谋生于合法与非法之间：在以色列的福建人、中国海外移民的根文化构建研究：以巴黎的温州人为例、种姓的变动与镶金的礼仪：印度的海湾移民对南喀拉拉邦艾札瓦种姓的影响、政府在劳务出口中的经纪人角色与菲律宾护工的全球化、关公与观音：两个中国民间神在古巴的变形等。

美国学术界研究当代移民的论著大多公认这样一个事实：亚裔移民是当今美国移民中增长最快的族裔群体。由于亚裔移民的整体教育水准高，创业能力强，仅仅经过一两代人的努力就攀上了美国主流经济的中层甚至高层的位置。华人移民美国已有一百五十多年的历史。自十九世纪中叶以来，华人移民美国虽大起大落，却源源不断。但其过去与今日在美国的遭遇和处境却大相径庭，不可同日而语。本书就美国华人社会的变迁进行了比较全面的分析。
这本书一方面呈现中国古典文学在“性别”与“家国”议题上的特殊风貌，一方面在书中也适时与西方理论及西方汉学家研究成果进行了对话。
本书收集了作者作为加州大学著名华裔社会学家和亚裔研究学家在美国一流的学术期刊和论著上发表的有关华人社会的15篇精选论文。美国社会学学会会长、普林斯顿大学社会学系系主任波特斯博士特为本书中文版作序。相信这本论文集也将会在中国学术界产生影响。

有些痛苦的經歷，深刻到可以通向永恆，幾乎變成是神聖的。沒有必要假裝它已經不存在，又或者假裝已經昇華。有些痛苦，讓我感受到自己曾經愛過。
「我希望，我的經歷可以給那些選擇不同路向的人，提供一個參考的角度。
也希望他們因此得到鼓勵，勇於訴說自己的故事。」——何式凝
誰是何式凝 ? 良師、才女、蕩婦 ?
她是香港大學副教授，在學生及同事眼中，是一位良師、才女，在衛道人士看來，卻是一位「蕩婦」。在資源匱乏的年代以及雙親不甚和諧的家庭氣氛下長成，養成她敏感的性格；但求學時教會學校的嚴厲教條壓迫，卻又激發她日後無畏強權、勇於挺身反抗不公的剛烈特質。何式凝的人生經歷如戲，但一幕幕情節甚至比電影更具張力。
從恩怨愛憎到煥然新生，她道盡一個女人對情感、信仰、性與愛的領悟
研究情慾和性別議題的何式凝，曾用了二十年的歲月，與一個男人經歷感情關係的可能；她稟承自己對「關係」的想像，認為純粹的愛能跨越一切——即使這個對象是一位男同志。而在歷經與他人不同關係模式的多段變奏後，質疑婚姻，提倡多元關係，敢言更敢為的何式凝，最終在一段長達十年、各居兩地的感情上找到了依賴。這段關係疏離又親密，既獨特且純粹，因為對方是個已婚男子。邁進人生下半場，歷經大病的她更以近五十之齡初學芭蕾，拍攝紀錄片，接受生命中的悲喜哀樂，同時，也寫下自己獨特的人生經歷。
誠實、真切，近乎自剖。肯定痛苦的價值，苦痛才有其價值。
她寫下的，正是自己對此生感情、家庭、慾念、疾病、信仰的反思。
她的人生，恰似所有在愛慾、生命、信仰中沉浮、一如你我者的寫照。
她的故事，更能讓你體會一個女人如何在感情飄泊徬徨、死生歷劫後脫胎換骨，重獲煥然新生的力量。
名人推薦
袁瓊瓊、張小虹、蔡康永——一致推薦
陳可辛(電影導演)
我們都當過別人愛情電影裡的「臨時演員」，何式凝這個臨時演員，卻當了三十年。
林愛華(電影導演)
不彆扭的自述，半百人生，卻仍存赤子之心，難得，面對自己或朋友，也沒「手下留情」，更難得。
黃耀明(歌手)
式凝，當你提到電影《柏格曼的繆斯情緣》時，我就想起很多時候我們終其一生都只是不斷重複灌錄同一首歌，不斷拍攝同一部電影。或者將所有的恩怨愛恨用千百種方式書寫出來時，最後它真的會昇華為給你自己和你的柏格曼的終極情書。你的大片快要首演了，我坐在大堂正中為你鼓掌。
郭啟華(香港星城電台節目總監)
在學生、同儕、朋友、聽眾、讀者眼中，她是良師、烈女、強人、才女、蕩婦。我們看到的總是她的強悍，但其實她從不掩飾自己的脆弱。
張小虹 (台灣大學外文系特聘教授)
《何式性望愛》會讓所有人跌破眼鏡，打破所有人對大學女教授的刻板形象，不看你不會相信，一個女性知識份子可以活出這等跌跌撞撞、豐富精彩的人生，一個基督徒可以用自己的身體為實驗，勇闖性愛的關卡。她的幽默，她的慧黠，她的放恣，她的自縛，都在這本自傳裡，這次她是用文字舞出生命蠢蠢欲動的能量，在華文書寫世界驚豔亮相。

Why are so many American social programs delegated to private actors? And what are the consequences for efficiency, accountability, and the well-being of beneficiaries? The Delegated Welfare State examines the development of the American welfare state through the lens of delegation: how policymakers have repeatedly avoided direct governmental provision of benefits and services, instead turning to non-state actors for the governance of social programs. More recent versions, such as the Medicare Part D prescription drug program, delegate responsibility to consumers themselves, who must choose from an array of private providers in social welfare marketplaces. Utilizing a case study of Medicare, along with the 2009-10 health care reform, authors Andrea Campbell and Kimberly Morgan argue that the prevalence of delegated governance derives from fundamental contradictions in American public opinion. Americans want both social programs and small government, leaving policy makers in a bind. In response, they contract out public programs to non-state actors as a way to mask the role of the state. Such arrangements also pull in interest group allies--the providers of these programs--who help pass policies in a political landscape fraught with obstacles. Although delegated governance has been politically expedient, enabling the passage and growth of government programs in an anti-government political climate, it raises questions about fraud, abuse, administrative effectiveness, and accountability. Social welfare marketplaces also suffer due to the difficulties individuals have in making choices about the benefits they need. In probing both the causes and consequences of delegated governance,The Delegated Welfare State offers a novel interpretation of both American social welfare politics and the nature of the American state.

本书关注一个“非法”的“社会事实”：在充满盗版和抄袭的环境下，网络时代的文学生产爆发出前所未有的生命力，正日益成为娱乐文化生产的总源头，进而影响公共想象和意识形态的形成。如何理解这种法律视野中的“悖谬”，以及悖谬背后传统的法律想象与新技术生产之间的张力？本书通过对网络文学发展的整个进程的梳理，探究了著作权之于个人自由和社会繁荣的影响，法律与社会运动背后的焦虑，以及制度讨论的社会建构性意义。

Just one generation ago, lawyers dominated Mexico's political elite, and Mexican economists were a relatively powerless group of mostly leftist nationalists. Today, in contrast, the country is famous, or perhaps infamous, for being run by American-trained neoclassical economists. In 1993, the "Economist" suggested that Mexico had the most economically literate government in the world - a trend that has continued since Mexico's transition to multi-party democracy. To the accompanying fanfare of U.S. politicians and foreign investors, these technocrats embarked on the ambitious program of privatization, deregulation, budget-cutting, and opening to free trade - all in keeping with the prescriptions of mainstream American economics.This book chronicles the evolution of economic expertise in Mexico over the course of the twentieth century, showing how internationally credentialed experts came to set the agenda for the Mexican economics profession and to dominate Mexican economic policymaking. It also reveals how the familiar language of Mexico's new experts overlays a professional structure that is still alien to most American economists. Sarah Babb mines diverse sources - including Mexican undergraduate theses, historical documents, and personal interviews - to address issues relevant not only to Latin American studies, but also to the sociology of professions, political sociology, economic sociology, and neoinstitutionalist sociology. She demonstrates with skill how peculiarly national circumstances shape what economic experts think and do. At the same time, Babb shows how globalization can erode national systems of economic expertise in developing countries, creating a new class of 'global experts.'

Know Your Remedies presents a panoramic inquiry into China’s early modern cultural transformation through the lens of pharmacy. In the history of science and civilization in China, pharmacy—as a commercial enterprise and as a branch of classical medicine—resists easy characterization. While China’s long tradition of documenting the natural world through state-commissioned pharmacopeias, known as bencao, dwindled after the sixteenth century, the ubiquitous presence of Chinese pharmacy shops around the world today testifies to the vitality of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Rejecting narratives of intellectual stagnation or an unchanging folk culture, He Bian argues that pharmacy’s history in early modern China can best be understood as a dynamic interplay between elite and popular culture.
Beginning with decentralizing trends in book culture and fiscal policy in the sixteenth century, Bian reveals pharmacy’s central role in late Ming public discourse. Fueled by factional politics in the early 1600s, amateur investigation into pharmacology reached peak popularity among the literati on the eve of the Qing conquest in the mid-seventeenth century. The eighteenth century witnessed a systematic reclassification of knowledge, as the Qing court turned away from pharmacopeia in favor of a demedicalized natural history. Throughout this time, growth in long-distance trade enabled the rise of urban pharmacy shops, generating new knowledge about the natural world.

在日常生活里自诩并非勇敢挑战生活的强者的小说家，从十八岁开始，发现周围”不对劲“的事物越来越多，终于有一天多到产生了一个又一个崭新的虚构世界。在这些完全由她从虚空中唤出的故事中，她一往无前地追索着血缘的意义、家庭的意义、女性生活的意义，确保对庸常现实的抗拒，甚至为最终挽回一切曾经失去的，不断地练习离别，凝望残缺。
如果爱赋予生活以意义，凭什么不永远让生活变得更加容易。
张怡微至今未曾完整结集的青春暗室，来自本能与天赋的城市情感经验书写。
从《细民盛宴》回溯至《家族试验》，回到写作者观看世界和生活的起点，若干原本不相干的人在此温情相遇。

In The Ambivalent Consumer, Sheldon Garon and Patricia L. Maclachlan bring together an array of scholars who explore the ambivalence provoked, especially in East and Southeast Asia, by the global spread of "American" consumer culture. As the world's second-largest economy, Japan has long engaged in a vibrant consumerism tempered by deeply held beliefs about morality, thrift, community, and national identity. Its neighbors in East and Southeast Asia-South Korea, China, Malaysia, and Singapore-have likewise anxiously balanced consumption and saving.
The first comparative volume to examine global phenomena of consumer culture from the perspective of East Asia, this book analyzes not only the attractions of mass consumption but also the many discontents and dilemmas that arise from consumerism. Placing Japan and the United States in a transnational context, the book's contributors find that European countries more closely resemble Japan than they do the United States in their saving rates, consumption levels, environmental concerns, and discomfort with consumer credit.
The Ambivalent Consumer offers a useful perspective on the political economies of consumption to address such pressing topics as movements against genetically modified foods; shifting relations among consumers, producers, and states; the differential influence of gender on consumption; and conflicting consumer attitudes toward globalization.

A Theory of Shopping offers a highly original perspective on one of our most basic everyday activities - shopping. We commonly assume that shopping is primarily concerned with individuals and materialism. But Miller rejects this assumption and follows the surprising route of analysing shopping by means of an analogy with anthropological studies of sacrificial ritual. He argues that the act of purchasing goods is almost always linked to other social relations, and most especially those based on love and care.

The ethnographic sections of the book are based on a year's study of shopping on a street in North London. This provides the basis for a sensitive description of the issues the shopper confronts when making decisions as to what to buy. Miller develops a theory to account for these observations, arguing that shopping typically consists of three major stages which reflect the three key stages of many rites of sacrifice. In both shopping and sacrifice the ultimate intention is to constitute others as desiring subjects. Finally the book examines certain historical shifts in both subjects and objects of devotion, in particular, ideals of gender and love.

This treatment of shopping from the perspective of comparative anthropology represents a highly innovative approach to one of the most familiar tasks of our daily lives. Written in a clear and accessible manner, this book will be of interest to students and academics in anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, as well as anybody who wants to consider more deeply the nature of their own everyday activities.

China's one-child rule is unassailably one of the most controversial social policies of all time. In the first book of its kind, Susan Greenhalgh draws on twenty years of research into China's population politics to explain how the leaders of a nation of one billion decided to limit all couples to one child. Focusing on the historic period 1978-80, when China was just reentering the global capitalist system after decades of self-imposed isolation, Greenhalgh documents the extraordinary manner in which a handful of leading aerospace engineers hijacked the population policymaking process and formulated a strategy that treated people like missiles. Just One Child situates these science- and policymaking practices in their broader contexts--the scientization and statisticalization of sociopolitical life--and provides the most detailed and incisive account yet of the origins of the one-child policy.

In this book, leading authors explore ways in which organizations can develop their ability to manage the future. An exploration of the ways in which organizations can develop their ability to manage the future. Consists of ten papers written by authors from both sides of the Atlantic and from Asia, all of whom are distinguished scholars in the fields of strategy or organizational learning. Addresses key questions about how organizational foresight can be conceptualized and developed, and the extent to which it is possible. The papers are prefaced by a foreword from Spyros Makridakis and an introduction from the editors. Helps to shape a new research agenda, and so will be of interest to academics, as well as to students and practitioners.

This book examines the theory and practice of traditional medicine in modern China. Farquhar describes the logic of diagnosis and treatment from the inside perspective of doctors and scholars. She demonstrates how theoretical and textual materials interweave with the practical requirements of the clinic. By showing how Chinese medical choices are made, she considers problems of agency in relation to different forms of knowledge. Knowing Practice will be of value not only to anthropologists interested in medical practice but also to historians and sociologists interested in the social life of technical expertise and traditional teachings.

“言语有如微小剂量的砷，一段时间以后就会发生作用。”犹太人、语文学者克莱普勒在可怖的生存环境中、在德累斯顿的犹太人居所里记下了他的观察——第三帝国时期，语言是如何走向堕落的。作为一部诞生于恐怖年代的经历之书，本书以骇人而真实的方式呈现出纳粹统治残忍的日常性。
这本“世纪之作”既是历史书写的杰作，也是一流的历史文献。它记录了一位语言和文学家在无望的纳粹时代实施的自我拯救，令所有的历史书籍在它面前相形见绌。
“在我的日记本里，LTI这个符号最初是个语言游戏，带有模仿戏谑的意味，然后很快就成为一种仓促的记忆的紧急救助了，作为在手帕上系的一种结扣，没过多久，它又成为那全部苦难岁月里的一种正当防卫，成为一种向我自己发出的SOS呼叫。”
——维克多﹒克莱普勒

编辑推荐：
4个月，跨越整个中国；
56座动物园，第一次全面探访；
200多种动物，延伸新时代的认知；
480分钟的阅读，带给你深入的思考；
2亿话题量，我们一起探讨动物园存在的意义。
这是一本关于动物园、关于动物福利、关于人和动物关系、关于如何观看动物的书，通过“中国动物园巡礼”过程对场景进行拆分和讲解，可以知道“什么样的动物园是好动物园”，进而学会“如何参观动物园”。是的，逛动物园是件费脑的正经事！
专家推荐：
动物园是宝贵的动物博物馆，展示的虽是动物，但传递的却是生命史、进化史，是自然的美与和谐。这样，逛动物园就是一件非常正经的事。
——上海动物园园长 裴恩乐
《逛动物园是件正经事》通过花老师的视角，展示了国内外几十家动物园，讲述了动物园精彩的故事和很多与动物相关的有趣的博物学，从更加细腻的角度引领大众如何欣赏动物之美。
——南京市红山森林动物园园长 沈志军
有这么一本书，可以让你带着女孩去动物园谈恋爱。有了它，你可以给对方讲亚洲狮，聊聊老虎有多少种，看看黑的、白的、大的、小的各种熊，然后……好像还得分手……还是买一本自己看，然后陪女孩去逛街，顺便给她讲讲动物园的故事。
——中央电视台节目主持人 张腾岳
这不是一本动物园游览指南，而是一份关于自然爱好者热情与坚持的记录，通过一手的实地走访材料，带我们迈出了认知自然的第一步。
——桃花源生态保护基金会执行理事 张爽
内容介绍：
为什么要逛动物园？许多人会这么问道，或许通过网络资源和纪录片，我们能够毫不费力地知道一种动物长什么样。但是，这样的“浏览”，只是借助别人的耳目去观察。而逛动物园，能用眼睛看，能用耳朵听，甚至可以用鼻子闻，去感受每一种动物的独特之处。
作者带着对动物园的热爱与使命感，通过欢乐、有趣的文笔和生动、直观的照片向读者展示了动物园存在的意义。动物园收集、展示野生动物，通过行为管理保障动物福利，使游客感受到野生动物是神奇、可爱的；通过保护教育，使游客感受到这些可爱的动物与其野外生活环境的关联，并意识到人类的决策会间接地影响到这些可爱的动物。好的动物园不仅会让游客获得愉悦和知识，并最终将所有的收获和感悟体现于日常行为的改善；这种行为的改变会减小对环境的压力，从而让人类和这些可爱的野生动物都能更长久地存活在地球上。所以，每个人都有责任把动物园变得更好，逛动物园是件正经事！