Meritocracy and Its Discontents investigates the wider social, political, religious, and economic dimensions of the Gaokao, China's national college entrance exam, as well as the complications that arise from its existence. Each year, some nine million high school seniors in China take the Gaokao, which determines college admission and provides a direct but difficult route to an urban lifestyle for China's hundreds of millions of rural residents. But with college graduates struggling to find good jobs, some are questioning the exam's legitimacy—and, by extension, the fairness of Chinese society. Chronicling the experiences of underprivileged youth, Zachary M. Howlett's research illuminates how people remain captivated by the exam because they regard it as fateful—an event both consequential and undetermined. He finds that the exam enables people both to rebel against the social hierarchy and to achieve recognition within it.
In Meritocracy and Its Discontents, Howlett contends that the Gaokao serves as a pivotal rite of passage in which people strive to personify cultural virtues such as diligence, composure, filial devotion, and divine favor.

你是否想过，为什么人人都说暴力不好，它却从未消失？从小老师教我们暴力不对，却又体罚我们；法律禁止杀人，却用死刑惩罚罪犯。到底哪一种才是正义？
从普通人的争吵，到不同组织之间的冲突，再到国与国的战争，暴力可以说无处不在。既然如此，想要在这个世界上生存，只怀有善意行得通吗？暴力又能否用简单的“好”或“坏”来评判呢？
是时候思考暴力为何物，以及如何与它相处了。
萱野稔人用通俗易懂的语言、绵密的逻辑推理，将暴力的本质、道德的力度和缺陷、国家与暴力的关系一一剖析。同时，他还探讨了死刑的正当性，追溯国家的起源，分析黑社会与国家的差异。
这些很大很硬的话题，看似离日常生活有些遥远，但只要一个人还存在于国家当中，受到法律的约束和保护，就不可避免地与这些问题打交道。
读完本书，你原本坚信的是非善恶，可能会被全部颠覆。

二阶堂明本来是个笑起来很阳光的男孩，很受欢迎。但初中一次意外事件，给他留下了严重的心理创伤。
上高中后，他整个人变得死气沉沉，也不与人打交道，犹如从伊藤润二漫画中走出的男子，传闻跟他搭话就会变成秃头。大家对他避之不及，但偏偏有人不信邪，要去找他搭讪……
8个相互关联的单元剧，意想不到的展开令人应接不暇、捧腹大笑。
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★超人气漫画家和山山出道作首度引进，藤本树、古屋兔丸、伊藤润二力荐！
★人气漫画《女校之星》原点！日文版上市一年14刷，销售突破40万册！
★复刻原版无删减，进口漫画纸印刷，赠二阶堂可爱变脸书签
★获第23届文化厅媒体艺术节漫画部门新人奖，第24届手冢治虫文化奖短篇奖，“这部漫画真厉害！2020”女性篇第2名
★“做无聊的事不是很好嘛，有空做这种无聊又奇怪的事，让我心情舒畅。”
★只画身边三米半径内的故事，是把平淡自然的日常变得荒诞好笑的魔法
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★和山山老师的漫画把握住了装傻和吐槽的基本王道笑点，同时也有超乎现实、出人意料的搞笑之处。日常中的小事，平时不会被注意到的地方，都变得十分有趣。——伊藤润二（漫画家）
★我已经偷偷看这个漫画很长时间了！——古屋兔丸（漫画家）
★男高中生究竟是怎样的生物呢？和山山用充满深意又克制的笔触，描绘出了傻里傻气的高中生活，令人忍俊不禁。——《朝日新闻》

Mindful meditation is now embraced in virtually all corners of society today, from K-12 schools to Fortune 100 companies, and its virtues extolled by national and international media almost daily. It is thought to benefit our health and overall well-being, to counter stress, to help children pay attention, and to foster creativity, productivity and emotional intelligence. Yet in the 1960s and 1970s meditation was viewed as a marginal, counter-cultural practice, or a religious ritual for Asian immigrants. How did mindfulness become mainstream?
In The Mindful Elite, Jaime Kucinskas reveals who is behind the mindfulness movement, and the engine they built to propel mindfulness into public consciousness. Drawing on over a hundred first-hand accounts with top scientists, religious leaders, educators, business people and investors, Kucinskas shows how this highly accomplished, affluent group in America transformed meditation into an appealing set of contemplative practices. Rather than relying on confrontation and protest to make their mark and improve society, the contemplatives sought a cultural revolution by building elite networks and advocating the benefits of meditation across professions. Yet, spreading the Dharma far and wide came with unintended consequences and this idealistic myopia came to reinforce some of the problems it originally aspired to solve.
A critical look at this Buddhist-inspired movement, The Mindful Elite explores how elite movements can spread and draws larger lessons for other social, cultural, and religious movements across institutions and organizations.

Where do Asian Americans fit into the U.S. racial order? Are they subordinated comparably to Black people or permitted adjacency to whiteness? The racial reckoning prompted by the police murder of George Floyd and the surge in anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic raise these questions with new urgency. Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World is a groundbreaking study that will shake up scholarly and popular thinking on these matters. Theoretically innovative and based on rigorous historical research, this provocative book tells us we must consider both anti-Blackness and white supremacy—and the articulation of the two forces—in order to understand U.S. racial dynamics. The construction of Asian Americans as not-white but above all not-Black has determined their positionality for nearly two centuries. How Asian Americans choose to respond to this status will help to define racial politics in the U.S. in the twenty-first century.

【编辑推荐】：
★城市巨轮运转下，保洁员群体被遮蔽的日常
是谁在维系超级城市的“体面”与“洁净”？这是一群用体力劳作填满超长工作时间的外来务工者，他们在深圳这座包容万象的城市中寻找自己的生存空间，与污渍、垃圾为伴，支撑起城市文明对整洁细节的无限追求。作者张小满的母亲就是城市保洁群体中的一员。他们落脚城市的初衷是如此相似，一路走来的人生又与时代发展的轨迹紧紧捆绑。他们在深圳寻找自己的生存缝隙，有自己的生活圈子，知道如何寻找机会，很清楚自己在整个阶层划分中的地位，用一种贬低自己的语气谈论着他们所做的工作。他们是一个庞大的群体，却总是处在城市生活的边缘，城市的“整洁”“舒适”“便利”几乎与他们无缘。而他们身上所承载的命运本质，其实也映照着绝大多数的我们。
★母与女，“蓝”与“白”，两代人的隔阂与交融
当母亲成为一名城市保洁员后，“我”与母亲重新生活在一起。母亲用批判的眼光观察“我”的生活，而“我”也激烈地回应。但“我”爱母亲，更想理解母亲。“我”试着从了解母亲在超级商场的保洁工作开始去理解她，母亲又为“我”带回非常具体而生动的保洁员群体日常素描，母女二人一起拼贴出这一群体的生存境况。母亲一辈子都是付出体力劳动的蓝领，而“我”则是看似跃入“体面阶层”的白领，母亲向来以此为荣。随着母女二人在记录保洁员群体故事的过程中，“我”得以重新回望自己的来处，越来越感到，自己很多看似努力的行为，看似接触到的圈子，其实不堪一击，“我”与母亲、与保洁员们，一样是无法豁出去的人，我们有共同的来处。而母亲也在这一过程中，颇感悲伤地意识到，苦读成材的子女，最终也不过是在城市生活中勉力维系一份螺丝钉般的工作，稍有不慎，同样会滑至“主流生活”之外。通过保洁员群体的故事，或许我们也能关照自身的处境，对自身的生活有所省视。至于“我”与母亲，两代人之间的真正理解也许永远无法抵达，但记录、书写母亲生活的这一过程，令“我”与母亲比从前任何时候都要信任对方、支持对方。
★梁鸿、陈年喜、黄灯联袂推荐！
【内容简介】：2020年，52岁的母亲从陕南农村来到深圳务工。独立生活十几年后，“我”与母亲在深圳相聚，重新住在一个屋檐下。我们在狭小的房间中争吵，母亲看不惯“我”的花钱方式，“我”难以忍受母亲的生活习惯。我们深陷彼此纠缠、负担和依赖的关系。然而我们彼此相爱，“我”深知母亲的软肋便是对我毫无保留的爱。于是，“我”想理解她。“我”的母亲在矿场、在建筑工地挥洒了年轻的汗水，如今在城市写字楼的几格空间中做保洁员。“我”想记录下母亲的打工史，努力穿梭过她记忆中的生命。母亲的人生为做着螺丝钉般工作的“我”建立起一块生活的“飞地”，让“我”得以喘息、回顾，珍重自己的来处。这是我们母女共同完成的一场写作。

In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of focusing on risk behaviors such as drug use, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood as the key to ameliorating poverty. Ray recounts the three years she spent with sixteen poor black and brown youth, documenting their struggles to balance school and work while keeping commitments to family, friends, and lovers. Hunger, homelessness, untreated illnesses, and long hours spent traveling between work, school, and home disrupted their dreams of upward mobility. While families, schools, nonprofit organizations, academics, and policy makers stress risk behaviors in their efforts to end the cycle of poverty, Ray argues that this strategy reinforces class and racial hierarchies and diverts resources that could better support marginalized youth’s efforts to reach their educational and occupational goals.

本书选取北大这个中国现代思想最前沿的窗口，汇聚一百余篇80年代北大学生的回忆文章，，希望藉此以小见大，映射当年中国社会的整体风貌。

本书是一本文笔細腻的关于母亲的女性小说。本书中的母亲，一生都为女儿而活，在疗养院辛勤工作，对女儿抱有许多期盼。女儿却认为母亲从不聆听白己，更带回同为女性的伴侣，迫使母亲面对一直以来不愿意接受的自己女儿的倾向议题。可当在母亲负责照顾的患者罹患失智症、 成为没有人愿意负责的包袱后，母亲从这位渐渐变得陌生的老患者身上，彷彿看到老后从孤独走向死亡的自己。由此，母亲第一次触到自己和女儿之间看不见的"心之壁”，并开始思考，除了无尽地等待一个道歉或安慰，是否有其他让母女二人获得幸福的可能性……

In recent political debates there has been a significant change in the valence of the word “experts” from a superlative to a near pejorative, typically accompanied by a recitation of experts’ many failures and misdeeds. In topics as varied as Brexit, climate change and vaccinations there is a palpable mistrust of experts and a tendency to dismiss their advice. Are we witnessing, therefore, the “death of expertise,” or is the handwringing about an “assault on science” merely the hysterical reaction of threatened elites?
In this new book, Gil Eyal argues that what needs to be explained is not a one-sided “mistrust of experts” but the two-headed pushmi-pullyu of unprecedented reliance on science and expertise, on the one hand, coupled with increased suspicion, skepticism and dismissal of scientific findings, expert opinion or even whole branches of investigation, on the other. The current mistrust of experts, Eyal argues, is best understood as one more spiral in an on-going, recursive crisis of legitimacy. The “scientization of politics,” of which critics warned in the 1960s, has brought about a politicization of science, specifically of regulatory and policy science, and the two processes reinforce one another in an unstable, crisis-prone mixture. Eyal demonstrates that the strategies designed to respond to the crisis - from an increased emphasis on inclusion of laypeople and stakeholders in scientific research and regulatory decision-making to approaches seeking to generate trust by relying on objective procedures such as randomized controlled trials (RCTs) – end up exacerbating the crisis, while undermining and contradicting one another.
This timely book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the social sciences and to anyone concerned about the political uses of, and attacks on, scientific knowledge and expertise.

In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique—often by naming and calling attention to problems—and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them. Ahmed also provides her most sustained commentary on the figure of the feminist killjoy introduced in her earlier work while showing how feminists create inventive solutions—such as forming support systems—to survive the shattering experiences of facing the walls of racism and sexism. The killjoy survival kit and killjoy manifesto, with which the book concludes, supply practical tools for how to live a feminist life, thereby strengthening the ties between the inventive creation of feminist theory and living a life that sustains it.

理解新疆的重要研究，揭開再教育營真實狀況

探究極權統治的再進化

面貌、聲音、行為、情緒，高科技監控以前所未有的方式掌握人類

這一切不只來自中國，更來自美國矽谷與西雅圖

人性在監控下的扭曲及兩難，無所遁形

 

　　在新疆，高科技監控已經成為日常生活的一部分，大城市中監視器密布宛如「天網」，每隔兩百公尺就有一個檢查站，人們必須掃描身分證，通過依族群劃分的通道。另一端，螢幕中的人臉被以綠框或黃框鎖定，方框旁是人物的基本資料，綠框代表你是「還沒問題的人」，黃框則標示出你「需要被注意」。公安可以隨時要求你交出手機，檢查是否有「可疑」的聯繫紀錄，並強制安裝官方的監測APP。

 

　　中國政府之所以有如此強大監控系統，一方面是以全民健檢的名義，蒐集新疆兩千五百萬人的生物特徵，包含臉孔、虹膜、聲紋、血液、指紋和DNA。另一方面，從美國西雅圖及矽谷移植而來的科技，也成為國家監控的核心技術，不僅如此，自美國九一一事件以來的全球反恐論述，也正當化中國對伊斯蘭的壓制，即便政府宣稱對所有族群一視同仁，但只要造訪清真寺超過兩百次，就會被系統辨識為「預備犯」，穆斯林逐漸失去集體實踐宗教及文化的自由——再教育營，就是對新疆維吾爾族、哈薩克族、回族等族群進行強迫改造的具體例證。

 

　　戴倫・拜勒是全球最頂尖的維吾爾族社會與中國監控體系專家，他對新疆地區進行長達十年的研究，透過檢視官方文件及長期深入的訪談，揭露再教育營如何成為新疆的「日常」——超過一百五十萬維吾爾人被迫進入再教育營及其附屬的工廠。本書受訪者涵蓋全面，包含曾受拘禁的美國回族大學生、哈薩克族農夫、卡車司機，以及協助抓人的輔警、被迫於再教育營「教學」的老師，這些不同位置的人提供瞭解再教育營的多面視角。作者透過扎實的研究觀點與人物故事，呈現新疆再教育營的現況、中國的監控治理網絡，以及跨國的高科技產業關係。

 

　　中文版特別新增五篇文章：維吾爾學者艾賽提．蘇來曼（Eset Sulaiman）的導讀、維吾爾語言學家及詩人阿布都瓦力．阿尤普（Abduweli Ayup）的推薦序、本書海外簡體中文版翻譯小組推薦序、《真相製造》作者及國際新聞記者劉致昕對作者的專訪，以及戴倫・拜勒為臺灣讀者新寫的序。

 

國際讚譽

 

　　「新疆的中國移居者殖民主義所呈現的結構性種族主義，會讓人聯想到世界其他地區的種族主義；但是戴倫・拜勒記錄、分析了中國穆斯林少數族裔承受的新的、數位方式的種族化（racialization）——亦即透過龐大拘留營系統進行的『自動執行的種族化』（automated racialization）——如何將去人性化（dehumanization）的意義帶到截然不同的層面 。這本書怵目驚心、非常悲慘，但是又以滿懷同理心來細膩呈現受害者。任何人想要探討世界各地種族正義，這本書都是必讀之作。拜勒的書讓我們看到，中國的現實也正是全球的現實，當一個殖民政權遂行暴力，全世界都是幫凶。」——史書美（SHU-MEI SHIH），美國比較文學協會主席、美國加州大學洛杉磯分校（UCLA）愛德華・薩依德比較文學講座教授。

 

　　「無論中國政府如何否認，真相就是如此。戴倫・拜勒這本書取材豐富，不僅描述中國的穆斯林族群裔只因為奉行宗教信仰就會被關進再教育營，也呈現了再教育營牆外的穆斯林如何被電子與人力監控的網羅剝奪自由。這本書以真人實事為基礎，既引人入勝也令人恐懼，記錄了今日全世界最惡劣的踐踏人權事件。」——黎安友（ANDREW J. NATHAN），美國哥倫比亞大學一九一九年班講座政治學教授。

 

　　「對於一項往往籠罩在民族主義與恐中情結（Sinophobia）的論述，《新疆再教育營》提供了迫切而深具人性的切入方式。戴倫・拜勒一方面毫不避諱地呈現中國政府對新疆穆斯林犯下的恐伊斯蘭（Islamophobic）人權踐踏，一方面突顯這些作法取材自吾人熟悉的移居者殖民主義思維：將『他者』（others）種族化之後，就可以肆意剝削與傷害。」——梅瑞迪思・惠特克（MEREDITH WHITTAKER），美國紐約大學（NYU）明德魯基金會研究教授、今日人工智慧學院（AI Now Institute）院長。

 

　　「本書最重要的貢獻是訪談受到新疆國家安全機制衝擊的維吾爾人，不僅如此，戴倫・拜勒更縝密呈現了矽谷（Silicon Valley）企業——特別是微軟（Microsoft）——對於建構此一機制扮演不可或缺的角色。」——傑克．鮑爾森（JACK POULSON），科技調查（Tech Inquiry）執行長

 

　　「『中國政府』與『監控』的結合，已經成為當今科技去人性化威權主義暴政的代表，這樣公平嗎？《新疆再教育營》是戴倫・拜勒勇敢而鞭辟入裡的研究著作，讀來令人毛骨悚然，就連熟知歷史、見怪不怪的讀者，都會震驚於作者描繪的控制系統竟有如此的規模、強度與極端粗暴。拜勒不厭其詳呈現這個系統的細節，在新疆已然常態化，在世界其他地方卻已被遺忘。」——伊凡・塞林傑（EVAN SELINGER），美國羅徹斯特理工學院哲學教授。

A new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next?

Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, your thoughts can be used as evidence of a crime, and your own feelings can be held against you. A world where people who suffer from epilepsy receive alerts moments before a seizure, and the average person can peer into their own mind to eliminate painful memories or cure addictions.

Neuroscience has already made all of this possible today, and neurotechnology will soon become the “universal controller” for all of our interactions with technology. This can benefit humanity immensely, but without safeguards, it can seriously threaten our fundamental human rights to privacy, freedom of thought, and self-determination.

From one of the world’s foremost experts on the ethics of neuroscience, The Battle for Your Brain offers a path forward to navigate the complex legal and ethical dilemmas that will fundamentally impact our freedom to understand, shape, and define ourselves.

《阴翳礼赞》是日本文豪谷崎润一郎的随笔集。收录《阴翳礼赞》、《懒惰之说》、《恋爱及色情》、《厌客》、《旅行杂话》、《厕所种种》六篇随笔，是谷崎润一郎的随笔代表作。其中最广为人知的《阴翳礼赞》从“阴翳造就了东方建筑美”这一观点出发，衍生开来，探讨了东方建筑和文化的精妙之处。其他各篇也围绕东方和西方文化的差异，行文挥洒自如，旁征博引，妙趣横生，可以说建立了一个“谷崎式”的东方美学体系。

After three decades of massive rural-to-urban migration in China, a burgeoning population of over 35 million second-generation migrants living in its cities poses a challenge to socialist modes of population management and urban governance. In The Inconvenient Generation, Minhua Ling offers the first longitudinal study of these migrant youth from middle school to the labor market in the years after the Shanghai municipal government partially opened its public-school system to them. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic data, Ling follows the trajectories of dozens of children coming of age at a time of competing economic and social imperatives, and its everyday ramifications on their sense of identity, educational outcomes, and citizenship claims. Under policies and practices of segmented inclusion, they are inevitably funneled through the school system towards a life of manual labor. Illuminating the aspirations and strategies of these young men and women, Ling captures their experiences against the backdrop of a reemergent global Shanghai.

The popularity of pornography is predicated on the idea that those participating have given their consent. That is what allows the porn industry to dominate the media economy today, generating staggering sums of money. Looking at behind-the-scenes negotiations and abuses in Japan's adult video industry, author Akiko Takeyama challenges this pervasive notion with the idea of "involuntary consent." This phenomenon, she argues, is ubiquitous, not only in the porn industry, but in our everyday lives. And yet modern society, built on beliefs of autonomy, free choice, and equality, renders it all but invisible. Japan's AV industry alone generates a conservatively estimated $5 billion a year. In recent years, it has drawn public attention, and criticism, because of a series of arrests and trials of former talent agency owners and executives. This led to a report calling for a systematic investigation of the industry over the issue of "forced performance." This report has had ripple effects beyond Japan, as the US Department of State subsequently also cited forced performance as a human rights violation. Using this moment as an entry point, Takeyama argues that contract-making writ large is based on fundamentally dualistic terms, implying consent and pleasure on the one hand, and coercion and pain on the other. Because sex workers are employed on a contract basis, they fall outside of the purview of standard labor and employment laws. As a result, they are frequently pressured to comply with what production companies (mostly run by men) expect and often demand. In this ethnography of Japan's porn industry, Akiko Takeyama investigates the paradox of involuntary consent in modern liberal democratic societies. Taking consent as her starting point, Takeyama illustrates the nuances of contract making and the legal structures, or lack thereof, that govern Japan's adult video and sex entertainment industries.

Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability—such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits does this refrain generate? For whom? What discursive incitements undergird such benefits? Although there are innumerable discussions of Michel Foucault in the English-speaking academy, seldom is his work used systematically to unravel the dead ends and potentialities of humanistic inquiry as embedded in these simple but dynamic questions.
Rey Chow takes up this challenge by articulating the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a resharpened focus on Foucault’s concept “outside.” This general discussion is followed by a series of micro-arguments about several loosely linked topics: the biopolitics of literary study, visibilities and invisibilities, race and racism, sound/voice/listening, and confession and self-entrepreneurship. Against what she polemicizes as the moralistic-entrepreneurial norming of knowledge production, Chow foregrounds a nonutilitarian approach, stressing anew the intellectual and pedagogical objectives fundamental to humanistic inquiry: How to process, analyze, and evaluate different types of texts across languages and disciplines; how to form and sustain viable arguments; how to rethink familiar problems through less known as well as very well-known sources, figures, and methods. Above all, she asks in an abidingly humanistic spirit, how not to know all the answers before the questions have been posed.

How states deny the full potential of refugees as people and perpetuate social inequality

As the world confronts the largest refugee crisis since World War II, wealthy countries are being called upon to open their doors to the displaced, with the assumption that this will restore their prospects for a bright future. Refuge follows Syrians who fled a brutal war in their homeland as they attempt to rebuild in countries of resettlement and asylum. Their experiences reveal that these destination countries are not saviors; they can deny newcomers’ potential by failing to recognize their abilities and invest in the tools they need to prosper.

Heba Gowayed spent three years documenting the strikingly divergent journeys of Syrian families from similar economic and social backgrounds during their crucial first years of resettlement in the United States and Canada and asylum in Germany. All three countries offer a legal solution to displacement, while simultaneously minoritizing newcomers through policies that fail to recognize their histories, aspirations, and personhood. The United States stands out for its emphasis on “self-sufficiency” that integrates refugees into American poverty, which, by design, is populated by people of color and marked by stagnation. Gowayed argues that refugee human capital is less an attribute of newcomers than a product of the same racist welfare systems that have long shaped the contours of national belonging.

Centering the human experience of displacement, Refuge shines needed light on how countries structure the potential of people, new arrivals or otherwise, within their borders.

Market reform, financial decentralization, and economic globalization have greatly accentuated China's social and regional inequalities. Education is expected to address these inequalities in a context of rapid social change, including the rise of an urban middle class, changed status of women, resurgence of ethnic identities, growing rural to urban migration, and lingering poverty in remote areas. But some argue that state policies have not sufficiently addressed inequitable practices, and that schools actually perpetuate and reproduce inequities, giving rise to a new system of social stratification driven more by market forces than socialist principles. Featuring all original, previously unpublished material, this volume examines this argument through analysis of selected aspects of educational stratification in China during the reform era. Chapters focus on the new urban middle class, poor rural residents, the migrant population in urban areas, rural girls, and ethnic minorities. The contributors are established scholars in the field, and they build a conceptual framework for assessing the degree to which China's educational reforms are inclusive, equitable, and integrative across social categories and groups.