Casey Han's four years at Princeton gave her many things, "But no job and a number of bad habits." Casey's parents, who live in Queens, are Korean immigrants working in a dry cleaner, desperately trying to hold on to their culture and their identity. Their daughter, on the other hand, has entered into rarified American society via scholarships. But after graduation, Casey sees the reality of having expensive habits without the means to sustain them. As she navigates Manhattan, we see her life and the lives around her, culminating in a portrait of New York City and its world of haves and have-nots.
Free Food For Millionaires offers up a fresh exploration of the complex layers we inhabit both in society and within ourselves. Inspired by 19th century novels such as Vanity Fair and Middlemarch, Min Jin Lee examines maintaining one's identity within changing communities in what is her remarkably assured debut.

More than 35 million Chinese people live outside China, but this population is far from homogenous, and its multifaceted national affiliations require careful theorization. This book unravels the multiple, shifting paths of global migration in Chinese society today, challenging a unilinear view of migration by presenting emigration, immigration, and re-migration trajectories that are occurring continually and simultaneously. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observations conducted in China, Canada, Singapore, and the China–Myanmar border, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho takes the geographical space of China as the starting point from which to consider complex patterns of migration that shape nation-building and citizenship, both in origin and destination countries. She uniquely brings together various migration experiences and national contexts under the same analytical framework to create a rich portrait of the diversity of contemporary Chinese migration processes. By examining the convergence of multiple migration pathways across one geographical region over time, Ho offers alternative approaches to studying migration, migrant experience, and citizenship, thus setting the stage for future scholarship.

When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants, adhering steadfastly to the rituals and beliefs of their ancestors. Lia's pediatricians, Neil Ernst and his wife, Peggy Philip, cleaved just as strongly to another tradition: that of Western medicine. When Lia Lee Entered the American medical system, diagnosed as an epileptic, her story became a tragic case history of cultural miscommunication.
Parents and doctors both wanted the best for Lia, but their ideas about the causes of her illness and its treatment could hardly have been more different. The Hmong see illness aand healing as spiritual matters linked to virtually everything in the universe, while medical community marks a division between body and soul, and concerns itself almost exclusively with the former. Lia's doctors ascribed her seizures to the misfiring of her cerebral neurons; her parents called her illness, qaug dab peg--the spirit catches you and you fall down--and ascribed it to the wandering of her soul. The doctors prescribed anticonvulsants; her parents preferred animal sacrifices.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

“新移民文学”作家凌岚 最新中短篇小说集
流动于大洋两岸的爱情、亲情与别情
闪烁于青春生命间的想望、绝望与希望
《海中白象》共收入九个中短篇小说，主人公均为移民美国的华人，写的是他们在美国生活的日常。
其中，《海中白象》从女儿的视角讲述父母情感破裂的故事，父亲为了生计常年在外奔波，母亲红杏出墙造成夫妻裂痕；《潮来》描绘一对闺蜜不同的命运轨迹，以双线形式讲述老病和毒品导致的复调悲剧； 《陀飞轮》写出少男少女青春期的悸动，对异性的好奇和对性的探索，背后隐藏的是女主角对于存在状态的不满和反抗；《消失》与《陀飞轮》是姊妹篇，采取不同的视角，《消失》是以女孩的第一人称来讲述一个钢琴天才少女在父母离异后，决定不再忍受被安排的人生道路，以消失的方式完成自己的反叛；《烟花冷》中，女主人公百合的“合伙丈夫”心脏病突发去世，她走出短暂消沉，在回忆和对现实的关切中，重拾人间的美好；《豹》通过一对小夫妻因流产而产生嫌隙又努力弥合的心路，揭示了生命的魅力；《时差》写了一个丧偶式育儿的主妇突然昏迷，丈夫在照护妻儿及深度自省的过程中，产生对正常家庭生活的渴求；《萍聚》通过一次疫情期间的老友聚会，回顾了由一桩技术间谍案引发的官司，展现了华人间的互助与亲情；《四分之一英里》经由一位站街女的惨死，书写了华人女性间的惺惺相惜。
小说集《海中白象》里描写的美国，是一个普通人的美国，一个更真实的美国；这些中短篇小说共同组成一幅移民浮世绘，个人的奋斗在生活的偶然性面前显得如此脆弱，人们求生的热忱又如此强烈，营造出一种命运的神秘感和悲壮感。

If we place women at the center of our account of China's last two centuries, how does this change our understanding of what happened? This deeply knowledgeable book illuminates the places where the Big History of recognizable events intersects with the daily lives of ordinary people, using gender as its analytic lens. Leading scholar Gail Hershatter asks how these events affected women in particular, and how women affected the course of these events. For instance, did women have a 1911 revolution? A socialist revolution? If so, what did those revolutions look like? Which women had them?
Hershatter uses two key themes to frame her analysis. The first is the importance of women's visible and invisible labor. The labor of women in domestic and public spaces shaped China's move from empire to republic to socialist nation to rising capitalist power. The second is the symbolic work performed by gender itself. What women should do and be was a constant topic of debate during China's transformation from empire to weak state to partially occupied territory to nascent socialist republic to reform-era powerhouse. What sorts of concerns did people express through the language of gender? How did that language work, and why was it so powerful?
Drawing on decades of Hershatter's groundbreaking scholarship and mastery of a range of literatures, this beautifully written book will be essential reading for all students of China's modern history.
●traces women’s role in Chinese history from 1800 to the present
●introduces modern Chinese history through the lens of gender
●explores women’s role in revolution, socialist construction, and post-Mao economic development
●includes key primary sources for discussion

Insulated from the dust, noise, and crowds churning outside, China's luxury hotels are staging areas for the new economic and political landscape of the country. These hotels, along with other emerging service businesses, offer an important, new source of employment for millions of workers, but also bring to light levels of inequality that surpass most developed nations.
Examining how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing women's social status in China, Markets and Bodies reveals the forms of social inequality produced by shifts in the economy. No longer working for the common good as defined by the socialist state, service workers are catering to the individual desires of consumers. This economic transition ultimately affords a unique opportunity to investigate the possibilities and current limits for better working conditions for the young women who are enabling the development of capitalism in China.

A small but growing group of today's knowledge workers actively seek a lifestyle of freedom, using technology to perform their jobs, traveling far and wide, and moving as often as they like. These digital nomads have left their local coffee shops behind and now proudly post their "office of the day" photos from exotic locales, but what do their lives really look like?
In Digital Nomads, Rachael Woldoff and Robert Litchfield take readers into an expatriate digital nomad community in Bali, Indonesia to better understand this growing demographic of typically Millennial workers. Through dozens of interviews and several stints living in a digital nomad hub, Woldoff and Litchfield present new answers to classic questions about community, creativity, and work. They further show why digital nomads leave their conventional lives behind, arguing that creative class and Millennial workers, though successful, often feel that their "world class cities" and desirable jobs are anything but paradise. They first follow their transitions into freelancing, entrepreneurship, and remote work, then explain how digital nomads create a fluid but intimate community abroad in the company of like-minded others. Ultimately, Woldoff and Litchfield provide insight into digital nomads' efforts to live and work in ways that balance freedom, community, and creative fulfillment in the digital age.
A sympathetic yet critical take on this emerging group of workers, Digital Nomads provides a revealing take on the changing nature of work and the problems of the new economy.

Reproducing Race, an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, explores the role of race in the medical setting. Khiara M. Bridges investigates how race—commonly seen as biological in the medical world—is socially constructed among women dependent on the public healthcare system for prenatal care and childbirth. Bridges argues that race carries powerful material consequences for these women even when it is not explicitly named, showing how they are marginalized by the practices and assumptions of the clinic staff. Deftly weaving ethnographic evidence into broader discussions of Medicaid and racial disparities in infant and maternal mortality, Bridges shines new light on the politics of healthcare for the poor, demonstrating how the “medicalization” of social problems reproduces racial stereotypes and governs the bodies of poor women of color.

In Passionate Work, Renyi Hong theorizes the notion of being “passionate about your work” as an affective project that encourages people to endure economically trying situations like unemployment, job change, repetitive and menial labor, and freelancing. Not simply a subject of aspiration, passion has been deployed as a means to build resilience and mend disappointments with our experiences of work. Tracking the rise of passion in nineteenth-century management to trends like gamification, coworking, and unemployment insurance, Hong demonstrates how passion can emerge in instances that would not typically be understood as passionate. Gamification numbs crippling boredom by keeping call center workers in an unthinking, suspensive state, pursuing even the most banal tasks in hope of career advancement. Coworking spaces marketed toward freelancers combat loneliness and disconnection at the precise moment when middle-class sureties are profoundly threatened. Ultimately, Hong argues, the ideal of passionate work sustains a condition of cruel optimism in which passion is offered as the solution for the injustices of contemporary capitalism.

We need to talk about racism before it destroys our democracy. And that conversation needs to start with an acknowledgement that racism is coded into even the most ordinary interactions.

Every time we interact with another human being, we unconsciously draw on a set of expectations to guide us through the encounter. What many of us in the United States--especially white people--do not recognize is that centuries of institutional racism have inescapably molded those expectations. This leads us to act with implicit biases that can shape everything from how we greet our neighbors to whether we take a second look at a resume. This is tacit racism, and it is one of the most pernicious threats to our nation.

In Tacit Racism, Anne Warfield Rawls and Waverly Duck illustrate the many ways in which racism is coded into the everyday social expectations of Americans, in what they call Interaction Orders of Race. They argue that these interactions can produce racial inequality, whether the people involved are aware of it or not, and that by overlooking tacit racism in favor of the fiction of a "color-blind" nation, we are harming not only our society's most disadvantaged--but endangering the society itself.

Ultimately, by exposing this legacy of racism in ordinary social interactions, Rawls and Duck hope to stop us from merely pretending we are a democratic society and show us how we can truly become one.

【编辑推荐】
★回顾育儿方式的变化潮流，探究母乳喂养如何从个体选择演变成公共卫生问题和社会义务
“自1995年以来，没有哪项大众哺乳倡议对女性的偏好和选择表示过支持。”
在极端的母乳喂养倡导者眼中，母乳喂养是一项强制要求、一场道德运动、一种区分好父母与坏父母的方法，甚至是缓解社会矛盾的安慰剂，却独独不再是母亲喂养孩子的其中一种方式。
★透过十数位哺乳期母亲的真实经历，深入反思母乳喂养文化中的社会问题
“从来没有哪个时代的女人不给孩子哺乳。不过，也从来没有哪个时代的所有女人都给孩子哺乳。”
世上约有15%的女性患有泌乳衰竭或乳房发育不全，并非所有女性都能泌乳，也并非所有女性都能分泌出足够喂饱孩子的乳汁。顽固地拒绝接受这一生理事实，不论对母亲还是孩子而言，都是一种残忍。
★职场歧视、道德绑架、公共设施不足、社会福利缺失、疾病与疼痛……直面哺乳期母亲被忽视的困境
“基本上每一位和我谈过上班吸奶问题的女性都经历过不快或尴尬；她们都说自己经常遭到同事的批评或嘲笑，而且他们往往把这种批评和嘲笑装作是玩笑话。”
母乳喂养的背后，是大量的母亲们难以正常生活、正常工作的无数个日夜，可她们付出的时间、精力和心血，她们为此遭遇的种种不公与困境，却鲜有人提及。比起强调让婴儿喝母乳，正视这些付出与遭遇才更能真正地为母亲和孩子们带来福祉。
★以医学研究成果和大量统计数据，客观分析母乳优劣，破除“母乳神话”
“新生儿父母希望找到一种‘万灵丹’来保护他们娇贵的宝宝，但母乳喂养并不是这种‘万灵丹’。”
在利益驱使下，母乳被各方利用巧妙的话术，吹捧成了包治百病的“液体黄金”。然而以平均概率计算，母亲们花费几千上万个小时给婴儿哺乳，才能预防一例耳部感染或肺炎，预防各种慢性病乃至癌症的作用更是无稽之谈。
【内容简介】
万有引力社会议题书系“万相”002号作品。
医生、专家、媒体，甚至你的长辈和伴侣，都在强调母乳相对奶粉的优势，“每个妈妈都应该给孩子哺乳”也已成为共识。然而母乳喂养对母亲，尤其是职场妈妈造成的困扰却被忽视了：不完整的睡眠、价格不菲的哺乳用具和服务、生理上的忧患、在公共空间哺乳的尴尬、职场的骚扰和歧视，还有更重要的——来自社会、亲属、以及自我的德道压力。
本书作者考特妮·琼格是一个选择哺乳的母亲，在与其他年轻妈妈交流哺乳的经历时，看到了在母乳喂养被上升为公共卫生问题的背景之下，母亲们遭遇的各种困境。她广泛研究大量文献资料，走访医学专家、研究人员、母乳喂养倡导者和十数位母亲，展现了母乳从个人选择转变成德道义务的过程，呼吁社会各界关于母乳喂养的讨论能够回归理性，卸下母亲们的道德枷锁，将喂养方式的选择权归还母亲。
【媒体推荐】
“琼格提出了一些深思熟虑的观点，反对将（母乳喂养）视为母亲们最或唯一可接受的选择。”
——《出版人周刊》
“她向读者介绍了20世纪70年代在美国重新流行母乳喂养的现代世界……以确凿的事实为依据，分析了简单的哺乳如何通过使用吸奶器变成机械过程，并提供可销售的商品：母乳……这是对许多‘当代母乳喂养文化陷阱’冷静而深入的分析。”
——《柯克斯书评》
“（琼格）揭露的真相可能会让你大吃一惊……但也许最有趣的是琼格敏锐地观察到，人们如此热情地宣传的并不是真正的母乳喂养——即用母乳喂养婴儿——而是将母乳作为一种产品。这给各种收入水平的职场妈妈们带来了压力，她们不得不在不具备理想条件的环境下吸奶。然而对她们和她们的孩子最有利的，实际上是带薪产假（或者仅使用配方奶）……琼格敏锐的分析和幽默让读者沉浸其中。”
——《纽约时报》
“一部高度可读的作品……琼格提出了一个强有力的论点：如果女性应该对自己的生殖活动有‘选择权’，那为什么她们不能选择如何哺育自己的孩子？”
——《旗帜周刊》
“（琼格）的研究非常广泛……本书阐述了妇女的选择如何变成了公共卫生问题和社会义务。在美国，一些政策巩固了落后的科学，损害了妇女的权利。”
——《货架意识》
“琼格进行了一项有趣的分析，揭示了不同群体如何解读‘乳房是最好的’的口号，以反映他们自己的议题。”
——《华盛顿邮报》

──時代雜誌
「六月三日夜，我正同家人在院子裡乘涼，聽到街上有密集的槍聲。一場舉世震驚的悲劇終於未能避免地發生了。」
趙紫陽，一個被軟禁的時間比主政時期長的悲劇人物，在人生的最後幾年，他沒有放棄對中國政經體制與「六四」天安門事件的發言權，在老部屬杜導正等人的協助下，於二○○○年左右，以京劇與兒歌錄音帶，祕密錄製至少三十六卷錄音帶，留下逾三十小時的珍貴錄音。趙紫陽以鉛筆標記編號後，分頭交由數人帶出。此事連其家人也僅有耳聞，直到二○○五年趙紫陽過世後，才在孫子玩具堆中找到整套的原版錄音帶。趙紫陽祕書鮑彤之子鮑樸花了兩年時間蒐集錄音帶，終使完整內容於二○○九年出版。
做為鄧小平時代改革開放的代表人物，趙紫陽對於社會主義路線當時已有許多質疑，不管是「六四」事件，對民主與法制的省思，對同時期亞洲四小龍包括臺灣的經濟奇蹟，更充滿欽羨與肯定。趙紫陽個人的心路歷程，記錄了社會主義中國如何面對統治危機與經濟困境，特別是二十年前「六四」決定武力鎮壓的始末，以及發展市場經濟的激烈鬥爭，也是中共高層至今，最誠懇面對歷史的回憶錄。

The Digital Factory reveals the surprising and hidden human labor that supports today’s digital capitalism.
The workers of today’s digital factory include those in Amazon warehouses, delivery drivers, Chinese gaming workers, Filipino content moderators, and rural American search engine optimizers. Repetitive yet stressful, boring yet often emotionally demanding, these jobs require little formal qualification but can demand a large degree of cultural knowledge. This work is often hidden behind the supposed magic of algorithms and thought to be automated, but it is in fact highly dependent on human labor.
Contemporary digital laborers are not as far removed from a typical auto assembly line as we might think. Moritz Altenried takes us inside today’s digital factories, showing that they take very different forms, including gig economy platforms, video games, and Amazon warehouses. As Altenried shows, these digital factories often share surprising similarities with factories from the industrial age. As globalized capitalism and digital technology continue to transform labor around the world, Altenried offers a timely and poignant exploration of how these changes are restructuring the social division of labor and its geographies as well as the stratifications and lines of struggle.

"“我对“墓葬”这个题目的选择有三个基本出发点。一是墓葬文化在古代东亚，特别是古代中国有着数千年的持续发展的历史，在世界上可以说是独一无二。……二是在它的漫长发展过程中，中国的墓葬传统不但锻造出了一套独特的视觉语汇和形象思维方式，同时也发展出一套与本土宗教、伦理，特别是和中国人生死观和孝道思想息息相关的概念系统。……三是墓葬艺术还没有像书画、青铜、陶瓷或佛教美术那样在中国美术史的研究和教学中形成一个“专门领域”或“亚学科”，发展出处理和理解考古材料的一套系统的理论方法。
本书的目的不是根据年代顺序呈现出中国墓葬艺术的发展史，也不是要对目前中国版图内不同历史时期的墓葬类型以及地域性丧葬实践进行全面综述，而是描述和分析不同时代和地区的许多个案。这些案例一方面意在表现中国墓葬艺术的无比漫长和惊人丰富的内涵——这其实是中国艺术中最为漫长和持久的一个艺术传统，同时也将回答我最初所提出的问题：是什么因素界定了我们称为“中国墓葬”的艺术和建筑传统？”
— 巫 鸿"

Appropriately Indian is an ethnographic analysis of the class of information technology professionals at the symbolic helm of globalizing India. Comprising a small but prestigious segment of India's labour force, these transnational knowledge workers dominate the country's economic and cultural scene, as do their notions of what it means to be Indian. Drawing on the stories of Indian professionals in Mumbai, Bangalore, Silicon Valley, and South Africa, Smitha Radhakrishnan explains how these high-tech workers create a "global Indianness" by transforming the diversity of Indian cultural practices into a generic, mobile set of "Indian" norms. Women information technology professionals are particularly influential. By reconfiguring notions of respectable femininity and the good Indian family, they are reshaping ideas about what it means to be Indian. Radhakrishnan explains how this transnational class creates an Indian culture that is self-consciously distinct from Western culture, yet compatible with Western cosmopolitan lifestyles. She describes the material and symbolic privileges that accrue to India's high-tech workers, who often claim ordinary middle-class backgrounds, but are overwhelmingly urban and upper-caste. They are also distinctly apolitical and individualistic. Members of this elite class practice a de-contextualized version of Hinduism, and they absorb the ideas and values that circulate through both Indian and non-Indian multinational corporations. Ultimately, though, global Indianness is rooted and configured in the gendered sphere of home and family.

父母与孩子之间的关系，对孩子一生有着深远的影响。然而，在很多家庭中，这种关系经常出问题，令人痛苦，甚至很难再回归正常。
这是一个从业20年的资深心理治疗师的畅销儿童心理学巨著，在英国掀起巨大轰动，全英家长热烈讨论，甚至没有孩子的人都迫不及待地买来，用于改善自己的人际关系。
这到底是一本什么样的书呢？简单一句话：它用育儿理论讲透了亲子关系，以及围绕着我们的家庭成员关系，所有人际关系，让我们更自在地活在关系里。这是一本关于“关系”的书——我们与孩子的关系，与自身的关系，与过去的关系，与周围世界的关系。
也许你是一位工作忙碌的父母，你的孩子仿佛从不入睡，总是在哭闹或尖叫，敲打平底锅，戳插座，喊着要更多的糖，看更多的电视。这些让你感到疲倦和绝望，很难保持冷静和理智。你是一位好家长，但还可以变得更好：菲利帕·佩里的这本畅销书，将帮你打开育儿的新视野。
与一般的“亲子教养书”不同，这本书并没有把养育孩子当作令人生畏的杂事。孩子不是一堆有待处理的麻烦，也不是一个需要精益求精的项目。育儿是一种关系，孩子是要被理解和支持的个体。归根结底，在孩子身上的投入，不仅会使他们以后成为更优秀的人，而且也会使你自己变得更好。
它的阅读体验并不轻松，正如作者所说，书里的内容会让你觉得很难受，很不舒服，甚至很生气，要牺牲你的自尊来阅读。因为它会让你直面自己在陪伴孩子的过程所犯下的种种错误。
任何父母都会为了孩子奉献自己，但美好的愿望也许不会带来理想的结果。父母的心愿就是让孩子幸福快乐，让他们过上美好的生活，但我们往往意识不到，自己是如何在无心之中伤害了孩子。
这本书会剖析我们在亲子教养方面犯下的错误，尤其是那些我们从来不想犯的错，这些错误的深层心理根源，以及有了过错之后我们如何弥补，修复裂痕。
这本书将帮你：
了解自己的成长经历如何影响了你的亲子教养方式。
看清亲子关系是如何变质的，以及如何让它恢复正常。
与孩子建立真正的联结，学会用心倾听，培养情绪稳定的孩子。
打破恶性循环，及时补救与修复裂痕，避免把你以前吃过的苦复制到孩子身上。
学会处理自己与孩子的感受，让孩子在和谐的关系中成长。
学习如何与婴儿、儿童、青少年和长大成人的孩子相处，让亲子关系变成孩子一生的力量之源。
这本书充满了睿智和明智的建议，是每个父母都想读的书，也是每个孩子都希望自己的父母拥有的书。

In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country’s lawyers are female, but women in the most prestigious firms are significantly represented both at entry and partnership. Elite workspaces are notorious for being unfriendly to new actors, so what allows for aberration in certain workspaces?
Drawing from observations and interviews with more than 130 elite professionals, Accidental Feminism examines how a range of underlying mechanisms—gendered socialization and essentialism, family structures and dynamics, and firm and regulatory histories—afford certain professionals egalitarian outcomes that are not available to their local and global peers. Juxtaposing findings on the legal profession with those on elite consulting firms, Swethaa Ballakrishnen reveals that parity arises not from a commitment to create feminist organizations, but from structural factors that incidentally come together to do gender differently. Simultaneously, their research offers notes of caution: while conditional convergence may create equality in ways that more targeted endeavors fail to achieve, “accidental” developments are hard to replicate, and are, in this case, buttressed by embedded inequalities. Ballakrishnen examines whether gender parity produced without institutional sanction should still be considered feminist.
In offering new ways to think about equality movements and outcomes, Accidental Feminism forces readers to critically consider the work of intention in progress narratives.