The Chinese Communist welfare state was established with the goal of eradicating income inequality. But paradoxically, it actually widened the income gap, undermining one of the most important objectives of Mao Zedong’s revolution. Nara Dillon traces the origins of the Chinese welfare state from the 1940s through the 1960s, when such inequalities emerged and were institutionalized, to uncover the reasons why the state failed to achieve this goal.
Using newly available archival sources, Dillon focuses on the contradictory role played by labor in the development of the Chinese welfare state. At first, the mobilization of labor helped found a welfare state, but soon labor’s privileges turned into obstacles to the expansion of welfare to cover more of the poor. Under the tight economic constraints of the time, small, temporary differences evolved into large, entrenched inequalities. Placing these developments in the context of the globalization of the welfare state, Dillon focuses on the mismatch between welfare policies originally designed for European economies and the very different conditions found in revolutionary China. Because most developing countries faced similar constraints, the Chinese case provides insight into the development of narrow, unequal welfare states across much of the developing world in the postwar period.

本书探讨了在全球化时代，尤其是在农业市场和食品工业中小农阶级的地位、作用和重要住，指出小农境地的特征是为追求自主性而进行斗争，并创建和开发一个自我控制的资源库，以实现可持续发展。此外小农阶级远没有衰落或消亡，恰恰相反，无论是发达国家还是发展中国家，都在经历着复杂而又富于变化的再小农化过程。作者通过横跨30年时空的研究，为农业与农村发展过程提供了独创性的、发人深省的洞察。

本期《清华社会学评论》以“社会转型与新生代农民工”为主题，文章涵盖三个方面：一是清华大学社会学系课题组做的两篇调查报告，探讨了农民工就业“短工化”趋势、新生代农民工与“农民工生产体制”的碰撞这两大社会热点问题；二是译文，主要介绍了无产阶级的阶级形成过程；三是六篇“经验研究”，均由清华大学社会学系师生撰写，代表了当今中国劳工研究的水准与趋向。

China's countryside is being transformed by rapid, far-reaching development. This wide-reaching and multidisciplinary book questions whether gender politics are changing in response to this development, and explores how gender politics inform and are reproduced or reconfigured in the languages, knowledge, processes and practices of development in rural China.
The contributors - prominent scholars in the fields of political science, sociology, gender, development and Chinese studies - argue that although gender has been elided in recent development policies, women have been singled out as a 'vulnerable group' requiring protection, instruction and 'empowerment' from paternalistic state and NGOs. Nevertheless, development has facilitated the dissemination of gender equality as an ideal and institutional norm, increased the channels through which women can advance claims for equal rights, and expanded the possibilities for agency available to them. Drawing on extensive field research in sites across China, from remote communities in Inner Mongolia and Guizhou to the fringes of expanding cities, the contributors illustrate how different women are bringing their own aspirations for development to bear in the momentous changes occurring in rural China.
This compelling and thought-provoking book will be of interest to scholars, students and researchers in the fields of public and social policy, sociology, political economy, anthropology, gender and development.

本书从全球范围挑选了16位来自美\德\英\法\波兰\中国等国家的社会学家,通过自传的方式,在讲述自己是如何走上学术之路及作研究的同时,也讲述了各自对本国社会学的发展的看法\研究方法\研究范式等,其多样的研究思路\研究方向及对社会学学生的指路说明,值得国内社会学界借鉴.

“整部经济史无非就是经济理性主义的历史。”以“理性化”为经，以社会行动与团体为纬，韦伯在《经济与历史》中编织了他心目中那别具一格的历史图像。
“任何我们可以想像到的制度，都不能没有权力来发号施令；因此，就有支配。”这是韦伯政治社会学研究的起点。韦伯在《支配的类型》，从人类历史经验出发，归纳出了三种“理念型的支配”：卡理斯玛支配、传统型支配和法制型支配，而分析这三种支配类型的正当性基础、运作及其影响，观察不同类型的支配与管理对一个社会的实质与形式理性化的影响。就是通过这一取径，韦伯的支配类型研究得以与其宗教、法律及经济史的研究浑然合一，贯串成一个完整的体系。

《质的研究方法与社会科学研究》是国内第一部系统评介“质的研究方法”（qualitative research）的专著，对目前国际社会科学界提出的有关理论问题以及新近发展出来的操作手段进行了深入的探讨，并结合有关西方学者以及作者自己的研究实例对其进行了生动的展示和说明。“质的研究方法”目前在社会科学研究领域是与“量的研究方法”相提并论、交相辉映的一种研究方法，它要求研究者深入社会现象，通过亲身体验了解研究对象的存在方式和意义解释，在原始资料的基础之上建立相关理论。

The completely revised and updated edition of this methodological classic continues to provide practical, comprehensive and strategic guidance on qualitative design, purposeful sampling, interviewing, fieldwork, observation methods, and qualitative analysis and interpretation while integrating the extensive qualitative literature of the last decade.New to this edition: - Twelve primary strategic themes of qualitative inquiry to clarify readers' understanding of the different strands of qualitative research - Five distinct criteria-based frameworks for presenting and judging qualitative findings - Sixteen different theoretical and philosophical approaches to qualitative inquiry identified, compared and contrasted - Variations in observational methods, including historical perspectives, ethical issues, and case studies - Alternative interviewing strategies and approaches, including focus group interviews, group interviews, and cross-cultural interviews - Additional new coverage on: new issues in and approaches to fieldwork; in-depth treatment of emergent designs and purposeful sampling; detailed analytical guidelines, including software and computer-assisted options; strategies for enhancing quality and credibility of qualitative findings, mixed methods, and triangulation; and, a review and listing of the latest internet resources The book examines and honours both the science and art of qualitative inquiry. The qualities that made previous editions of this widely used book so highly valued by both seasoned professionals and students continue to shine through in this revision, including Patton's extensive experience, broad perspective, inclusive sensitivity, concrete examples, pragmatic orientation, and fine writing.

This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels--those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.

Learning From Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. It draws on Robert Weiss's thirty years of experience in interviewing and teaching others how to do it. The most effective interviews, says Weiss, rely on creating cooperation -- an open and trusting alliance between interviewer and respondent, dedicated to specific and honest accounts of both internal and external events. Against the eclectic background of his work in national sample surveys, studies based on semi-structured interviewing, and participant observation, Weiss walks the reader through the method of qualitative interview studies: sample selection, development of an interview guide, the conduct of the interview, analysis, and preparation of the data. Weiss gives examples of successful and less successful interviews and offers specific techniques and guidelines for the practitioner.

《亲历现代中国》，是北京大学社会学系教授杨善华主编的口述史著作。
20世纪这100年是中国城乡社会发生翻天覆地变化的100年。在整个社会发生剧烈变化时，中国社会其实并没有表现出明显的断裂，而仍然体现出一种延续。这在很大程度上是因为这样的社会延续是通过生活在中国社会，而又跨越了不同时代的人的延续表现出来的。
本书记录的就是这样一段埋藏在普通人记忆中的城市生活历史。北京的胡同、四合院以及默默无闻的街道中，这些平凡的小人物或随波逐流，或起身反抗，这里没有英雄史诗般的传奇，也没有置身政治和生活旋涡之中的紧张和激动，有的只是日常生活的恒常。但这恒常中蕴含的何尝不是中国人的生存智慧，以及中国社会发展的必然轨迹？

2012年坎迪尔（Cundill Prize）历史奖大奖（世界奖金最高的历史著作奖）
裴士锋生动重现了……十九世纪中叶的太平天国战争。这场战争所夺走的人命之多，在人类史上名列前茅。它的深远影响，在当今中国仍未消失。《天国之秋》是由第一流历史学家和杰出作家完成的引人入胜之 作。
——基辛格（Henry A. Kissinger） 《论中国》《大外交》等书作者
精心琢磨的历史铺陈，是极出色的典范。从一八五〇年代初期打至一八六四年的这场中国内战，可能是人类史上死伤最惨烈的内战；裴士锋以生动翔实的手法，呈现中国的统治者及其数千万子民的命运如何受到英国外交与商业利益的摆布，如何受到太平天国本身的非正统宗教和政治理念影响。一个悲惨且撼动人心的故事。
——史景迁（Jonathan Spence） 《追寻现代中国》《大汗之国》等书作者

Why hasn't the emergence of capitalism led China's citizenry to press for liberal democratic change? This book argues that China's combination of state-led development, late industrialization, and socialist legacies have affected popular perceptions of socioeconomic mobility, economic dependence on the state, and political options, giving citizens incentives to perpetuate the political status quo and disincentives to embrace liberal democratic change.
Wright addresses the ways in which China's political and economic development shares broader features of state-led late industrialization and post-socialist transformation with countries as diverse as Mexico, India, Tunisia, Indonesia, South Korea, Brazil, Russia, and Vietnam.
With its detailed analysis of China's major socioeconomic groups (private entrepreneurs, state sector workers, private sector workers, professionals and students, and farmers), Accepting Authoritarianism is an up-to-date, comprehensive, and coherent text on the evolution of state-society relations in reform-era China.

On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their jobs in one of China’s large cities. As the photo caption indicated, the image represented the “transformation of migrant women”; the women’s “transformation” was signaled by their status as consumers. New Masters, New Servants is an ethnography of class dynamics and the subject formation of migrant domestic workers. Based on her interviews with young women who migrated from China’s Anhui province to the city of Beijing to engage in domestic service for middle-class families, as well as interviews with employers, job placement agencies, and government officials, Yan Hairong explores what these migrant workers mean to the families that hire them, to urban economies, to rural provinces such as Anhui, and to the Chinese state. Above all, Yan focuses on the domestic workers’ self-conceptions, desires, and struggles.
Yan analyzes how the migrant women workers are subjected to, make sense of, and reflect on a range of state and neoliberal discourses about development, modernity, consumption, self-worth, quality, and individual and collective longing and struggle. She offers keen insight into the workers’ desire and efforts to achieve suzhi (quality) through self-improvement, the way workers are treated by their employers, and representations of migrant domestic workers on television and the Internet and in newspapers and magazines. In so doing, Yan demonstrates that contestations over the meanings of migrant workers raise broad questions about the nature of wage labor, market economy, sociality, and postsocialism in contemporary China.

1914年第一次世界大战爆发以后，德国的盟友土耳其趁机侵入阿拉伯半岛，而该地区的各个部族处于一盘散沙的状态，无力抵抗土耳其侵略军。英国军方派了“阿拉伯通”陆军情报军官劳伦斯到那里进行活动。英国在阿拉伯半岛的意图是给阿拉伯人有限的枪支弹药，使其牵制土耳其的兵力，同时将阿拉伯各部族置于自己的控制之下，劳伦斯基本上是按照这一战略采取行动的，但做法上非常讲究策略。他换上阿拉伯人的服装，尽量在生活上接近阿拉伯人，由于突击队屡建战功，威震中东，劳伦斯因此被誉称为“阿拉伯的劳伦斯”。书中描写了劳伦斯以气魄发动的长途奔袭亚喀巴、大马士革土耳其守军的英勇事迹，以及他与阿拉伯枭雄费萨尔王子的友谊等诸多历史细节，突出剖析劳伦斯的丰富的内心世界，特别是他内心对于英帝国中东政策的反抗与挣扎。为了突出劳伦斯的空前也可能是绝后的壮举，作者还以并行线索叙述两位杰出的美国与德国情报人员的努力，实际上是一种对劳伦斯的衬托。 总之，这是一部出色的传记，传主充满魅力，传记本身也文笔优美流畅，情节曲折，而不失真，它是了解一战东线史、英帝国外交政策、中东现代史的钥匙。

作者在对湖北省岳平县农村进行深度田野调查的基础上，试图挖掘、总结出村庄视域中的国家政权建设的本土化实现逻辑与一般规律，即本书所谓“公私定律”——无论政权建设的阶段性目标是什么，只要农民的“自己人认同”意识没有完全消失，国家就必须将最基层的治理主体建立在最能够整合农民“自己人单位”内部资源的基础之上，打破“公”与“私”的隔膜，使国家之“公”与农民之“私”衔接起来，以建构最有效的基层治理模式。否则，政权建设就有可能因为缺乏实施的社会基础而走弯路。

《找回国家》是一部比较公共政策分析的理论和实证论文集，由三个篇章组成：第一篇考察新兴发展巾国家的国家战略；第二篇重点分析现代欧洲早期发动战争与缔造国家的历史，以及国家与“二战”后国际经济的相关关系；第三篇则重新审视了国家如何影响政治分化和集体行动的议题。《找回国家》涉及比较政治学、比较公共政策、比较政治经济学等领域，引用率甚高。

国内首部绝美手绘植物抒情散文
一段段温暖奇妙的植物情缘
一篇篇隽永不朽的草木传奇
于繁、败、荣、枯中细细体味——
人间四季 花树一生
作者以南方特有的婀娜多姿的植物为描写对象，结合了博物学、植物学、古文献资料等，纵古揽今，引经据典，写就篇篇植物传奇。
行文集野趣、情趣、 旨趣一体。妙趣横生，清新怡人。南方的一花一草一木一果，皆身姿摇曳，葳蕤生光，在书中宛若一个个有着不同身份，不同性格的人儿。它们有名字、有来历、有性格，也有各自的命运，一起构成了南方草木的瑰丽图景。
有花有果有典有趣有识见，这本草木短文结集的清凉小书，在夏日到来之际可谓天意。——黎戈
读时令人不觉回想起幼年嬉戏时光，这些婀娜植物就仿佛摇曳在眼前，周围都变得绿意盎然了。——meiya