China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, or minzu, as groups entitled to representation. This controversial new book recounts the history of the most sweeping attempt to sort and categorize the nation's enormous population: the 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie). Thomas S. Mullaney draws on recently declassified material and extensive oral histories to describe how the communist government, in power less than a decade, launched this process in ethnically diverse Yunnan. Mullaney shows how the government drew on Republican-era scholarship for conceptual and methodological inspiration as it developed a strategy for identifying minzu and how non-Party-member Chinese ethnologists produced a "scientific" survey that would become the basis for a policy on nationalities.

Charles Holcombe begins this extraordinarily ambitious 2011 book by asking the question 'What is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, and Korea - distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics or globalization. Yet, as an ancient civilization, the region had both an historical and cultural coherence. It shared a Confucian heritage, some common approaches to Buddhism, a writing system that is deeply imbued with ideas and meaning, and many political and institutional traditions. This shared past and the interconnections among three distinct, yet related societies are at the heart of this book, which traces the story of East Asia from the dawn of history to the twenty-first century. Charles Holcombe is an experienced guide who encapsulates, in a fast-moving and colorful narrative, the vicissitudes and glories of one of the greatest civilizations on earth.
• An introduction to East Asia from the dawn of history to the present by a premier scholar in the field • Emphasizes connections between China, Japan and Korea, as well as wider Eurasian and global currents • Features illustrations, maps, a glossary, a pronunciation guide, a timeline and a bibliography

In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" of empire building: how people at home imagined and experienced the empire they called Manchukuo. Contrary to the conventional assumption that a few army officers and bureaucrats were responsible for Japan's overseas expansion, Young finds that a variety of organizations helped to mobilize popular support for Manchukuo--the mass media, the academy, chambers of commerce, women's organizations, youth groups, and agricultural cooperatives--leading to broad-based support among diverse groups of Japanese. As the empire was being built in China, Young shows, an imagined Manchukuo was emerging at home, constructed of visions of a defensive lifeline, a developing economy, and a settler's paradise.

三岛由纪夫重要代表作，发表于1956年，长篇小说。
《金阁寺》取材于1950年金阁寺僧徒林养贤放火烧掉金阁寺的真实事件。据林养贤说他的犯罪动机是对金阁寺的美的嫉妒。《金阁寺》发表后大受好评，获第八届读卖文学奖。
三岛要在《金阁寺》中描述这种对传统既爱又憎的奇妙心态，这在他看来似乎用一般的真善美方程式是不可能完成的，加上他一向追求倒错美学，于是将金阁寺僧徒的思想和行为作艺术上的提升。他要在美与丑、爱与憎的紧张对立中创造“死与颓废”的美，构筑自己独特的美学世界。总之，三岛由纪夫驱笔写《金阁寺》，就是以金阁与人生相比喻，写美与人生、艺术与人生的悲剧性的关系。
《金阁寺》取材于1950年金阁寺僧徒林养贤放火烧掉金阁寺的真实事件。据林养贤说他的犯罪动机是对金阁寺的美的嫉妒。

Now in paperback, War Without Mercy has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States." In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War -- race -- while writing what John Toland has called "a landmark book...a powerful, moving, and even-handed history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan." Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers "a lesson that the postwar generations need most...with eloquence, crushing detail, and power."

Presenting a vivid social history of 'the new woman' that emerged in Japanese culture between the world wars, "The New Japanese Woman" shows how images of modern women burst into Japanese life in the midst of the urbanization, growth of the middle class, and explosion of consumerism resulting from the postwar economic boom, particularly in the 1920s. Barbara Sato analyzes the icons that came to represent the new urban femininity - the 'modern girl', the housewife, and the professional working woman. She describes how these images portrayed in the media shaped and were shaped by women's desires. While the figures of the modern woman by no means represented all Japanese women, they did challenge the myth of a fixed definition of femininity - particularly the stereotype emphasizing gentleness and meekness, Sato explains, and they generated a new set of possibilities for middle-class women to act and imagine themselves within the context of consumer culture."The New Japanese Woman" is rich in descriptive detail and full of fascinating vignettes from Japan's interwar media and consumer industries-department stores, film, radio, popular music and the publishing industry. Sato pays particular attention to the enormously influential role of the women's magazines, which proliferated during this period. She describes the different kinds of magazines, their stories and readerships, and the new genres the emerged at the time, including confessional pieces, articles about family and popular trends, and advice columns. Examining reactions to the images of the modern girl, the housewife, and the professional woman, Sato shows that while these were not revolutionary figures, they caused anxiety among male intellectuals, government officials, and much of the public at large, and they contributed to the significant changes in gender relations in Japan following the Second World War.

The events of the early 1930s - a severe economic depression, political unrest and profound social change - were unprecendented in the history of modern Japan and deeply unsettling to those who lived through them. This study of Japan's transformation by the crises of the 1930s focuses on efforts by average citizens to overcome the effects of the Great Depression. The author draws on the experiences of the inhabitants of a small farming community in northeastern Japan to illustrate how these efforts, commonly known as "rural revitalization", affected farm families' economic standing, their relationships with the state, and their attempts to bridge the growing divide between city and country, farm and factory. By revealing the ways in which the state and communities dealt with the Great Depression, this study brings us closer to a comparative, grassroots perspective on how average men and women addressed some of modernity's fundamental questions.

How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these workers, Coolies and Cane advances an interpretation of emancipation that moves beyond U.S. borders and the black-white racial dynamic. Tracing American ideas of Asian labor to the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, Moon-Ho Jung argues that the racial formation of "coolies" in American culture and law played a pivotal role in reconstructing concepts of race, nation, and citizenship in the United States. Jung examines how coolies appeared in major U.S. political debates on race, labor, and immigration between the 1830s and 1880s. He finds that racial notions of coolies were articulated in many, often contradictory, ways. They could mark the progress of freedom; they could also symbolize the barbarism of slavery. Welcomed and rejected as neither black nor white, coolies emerged recurrently as both the salvation of the fracturing and reuniting nation and the scourge of American civilization. Based on extensive archival research, this study makes sense of these contradictions to reveal how American impulses to recruit and exclude coolies enabled and justified a series of historical transitions: from slave-trade laws to racially coded immigration laws, from a slaveholding nation to a "nation of immigrants," and from a continental empire of manifest destiny to a liberating empire across the seas. Combining political, cultural, and social history, Coolies and Cane is a compelling study of race, Reconstruction, and Asian American history.

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. Laced with trademark precision, dexterity and insight, it is the work of one of the world's most distinguished writers.

Concerned about the worldwide state of the social sciences--the relations among the disciplines, and their relationship with both the humanities and the natural sciences--the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, based in Lisbon, established in 1993 the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences. It comprised a distinguished international group of scholars--six from the social sciences, two from the natural sciences, and two from the humanities. The report first explores how social science was historically constructed as a form of knowledge and why it was divided into a specific set of relatively standard disciplines in a process that went on between the late eighteenth century and 1945. It then reveals the ways in which world developments since 1945 have raised questions about this intellectual division of labor and have therefore reopened the issues of organizational structuring that had been put into place in the previous period. The report goes on to elucidate a series of basic intellectual questions about which there has been much recent debate. Finally, it discusses in what ways the social sciences can be intelligently restructured in the light of this history and the recent debates.

《利维坦的道德困境:早期现代政治哲学的问题与脉络》的正文是五个专题研究，分别针对五位早期现代政治哲学家——马基雅维里、霍布斯、斯宾诺莎、洛克和卢梭。通过这五篇研究，《利维坦的道德困境:早期现代政治哲学的问题与脉络》试图揭示一个简单的事实：包括自由主义在内的现代政治哲学从一开始就包含了某种内在的紧张。现代政治哲学的最初动因就是消除基督教世界内部宗教和世俗政治之间的冲突与对立，化解自中世纪以来直至现代早期的“神学政治危机”。

《犄角》是鯨向海的第四本詩集作品，包含了近年全新作品，以及詩人第一本詩集《通緝犯》的化約重組。鯨向海說：
通常第一本書，就像是初吻，真的都是一種舊日理想了。
為了紀念《通緝犯》，我的處男詩集，潛逃十年，絕版數年，我選取部分將之化約重組，與這十年來新寫或未發表的詩，新舊口吻交錯，對位纏繞如織物，嫁接繁殖如新品種，出版了這本詩集。
因此，《犄角》是奠基於創作者十年來的創作耙梳，重新檢視自己作品面對自我、面對讀者，與面對時代的回應。《犄角》裡的作品，不再有創作時間的印記，新舊混同，基因重組，自體繁衍，都是詩人對詩藝的更新與翻轉。期待這些作品可以超越被創造當時的時空，能夠與時俱進，不斷update。
對於「犄角」，鯨向海覺得這是統整其詩作的概念，他寫道：
犄角，除了是「動物的角」，也有「角落」的意思，是身（心）的邊境。《犄角》簡單來說是《通緝犯》十年來的一種延伸，一種突變。長出《犄角》，既有掩護《通緝犯》繼續偽裝害羞的不老精怪之用意，也可能因此原形畢露。
波特萊爾表示：「要看透一個詩人的靈魂，就必須在他的作品中搜尋那些最常出現的詞。這樣的詞彙會透露出是什麼讓他心馳神往。」那些難以忽略經常反覆突出的詞語就是一種犄角吧，而他們可能都是源自於內心的同一隻獸。
讀詩就是使人冒出犄角的好方法，大霧之中，如吊橋，如天梯，讓我們的迷惘與偏遠的事物重新聯繫：網路與詩，精神醫學與詩，遊戲與詩……那麼多美好的犄角，詩一直就是我生命中那隻最大的獸。
回顧與前瞻，重組與新創，《犄角》展現詩人十年來詩藝的進展，詩觀的演變。鯨向海總是提出最對應時代、切中當代心靈的凝鍊語句。
《犄角》是準備戳中你的。
釉彩剝落
迷霧之中
青春的面容
滿佈落葉
啊你雖不美
卻可以製造美
那些霧般的傷害和美
溫柔的爛泥
無情的菌類
都是你愛過我的方式

《顾城精选集》，本书收录了顾城的代表作品,包括朦胧诗《杨树》、《寒秋》、《星月的来由》等;寓言故事诗《失恋的赖草》、《善于发明的农人》、《台灯与路灯》等;旧体诗《白云梦》、《读史》、《寄妈妈》等。

笑傲江湖是金庸1967年写的一部武侠小说。《笑傲江湖》属于金庸的后期作品，其叙事状物，已到炉火纯青、出神入化的境界，所谓文有余思，笔无滞得，信笔所至，皆成妙谛。《笑傲江湖》所涉及的场景、人物以及各类武林人物交手搏斗的场面不可胜数，但历历写来，景随情转，变化无穷而皆能贴合生活，使人如同身临其境。

我們必須在長大之前
展開我們的戀愛

《天龙八部(套装共5册)(旧版)》一书以北宋、辽、西夏、大理并立的历史为宏大背景，将儒释道、琴棋书画等中国传统文化融会贯通其中，书中人物繁多，个性鲜明，情节离奇，尽显芸芸众生百态。《天龙八部(套装共5册)(旧版)》讲述了丐帮帮主乔峰与大理国王子段誉、少林弟子虚竹结为兄弟。他身为大宋武林第一大帮帮主，发现自己竟是契丹人，虽受尽中原武林人士唾弃而不肯以怨报怨；他身为辽国南院大王，却甘愿背上叛族罪名，最终以悲壮的自杀来阻止辽国发兵攻宋，不愧为顶天立地的大英雄。

《国王鞠躬，国王杀人》是一部散文集，寓意丰富。作者运用“少数民族语言的独到性”，讲述了她在秘密警察的监督下，颠沛流离的灰暗生活。她在极权统治扭曲语言的现状下，选择以冷峻、超现实的诗性语言，表达对现实环境的不安全感。

作者的散文集。十七篇文章是作者心灵随想的真实记录，是对自然与社会、精神与物质、友谊与爱情、读书与写作等多方位、多层次的思考。

《花与舌头》主要内容包括变成虫子的人、有替身帮他活着的人、用身体做赌注的人、住在笼子里的人、因讲故事遭驱逐的人、偷阅他人爱情的人、没有舌头的人、被偷走姓名的人、、用头发为诱饵的人数时间的人和不允许说梦话的人等。