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“冷战”结束后，人们信心满满地宣称促进民主的传播能带来稳定与和平，然而战火和冲突、流血和屠戮依然持续不断。卢旺达大屠杀、科索沃战争、频繁发生在印度和高加索地区的族群冲突始终刺痛着我们的神经。
为什么民主化常常导致民族主义冲突？为什么有时冲突又没有发生？为什么国际社会的介入反而使冲突不断升级？本书以这三个问题为核心，深入研究了民族主义的四个经典案例：曾处于历史转折点上的德国、英国、法国和塞尔维亚。通过考证大量的文献资料，作者指出，民族主义狂热和族群暴力并非源于敌意文化间的“古老仇恨”，而是由于精英阶层为维持现有统治秩序所做的冒险决定。
如今，诸多发展中国家也面临着相似困境。本书的现实意义在于，作者评估了避免民族冲突的不同方案，继而提出有效的针对性政策，以防止历史悲剧再次上演。
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在本书中，斯奈德提出，成熟的民主国家间倾向于避免动武，而正在向民主化转型中的国家在民族主义狂热面前则异常脆弱。本书重新审视了人们普遍接受的观念，在政策制定方面具有深远意义。
——弗朗西斯·福山（著名政治学家）
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在这本重要的著作中，斯奈德很好地融合了理论洞见与历史研究，这是近年来在国际政治领域中最出色的著作之一。
——法里德·扎卡利亚（著名记者、《时代》杂志特约编辑）
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在这个对全球民主浪潮欣喜期待的时代，本书是一剂使人清醒的良药。
——《纽约时报书评》
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本书结构井然有序，行文清晰，因其与学界传统著述截然不同而备受关注，作者没有把“古老仇恨”视为民族主义冲突的源头，其关于民主启蒙和民族主义后果的分析非常令人信服。
——《出版人周刊》
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【编辑推荐】
1、当所有国家都转化为成熟的民主国家时，世界就会和平吗？从20世纪最后十年以来不断爆发的局部冲突来看，答案没有那么简单：民主化有时会导致民族主义冲突，有时却不会。
2、美国哥伦比亚大学政治系教授杰克·斯奈德在本书中通过对18—19世纪的英国、二战前的德国、大革命时期的法国及一战前的塞尔维亚等历史案例的比较研究，撇除历史的泡沫，重新追溯民族主义狂热和族群暴力频发的源头。
3、本书表明，未经深思熟路而仓促地向民主社会过渡，可能引起一系列民族主义灾难。在完善的法律制度、社会共识、成熟的社会团体等制度化要素稳固加强之后，我们才可能开辟一条通往自由的大众政治道路。

本書是首部關於中國的拉拉（女同性戀、雙性戀及跨性別）社群與政治的民族志研究。在多年深度訪談的基礎上，本書集中討論上海的拉拉們如何在一個否定女性性自主權的文化中自處，以及在同性慾望與強調家庭和諧及強迫婚姻之間掙扎。作者解讀了包括「華人寬容傳統」在內的中式恐同話語，揭示異性戀正統主義如何將其要求強加於同志主體之上。作者將「公共正確政治」視為一種新的同志實踐，在中國式管控下，建立同志的生存策略和自我認同。
本書結合了作者自身的酷兒經歷和堅實的研究成果，詳盡刻劃當今中國都市的女同志社群與政治的現狀，為關於同性關係、恐同、出櫃政治及性管治的全球探討和辯論作出了寶貴貢獻。

In early twentieth-century China, age-old traditions of homosocial and homoerotic relationships between women suddenly became an issue of widespread public concern. Discussed formerly in terms of friendship and sisterhood, these relationships came to be associated with feminism, on the one hand, and psychobiological perversion, on the other—a radical shift whose origins have long been unclear.
In this first ever book-length study of Chinese lesbians, Tze-lan D. Sang convincingly ties the debate over female same-sex love in China to the emergence of Chinese modernity. As women's participation in social, economic, and political affairs grew, Sang argues, so too did the societal significance of their romantic and sexual relations. Focusing especially on literature by or about women-preferring women, Sang traces the history of female same-sex relations in China from the late imperial period (1600-1911) through the Republican era (1912-1949). She ends by examining the reemergence of public debate on lesbians in China after Mao and in Taiwan after martial law, including the important roles played by globalization and identity politics.

Lala (lesbian) and gay communities in mainland China have emerged rapidly in the 21st century. Alongside new freedoms and modernizing reforms, and with mainstream media and society increasingly tolerant, lalas still experience immense family and social pressures to a degree that this book argues is deeply gendered. The first anthropological study to examine everyday lala lives, intimacies, and communities in China, the chapters explore changing articulations of sexual subjectivity, gendered T-P (tomboy-wife) roles, family and kinship, same-sex weddings, lala-gay contract marriages, and community activism. Engebretsen analyzes lala strategies of complicit transgressions to balance surface respectability and undeclared same-sex desires, why "being normal" emerges a deep aspiration and sign of respectability, and why openly lived homosexuality and public activism often are not.
Queer Women in Urban China develops a critical ethnographic analysis through the conceptual lens of "different normativities," tracing the paradoxes and intricacies of the desire for normal life alongside aspirations for recognition, equality, and freedom, and argues that dominant paradigms fixed on categories, identities, and the absolute value of public visibility are ill-equipped to fully understand these complexities. This book complements existing perspectives on sexual and gender diversity, contemporary China, and the politics and theories of justice, recognition, and similitude in global times.

By now, we've all heard about the shocking redistribution of wealth that's occurred during the last thirty years, and particularly during the last decade. But economic changes like this don't occur in a vacuum; they're always linked to politics. The Twilight of Equality? searches out these links through an analysis of the politics of the 1990s, the decade when neoliberalism-free market economics-became gospel. After a brilliant historical examination of how racial and gender inequities were woven into the very theoretical underpinnings of the neoliberal model of the state, Duggan shows how these inequities play out today. In a series of political case studies, Duggan reveals how neoliberal goals have been pursued, demonstrating that progressive arguments that separate identity politics and economic policy, cultural politics and affairs of state, can only fail. Ultimately, The Twilight of Equality? not only reveals how the highly successful rhetorical maneuvers of neoliberalism have functioned but, more importantly, it shows a way to revitalize and unify progressive politics in the U.S. today.

This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China's post-Mao and postsocialist era to show how these diverse cultural forms and practices not only function as context-specific and culturally sensitive forms of social activism but also produce distinct types of gender and sexual subjectivities unique to China's postsocialist conditions.

From poetry to papercutting art, from 'comrade/gay literature' to girls' love fan fiction, from lesbian films to activist documentaries, and from a drag show in Shanghai to a public performance of a same-sex wedding in Beijing, the book reveals a queer China in all its ideological complexity and creative energy. Empirically rich and methodologically eclectic, Queer China skilfully weaves together historical and archival research, textual and discourse analysis, along with interviews and ethnography.

Breaking new ground and bringing a non-Western perspective to the fore, this transdisciplinary work contributes to multiple academic fields including literary and cultural studies, media and communication studies, film and screen studies, contemporary art, theatre and performance studies, gender and sexuality studies, China/Asia and Global South studies, cultural history and cultural geography, political theory and the study of social movements.

A wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a stick. In both cases, it is friction that produces movement, action, effect. Challenging the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a 'clash' of cultures, anthropologist Anna Tsing here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the diverse and conflicting social interactions that make up our contemporary world. She focuses on one particular 'zone of awkward engagement' - the rainforests of Indonesia - where in the 1980's and the 1990's capitalist interests increasingly reshaped the landscape not so much through corporate design as through awkward chains of legal and illegal entrepreneurs that wrested the land from previous claimants, creating resources for distant markets.In response, environmental movements arose to defend the rainforests and the communities of people who live in them. Not confined to a village, a province, or a nation, the social drama of the Indonesian rainforest includes local and national environmentalists, international science, North American investors, advocates for Brazilian rubber tappers, UN funding agencies, mountaineers, village elders, and urban students, among others - all combining in unpredictable, messy misunderstandings, but misunderstandings that sometimes work out. Providing a portfolio of methods to study global interconnections, Tsing shows how curious and creative cultural differences are in the grip of worldly encounter, and how much is overlooked in contemporary theories of the global.

Orientalism and Religion offers us a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion. Drawing on a variety of post-structuralist and post-colonial thinkers, including Foucault, Gadamer, Said, and Spivak, Richard King examines the way in which notions such as mysticism, religion, Hinduism and Buddhism are taken for granted, and shows us how religion needs to be redescribed along the lines of cultural studies.

Picking up on Edward Said's claim that the historical experience of empire is common to both the colonizer and the colonized, Peter van der Veer takes the case of religion to examine the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture. He shows that national culture in both India and Britain developed in relation to their shared colonial experience and that notions of religion and secularity were crucial in imagining the modern nation in both countries. In the process, van der Veer chronicles how these notions developed in the second half of the nineteenth century in relation to gender, race, language, spirituality, and science. Avoiding the pitfalls of both world systems theory and national historiography, this book problematizes oppositions between modern and traditional, secular and religious, progressive and reactionary. It shows that what often are assumed to be opposites are, in fact, profoundly entangled. In doing so, it upsets the convenient fiction that India is the land of eternal religion, existing outside of history, while Britain is the epitome of modern secularity and an agent of history. Van der Veer also accounts for the continuing role of religion in British culture and the strong part religion has played in the development of Indian civil society. This masterly work of scholarship brings into view the effects of the very close encounter between India and Britain - an intimate encounter that defined the character of both nations.

Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism", which he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. In Orientalism (1978), Said described the "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture."[12] He argued that a long tradition of false and romanticized images of Asia and the Middle East in Western culture had served as an implicit justification for Europe and America's colonial and imperial ambitions. Just as fiercely, he denounced the practice of Arab elites who internalized the American and British orientalists' ideas of Arabic culture.
In 1980 Said criticized what he regarded as poor understanding of the Arab culture in the West:
“ So far as the United States seems to be concerned, it is only a slight overstatement to say that Moslems and Arabs are essentially seen as either oil suppliers or potential terrorists. Very little of the detail, the human density, the passion of Arab-Moslem life has entered the awareness of even those people whose profession it is to report the Arab world. What we have instead is a series of crude, essentialized caricatures of the Islamic world presented in such a way as to make that world vulnerable to military aggression.[13] ”
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Orientalism has had a significant impact on the fields of literary theory, cultural studies and human geography, and to a lesser extent on those of history and oriental studies. Taking his cue from the work of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, and from earlier critics of western Orientalism such as A. L. Tibawi,[14] Anouar Abdel-Malek,[15] Maxime Rodinson,[16] and Richard William Southern,[17] Said argued that Western writings on the Orient, and the perceptions of the East purveyed in them, are suspect, and cannot be taken at face value. According to Said, the history of European colonial rule and political domination over the East distorts the writings of even the most knowledgeable, well-meaning and sympathetic Western ‘Orientalists’ (a term that he transformed into a pejorative):
“ I doubt if it is controversial, for example, to say that an Englishman in India or Egypt in the later nineteenth century took an interest in those countries which was never far from their status in his mind as British colonies. To say this may seem quite different from saying that all academic knowledge about India and Egypt is somehow tinged and impressed with, violated by, the gross political fact – and yet that is what I am saying in this study of Orientalism. (Said, Orientalism 11) ”
Said contended that Europe had dominated Asia politically so completely for so long that even the most outwardly objective Western texts on the East were permeated with a bias that even most Western scholars could not recognise. His contention was not only that the West has conquered the East politically but also that Western scholars have appropriated the exploration and interpretation of the Orient’s languages, history and culture for themselves. They have written Asia’s past and constructed its modern identities from a perspective that takes Europe as the norm, from which the "exotic", "inscrutable" Orient deviates.
Said concludes that Western writings about the Orient depict it as an irrational, weak, feminised "Other", contrasted with the rational, strong, masculine West, a contrast he suggests derives from the need to create "difference" between West and East that can be attributed to immutable "essences" in the Oriental make-up. In 1978, when the book was first published, with memories of the Yom Kippur war and the OPEC crisis still fresh, Said argued that these attitudes still permeated the Western media and academia. After stating the central thesis, Orientalism consists mainly of supporting examples from Western texts.

本书所录系作者对国学、“西藏问题”和学术方法等热点问题的思考，发表以来深受学界和文化界好评。作者的“大国学”理念别具一格，对“语文学”的阐释和倡导发人深思。长达十六年的海外游学经历，结合扎实的专业知识背景，使作者对国际视野中的“西藏问题”有非常透彻和独到的见解。通过对一个西方后现代的乌托邦神话——“虚拟的西藏”（即香格里拉）的解构，作者为世人理解西藏、西藏文化和所谓“西藏问题”提供了一个全新的视角。

Curators of the Buddha is the first critical history of the study of Buddhism in the West and the first work to bring the insights of colonial and postcolonial cultural studies to bear on this field.
After an overview of the origins of Buddhist studies in the early nineteenth century, the essays focus on important "curators of the Buddha" such as Aurel Stein, D. T. Suzuki, and Carl Jung, who, as they created and maintained the discipline, played a significant role in disseminating knowledge about Buddhism in the West. The essays bring to life many of the important but unexamined social, political, and cultural conditions that have shaped the course of Buddhist studies for more than a century - and have frequently determined the understanding of a complex set of traditions. Contributors Charles Hallisey, Gustavo Benavides, Stanley Abe, Luis Gomez, Robert Sharf, and Donald Lopez challenge some of the most enduring ideas in Buddhist studies: that Zen Buddhism is, above all, an experience; that Tibetan Buddhism is polluted, or pristine; that the Buddha image is of Greek or Roman origin; that the classical text supersedes the vernacular, as the manuscript supersedes the informant; and many others. Chronicling the emergence of the academic study of Buddhism in Europe and America within the context of the ideologies of empire, this volume provides a long overdue genealogy and clears the way for a far-reaching reconception of the discipline.

本书探讨伦理学中的几个论题。读过几本书的人知道，天下的道理差不多早都被前人讲过。其中有些，我有自己的体会、思考，尝试用当代中国普通读者比较易懂的方式把这些道理重新讲述；有些，前人好像讲得不太对不太好，我尝试讲得更好些。也许没做到——我一直对自己期望不高，更希望的倒是有几个读者能与作者一样，感到诚实的思考实是人生一大乐事。
“我该怎样生活”这个问题不只是人生道路之初的问题，而是贯穿人的一生的问题。这个问题，主要不是选择人生道路的问题，不是选对或选错人生道路的问题，而是行路的问题——知道自己在走什么路，知道这条路该怎么走：我们是否贴切着自己的真实天性行路。
在最初“选择人生道路”的时候，没谁一开始通透了解自己的本性，了解周边环境并预见环境的变化。我们一开始不可能通透了解自己的本性，这不在于我们还不够聪明，而在于我们的本性在一开始不够具体，本性有待在盘根错节的实践中向我们逐渐清晰地显现。我们大概可以在这个意义上去理解歌德说他的浮士德是一系列越来越纯粹或纯洁（rein）的努力。我把这个“纯粹”或“纯洁”理解为：自身通透。我以为，这种自身通透是phronesis最核心的含义——洞明自己行在何处，浑然一体地洞明自己和自己所行之路，从而能贴切着自己的真实天性行路，把自己大致保持在天性所指的道路上。

◎聯合推薦：南方朔、孫大川、陳芳明、廖咸浩
法國存在主義哲學大師／沙特
《大地上的受苦者》是弗朗茲‧法農的最後一本著作。早在《黑皮膚，白面具》一書中，法農便提出對於種族主義的反思，他認為種族主義並非偶發事件，亦非恣意妄為，而是一種宰制的文化體系，這種體系也在殖民地運作。若是不看清統治文化所帶來的壓迫效應與奴役現象，那麼對於種族主義的抗爭便是徒然，因為這種壓迫的觸角廣及社團、政治與文化，甚至也會影響個體的精神狀態。在全球化對弱勢地區已然形成新殖民剝削的今天，法農的諸多觀點，都能讓我們看清當前的許多現象，原是源自整個殖民主義／資本主義的淵藪。

In this volume, four leading thinkers of our times confront the paradoxes and dilemmas attending the supposed stand-off between Islam and liberal democratic values. Taking the controversial Danish cartoons of Mohammad as a point of departure, Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood inquire into the evaluative frameworks at stake in understanding the conflicts between blasphemy and free speech, between religious taboos and freedoms of thought and expression, and between secular and religious world views. Is the language of the law an adequate mechanism for the adjudication of such conflicts? What other modes of discourse are available for the navigation of such differences in multicultural and multi-religious societies? What is the role of critique in such an enterprise? These are among the pressing questions this volume addresses.

Through window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such “desiring subjects” is at the core of China’s contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post-socialist world. In a study at once ethnographic, historical, and theoretical, she contends that neoliberal subjectivities are created through the production of various desires—material, sexual, and affective—and that it is largely through their engagements with public culture that people in China are imagining and practicing appropriate desires for the post-Mao era.Drawing on her research over the past two decades among urban residents and rural migrants in Hangzhou and Beijing, Rofel analyzes the meanings that individuals attach to various public cultural phenomena and what their interpretations say about their understandings of post-socialist China and their roles within it. She locates the first broad-based public debate about post-Mao social changes in the passionate dialogues about the popular 1991 television soap opera Yearnings. She describes how the emergence of gay identities and practices in China reveals connections to a transnational network of lesbians and gay men at the same time that it brings urban/rural and class divisions to the fore. The 1999–2001 negotiations over China’s entry into the World Trade Organization; a controversial women’s museum; the ways that young single women portray their longings in relation to the privations they imagine their mothers experienced; adjudications of the limits of self-interest in court cases related to homoerotic desire, intellectual property, and consumer fraud—Rofel reveals all of these as sites where desiring subjects come into being.

第一刷5000册

In July 1995, Chicagoans suffered through a blistering week-long heat wave that buckled streets and downed portions of the city's power grid. It also left over 700 people dead. In this alarming book, Eric Klinenberg tells us how such fatalities could have happened in a modern American city. The picture he paints - of social breakdown, unresponsive government and poorly equipped public services - is one no reader interested in the current state of American urbanism can afford to ignore.

很多人面对写作感到困难重重、无法下笔，或出于种种原因无限拖延甚至中断，大部分人将这些困难归因于缺乏一般写作方法、技巧、灵感或天赋，然而，我们却忽视了不利的外部环境和内心困扰。
本书主要从心理角度探讨了每个写作者都会遇到的困境与障碍，如幻想、拖延、焦虑、负罪、羞愧、自卑、自我怀疑……作者深入、细腻地分析了这些心理困境产生的原因，并提出了多种有效、实用的理念和技巧，如培养工匠精神，确保写作时间、空间和精力，掌握动笔和搁笔的节奏，组建写作互助小组等。作者认为，我们对写作的内心障碍理解得越深刻，便越能够采取相应的策略，进而突破瓶颈，让写作成为一件轻松、高效、快乐的事情。
本书见解独到、细腻深入，道出了写作者的苦衷，指明了突破瓶颈的路径，具有很强的实用性。
◆《高效写作》从心理角度探讨了每个写作者都会遇到的困境与障碍（幻想、拖延、焦虑、负罪、羞愧、自卑、自我怀疑），见解独到、细腻深入，道出了写作者的苦衷，指明了突破瓶颈的路径，具有很强的实用性。
◆下笔难吗？一拖再拖，写不下去了吗？自我怀疑了吗？灵感枯竭了吗？要交稿了吗……写作简直成了一种心理创伤！美国常春藤大学教授亲授写作心法，帮你征服种种心魔,让高兴、高效、高产写作成为可能！
◆美国常青藤大学教授历时30年，在其发起的教工写作支持项目的经验和教训的基础上，锤炼而成。作者结合自己的经验，收集和总结写作者在写作过程中遇到的困惑，将每个写作者遇到的困难娓娓道来，并给出有效的技巧。
◆《高效写作》可以帮助写作者建立良好的写作习惯，其戳破了学术写作过程中大家经常遇到内部和外部的误区和迷惑，并逐一破解。
◆《高效写作》中提出的技巧可以运用在写作的全过程中，包括起稿、修改、应对审稿建议等过程。
◆很多人为写作所困，感到无所适从，即使发表过文章也很难从中获得一般的规律，帮助自己持续高效地发表文章，也难以有效指导研究生更好地进行学术写作。《高效写作》提出了一种工匠精神的理念，使写作者顺利完成大部头著作的写作任务，让持续、高效写作成为可能。
◆《高效写作》不仅适合被各种写作所困的个体，也适用于人生、工作和学习中面对痛苦的人们，这些技巧也能够运用到其他领域。
本书扎根于学术研究和实践经验，言简意赅，可读性非常强。通过这本书，忙碌的大学教师们能够学会多种具有创造性并清晰易懂的方法，找到更多时间、空间和精力来投入写作。
——玛丽·迪恩·索尔奇内利，马萨诸塞大学副教务长
本书提供了一整套高效写作的工具和方法，甚至能让我们从中获得快乐。
——彼得·法尔腾，埃隆大学副教务长
我喜欢詹森的一点是，她强调写作是一门技艺，而技艺是要通过学习和锻炼才能获得的。我们并非生来就会写论文，需要确保适当的时间和环境，这与修椅子是一个道理。
——史蒂芬·K.多诺万，《学术出版期刊》
大部分写作者都需要写作，但是，在乔利·詹森看来，对许多写作者来说，写作已经近乎一种“存在创伤”。他认为，写作者需要将写作视为一门技艺，而不是一种折磨；它不是衡量“内在价值的标杆”，需要一套“有效的工具和习惯”。
——《泰晤士报》（高等教育版）

This book brings together some of the most exciting, original and cuttingedge work being conducted on contemporary queer China. The volume includes original essays by some of the most prolific and central queer activists and artists in the PRC, placing their writing alongside work by emergent and established scholars from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. The book offers unique perspectives by presenting primary accounts of the creative and multi-faceted strategies that activists and community organizers have developed in their various activities. The volume also presents rich, empirical evidence of every-day queer lives across China, offering a unique record not only of cosmopolitan community and activist perspectives but also of voices and experiences from a broad range of locations and identifications. As a whole it offers invaluable insights into sexual and gender diversity in China today. Queer/Tongzhi China thus breathes as it speaks, providing through its diverse approaches a different understanding of queer China than standard mono-ethnographies or social-scientific documentaries.