What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today’s mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions. For centuries, Western science has promoted a human- and animal-centric framework of what counts as action, agency, movement, and behavior. But, as Michael Hathaway shows, the world-making capacities of mushrooms radically challenge this orthodoxy by revealing the lively dynamism of all forms of life.
The book tells the fascinating story of one particularly prized species, the matsutake, and the astonishing ways it is silently yet powerfully shaping worlds, from the Tibetan plateau to the mushrooms’ final destination in Japan. Many Tibetan and Yi people have dedicated their lives to picking and selling this mushroom—a delicacy that drives a multibillion-dollar global trade network and that still grows only in the wild, despite scientists’ intensive efforts to cultivate it in urban labs. But this is far from a simple story of humans exploiting a passive, edible commodity. Rather, the book reveals the complex, symbiotic ways that mushrooms, plants, humans, and other animals interact. It explores how the world looks to the mushrooms, as well as to the people who have grown rich harvesting them.
A surprise-filled journey into science and human culture, this exciting and provocative book shows how fungi shape our planet and our lives in strange, diverse, and often unimaginable ways.

In 1941, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic chemical to be marketed as an estrogen and one of the first to be identified as a hormone disruptor - a chemical that mimics hormones. Although researchers knew that DES caused cancer and disrupted sexual development, doctors prescribed it for millions of women, initially for menopause and then for miscarriage, while farmers gave cattle the hormone to promote rapid weight gain. Its residues, and those of other chemicals, in the American food supply are changing the internal ecosystems of human, livestock, and wildlife bodies in increasingly troubling ways. In this gripping exploration, the environmentalist and historian Nancy Langston shows how these chemicals have since World War II penetrated into every aspect of our bodies and ecosystems, yet the U.S. government has largely failed to regulate them and has skillfully manipulated scientific uncertainty to delay regulation. Personally affected by endocrine disruptors, Langston makes a convincing argument that the FDA needs to institute proper regulation of these commonly produced synthetic chemicals.

While cultural and scholarly traditions have led us to believe that war and control of nature are separate, there are many more similarities than most people might suspect. Tracing the history of chemical warfare and pest control, Edmund Russell shows how war and control of nature coevolved. Ideologically, institutionally, and technologically, the paths of chemical warfare and pest control intersected repeatedly in the twentieth century. War and Nature helps us to understand the impact of war on nature and vice versa, as well as the development of total war, and the rise of the modern environmental movement. Edmund Russell is an assistant professor in the Division of Technology, Culture, and Communication in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. This is his first book.

《北宋馆阁翰苑与诗坛研究》是山东师范大学教授陈元锋在其博士论文基础上修改而成的。书稿试图通过对北宋馆阁翰苑制度的考察，揭示制度文明中的政治、文化内涵，进而在此背景下探讨北宋馆职词臣诗人群体所特有的从政方式、生活形态及其创作趋向。 宋代三馆秘阁及学士院史料庞杂，线索纷繁，本书稿的研究范围以北宋为主，兼及南宋；以崇文院为主，秘书省为辅；以翰林学士主，中书舍人为辅；以馆职为主，贴职为辅，以突出馆阁作为文学高选的特色。学士与馆职宦途相接，文翰 相通，联系至为密切，故本书稿将翰苑与馆阁作为一个整体进行论述，而馆阁翰苑与文学的关系也以诗歌为主。
作者认为，与唐代文馆翰苑相比，宋代馆阁与学士制度更加完善，政治与文化功能尤为突出，表现出一些新的时代特色：一，由于宋代君王稽古好文，优礼文臣，因此馆职、词臣地位更高，成为文学之高选，倍极儒墨之荣。二，所谓馆阁储材，这一制度的精华部分在于选拔培养那些精通文章、学术的专门人才。三，进士、制科是馆阁取人的主要来源，进士入馆及馆职迁除词臣均须经学士院或舍人院考试，考试的主要内容大体与礼部进士试相当，以诗赋文章、词采学术为主。四，盛世修书，最著名的宋代四部大书《太平御览》《太平广记》《文苑英华》《册府元龟》是太宗、真宗两朝由两制词臣与三馆学士为主集体完成的。五，宋代馆阁进一步发扬了“燕公流风”，即张说开元年间主持集贤苑时所倡导的那种宰辅大臣与文馆学士之间纯粹道义上的平等和谐关系。六，翰林学士作为学者宗师，以词命为职业，其中不乏诗文兼擅、文词与学术并重的大家。
在书稿中，作者在制度文化史的大视野下，对纷繁的资料进行了细致的爬梳与甄别，显示出其学术功力；并使制度史的研究最终落脚到文学上，避免了平面化简单化的背景罗列；对北宋馆阁翰苑的评价也能自圆其说。但不时也流露出对自己所研究对象的偏爱。

宗教史研究权威伊利亚德得意弟子与亲密友人——约安·P.库里亚诺关于灵魂出世的精彩有趣研究，展示从古至今各种文化语境下的人们的丰富的超验体验与描述。
灵魂的离体漫游，或者被大家所熟悉的天堂、地狱的两分，古埃及的亡灵书，《西游记》中孙悟空元神出窍幽冥界，爱丽丝的奇幻世界，《神曲》中灵魂的三界游历，这些异质文化中关于灵魂的相似描述，都成为了库里亚诺的考察对象，他让我们看到人们对现实世界之外的精神世界的异常重视，也让我们重新思索关于心灵、物质和现象的那些争论，审视关于物理、数学、感知以及思维准则的“事实”的时代。库里亚诺的目标是是我们认识到（实际上是实在化）其他的可能性。通过变换我们在历史上获得的关于空间、时间和物质的感知，我们将发现我们创造性地生活在一个可供选择的世界（或更恰当地说）别的世界中。
在世界范围内，各种文化传说、宗教甚至科学中，都有关于灵魂游历的表述。无论是古埃及的亡灵书、还是道教中的招魂、孙悟空元神下冥界，这些不约而同的灵魂游历现象，对于宗教神学研究专家而言，是一种极有意思的研究对象。在本书中，伊利亚德的得意学生——库里亚诺就分析了灵魂的种种幽冥之旅。这里的幽冥之旅，是指相信灵魂存在的各种宗教和神学传统，如萨满教、印度教、基督教、伊斯兰教、佛教甚至传统巫术等，这些传统所描述的天堂、地狱、意识改变状态、脱体经验、濒体验等超脱现世存在的想象和经验。在库里亚诺看来，这是是不同文化背景的人们感知世界的一种方法。在分析方法上，作者使用控制论、物理学、文学理论 精神分析、认知理论、神经生理学、数学、人种学以及认知论上的发现，分析相似和相异的历史材料，考察科学与文学、哲学、历史等学科理论，以及不同类型的人物如玻尔与博尔赫斯、爱因斯坦与吉尔伽美什等，通过概览不同材料和不同人物记载、描述的具有共通性的“幽冥之旅”，来阐释传统宗教和神学如何借由这种方法统驭、感知精神世界并进而介入物质世界。

From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography is the first book in English to document this phenomenon and to put it into historical context, while also examining the diverse approaches thriving within contemporary photography. Author Lyle Rexer examines abstraction at pivotal moments, starting with the inception of photography, when many of the pioneers believed the camera might reveal other aspects of reality. The Edge of Vision traces subsequent explorations--from the Photo Secessionists, who emphasized process and emotional expression over observed reality, to Modernist and Surrealist experiments. In the decades to follow, in particular from the 1940s through the 1980s, a multitude of photographers--Edward Weston, Aaron Siskind and Barbara Kasten among them--took up abstraction from a variety of positions. Finally, Rexer explores the influence the history of abstraction exerts on contemporary thinking about the medium. Many contemporary artists--most prominently Ilan Wolff, Marco Breuer and Ellen Carey--reject photography's documentary dimension in favor of other possibilities, somewhere between painting and sculpture, that include the manipulation of process and printing. In addition to Rexer's engagingly written and richly illustrated history, this volume includes a selection of primary texts from and interviews with key practitioners and critics such as Edward Steichen, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and James Welling.

本书以佛教圣地学为视角，解读云南 鸡足山佛教圣地的形成与变迁。云南鸡足 山佛教圣地的形成与大迦叶有关。明朝攻 克大理后，大理国的治国精英——“儒 释”阶层解体了，这些精英遗民怀着亡国 之痛和民族生存危机，试图在精神世界里 寻找心灵突围。于是，大理国精英遗民把 白族祖源与印度阿育王联姻，表明白族的 佛教文化传统，区别于汉族儒家文化。大理 宾川县的九曲山形似鸡足，而佛经记载大 迦叶入定于鸡足山，在“妙香国”传说的砧 木上，大理国精英遗民操把九曲山易名 为鸡足山，完成了一场佛教文化的嫁接。

在距长沙市中心约30里的榔梨市上，有一座陶公庙，庙里供奉的主神是陶真人。明清以降，陶真人逐渐从一社区之神发展成湖南省神，其兴衰与湖南地方力量的强弱相始终。本书在“国家与社会”的理论框架下，运用以人为中心的研究方法，从海量的历史信息中，不仅建构了陶真人的生命史，而且揭示了湖南地方自主性的演变。作为一部社会文化史专著，本书打破了古代史与近现代史的畛域，从“地方的逻辑”描绘了一幅崭新的近代湖南画卷。

《宋代乡村组织研究》的主要内容是：地方政治相对于中央政治而言，是历代王朝政治的重要组成部分，无论是研究中国政治，还是研究历代王朝的治乱兴衰史，或者是研究经济经济史、军事史、社会史等等，都离不开对地方政治的研究。

Any landscape has an unseen component: a subjective component of experience, memory, and narrative which people familiar with the place understand to be an integral part of its geography but which outsiders may not suspect the existence of—unless they listen and read carefully. This invisible landscape is make visible though stories, and these stories are the focus of this engrossing book. Traveling across the invisible landscape in which we imaginatively dwell, Kent Ryden—himself a most careful listener and reader—asks the following questions. What categories of meaning do we read into our surroundings? What forms of expression serve as the most reliable maps to understanding those meanings? Our sense of any place, he argues, consists of a deeply ingrained experiential knowledge of its physical makeup; an awareness of its communal and personal history; a sense of our identity as being inextricably bound up with its events and ways of life; and an emotional reaction, positive or negative, to its meanings and memories. Ryden demonstrates that both folk and literary narratives about place bear a striking thematic and stylistic resemblance. Accordingly, Mapping the Invisible Landscape examines both kinds of narratives. For his oral materials, Ryden provides an in-depth analysis of narratives collected in the Coeur d'Alene mining district in the Idaho panhandle; for his consideration of written works, he explores the “essay of place,” the personal essay which takes as its subject a particular place and a writer's relationship to that place. Drawing on methods and materials from geography, folklore, and literature, Mapping the Invisible Landscape offers a broadly interdisciplinary analysis of the way we situate ourselves imaginatively in the landscape, the way we inscribe its surface with stories. Written in an extremely engaging style, this book will lead its readers to an awareness of the vital role that a sense of place plays in the formation of local cultures, to an understanding of the many-layered ways in which place interacts with individual lives, and to renewed appreciation of the places in their own lives and landscapes.

You've landed a job. Now what?
No one tells you how to navigate your first day in a new role. No one tells you how to take ownership, manage expectations, or handle workplace politics. No one tells you how to get promoted.
The answers to these professional unknowns lie in the unspoken rules—the certain ways of doing things that managers expect but don't explain and that top performers do but don't realize.
The problem is, these rules aren't taught in school. Instead, they get passed down over dinner or from mentor to mentee, making for an unlevel playing field, with the insiders getting ahead and the outsiders stumbling along through trial and error.
Until now.
In this practical guide, Gorick Ng, a first-generation college student and Harvard career adviser, demystifies the unspoken rules of work. Ng distills the wisdom he has gathered from over five hundred interviews with professionals across industries and job types about the biggest mistakes people make at work. Loaded with frameworks, checklists, and talking points, the book provides concrete strategies you can apply immediately to your own situation and will help you navigate inevitable questions, such as:
How do I manage my time in the face of conflicting priorities?
How do I build relationships when I’m working remotely?
How do I ask for help without looking incompetent or lazy?
The Unspoken Rules is the only book you need to perform your best, stand out from your peers, and set yourself up for a fulfilling career.

◎240段关于蓝的诗意哲思 镌刻爱与失落的异色经典
◎21世纪的《恋人絮语》
◎麦克阿瑟“天才奖”、美国国家书评奖得主 玛吉·尼尔森 首部中文作品
◎被翻译为10种语言 《卫报》《观察者报》《纽约时报》好评推荐
◎入选Bookforum“过去20年最好的10本书”
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※玛吉·尼尔森是美国著名散文家、评论家、诗人，被誉为“美国当代最令人振奋的作家之一”。曾获麦克阿瑟“天才奖”、美国国家书评奖等多个大奖。卡尔·奥韦·克瑙斯高、阮清越、奥利维娅·莱恩等诸多当代名家都十分推崇她。
※玛吉·尼尔森被认为是当代最杰出的散文家之一，她的写作颠覆了常见的文学分类，融合了学术、散文、诗歌等多种体裁风格。《蓝》是她最为畅销和最被广泛阅读的作品，被视为“21世纪的《恋人絮语》”，曾被入选Bookforum“过去20年最好的10本书”。
※《蓝》是玛吉·尼尔森的作品首次译介到国内，由资深文学译者翁海贞担纲翻译，译文流畅、充满诗意，完美还原玛吉·尼尔森独特的语言风格。
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《蓝》是一部哲思性的散文作品，由240段关于蓝色的随笔组成。玛吉·尼尔森通过诗一样的语言，以及对文学史、文化史、艺术史的旁征博引，对蓝色，这一人类历史上最多人喜爱的颜色进行了思考。她不仅仅将蓝色与文学、艺术相连，更将其与自身的个人磨难、爱与欲望进行勾连，完成了一部奇妙又无法定义的蓝色之书。
本书是玛吉·尼尔森最为畅销和最被广泛阅读的作品。凭借这部作品，她跻身当代最杰出的抒情散文家的行列。
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【名人推荐】
“在很长很长的一段时间里，玛吉·尼尔森比我读到的任何东西都要好。”——卡尔·奥韦·克瑙斯高
“玛吉·尼尔森是美国当代最令人振奋的作家之一。”——奥利维娅·莱恩

Educated men in Song-dynasty China (960–1279) traveled frequently in search of scholarly and bureaucratic success. These extensive periods of physical mobility took them away from their families, homes, and native places for long periods of time, preventing them from fulfilling their most sacred domestic duty: filial piety to their parents. In this deeply grounded work, Ellen Zhang locates the tension between worldly ambition and family duty at the heart of elite social and cultural life. Drawing on more than 2,000 funerary biographies and other official and private writing, Zhang argues that the predicament in which Song literati found themselves diminished neither the importance of filial piety nor the appeal of participating in examinations and government service. On the contrary, the Northern Song witnessed unprecedented literati activity and state involvement in the bolstering of ancient forms of filial performances and the promotion of new ones. The result was the triumph of a new filial ideal: luyang. By labeling highly coveted honors and privileges attainable solely through scholarly and official accomplishments as the most celebrated filial acts, the luyang rhetoric elevated office-holding men to be the most filial of sons. Consequently, the proper performance of filiality became essential to scholar-official identity and self-representation.
Zhang convincingly demonstrates that this reconfiguration of elite male filiality transformed filial piety into a status- and gender-based virtue, a change that had wide implications for elite family life and relationships in the Northern Song. The separation of elite men from their parents and homes also made the idea of “native place” increasingly fluid. This development in turn generated an interest in family preservation as filial performance. Individually initiated, kinship- and native place-based projects flourished and coalesced with the moral and cultural visions of leading scholar-intellectuals, providing the social and familial foundations for the ascendancy of Neo-Confucianism as well as new cultural norms that transformed Chinese society in the Song and beyond.

《自然之死:妇女生态和科学革命》是“绿色经典文库”的一种。在世界环境运动史上，有许多绿色著作以其对生命和自然的深刻体悟、对美丽荒野的细致描绘、对家园毁损和生存危机的忧患意识，对现代生活观念的历史性反思，感动过成千上万的读者，其中许多著作，一出版就引起了公众的巨大震动，成为人人争读的畅销书，有些甚至被誉为“绿色圣经”。

☆内容简介：
植物有抚慰人心的功效，从我们的阳台、城市的人行街道上便可以看出现代公民对这一点均深以为意。如今，绿色生命重新取回了它们的权利，为了满足一种渴望，也是为了找回失去的情感。
很多人赞美过草的神奇力量。从卢克莱修到彼特拉克，从龙沙到乔治•桑，从拉马丁到勒内•夏尔……在这本书中，作者梳理了文艺巨匠们对各种状态的草的致敬：从一株到一丛，从疯长到衰败。这让我们得以再次感受到那些熟悉的悸动：孩童在草坪上翻滚的快乐，餐后在草地上小憩的惬意，牧草被切开时的清新气息，草丛里自然王国的热闹，还有那以天为盖、以草为席的激情，直到最后墓园中绿草所带来的平静。
作者从历史学家的角度总结了以“草”为主题的文字片段，带领我们踏上一次绿意葱郁、感情丰沛的漫步。这本书诗意而治愈，充满细腻的感受和思索，为都市中忙碌的读者带去自然的呼唤。
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“小草与我们很类似，它们生生不息，但从未丢弃草的身份。它有着对希望的执着和对遗忘的深沉。”这是一部关于“草”的史诗，阿兰•科尔班带我们走过伊甸园、聆听西方的田园牧歌、找寻童年尘封的回忆、揭开草中隐藏的世界；我们也将随他一起在草原驻足、在草坪休憩、在草地中沉睡。
因怀念草的芳香与其传达的感觉信息所激起的情绪，历史学家阿兰•科尔班专为这“遗憾的基本成分”创作了一本书。 ——法国《解放报》
阿兰•科尔班从大量文学作品中汲取灵感，发表了这部研究与草的接触在人们心中唤起的情感和感觉的作品。 ――法国《费加罗报》

十六世纪初的欧洲，泽农出生于布鲁日首屈一指的富商家庭，但他从未见过自己的生父，后者是来自佛罗伦萨的一位年轻教士，远大前程的召唤让他断然割舍北方水城的短暂恋情。对一个私生子而言，泽农是为教会长大的。然而二十岁时，他决定离家出走，到大千世界去探寻知识。他在三十多年里游历了大半个世界，然后隐名埋姓回到布鲁日，在济贫院里为穷人看病。一桩与他几乎无关的僧侣风化事件令他的真实身份暴露，经世俗司法当局与教会的联席审判，泽农被判火刑。1569年2月，寒冬将尽的时候，泽农在临刑前夜结束了自己的生命，在他出生的城市里死去。
《苦炼》书名取自欧洲中世纪炼金术的一个术语，指的是将物质放在坩埚中进行煅烧和分离，以提炼出纯粹成分的过程，这是整个炼金术的第一步，也是最为艰辛的一个步骤。主人公泽农身兼医生、哲学家、炼金术士几重身份，无论对世界还是对人自身的认识，都不甘心接受任何现成的概念，而是不惜冒着生命危险，用毕生的观察、实践和思考来努力获得接近于真理的知识。泽农一生的上下求索，浓缩了从中世纪到文艺复兴时期几代人文主义者对知识和人性的探求。在这个意义上，泽农之死也是一曲文艺复兴终结的挽歌。
《苦炼》从酝酿到成书历时四十余年，尤瑟纳尔漫长的创作过程也堪称一部人生的炼金术。

A butterfly is like another butterfly. A butterfly is also like a leaf and at the same time like a paper airplane, an owl’s face, a scholar flying from book to book. The most disparate things approach one another in a butterfly, the sort of dense nodule of likeness that Roger Caillois once proposed calling a “bizarre-privileged item.” In response, critical theorist Paul North proposes a spiritual exercise: imagine a universe made up solely of likenesses. There are no things, only traits acting according to the law of series, here and there a thick overlap that appears “bizarre.”
Centuries of thought have fixated on the concept of difference. This book offers a theory that begins from likeness, where, at any instant, a vast array of series proliferates and remote regions come into contact. Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe follows likenesses as they traverse physics and the physical universe; evolution and evolutionary theory; psychology and the psyche; sociality, language, and art. Divergent sources from an eccentric history help give shape to a new trans-science, “homeotics.”

一部研究士人社群的突破之作，呈现明清士人的日常生活与学术活动。以结社为题，跨越中国、日本、越南等地，看文人社集如何彰显士人流风，影响东亚世界的汉字文化圈。
1. 著名学者王汎森作序，李孝悌、吕妙芬、巫仁恕、左东岭一致推荐
2. 突破以往相关研究成果，将改变学者对社集活动，尤其是16—18世纪的东亚知识分子社集活动的理解。过去关于文人社集的研究，多偏重在晚明的江南。本书全面地处理了明清时期各个地区诗社、文社及以科举为主但扩及经义诠释的制艺文社，并将探讨的区域从中国扩及日本与越南，改写了过去对16—18世纪东亚学术思想史的理解；
3.跨学科式写作，从多元面向进行探讨。结合文、史等不同领域的学者，研究明清士人各类社集活动，从政治、社会、宗族、空间、文学、思想、医学、宗教等多元面向进行探究，呈现明清士人日常生活与学术活动的多元性，以及社群网络间复杂的关系；
4.精细化，多角度，不执着于单一性质的社集。本书将社集作为一个总称，从城市空间、地方家族、身份阶层、书画医学与科举等议题进行个案研究，就“社集”提出了不同观点，多面展现了明清文人丰富的社群生活；
5.史料详实，书中尝试运用大量地方志、家族族谱等资料，建构地方社集的发展史，同时附上作者自制的图表，为读者提供了便利；
6.呈现一种有效的学术运作方式。历史的实际本是浑然一体的，由于近代学科细化的格局划分，学者常常固守于各自的疆域而精耕细作，却颇有只见树木不见森林的弊端。本书以“结社”作为主题，邀约各领域的研究专家施展各自的学术优势予以聚焦式的研讨，为相关的学术领域带来诸多启示，并为以后的学术运作方式提供有益的借鉴。
【图书简介】
本书是一部研究明清士人社群的突破之作。书中结合文、史等不同领域的学者，研究明清士人各类社集活动，围绕社集与城市空间、地方家族、身份/阶层等，从社会、宗族、空间、文学、思想、医学等多元面向进行探究，呈现明清士人日常生活与学术活动的多元性，以及社群网络间复杂的关系。同时，还研究了十八世纪日本与越南的文人社集情况，有助于从东亚的视角深化明清思想史、文化史与社会史研究。此外，书中呈现的各种跨界交接与多元问学的现象，也为以后的学术运作方式提供了有益的借鉴。
【名家推荐】
过去关于文人社集的研究，多偏重在晚明的江南。本书突破了以往所有相关研究的成果，全面地处理了明清时期各个地区诗社、文社，以及以科举为主但扩及经义诠释的制艺文社。除了学术、思想、文学，这些文章进一步从社会史和文化史的角度，探讨了社集与地方家族、社集与身份/阶层，以及社集与书画、医学等方伎的课题；并将探讨的区域从中国扩及日本与越南。这些视野新颖、成果丰硕的研究，完全改写了我们过去对16—18世纪东亚学术思想史的理解，是研究明清思想的必读之作。
——李孝悌（复旦大学文史研究院学术委员）
本书结合文、史等不同领域的学者，研究明清士人各类社集活动，从政治、社会、宗族、空间、文学、思想、医学、宗教等多元面向进行探究，呈现明清士人日常生活与学术活动的多元性，以及社群网络间复杂的关系。本书的内容不仅丰富了我们对于明清士人社群的认识，书中呈现的各种跨界交接与多元问学的现象，也挑战了我们现代学术分科与专业的狭隘。
——吕妙芬（“中研院”近代史研究所研究员）
本书系学界最新、最全面的关于文人社集的研究，指出明中叶以后，社集几乎成为知识分子的全民运动，不但与地方家族结合，更跨越不同的城市网络，反映当时的士风转变，牵动地方与中央的政治局势；流风所及不仅是其他职业如医者，更影响到东亚的汉字文化圈，如日本与越南之风气。
——巫仁恕（“中研院”近代史研究所研究员）
以“结社”作为主题，邀约各领域的研究专家施展各自的学术优势予以聚焦式的研讨，是一种有效的学术运作方式。由于近代学科细化的格局划分，学者常常固守于各自的疆域而精耕细作，却颇有只见树木不见森林的弊端。但历史的实际本是浑然一体的，世事变迁，人际纠纷，乃是各种势力聚合而成的结果。哪怕是作为独立性很强的诗文创作，离开复杂的历史整体也很难言说清楚。“结社”本身便是明代人文活力展示的窗口，而明清之际又是人文精神变化的纠结点。由此，本书的学术内涵，将会为相关的学术领域带来诸多启示，并为以后的学术运作方式提供有益的借鉴。
——左东岭（首都师范大学资深教授、教育部长江学者特聘教授）