民族主義研究的必讀經典
《想像的共同體》自1983年問世以來，不但使學界對民族與民族主義課題的思考角度產生哥白尼式的徹底翻轉，其深刻影響也廣及人文與社會學科的各個領域。除了被譯成三十一種語言出版之外，甚至成為一種近乎教科書的作品，遠遠超乎作者的預料。
安德森從文化內涵的改變與印刷資本主義的興起來探討民族主義的源起，並辨析民族主義在美洲誕生，被歐洲的群眾運動挪用，被帝國政權吸納，再到亞非兩洲以民族主義為號召的反帝國主義抗爭的數百年過程。
此次中文增訂版收錄了安德森於2006年新添的一章，概略檢視了此書所造成的影響，並探討此書在世界各地的出版與反應情況；另外更收錄了2003年作者兩篇關於臺灣處境的研討會講稿，以及譯者訪談這位學術大師的深情記敘。

How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergence of HIV, in scientific publications and the mainstream media? The repetition of particular characters, images, and story lines - of Patients Zero and superspreaders, hot zones and tenacious microbes - produced a formulaic narrative as they circulated through the media and were amplified in popular fiction and film. The 'outbreak narrative' begins with the identification of an emerging infection, follows it through the global networks of contact and contagion, and ends with the epidemiological work that contains it. Priscilla Wald argues that we need to understand the appeal and persistence of the outbreak narrative because the stories we tell about disease emergence have consequences. As they disseminate information, they affect survival rates and contagion routes. They upset economies. They promote or mitigate the stigmatizing of individuals, groups, locales, behaviors, and lifestyles. Wald traces how changing ideas about disease emergence and social interaction coalesced in the outbreak narrative. She returns to the early years of microbiology - to the identification of microbes and 'Typhoid Mary', the first known healthy human carrier of typhoid in the United States - to highlight the intertwined production of sociological theories of group formation ('social contagion') and medical theories of bacteriological infection at the turn of the twentieth century. Following the evolution of these ideas, Wald shows how they were affected by - or reflected in - the advent of virology, Cold War ideas about 'alien' infiltration, science-fiction stories of brainwashing and body snatchers, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. "Contagious" is a cautionary tale about how the stories we tell circumscribe our thinking about global health and human interactions as the world imagines - or refuses to imagine - the next Great Plague.

《厌女》不是一部纯理论性著作，而是运用女性主义理论针对日本当代的各种社会现象的实践性分析。《厌女》处理了广泛的日本题材，其中既有文学性的，比如谈到小说家吉行淳之介、永井荷风、林真理子等，更多的则是社会性的。上野千鹤子谈到的许多现象，尤其是家庭的、婚姻的，在中国也有很类似的情况。知性的读者会从这些论述中获得强烈共鸣并得到理论上的指引。