No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history.

1956年6月，广州市举办了“名菜美点展览会”，会议期间编印过“名菜美点介绍”，由于时间匆促，篇幅所限，册数不多，瞬即售完，而内容也较为简陋。
在“介绍”的基础上，作了进一步收集与研究，选择了流传已久，可口保健的名菜三百八十余种加以整理，计分广州菜、东江菜、潮州菜、素菜、回族菜、外省菜（下分湖南菜、四川菜、上海菜和北方菜四小类）和西菜七大类。每种菜色的原料和制法，均有详细的说明，并一一经原制作人审阅校正才汇集成册的。

In this provocative and lively addition to his acclaimed writings on food, Warren Belasco takes a sweeping look at a little-explored yet timely topic: humanity's deep-rooted anxiety about the future of food. People have expressed their worries about the future of the food supply in myriad ways, and here Belasco explores a fascinating array of material ranging over two hundred years - from futuristic novels and films to world's fairs, Disney amusement parks, supermarket and restaurant architecture, organic farmers' markets, debates over genetic engineering, and more. Placing food issues in this deep historical context, he provides an innovative framework for understanding the future of food today - when new prophets warn us against complacency at the same time that new technologies offer promising solutions. But will our grandchildren's grandchildren enjoy the cornucopian bounty most of us take for granted? This first history of the future to put food at the center of the story provides an intriguing perspective on this question for anyone - from general readers to policy analysts, historians, and students of the future - who has wondered about the future of life's most basic requirement.

28歲，沒有性經驗的我，十年間最羞於見人的赤裸告白。

因為憂鬱與進食障礙，不但從大學退學，打工也被辭退。回到家中，父母無法接受我精神上生病的事實，於是我被雙親全‧盤‧否‧定。就算鼓起勇氣去面試，還是被否決。投稿的漫畫好不容易得到了新人獎，不過沒有獎金，也無法出道。

就這樣陷入絕望的我，因某個契機得以正視自己「希望被擁抱」的願望。在絕望的深淵，在去死之前，再掙扎一次。為此，需要一個能突破自我極限的轉機，我採取的行動是──上網預約蕾絲邊應召。

在pixiv刊登後，不但網友迴響熱烈，點閱率更突破百萬。深陷於他人評價中的自己、得不到別人認同的自己、活到現在仍無法正視自己欲望、只能依靠自殘來取得認同的，原來不只有我一個。一個真實到令人不忍卒睹的故事，成了讓所有讀者得到溫暖救贖的一本書。

中國人有句老話：「國以民為本，民以食為天」，精簡又準確地表達出飲食在人類社會中不可缺的一部份。食物不只是填飽肚子，更是我們的身份象徵，反映個人的社會階級和文化背景。對於文化人類學家來說，香港多采多姿的飲食文化正是了解本地複雜多樣的社會文化的切入點。本書訪問了十多位在香港不同菜系、不同飲食行業、從事超過數十年的資深廚師，通過他們的故事，重現香港戰後飲食文化的發展，也反映整個本土文化的時代變化。

This book contains some of the newest, most exciting ideas now percolating among political scientists, from hallway conversations to conference room discussions. To spur future research, enrich classroom teaching, and direct non-specialist attention to cutting-edge ideas, a distinguished group of authors from various parts of this sprawling and pluralistic discipline has each contributed a brief essay about a single novel or insufficiently appreciated idea on some aspect of political science. The one hundred essays are concise, no more than a few pages apiece, and informal. While the contributions are highly diverse, readers can find serendipitous connections across the volume, tracing echoes as well as diametrically opposed points of view. This book offers compelling points of departure for everyone who is concerned about political science - whether as a scholar, teacher, student, or interested reader.

There is no doubt that the Triads are an international menace. The very word conjures up images of intrigue, mystery, brutality and violence and following the handover of Hong Kong to China there have been increasing fears that the influence of the Triad societies will spread through emigration. This book investigates the reality behind the myth. Yiu Kong Chu here looks at the Hong Kong Triads, generally regarded as the headquarters of triad societies throughout the world. He describes their origins, their involvement in legitimate businesses from the entertainment and construction industries to street hawking and the wholesale fish markets of Hong Kong and finally their part in illegal activities around drugs, gambling and human smuggling. Based on interviews with ex triad members and victims of the Triads as well as with police from Hong Kong, chinese mainland and Europe, as well as on documentary evidence Triads as Business: A Brief Introduction gives a vivid and compelling picture of the Triads as part of a wider society.

萨特思韦特先生是一位干瘪瘦小的老头，却有着女性般敏锐的情感。在人生的舞台上，他一直扮演着旁观者的角色，直到一个风雪交加的新年夜，哈利•奎因的到来。
来无影去无踪的奎因先生常与爱情和死亡相伴。他文雅地引导着萨特思韦特先生揭示各式各样的秘密，激发其利用自己丰富的阅历和天生的敏感挽救一段又一段爱情，一条又一条生命……
《神秘的奎因先生》是阿加莎唯一一部献给虚构人物的小说。
“哈利•奎因是阿加莎奇特想象的产物。”——阿加莎丈夫 马克斯•马洛温
“对挑剔的读者来说，阅读本书是一种难得的享受。”——《纽约时报》

新自由主義的香港版本就是「大市場、小政府」，目的就是要將我們的世界及我們的社會變成商品通通賣掉。在推動公共服務私有化、市場化及商品化的過程，商人利益與政府官員糾纏轇轕、千絲縷。
本書有助我們認識這個過程，並為民眾抗爭提出種種可能性；任何一個關心經濟公義，鄙夷官商勾結的人，都應拿起本書一讀。

This book describes and analyses the role of the public sector in the often-charged political atmosphere of post-1997 Hong Kong. It discusses critical constitutional, organisational and policy problems and examines their effects on relationships between government and the people. A concluding chapter suggests some possible means of resolving or minimising the difficulties which have been experienced.

The late Edward Said remains one of the most influential critics and public intellectuals of our time, with lasting contributions to many disciplines. Much of his reputation derives from the phenomenal multidisciplinary influence of his 1978 book "Orientalism". Said's seminal polemic analyzes novels, travelogues, and academic texts to argue that a dominant discourse of West over East has warped virtually all past European and American representation of the Near East. But despite the book's wide acclaim, no systematic critical survey of the rhetoric in Said's representation of Orientalism and the resulting impact on intellectual culture has appeared until today.Drawing on the extensive discussion of Said's work in more than 600 bibliographic entries, Daniel Martin Varisco has written an ambitious intellectual history of the debates that Said's work has sparked in several disciplines, highlighting in particular its reception among Arab and European scholars. While pointing out Said's tendency to essentialize and privilege certain texts at the expense of those that do not comfortably fit his theoretical framework, Varisco analyzes the extensive commentary the book has engendered in Oriental studies, literary and cultural studies, feminist scholarship, history, political science, and anthropology.He employs "critical satire" to parody the exaggerated and pedantic aspects of post-colonial discourse, including Said's profound under appreciation of the role of irony and reform in many of the texts he cites. The end result is a companion volume to Orientalism and the vast research it inspired. Rather than contribute to duelling essentialisms, Varisco provides a path to move beyond the binary of East versus West and the polemics of blame. Reading Orientalism is the most comprehensive survey of Said's writing and thinking to date. It will be of strong interest to scholars of Middle East studies, anthropology, history, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, and literary studies.

For most Americans, candy is an uneasy pleasure, eaten with side helpings of guilt and worry. Yet candy accounts for only 6 percent of the added sugar in the American diet. And at least it’s honest about what it is—a processed food, eaten for pleasure, with no particular nutritional benefit. So why is candy considered especially harmful, when it’s not so different from the other processed foods, from sports bars to fruit snacks, that line supermarket shelves? How did our definitions of food and candy come to be so muddled? And how did candy come to be the scapegoat for our fears about the dangers of food?
In Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure, Samira Kawash tells the fascinating story of how candy evolved from a luxury good to a cheap, everyday snack. After candy making was revolutionized in the early decades of mass production, it was celebrated as a new kind of food for energy and enjoyment. Riding the rise in snacking and exploiting early nutritional science, candy was the first of the panoply of "junk foods" that would take over the American diet in the decades after the Second World War—convenient and pleasurable, for eating anytime or all the time.
And yet, food reformers and moral crusaders have always attacked candy, blaming it for poisoning, alcoholism, sexual depravity and fatal disease. These charges have been disproven and forgotten, but the mistrust of candy they produced has never diminished. The anxiety and confusion that most Americans have about their diets today is a legacy of the tumultuous story of candy, the most loved and loathed of processed foods.
Candy is an essential, addictive read for anyone who loves lively cultural history, who cares about food, and who wouldn’t mind feeling a bit better about eating a few jelly beans.

Language and National Identity in Asia is a comprehensive introduction to the role of language in the construction and development of nations and national identities in Asia. Leading scholars from all over the world investigate the role languages have played and now play in the formation of the national and social identity in countries throughout South, East, and Southeast Asia. They consider the relation of the regions' languages to national, ethnic, and cultural identity, and examine the status of and interactions between majority, official, and minority languages. Illustrated with maps and accessibly written this book will interest all those concerned to understand the dynamics of social change in some of the most important countries in the world. It will appeal to all those studying, researching, or teaching issues in Asian society, language, and politics from a comparative perspective.

Both Yuk-ling, a busy Hong Kong mother of two, and Chi-ying, a young single woman from a remote village in northern China, work in electronics factories owned by the same foreign corporation, manufacturing identical electronic components. After a decade of job growth and increasing foreign investment in Hong Kong and South China, both women are also participating in the spectacular economic transformation that has come to be called the South China miracle. Yet, as Ching Kwan Lee demonstrates in her unique and fascinating study of women workers on either side of the Chinese-Hong Kong border, the working lives and factory cultures of these women are vastly different.
In this rich comparative ethnography, Lee describes how two radically different factory cultures have emerged from a period of profound economic change. In Hong Kong, "matron workers" remain in factories for decades. In Guangdong, a seemingly endless number of young "maiden workers" travel to the south from northern provinces, following the promise of higher wages. Whereas the women in Hong Kong participate in a management system characterized by "familial hegemony," the young women in Guangdong find an internal system of power based on regional politics and kin connections, or "localistic despotism."
Having worked side-by-side with these women on the floors of both factories, Lee concludes that it is primarily the differences in the gender politics of the two labor markets that determine the culture of each factory. Posing an ambitious challenge to sociological theories that reduce labor politics to pure economics or state power structures, Lee argues that gender plays a crucial role in the cultures and management strategies of factories that rely heavily on women workers.

本書是一部對中國人類學華南研究具有啓發性意義的經典著作。
兩位來自美國的人類學學者，於上世紀六七十年代來到香港元朗新田及厦村居住，近距離觀察文氏及鄧氏兩個宗族的文化傳統，從人類學角度探討當時兩個鄉村的社會結構、性別差異及宗教禮儀。他們分工合作，紀錄及研究鄉村中男女的性別地位及等級觀念。
隨着新市鎮的興建，新界地貌已變，書中提及的某些小村落也從此消失，許多傳統禮儀不再流行，本書通過資料搜集呈現當年鄉村生活的各種精神活動，如過繼習俗、祭祠、結婚儀式及葬禮禁忌等這些已漸被遺忘的廣東鄉村禮儀。本書是本地歷史的獨特紀錄，其中理論更啓導了不少後學。
書評
這是一本值得關注及讚賞的非凡著作。它概述了兩位世界級學者的成就……他們對本土生活有著濃厚的興趣，對其研究的社區也充滿熱愛，這與強調全球流動性的新一代民族誌研究迥然不同……華琛及華若璧細膩又敏感地突顯了那些標誌着中國人類學重要時期的分析性議題及歷史證據。
── 蕭鳳霞 （美國耶魯大學人類學系教授）
作者大大超越鄉村的局限，在其有關命名或信仰與禮儀的相關性等經典文章中探討了中國文化及社會的根本面向。本書不僅是了解新界鄉村社會的重要讀物，也令人深刻理解塑造這個鄉村社會的更廣闊的文化及歷史力量。
── 孔邁隆 （美國哥倫比亞大學人類學系教授）

人类文明正步入一个虚拟现实的时代！观看技术的新变化意味着什么？我们究竟该如何应对这一全新的视觉世界？
《观察者的技术》无疑是关于该话题极具启发性的作品之一。
乔纳森•克拉里向我们展示出，在19世纪早期，人类同样经历了一场影响深远的视觉革命：从“暗箱”到“立体视镜”。由此，人类之眼成了“现代之眼”。然而，观察技术的转变并不是单纯在技术层面上的革新，其背后还纠缠着对人类身体的崭新理解、社会关系和权力关系的变迁、商品经济的勃兴以及哲学思考的演变等诸多错综复杂的因素。总之，被科技史进步叙事所遮掩的裂痕，就此揭开……

《这样你就不会迷路》出版于2014年，是莫迪亚诺荣获诺贝尔文学奖前的最新小说。
“我无法给出事实，我只能呈现事实的阴面。”小说开篇引用著名小说家司汤达的话，讲述了让·达拉加纳的故事。让·达拉加纳是一位作家，他丢失了一个电话本，有个叫吉尔·奥托里尼的人联系他，吉尔称捡到了电话本，希望送还给他。当他们见面时，吉尔说起电话本里一个叫托尔斯泰尔的人，想要知道这个人的信息，但是作家说他想不起来这个人。吉尔和他的伴侣尚塔尔·格里佩提供了一份“档案”复印件，作家凝视着一个女人的名字“安妮·阿斯特朗”，打开了记忆之门……