Economic modernity is so closely associated with nationhood that it is impossible to imagine a modern state without an equally modern economy. Even so, most people would have difficulty defining a modern economy and its connection to nationhood. In Saving the Nation, Margherita Zanasi explores this connection by examining the first nation-building attempt in China after the fall of the empire in 1911.
Challenging the assumption that nations are products of technological and socioeconomic forces, Zanasi argues that it was notions of what constituted a modern nation that led the Nationalist nation-builders to shape China’s institutions and economy. In their reform effort, they confronted several questions: What characterized a modern economy? What role would a modern economy play in the overall nation-building effort? And how could China pursue economic modernization while maintaining its distinctive identity? Zanasi expertly shows how these questions were negotiated and contested within the Nationalist Party. Silenced in the Mao years, these dilemmas are reemerging today as a new leadership once again redefines the economic foundation of the nation.

《上海史研究译丛》精选当今海外一流学者有关近现代上海史研究的经典之作，可读性和学术性兼具，并由国内专家翻译。海外学者以独特视角、独有材料和独到见解，对上海历史作出有别于以往的解读，内容涉及上海道台、警察、妓女、工业家、侨民、同乡会、救火会、苏北人等众生相。
本书以“社团”为中心，以上海的城市社会为舞台，对中国近代地区社会的结构及其公共性的特点，以及国家与社会的关系作了考察。认为从帝政后期开始，“社团”便根植于中国社会，成为人们生活中相互进行结合的基础。在近代上海，“社团”除了在城市居民的日常生活和工作起作用之外，还成为民族运动得以发展的基础，而且担负着都市社会的公共职能，支持了近代上海的城市发展。近代上海的公共性，便在“社团”的活动中培育、发展起来。本书作者在详细占有资料探究这些团体如何从传统向现代转变，如何在国家与社会的关系中发挥作用，来阐述上海社会公共性与公领域的特点，读来让人感到实在、可信。

《红星照耀上海城(1942—1952):共产党对市政警察的改造》是魏斐德《上海三部曲》末卷，不幸成为作者的遗著。《红星照耀上海城(1942—1952):共产党对市政警察的改造》时间跨度从1942年至1945年间日本占领上海时期开始到1952年共产党完全掌控上海城。它重点叙述并分析了上海警察机构是如何从国民党政府的部队变成由共产党领导下的公安局的；在上海市面临国民党的海上封锁及其内应挑衅的同时，公安人员是如何维持城市秩序的；这个新改组的警察机构为何能成功地施行旧警察一再失败的社会改造，诸如关闭炒卖现金的黑市，改造妓女和舞女，戒除鸦片毒瘾等等。显然，它与《上海警察》和《上海歹土》一起共同构成一个完整的三部曲，涵盖展现了上海从1927到1952年四分之一世纪的城市历史。

《上海警察(1927-1937)》系统地研究和描述1927年至1937年上海特别市警政及其与多种政治力量对抗与台作的历史，其中重点分析了国民党如何在这十年中依靠警察力量将上海转变成一个国民党表现自身的舞台；澄清了国民党政权其他方面的问题，包括中央的党国体制与民国地方势力间的关系，秘密组织和犯罪集团在腐蚀国家政治机构中的作用，警察力量和民间势力在都市中的平衡，在军事八侵和占领的巨大压力下上海政治组织的演变；并在“新市政秩序的局限”中对上海公安局最终失败的原因作了深入的剖析。作者魏斐德完全摆脱了孤立地就警察论警察的模式，而将上海警政的变迁与整个城市治安环境的变迁乃至20世纪中国的政治变迁有机地结台起来加以考察，缜密地分析论证了国民政府上海公安局的成立、作用及其演变，体现出一个史学大家的大史识和大视野。可以说，这是一部上海警察研究的开创性著作，也是一部有关城市社会控制的范式性著作。法国知名汉学家白吉尔教授称这部著作“必将具有历久不衰的学术价值”。

This study offers an in-depth analysis of Hong Kong's role in the earliest stage of the Chinese Communist Movement. The fact that Hong Kong, then a British colony, was pivotally involved in the Communist development in Guangdong in the 1920s and 1930s has been little known. The importance of this book is further enhanced by the consideration that much of the early foundation of the Chinese Communist Movement was laid in Guangdong.

中国共产党半个多世纪以来的历程是光辉的，也是艰难曲折的，中国革命的每一步胜利，都付出了极为宝贵的代价，只有人民才是历史的创造者。这是一部个人的历史回忆录，真实记录一位开国元帅几十多年的的革命生涯中传奇生活和战斗历程。

本册介绍了十七世纪后半期和十九世纪四十年代前中国封建社会手工业者匠籍身份的解放，以及手工业资本主义生产的起点

In the 1920s, revolution, war, and imperialist aggression brought chaos to China. Many of the dramatic events associated with this upheaval took place in or near China's cities. Bound together by rail, telegraph, and a shared urban mentality, cities like Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing formed an arena in which the great issues of the day--the quest for social and civil peace, the defense of popular and national sovereignty, and the search for a distinctively modern Chinese society--were debated and fought over. People were drawn into this conflicts because they knew that the passage of armies, the marching of protesters, the pontificating of intellectual, and the opening and closing of factories could change their lives. David Strand offers a penetrating view of the old walled capital of Beijing during these years by examining how the residents coped with the changes wrought by itinerant soldiers and politicians and by the accelerating movement of ideas, capital, and technology. By looking at the political experiences of ordinary citizens, including rickshaw pullers, policemen, trade unionists, and Buddhist monks, Strand provides fascinating insights into how deeply these forces were felt. The resulting portrait of early twentieth-century Chinese urban society stresses the growing political sophistication of ordinary people educated by mass movements, group politics, and participation in a shared, urban culture that mixed opera and demonstrations, newspaper reading and teahouse socializing. Surprisingly, in the course of absorbing new ways of living, working, and doing politics, much of the old society was preserved--everything seemed to change and yet little of value was discarded. Through tumultuous times, Beijing rose from a base of local and popular politics to form a bridge linking a traditional world of guilds and gentry elites with the contemporary world of corporatism and cadres.

"The book culminates in a detailed analysis of the three armed uprisings which led to the CCP's briefly taking power in March 1927, before being crushed by the troops of Chiang Kai-shek. The study highlights the extent to which the Soviet Union sought to control China's national revolution, yet also reveals how divisions at every level of the Comintern allowed the CCP to achieve a degree of independence and to conduct a policy at considerable variance with that laid down by Moscow." "In addition to using the wealth of Chinese material that has become available since the 1980s, this study is the first to make use of the Comintern materials that have become available since the collapse of the Soviet Union."--Jacket.

In this collaborative effort by two leading scholars of modern Chinese history, Ming K. Chan and Arif Dirlik investigate how the short-lived National Labor University in Shanghai was both a reflection of the revolutionary concerns of its time and a catalyst for future radical experiments in education. Under the slogan “Turn schools into fields and factories, fields and factories into schools,” the university attempted to bridge the gap between intellectual and manual labor that its founders saw as a central problem of capitalism, and which remains a persistent theme in Chinese revolutionary thinking.
During its five years of existence, Labor University was the most impressive institutional embodiment in twentieth-century China of the labor-learning ideal, which was introduced by anarchists in the first decade of the century and came to be shared by a diverse group of revolutionaries in the 1920s. This detailed study places Labor University within the broad context of anarchist social ideals and educational experiments that inspired it directly, as well as comparable socialist experiments within labor education in Europe that Labor University’s founders used as models. The authors bring to bear the perspectives of institutional and intellectual history on their examination of the structure and operation of the University, presenting new material on its faculty, curriculum, physical plant, and history.

本书由钱穆先生1961年在香港的8次演讲汇集而成，从通史和文化史的总题及政治史、社会史、经济史、学术史、历史人物、历史地理等6个分题言简意赅地论述了中国历史研究的大意与方法。实为作者此后30年史学见解之本源所在，变可视为钱穆先生对中国史学大纲要义的简要叙述。
本书主要意义而分本讲演为八题。最先是讲如何研究通史，最后是讲如何研究文化史。其实文化史必然是一部通史，而一部通史，则最好应以文化为其主要之内容。其间更分政治、社会、经济、学术、人物与地理之六分题，每一分题，各有其主要内容，而以文化为其共通对象与共通骨干。

《乙丑重编饮冰室文集》是经过梁启超认可的，是他生前最后出版的文集。该文集由梁启超侄子梁廷灿编纂，1925年编集，1926年正式出版，共80册（卷）。
点校者以《乙丑文集》为底本，参照《合集》、广智书局本《饮冰室文集》进行点校，不改变原书的目录编次和文章编次，但取消原来的卷次。全书改排为简化字，横排，但原文中的异体字、通假字没有改动，有特定含义的繁体字也没有改为简化字。所有文章注明了写作和发表的时间、地点，都采用现代标点符号进行标点。外国的人名地名都加上注释，与理解文章关系较大的部分中国的人名、人物字号、地名，也加了注释。原文中的错误讹漏之字，参照它本以注释的形式标出，或根据它本进行改正。对文中引文与其所引著作的当前流行版本相异的地方，也以注释形式标出。
20世纪已经过去，中国和世界都发生了翻天覆地的变化，然而梁启超的学术和思想仍魁力不减、影响不衰。在新世纪的第一年出版这部书，无疑会对中国社会主义新文化建设、对梁启超思想学问的再认识，起到积极的推动作用。

Review
"Tsin's book is well organized, refreshingly concise, and... highly readable " - Journal of Asian Studies "In this elegantly written and meticulously researched study, Tsin uses a social history of early twentieth-century Canton to explore the meaning and mechanisms of the political culture of modernity. One of the book's great strengths is Tsin's success in bringing social-historical and theoretical analyses together, using one to illuminate the other." - Journal of Interdisciplinary History --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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“For researchers carrying up-to-date toolkits into the Chinese past, Tsin’s judicious analysis will be a model of clarity in exposition as well as a guide to the formation of China modernist discourses on national and social revolution.”—Canadian Journal of History
“Tsin’s book is well organized, refreshingly concise, and . . . highly readable.”—Journal of Asian Studies
“In this elegantly written and meticulously researched study, Tsin uses a social history of early 20th-century Canton to explore the meaning and mechanisms of the political culture of modernity. One of the book’s great strengths is Tsin’s success in bringing social-historical and theoretical analyses together, using one to illuminate the other.” —Journal of Interdisciplinary History