来自印尼、菲律宾和越南的女性，来到陌生的国度从事家务劳动。雇用她们的台湾雇主，多数是青壮年的中产阶级，他们的父母辈少有在家雇用佣人的历史，这些“新富家庭”的经验，映现了台湾社会在阶级、族群、性别与代间关系的转变。

为了解台湾雇主和东南亚帮佣之间的互动关系，台湾大学社会系教授蓝佩嘉花了数年时间，访谈了超过百位的印菲帮佣和台湾雇主，了解劳雇双方在家庭屋檐下所面临的结构困境、生存策略与认同政治。

蓝佩嘉以“跨国灰姑娘”的比喻来彰显家务移工的处境：她们或为了逃离家乡的贫穷与压迫，或为了扩展人生视野及探索现代世界。跨越国界工作后，却发现自己坐困雇主家中，被视为“用完就丢”的劳动力，灰姑娘的美满结局仍如童话般梦幻。

相对于2006年的英文版，作者以返璞归真的母语和大量的生命故事，描绘了“跨国灰姑娘”的身影，并且透过社会学透视，展现了台湾雇主和东南亚移工，在全球化社会中相遇而生的种种面貌。

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这本具有开创性的研究，呈现了种族、阶级、性别和公民身份等等界限，如何在家务移工的生命中形成。蓝佩嘉经由划界工作的理论透镜，为萌芽发展中的女性迁移研究贡献了极为重要的成果。这是一本杰出的作品。

——Rhacel Parreñas, 布朗大学美国文明学系教授

我们或许会以为，只要和世界上的其他人接触越多，我们和他们的社会关系就越亲密。但是蓝佩嘉指出我们错得有多严重。在某些状况下，台湾的女雇主和他们的菲佣很“亲密”，但在其他时候两方则非常疏远。的确，有时最接近的反面最为遥远。这本脉络清晰、掷地有声的重要著作，便是在讨论这些现象如何发生。

——Arlie Hochschild，柏克莱大学社会学系荣誉教授

这是一本独一无二的学术作品，论述圆融、研究透彻、理论扎实，不但具有高度可读性，而且蕴含深度人文关怀。

——Delias Davin，英国里兹大学中国学研究所荣誉教授

"The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism" (original Free Press edition 1951) is one of a number of works by the German sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) published in English translation only long after his death, during a post-World-War II boom in Anglo-American interest in his writing. Such interest has recurred at irregular intervals since (one marked by this 1968 paperback reprinting), and Weber's major works, including technical and methodological studies, apparently have all been translated. Initially familiar to readers of English only for his theories on the relation between the Protestant (mainly Calvinist) world-view and the capitalist "rationalization" of economic life ("The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"), Weber gradually has been revealed as an explorer of the nature of human societies in many times and places.
Sinologists have given his studies of China (here and in a few essays published elsewhere) a somewhat mixed reception. On the one hand, it was an important example of China being taken seriously as major civilization, illustrating basic trends in human social behavior, instead of an exotic footnote ("Oriental Despotism," "The Oriental Mode of Production"). A product of Bismarck's Germany, Weber was acutely aware of the effects of bureaucracy, centralization of authority, and economic rationalization on traditional societies, and used China as a test case for his general theories. The religious responses to China's social and political order are a main, but not the only focus, and his treatment of both Confucianism and (mainly philosophical) Taoism as embodying genuine religious experiences was then unusual. Weber's mastery of the available translations and secondary literature is often mentioned as amounting to nearly a professional command of the field.
On the other hand, Weber *was* unable to consult the primary sources directly. He was acutely aware that much of his information came from missionaries with ideological biases; according to some, however, he often chose the *wrong* missionary to believe. He seriously underestimated the antiquity of some developments in Chinese government. His examples are sometimes wrong, sometimes not especially pertinent; and better ones are missing because he had no access to them. He accepted the view of Confucius as a sort of learned academic with an interest in ethical government (popular among some modern Chinese as well as westerners), without seeming to notice that he has often been regarded as a supernatural figure, a prophet, or, in Weber's own terms, a "charismatic" leader. And the study of Buddhism in China was in its infancy, and its transformative impacts on Confucian and Taoist thought and practice only beginning to be grasped. The study of the very complex history of Taoism *as a religion* is also mostly a more recent development.
Bearing these limits in mind, Weber's study remains fascinating. His suggested interpretations of Chinese society have set the terms for much research attempting to confirm or refute his ideas. He was sometimes wrong about both absolute and relative datings, but he recognized many important trends, and successfully framed them in larger contexts.
As very much an amateur in Chinese studies (with greater limits than Weber, and not nearly as industrious, but able to benefit from modern scholarship), I have long found the book illuminating; I just try to check it against recent studies. For those who are familiar with Weber only for "The Protestant Ethic" (and the attendant controversy), this volume, and its companions on "Ancient Judaism" and "The Religions of India," may come as a considerable surprise.
Those interested in the sociology of Chinese religion (rather than beliefs and practices) will want to take a look at a book by C.K. Yang, the author of the Introduction to this translation. Yang's "Religion in Chinese Society: A Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of Their Historical Factors" (originally University of California Press, 1961) provides information on Chinese religion in relation to government policies, and community and family structures, with documentation for specific regions. I consider it a complement, not a substitute, for Weber, because several chapters are probably too statistical to make it attractive to many readers. Yang also assumes familiarity with a body of professional sociological thought that Weber was still establishing. Of course, it too is beginning to show its age.

Completely revised and updated, this new edition of Terror in the Mind of God incorporates the events of September 11, 2001 into Mark Juergensmeyer's landmark study of religious terrorism. Juergensmeyer explores the 1993 World Trade Center explosion, Hamas suicide bombings, the Tokyo subway nerve gas attack, and the killing of abortion clinic doctors in the United States. His personal interviews with 1993 World Trade Center bomber Mahmud Abouhalima, Christian Right activist Mike Bray, Hamas leaders Sheik Yassin and Abdul Azis Rantisi, and Sikh political leader Simranjit Singh Mann, among others, take us into the mindset of those who perpetrate and support violence in the name of religion.

‘From the author of "Where the Girls Are" comes a sharp and irreverent critique of how women are portrayed in today's popular culture. Blending humor with insight, Douglas offers an empathetic guide to the images so many women love and hate with equal meas’

六年时间记录的芝加哥底层生活的第一手资料娓娓铺开：沉毅机智将自己幻想成社区保护神的黑帮老大，边贩毒边攒钱读书希望有朝一日脱离黑帮但终于身死狱中的年轻黑帮财务主管（《魔鬼经济学》中那篇黑帮经济学的数据就来自这位主管，他在对自己的命运绝望之后将手里的黑帮财务记录交给了Venkatesh教授），老谋深算有时狡猾毒辣但用尽全力保护社区中妇女儿童的贫民窟房屋主管老太太，为扶养孩子不惜和任何人睡觉的各种年轻黑人母亲，喜好洗劫黑帮成员随意欺压黑人的更可怕的警察，各色流落街头在夹缝中挣扎的流浪汉。。。比任何的小说电影更加真实精彩。而作者，本来做为一个客观的观察记录者，后来也不由得深陷其中。就像一直罩着他的黑帮大哥反复说的那句话：“在这个世界里，记住，你要不和我们一伙，要不和别人一伙。”

In this wide-ranging third installment of Malcolm Gladwell's exploration of how people and social phenomena work, the New Yorker journalist takes a close look at what constitutes high levels of success. That is, what makes people at the top of their respective fields get there? As we've come to expect from Gladwell's previous books, the answer to the question is a bit complicated.
He says that upbringing, culture and even random luck have something to with success, but there is another important quality that anyone can control. Two chapters are dedicated to the "revelation" that IQ is only a baseline quality and success has little to nothing to do with having a high IQ or a low IQ. Rather, success is substantially a product of cultivating a high degree of what Robert Sternberg calls "practical intelligence" or what most refer to as "emotional intelligence."
Gladwell uses the example of Nobel laureates coming from unknown schools as often as ivy league schools. At this level of mastery IQ is no longer a factor. Success has little to do with where you were educated and everything to do with your level of practical/emotional intelligence and willingness to put in the 10,000 hours of practice required to reach mastery of your field.
All in all, it's an interesting read that isn't too heady and goes by pretty quickly, as the interesting anecdotes are what you would expect from Gladwell.

Leading Chinese journalist Sang Ye follows his successful book Chinese Lives with this collection of absorbing interviews with twenty-six men, women, and children taking the reader into the complex realities of the People's Republic of China today. Through intimate conversations conducted over many years, China Candid provides an alternative history of the nation from its founding as a socialist state in 1949 up to the present. The voices of people who have lived under—and often despite—the Communist Party's rule give a compelling account of life in the maelstrom of China's economic reforms—reforms that are being pursued by a system that remains politically rigid and authoritarian. Artists, politicians, businessmen and -women, former Red Guards, migrant workers, prostitutes, teachers, computer geeks, hustlers, and other citizens of contemporary China all speak with frankness and candor about the realities of the burgeoning power of East Asia, the China that will host the 2008 Olympics. Some discuss the corrosive changes that have been wrought on the professional ethics and attitudes of men and women long nurtured by the socialist state. Others recall chilling encounters with the police, the law courts, labor camps, and the army. Providing unique insight into the minds and hearts of people who have firsthand experience of China's tumultuous history, this book adds invaluable depth and dimension to our understanding of this rapidly changing country.