book's webpage
http://www.fortunecookiechronicles.com/
review from nyt
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/books/review/Stern-t.htm
美國新聞
中國菜緊緊抓住美國胃
李競新書「幸運籤餅記事」：中國菜的故事反映美國的故事
【本 報訊】最新一期「新聞周刊」報導，美國人愛吃中國菜，但正如
「紐約時報」記者李競 (Jennifer 8. Lee)在新書「幸運籤餅記事」(The Fortune Cookie Chronicles)所描述的那樣，美國人所謂的中國菜，就連許多中國人都不認得。其中，雜碎根本是美國發明的，而幸運籤餅則來自日本，就連美國最大的
中餐館供應業者Kari-Out製造的豆漿，也根本不是大豆做的。
李競指出，中國菜的吸引力來自它的雙重性質：既有地域性又有普遍性，來自外國而又熟悉。它讓美國人可以放心嚐新，卻仍可固守自己的文化傳統。
雖然中餐館遍布韓國、祕魯、印度、日本、墨西哥和牙買加等中國移民;多的地區，可是誰都無法與美國人對中國菜的熱愛相提並論。
美國人這麼喜愛這種沒有真正族裔性質的「族裔」料理，其原因來自：隨著大批移民引進，從而演變成融合各種文化矛盾的大雜燴，而中國菜在美國的故事也恰恰在許多方面反映出美國本身的故事。
自從一八四○ - 一八五○年代的淘金熱以來，中國移民源源不斷來到美國，但種族偏見使他們只能當礦工和鐵路工人，以及做「煮飯、洗衣這些不威脅白人勞工的女人工作」。因此，在1885年紐約市只有六家中餐館，20年後則迅速增加到一百多家。
李 競說，現在來到美國的移民，如果非法居留且又不懂英文，就很可能來到紐約華埠，並透過這裡的職業介紹所到全美各地中餐館打工。他們對這些餐館裡賣的中國菜
一定覺得不可思議。李競說，道地中國菜經常帶骨、帶殼，全魚連眼睛都會保留，比較多青菜，比較少肉和少油，更不會有五彩繽紛的醬料。
她說： 「道不道地要看時間、地點。我喜歡傳統中國菜，不過我以前沒這麼挑剔。到中國吃過正宗中國菜，使我的口味也改變了。」不過，不論是粵菜、湘菜、川菜或北京
菜式，中國菜的適應力很強，因此才能在由時尚潮流推動的美國餐館界歷久不衰。路易斯安納州有川式鱷魚肉，羅德島有炒麵三明治，而雜碎早已被芥蘭牛肉和左宗
棠雞取代。
在李競為新書做研究的三年期間，美國的中餐館從四萬家增加到4萬3000家。未來幾年不論是傳統中菜當道，還是中菜更加西化，中國菜仍將是促使美國人思索身分認同的食物。
2008-03-04

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我们只是想以此来寓意沉溺于故纸堆的惊讶及过程，
期待与你分享这份感受。
100年
249位插画师、艺术家、设计师
450余幅图像
10篇口述
以年代为序勾勒上海百年插画艺术的视觉历程，
与《上海字记》共同集成“字与画”的城市文化图像简史。
从清末小说绣像、西人引入的科技铜版画，
到朵云轩木版水印、民初西式美术教育带来的审美格调，
国货运动的商业 广告包装 ，战时的红色印迹，
至新中国工业腾飞、改革开放掀起的流行风尚……
插画于各个年代及各个领域的表现形式，
在本书中悉数展陈在读者面前。
本书出版获上海文化发展基金会图书出版专项基金资助

在香港，書店可能是你我的生活日常，是偶爾消閒的去處。我們喜歡討論城市和世代的閱讀風氣褪色；討論書店的生存空間如何被受層出不窮的娛樂以及各種經濟以至外間條件所影響。作為一個取得國際觸目成就的經濟城市，香港總是重視效益和財富。然而，看似繁榮的物質條件以至紙醉金迷背後，香港亦有她的文化脈絡和讀書傳統。
這本書是一份個人閱讀史及足跡的紀錄，但不少人的喜好、理想和行動貫穿其中，構成了城市風貌的腳註。在書中記錄書店，但場境又不限於書店，廣義而言有書的地方亦有故事發生，是作者待過的生活。.

大学是近代中国历史进程中诞生的一种新事物。它的诞生既是中国现代化之路的必然需要，也是近代中国打开国门后中西文化交流碰撞的结果，承载了引导中华文明在近代转型之路上前行的历史重任。
本书以大学存在的空间场域——校园为研究对象和切入口，是关于近代中国大学史的一项个案研究新成果。全书用翔实的史料和生动的语言，揭示了民国时期国立武汉大学珞珈山校园从无到有、从荒野湖山到黉宫胜地的动态过程，还原了其间各方之间的复杂纠葛，以及建校先驱为新校园诞生所做的不懈努力。该书又将珞珈山校园的诞生，置于近代中西建筑文化激荡交汇的历史进程中，探究了这一近代国立大学新校园所折射出的建筑文化意涵和时代思潮，为读者提供了一个深入观察理解近代中国社会的独特视角。该书对于近代中国大学史研究及建筑文化史研究的深化和拓展，均有新的意义。

本书以互联网公司的工作压力案例为主要线索，尝试从社会学的学科视角多角度多层面深度剖析作为新型工作环境代表之一的互联网企业工作压力的产生与缓解机制。书中详尽地描述了案例企业组织内部的工作环境与工作过程，并将华尔街资本等宏观影响因素加入到分析中来，最后结合近年来互联网产业由PC端向移动端转移的新进展，以及在技术、组织管理策略和企业文化等方面的新变化，引入了几家移动互联网公司与案例企业进行比较。

Downsizing. Decluttering. A parent's death. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a local donation center, where do they go? Sometimes across the country-or even halfway across the world-to people and places who find value in what we leave behind.
In Secondhand, journalist Adam Minter takes us on an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar industry of reuse: thrift stores in the American Southwest to vintage shops in Tokyo, flea markets in Southeast Asia to used-goods enterprises in Ghana, and more. Along the way, Minter meets the fascinating people who handle-and profit from-our rising tide of discarded stuff, and asks a pressing question: In a world that craves shiny and new, is there room for it all?
Secondhand offers hopeful answers and hard truths. A history of the stuff we've used and a contemplation of why we keep buying more, it also reveals the marketing practices, design failures, and racial prejudices that push used items into landfills instead of new homes. Secondhand shows us that it doesn't have to be this way, and what really needs to change to build a sustainable future free of excess stuff.

During the height of the Cold War in the 1950s the small island of Quemoy in the Taiwan Strait was the front line in the military standoff between Chiang Kai-shek's Republic of China and Mao Zedong's People's Republic. Local society and culture were dramatically transformed. Michael Szonyi uses oral history, official documents, and dissident writings to convey the history of the island during this period. In so doing, he sheds light on the social and cultural impact of the Cold War on those who lived through it, as well as on the relationship between China, the United States and the USSR at this critical moment. By analysing the effects of Quemoy's distinctive geopolitical situation on the economy, gender and the family, and citizenship and religion, the book provides a new perspective on the social history of Cold War relations, showing how geopolitics can affect individual lives and communities.

「尉天驄刻寫近代台灣文壇23位作家的文情軼事」
「在那苦悶而孤獨的年代，有人燃起一把火，光便開始傳遞開來，於是他們在光與火與磨難中，淬煉出文學的靈性與詩句，那麼悲痛揪心，卻又那麼激昂溫暖，照亮了一個不屈的時代。」
23位作家：臺靜農、高陽、子于、俞大綱、楊逵、程兆熊、何欣、王夢鷗、姚一葦、無名氏、唐文標、王禎和、黃春明、陳映真、葉笛、紀弦、梅新、大荒、商禽、楚戈、逯耀東、奚淞、聶華苓。

How did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi explores the myriad ways that families fulfilled their obligations to provide a soldier to the army. The complex strategies they developed to manage their responsibilities suggest a new interpretation of an important period in China's history as well as a broader theory of politics.
Using previously untapped sources, including lineage genealogies and internal family documents, Szonyi examines how soldiers and their families living on China's southeast coast minimized the costs and maximized the benefits of meeting government demands for manpower. Families that had to provide a soldier for the army set up elaborate rules to ensure their obligation was fulfilled, and to provide incentives for the soldier not to desert his post. People in the system found ways to gain advantages for themselves and their families. For example, naval officers used the military's protection to engage in the very piracy and smuggling they were supposed to suppress. Szonyi demonstrates through firsthand accounts how subjects of the Ming state operated in a space between defiance and compliance, and how paying attention to this middle ground can help us better understand not only Ming China but also other periods and places.

內容簡介
從吃早餐的小歷史，到飲食文化塑造現代文明的大歷史
就讓世界甦醒的味道──早餐！縈繞百年的文化美味，喚醒精氣神，滿足文化之欲
法國聖迪耶國際地理節獎、2008年聖德尼獎得主克里斯穹‧葛塔魯提醒我們：每天吃的早餐，早已累積了百年各國文化精萃！
俗話說得好：「一日之計在於晨。」一天當中最重要的一餐，就是早餐了。不僅滿足口腹之欲，還是一日美好的開端。
早餐可簡單、可複雜、可華麗、可樸實，端視享用之人的喜好與需求。多數饕客在乎的是早餐好不好吃、去哪裡買、怎麼做？意在滿足填飽肚腹的物質需求，但你可曾想過，今日我們桌上的一份早餐，是積累了百年、來自各國的文化精華。
早餐其實顛覆了飲食史，擁有開創嶄新世界的力量，在短短幾百年間橫掃了歐亞大陸，成為許多人一早的精緻享受。特別在歐洲，早餐的形成與航海時代商船貿易的發達息息相關，成了展示外貿成果與新潮食品的最好舞台，其食材的演變與人們重視它的程度，在在顯示它跨越了物的界線，漸漸轉化為一種文化現象，且是令人驚異的跨文化融合。
當你坐在路邊早餐店的一角，享用著咖啡、火腿蛋土司與沙拉，享用著一天之始的明媚時，不妨想想：咖啡是怎麼傳進來的？土司是什麼時候開始占據我們的餐桌？沙拉又怎麼會成為健康的代表食品？就會發現，一張小小餐桌上的食物就像聯合國，而你正站在歷史的發展洪流中，帶著新文化向前邁進。
在《百年早餐史：現代人最重要的晨間革命，可可、咖啡與糖霜編織而成的芬芳記憶》一書裡，作者克里斯穹‧葛塔魯除了直向梳理早餐演變的歷史，還縱向包攬了地域發展、產業、運輸等的演進，以地理學家的獨到眼光，帶領我們看各個異域間的交流如何轉變固有的習慣，而這些習慣又如何內化，逐漸成為生活不可分割的文化。
「每個人都知道天天吃的早餐，因為太過熟悉了，以至於沒想過該去深入了解它長達三世紀的歷史！」
一旦明白了其中奧妙，早晨的餐桌就是精采又多元的文化共和國。每一種組合都是創新，每一次入口都是顛覆。

The total number of web pages today has been estimated at over 3 billion, spanning millions of individual websites. Not surprisingly, there is tremendous pressure on web developers and designers to remain current with the latest technologies. The "Web Site Cookbook" from O'Reilly covers all the essential skills that you need to create engaging, visitor-friendly websites. It helps you with the practical issues surrounding their inception, design, and maintenance. With recipes that teach both routine and advanced setup tasks, the book includes clear and professional instruction on a host of topics, including: registering domains; ensuring that hostnames work; managing the directory; maintaining and troubleshooting a website; site promotion; visitor tracking; implementing e-commerce systems; and linking with sales sites. This handy guide also tackles the various elements of page design. It explains how to control a reader's eye flow, how to choose a template system, how to set up a color scheme, and more. Typical of O'Reilly's "Cookbook" series, the "Web Site Cookbook" is written in a straightforward format, featuring recipes that contain problem statements and solutions. A detailed explanation then follows each recipe to show you how and why the solution works. This question-solution-discussion format is a proven teaching method, as any fan of the "Cookbook" series can attest to. Regardless of your strong suit or your role in the creation and life of a website, you can benefit from the teachings found in the "Web Site Cookbook". It's a must-have tool for advancing your skills and making better sites.

The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject.
In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika Lee reminds us, Asian Americans also have deep roots in the country. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day.
An epic history of global journeys and new beginnings, this book shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life in the United States: sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500s; indentured “coolies” who worked alongside African slaves in the Caribbean; and Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and South Asian immigrants who were recruited to work in the United States only to face massive racial discrimination, Asian exclusion laws, and for Japanese Americans, incarceration during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. No longer a “despised minority,” Asian Americans are now held up as America’s “model minorities” in ways that reveal the complicated role that race still plays in the United States.
Published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the United States’ Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that has remade our “nation of immigrants,” this is a new and definitive history of Asian Americans. But more than that, it is a new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today.

dward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.
Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online—a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.

The definitive book on animation, from the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Animation is one of the hottest areas of filmmaking today--and the master animator who bridges the old generation and the new is Richard Williams. During his more than forty years in the business, Williams has been one of the true innovators, winning three Academy Awards and serving as the link between Disney's golden age of animation by hand and the new computer animation exemplified by Toy Story.
Perhaps even more important, though, has been his dedication in passing along his knowledge to a new generation of animators so that they in turn could push the medium in new directions. In this book, based on his sold-out master classes in the United States and across Europe, Williams provides the underlying principles of animation that every animator--from beginner to expert, classic animator to computer animation whiz --needs. Urging his readers to "invent but be believable," he illustrates his points with hundreds of drawings, distilling the secrets of the masters into a working system in order to create a book that will become the standard work on all forms of animation for professionals, students, and fans

本书是由作者在上海财经大学多年来讲授西方经济思想史的讲义修改而成，经过多次修改斟酌，受到广泛好评。本书主要讲授自古希腊直至今天的经济思想的发展和演变过程，从源头直至经济学的最新进展。但本书并不试图全面、平稳地介绍经济思想史上所有作者，而是有针对性地介绍特别重要的作者，并对他们的思想置于历史背景中、运用文本细读的方式进行分析性解读，实现零基础、高收获的目的。本书不仅想给读者提供一套西方经济思想的脉络和名单，还希望能培养读者学习分析经济思想的方法，引导读者进行批判性思考。对经济思想有兴趣的读者，还可以顺着本书提供的线索，进一步追溯探究西方经济思想的前沿研究。

In "The Sleepwalkers" acclaimed historian and author of Iron Kingdom, Christopher Clark, examines the causes of the First World War. Sunday Times Books of the Year 2012. The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought down four great empires, killed millions of men and destroyed a civilization. What made a seemingly prosperous and complacent Europe so vulnerable to the impact of this assassination? In "The Sleepwalkers" Christopher Clark retells the story of the outbreak of the First World War and its causes. Drawing on many fresh new sources, this account reveals a Europe very different from the familiar picture, putting Serbia and the Balkans at the centre of the story. Starting with the brutal assassination of Alexander I of Serbia in 1903, Clark shows how, far from being the place of enviable stability it appears to us, Europe was racked by chronic problems: a multipolar, fractured, multicultural world of clashing ideals, terrorism, militancy and instability, which was, fatefully, saddled with a conspicuously ineffectual set of political leaders. He shows how the rulers of Europe, who prided themselves on their modernity and rationalism, behaved like sleepwalkers, stumbling through crisis after crisis and finally convincing themselves that war was the only answer. Reviews: "Formidable ...one of the most impressive and stimulating studies of the period ever published". (Max Hastings, "Sunday Times"). "The arguments [Clark] sets out in this quite superb account of the causes of the First World War are so compelling that they effectively consign the old historical consensus to the bin ...a masterpiece. It's not often that one has the privilege of reading a book that reforges our understanding of one of the seminal events of world history". ("Mail Online"). "Impeccably researched, provocatively argued and elegantly written, his book is a model of scholarship". ("Sunday Times", Books of the Year 2012). "A brilliant contribution". ("Times Higher Education"). "Clark is fully alive to the challenges of the subject. Planting himself at the contingent end of the spectrum, he prefers to establish how the war happened rather than to explain why by means of hindsight ...It is a refreshing approach. He provides vivid portraits of leading figures ...[He] also gives a rich sense of what contemporaries believed was at stake in the crises leading up to the war". ("Irish Times"). About the author: Christopher Clark is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He is the author of "The Politics of Conversion", "Kaiser Wilhelm II" and "Iron Kingdom". Widely praised around the world, "Iron Kingdom" became a major bestseller. He has been awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum, connecting Facebook, WikiLeaks, Russian intelligence, and international hackers.

“Mindf*ck demonstrates how digital influence operations, when they converged with the nasty business of politics, managed to hollow out democracies.”—The Washington Post

Mindf*ck goes deep inside Cambridge Analytica’s “American operations,” which were driven by Steve Bannon’s vision to remake America and fueled by mysterious billionaire Robert Mercer’s money, as it weaponized and wielded the massive store of data it had harvested on individuals—in excess of 87 million—to disunite the United States and set Americans against each other. Bannon had long sensed that deep within America’s soul lurked an explosive tension. Cambridge Analytica had the data to prove it, and in 2016 Bannon had a presidential campaign to use as his proving ground.

Christopher Wylie might have seemed an unlikely figure to be at the center of such an operation. Canadian and liberal in his politics, he was only twenty-four when he got a job with a London firm that worked with the U.K. Ministry of Defense and was charged putatively with helping to build a team of data scientists to create new tools to identify and combat radical extremism online. In short order, those same military tools were turned to political purposes, and Cambridge Analytica was born.

Wylie’s decision to become a whistleblower prompted the largest data-crime investigation in history. His story is both exposé and dire warning about a sudden problem born of very new and powerful capabilities. It has not only laid bare the profound vulnerabilities—and profound carelessness—in the enormous companies that drive the attention economy, it has also exposed the profound vulnerabilities of democracy itself. What happened in 2016 was just a trial run. Ruthless actors are coming for your data, and they want to control what you think.

Renowned professor and author Gilbert Strang demonstrates that linear algebra is a fascinating subject by showing both its beauty and value. While the mathematics is there, the effort is not all concentrated on proofs. Strang's emphasis is on understanding. He explains concepts, rather than deduces. This book is written in an informal and personal style and teaches real mathematics. The gears change in Chapter 2 as students reach the introduction of vector spaces. Throughout the book, the theory is motivated and reinforced by genuine applications, allowing pure mathematicians to teach applied mathematics.

Now in its fourth edition, Calculus reflects the strong consensus within the mathematics community for a balance between contemporary and traditional ideas. Building on previous work, it brings together the best of both new and traditional curricula in an effort to meet the needs of instructors and students alike. The text exhibits the same strengths from earlier editions including the Rule of Four, an emphasis on modeling, exposition that is easy to understand, and a flexible approach to technology.