“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children condemned parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political sins, while tens of millions were hounded, ostracized, and imprisoned. Yet in China this brutal and turbulent period exists, for the most part, as an absence; official suppression and personal trauma have conspired in national amnesia. <em>Red Memory</em> uncovers forty years of silence through the stories of individuals who lived through the madness. Deftly exploring how this era defined a generation and continues to impact China today, Branigan asks: What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited, or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?

一九四五年，台灣從日本時代迎向戰後，值此動盪時期，社會結構的變與不變，讓二戰後的日本元素在與國民黨政策的角逐拉鋸中，重新被形塑轉化。台灣人的對日本觀感，雖說因人而異，但也不乏有人將日本元素投映在自身的身分認同上。台灣人的日本情愫，其背後究竟隱藏了什麼？台灣人，如何從日本時代蛻變轉化而開展自己的戰後人生？《日本時代的殘光餘影—走過兩個時代的台灣》企盼引領讀者，一探究竟。——林初梅
本書之研究對象，以日本時代及一九七○年代末期民主化運動揭開序幕前之國民黨執政時期為主。……一般而言，日本的「兩個時代」，往往以一九四五年日本戰敗時作為分界點，劃分為戰前和戰後。筆者在本序言中也延續這個用法，但希望讀者注意到台灣的「戰後」並非始於一九四五年，因為某些層面顯示出一九四五年以後的台灣仍處於「戰爭時期」。
對今日台灣而言，本書所講述的台灣經驗或許已逐漸成為歷史，而且想要了解現在的台灣，確實也不能迴避「兩個時代」之後民主化時期的相關議題。回到我自身的經歷，我最初所感受到的台灣人的韌性與活力，也確實是在民主化過程中，深受社會或與他人互動之影響所形成的。不過，在構成當前台灣社會的多元要素及其相互關係的基礎中，存在著「兩個時代」的歷史基層，這也是不爭的事實。因為民主化不是在真空狀態開始的，而是以在那之前的社會基礎為前提所展開的，希望本書能引起讀者對台灣「兩個時代」的共鳴，並進一步發展出新的研究議題。——石井清輝

哈登旦 歐德勒瑰 哈德勒雅尬 奇奇 哈德勒雅尬 歐尼格森貝 歐……


鄉音爆發在氈帳裡
淚流在族人的親情中


十七世紀傳唱在土爾扈特汗國草原上的歌，經數百年的顛沛流離，在台北溫州街的新疆大院子裡重新響起…… 




席慕蓉 專文推薦

It was long assumed that as China embraced open markets and private enterprise, its state-controlled economy would fall by the wayside, that free markets would inevitably lead to a more liberal society. Instead, China’s growth over the past four decades has positioned state capitalism as a durable foil to the orthodoxy of free markets, to the confusion of many in the West.

Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao argue that China’s economic success is based on—not in spite of—the continuing influence of Communist leader Mao Zedong. They illustrate how Mao’s ideological principles, mass campaigns, and socialist institutions have enduringly influenced Chinese entrepreneurs’ business strategies and the management of their ventures. Grounded in case studies and quantitative analyses, this book shows that while private enterprise is the engine of China’s growth, Chinese companies see no contradictions between commercial drive and a dedication to Maoist ideology.

In 1952, John T. “Jack” Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richard “Dick” Fecteau were captured by the Chinese. For the next twenty years, they were harshly interrogated, put through show trials, held in solitary confinement, placed in reeducation camps, and toured around China as political pawns. Other prisoners of war came and went, but Downey and Fecteau’s release hinged on the United States acknowledging their status as CIA assets. Not until Nixon’s visit to China did Sino-American relations thaw enough to secure Fecteau’s release in 1971 and Downey’s in 1973.
Lost in the Cold War is the never-before-told story of Downey’s decades as a prisoner of war and the efforts to bring him home. Downey’s lively and gripping memoir―written in secret late in life―interweaves horrors and deprivation with humor and the absurdities of captivity. He recounts his prison experiences: fearful interrogations, pantomime communications with his guards, a 3,000-page overstuffed confession designed to confuse his captors, and posing for “show” photographs for propaganda purposes. Through the eyes of his captors and during his tours around China, Downey watched the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the drastic transformations of the Mao era. In interspersed chapters, Thomas J. Christensen, an expert on Sino-American relations, explores the international politics of the Cold War and tells the story of how Downey and Fecteau’s families, the CIA, the U.S. State Department, and successive presidential administrations worked to secure their release.

☆蘇聯雖然解體，但俄羅斯從未對歷史進行反省…… ☆冷戰雖然結束，但中、俄仍然固守威權專制…… ☆後冷戰時代終結，美國霸權搖搖欲墜…… 烏克蘭戰爭乃「歷史的缺失」的苦果，並將揭開「新對抗時代」序幕。 2022年2月24日，普丁下令發動「特殊軍事行動」，俄軍對烏克蘭展開全面入侵。在世人的驚詫與慌亂中，普丁的舉動不僅對烏克蘭人民的安全福祉造成悲劇性的傷害，更徹底打破了全球各國在二戰後苦心孤詣建立起的世界秩序──烏俄戰爭不僅是一個主權國家赤裸裸的對另一國家展開的滅國性入侵，違反了包含《聯合國憲章》在內的諸項國際公法，撕毀了俄羅斯與多國簽訂的1975《赫爾辛基協議》、1994《安全保障布達佩斯備忘錄》，甚至是俄羅斯與烏克蘭兩國簽訂的1997《俄烏友好合作與伙伴關係條約》。此外，俄羅斯作為聯合國安理會的五大常任理事國之一，更濫用其否決權阻止聯合國的集體決議，夥同中國阻撓聯合國發揮其正常功能，踐踏全球最重要的國際組織的安全機制。   然而，儘管俄羅斯的暴行如此昭昭在目，世人對其理解仍然易於遭到蒙蔽或混淆，這一方面固然出於俄羅斯國家機器蓄意編撰的謊言，以及中文世界網路上大量散播的扭曲訊息，也可能基於偏差的政治意識形態或對國際事務的誤解誤判。   ★「北約東擴5次，威脅到俄羅斯國家安全。」 ──錯！北約東向擴張只有2次，而且加盟的國家全都自願。如今連瑞典、芬蘭都申請加入。 ★「烏克蘭窩藏納粹，甚至對烏東俄裔人士進行迫害。」 ──錯！聯合國人權報告指出，烏東衝突中喪生的大多為軍人，不存在迫害俄裔人士的情況。 ★「美國口惠實不至，遺棄烏克蘭。」 ──錯！美國從2014年開始即協助訓練烏克蘭部隊，開戰至今已批准上百億美元的援助，美軍提供的軍事情報資訊更是烏克蘭致勝的關鍵。 ★「美國才是在背後煽風點火的始作俑者，目的是削弱歐洲與俄國。」 ──錯！美國真正的戰略威脅來自中國，分散資源協助烏克蘭､支援歐洲，根本不利於美國。 ★「烏克蘭戰爭淪為美、俄相爭的消耗戰，中國或為大贏家。」 ──錯！事實上俄羅斯侵略的藉口、模式都與1931年日本侵華戰爭如出一轍。中國人民與政府都應該站在烏克蘭一方，嚴厲譴責俄羅斯才對。   本書作者黎蝸藤從2014年的克里米亞危機開始研究烏俄衝突，對其歷史背景、相關的國際條約與法律、參與各國的政治、經濟條件都有專精的研究。對於各種常見的盲點與謬論，黎蝸藤皆逐一提出清晰有力的辯駁。   《帝國解體與自由的堡壘》除了釐清爭議、反駁謬論之外，更帶領讀者從多種不同的角度來理解這場戰爭，包括「9種歷史敘事」、文化拒俄、經濟制裁戰、能源戰，以及聯合國大會上的11場表決之爭。黎蝸藤主張，欲真正了解烏俄戰爭的來龍去脈與是非曲直，我們不能只把焦點侷限於2022，而必須延伸到2014的克里米亞危機與頓巴斯戰爭，甚至拉到1991蘇聯解體之後從未展開的轉型正義。冷戰雖然終結，但由於俄羅斯從未從失敗中對其文化、民族認同、戰爭中的暴行與國家戰略進行真誠的反省，反而固守其極權體制，甚至與其共產陣營的小老弟中國圖謀挑戰既有國際秩序，故而導致「後冷戰時代終結」與「新對抗時代再起」。   最後，針對「誰是下一個烏克蘭？」的問題，作者指出雖然最有可能的會是中國正積極拉攏的索羅門群島，但真正會牽動國際政治板塊大變動的無疑仍然是台灣。與烏克蘭相比，台灣的條件有利有弊，利的是美國對台灣的承諾更堅定、台灣在全球產業供應鏈的地位更重要，且中國也看到了「歐美亞太抗俄共同體」團結制裁俄羅斯的決心。然而，另一方面，中國也將在烏俄戰爭中汲汲吸取教訓，精進其侵犯台灣之外交與軍事戰略，而一個耗弱的美國與北約，將更無力對抗經濟實力遠勝於俄羅斯的中國。福禍仍難預料，但國家地位之缺乏，將成台灣最大的潛在危機。

｢中華民族｣並非自古以來自有永有之概念。在二十世紀初，中國大陸之政情﹑新加坡與香港的英殖管治﹑日本作為後起帝國在南洋的勢力擴張﹑移居海外的華南地方族群對其廣東與福建等不同僑鄉各異的關心之情﹑海外華商受全球經濟大蕭條影響的商業利益計算，都是形塑「中國」想像的各種不同力量。為此，在中國大陸與海外華人之間，中國民族主義精神有不同演繹。

換言之，中國民族主義興起，並沒有自動消弭各語言群之間的鴻溝與差異，自動統合各僑鄉聯帶的國家認同。在二次大戰之前，泛中國想像共同體仍未真正成形，廣東、福建、客家等以鄉音為基礎的社會網絡仍具重要影響力，對中國民族主義精神各有不同詮釋。一九一〇年代末，中國大陸民族主義精神以反日為綱；至一九二〇年代，英人被視為敵人；至一九三〇年代，日人再次成為公敵。中國大陸民族主義定義屢有變化，不同華商網絡之間的磨擦隨之而生，鄉緣聯繫最終消磨而非鞏固海外華人的中國民族主義意識。

在此脈絡下，我們應當重新審視新加坡與香港這兩個港口城市的歷史發展軌跡。於近世之中，新加坡與香港不只是英帝國殖民地，亦非只是日人眼中亞洲尚未開發的南洋。南洋華人自稱華僑，也不完全跟從中國大陸的政治領導。進一步地說，南洋並非只是中國大陸的延伸，而是一個獨特的政經與文化空間。這個空間以香港與新加坡為兩軸，香港接連廣東，新加坡接連福建，同時亦串連日本帝國的商業網絡（例如粵商的神戶-香港-新加坡商業網絡，或閩商在日本南進政策之下從基隆經爪哇各埠到新加坡的物流線)。與此同時，香港和新加坡的商業走廊，是在中國、南洋與日本帝國（包括臺灣）貿易交流與政治動員之中華商跨域活動的匯集處。這個空間的歷史，也因而是多重的流動史。

時至今日，中國大陸政府已逐漸操控中國與海外之間的各種流動。海外華人如何才能保存既有的多元自主文化空間？參考二十世紀初的歷史經驗，保存閩、粵、潮、客等華南語言，鞏固各華南語言族群的在地與跨域網絡，維護多元自主的民間社會，也許仍然是應對中國大陸官式民族主義的最佳答案。

Dexter Roberts lived in Beijing for two decades working as a reporter on economics, business and politics for
. In
, Roberts explores the reality behind today’s financially-ascendant China and pulls the curtain back on how the Chinese manufacturing machine is
powered.
He focuses on two places: the village of Binghuacun in the province of Guizhou, one of China’s poorest regions that sends the highest proportion of its youth away to become migrants; and Dongguan, China’s most infamous factory town located in Guangdong, home to both the largest number of migrant workers and the country’s biggest manufacturing base. Within these two towns and the people that move between them, Roberts focuses on the story of the Mo family, former farmers-turned-migrant-workers who are struggling to make a living in a fast-changing country that relegates one-half of its people to second-class status via household registration, land tenure policies and inequality in education and health care systems.
In
, Dexter Roberts brings to life the problems that China and its people face today as they attempt to overcome a divisive system that poses a serious challenge to the country’s future development. In so doing, Roberts paints a boot-on-the-ground cautionary picture of China for a world now held in its financial thrall.
Dexter Roberts is an award-winning journalist and a regular commentator on the U.S.-China trade and political relationship. His prior speaking engagements include traditional news media outlets (NPR, Fox News, CNN International) as well as universities and institutes (George Washington University, Council on Foreign Relations, and the Overseas Press Club).
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我曾親歷的香港
反送中運動抗爭藝術畫集
5篇短篇漫畫＋32張犀利單幅
香港漫畫家柳廣成 自傳式畫集
以意志的畫筆，對抗被意圖消失的歷史

「重要的是活下去。但更更更重要的是，毋忘初衷地活下去。
今天的我希望透過畫作，在為時未晚前，把我們香港人的故事，告訴那些仍活在自由平等、不必面對極權打壓的人。除了喚起世人對香港的關注，亦同時希望習慣自由平等的人有所警戒，對各自身處的社會更積極參與。」───柳廣成

2019年，香港爆發反送中運動，一百萬人、二百萬人走上街頭。
起初，柳廣成是跟著上街遊行的參與者。
在前線急救員遭港警射穿右眼後，他手上的畫筆，成為反抗的起點。
有時他不上街，埋首書桌前拚命畫，圖像透過網路傳播到國際。
對他來說，這不只是藝術家的使命，也是一個市民的責任。
他很清楚，有些東西如果失去，永遠都不會再回來了。

2020年5月，港版國安法過關，一國兩制名存實亡。
看似絕望的時刻，香港人毫不退縮，六四當天，上萬人秉燭湧入維園。
香港人在害怕什麼？他們又在期盼什麼？他們為何如此勇敢？
柳廣成以畫筆速寫時代，記錄下這一頁重要的香港歷史。

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5篇短篇漫畫＋32張犀利單幅
香港漫畫家柳廣成 自傳式畫集
以意志的畫筆，對抗被意圖消失的歷史

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☆全新《周作人集外文》，搜集更为完备、考订更为准确
☆收入近年来新发现的周作人佚文，增补文章百余篇
☆填补研究资料之缺漏，展现更为丰富立体的周作人形象
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新版《周作人集外文》共两卷，本书为上卷，收入1904年至1945年的集外文，包括散文、旧诗、新诗，以及为自己或他人的文章、译文所写的题记、附记、按语等未曾收入自编文集的作品。
相较于之前版本，新版《周作人集外文1904—1945》历经六年搜集、整理与考订，收入近年来新发现的周作人佚文，增补170余篇（则），十万余字。就内容而言，早年的《小说丛话》系列、五四新文学运动初期的《新文学的意义》和讨论“恋爱难题”的几通公开信等文，都值得格外留意。尤其应该提到的是，抗战全面爆发后胡适与周作人有名的唱和诗， 最初出处一直未明，成了周作人研究上的一个悬案。而今新收入的一篇《方外唱和诗钞》，对此做出了新的解答。
新版《周作人集外文》的出版对周作人研究乃至20世纪中国文学史研究都具有不可替代的价值。
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一部搜集更为完备、考订更为准确的新的《周作人集外文》，不仅对周作人研究，乃至对20世纪中国文学史研究，都是必不可少的，这也是我们作为编者的学术追求。
——陈子善
周作人的文章好大家皆知，但他的好文章却不限于自己所编的几十种集子，也包括集外文。他的某方面的风格，甚至主要体现在集外文中。这部《周作人集外文》搜集详尽，校订精细，喜欢他的文章的读者不可错过。 ——止庵
周作人曾云"半生写文字，计数近千万"，可见其散佚作品相当不少。经过研究者多年的搜集，如今已蔚为大观。本次编订的《周作人集外文》，就是对这一辑佚工作的小结。它的出版，对推动周作人研究的深入自有其不可替代的价值。 ——赵国忠

On the eve of the twentieth century, few places were as exciting as Shanghai. Once a wildness of swamps, Asia s "Sin City" evolved into a dazzling modern-day Babylon: redolent with the sickly sweet smell of opium; teeming with illicit sex, crime, and poverty; rife with corruption and glamorous wealth. In this vibrant history, Stella Dong follows the rise and fall of the city s booming international port, gateway to China s heartland. In intricate, colorful detail, she examines the misdeeds of its criminal underworld, the passions of its citizens decadent appetites, and the revolutionary spirit of its many political refugees. Best of all, she captures the essence of the city as if it were a person who had lived a fascinating and tumultuous life.

As China is transformed, relations between society, the state, and the city have become central. The Great Urban Transformation investigates what is happening in cities, the urban edges, and the rural fringe in order to explain these relations. In the inner city of major metropolitan centers, municipal governments battle high-ranking state agencies to secure land rents from redevelopment projects, while residents mobilize to assert property and residential rights. At the urban edge, as metropolitan governments seek to extend control over their rural hinterland through massive-scale development projects, villagers strategize to profit from the encroaching property market. At the rural fringe, township leaders become brokers of power and property between the state bureaucracy and villages, while large numbers of peasants are dispossessed, dispersed, and deterritorialized, and their mobilizational capacity is consequently undermined. The Great Urban Transformation explores these issues, and provides an integrated analysis of the city and the countryside, elite politics and grassroots activism, legal-economic and socio-political issues of property rights, and the role of the state and the market in the property market.

"To change China" was the goal of foreign missionaries, soldiers, doctors, teachers, engineers, and revolutionaries for more than three hundred years. But the Chinese, while eagerly accepting Western technical advice, clung steadfastly to their own religious and cultural traditions. As a new era of relations between China and the United States begins, the tales in this volume will serve as cautionary histories for businessmen, diplomats, students, or any other foreigners who foolishly believe that they can transform this vast, enigmatic country.

Process Automation Tools and Techniques
There are many ways to automate processes, from plain software development to batch processing, event-driven microservices, and any other development practice you can think of.
But automating processes has specific characteristics & requirements, and there is dedicated software built for addressing these. Analysts define different software market categories that are related to process automation: for example, digital process automation (DPA), intelligent business process management suites (iBPMSs), low-code platforms, robotic process automation (RPA), microservice orchestration, process orchestration, process monitoring, process mining, decision support, & automation.
All the different software categories provide tools & technologies that allow organizations to coordinate, automate, and improve business processes. These processes can include people, software, decisions, bots, and things.
That’s a broad scope. So what will we focus on in this book?
The Scope of This Book
This book looks at how process automation can be applied in modern system architectures and software development practices. It examines how tool support needs to look like to become a vital part of every developer’s toolbox. It demonstrates that the core component to make this happen is a lightweight and developer-friendly workflow engine, which will be explored in great detail throughout the book.
Along the way, we’ll discuss some typical misconceptions. Workflow engines are not alien in software development, like some people may expect. And even if neither analyst reports nor tools from big vendors are particularly developer-focused or developer-friendly, there are alternative tools available today, as you will see throughout this book. Some of these might not fit into the categories mentioned earlier, but others do.
That said, I will not dedicate a lot of time to what analysts say about process automation software, but focus on giving practical advice about workflow engines in the context of software development in modern architectures. In this context, I will weave together ideas from microservices, event-driven systems, and domain-driven design.
This might give you a new perspective on process automation.
Who This Book Is For
This book targets software developers and software or system architects who want to learn about process automation.
If you are a software developer, you might want to use a workflow engine in your application, service, or microservice to solve hands-on problems. This book will help you understand which problems a workflow engine can solve for you, and how to get started.
If you are a system architect, this book will help you understand opportunities and pitfalls around process automation. It will guide you through some tough architectural decisions and trade-offs, including how using a workflow engine compares to alternative approaches or whether a workflow engine should be operated centrally.
But you can also benefit if you work in other roles. For example:
- If you are an IT manager, this book can help you make better-informed decisions and ask the right questions internally.
- If you are a business analyst, this book can help you if you are motivated to think outside the box and understand the technical side of things.
Overall, you will need some general experience in the field of software engineering, but no other specific knowledge.

Learn how to program the Internet of Things with this hands-on guide. By breaking down IoT programming complexities in step-by-step, building-block fashion, author and educator Andy King shows you how to design and build your own full stack, end-to-end IoT solution—from device to cloud. This practical book walks you through tooling, development environment setup, solution design, and implementation.
You’ll learn how a typical IoT ecosystem works, as well as how to tackle integration challenges that crop up when implementing your own IoT solution. Whether you’re an engineering student learning the basics of the IoT, a tech-savvy executive with a company embarking on an IoT journey, or a programmer building your own smart house solution, this practical book will help you get started.
Design an end-to-end solution that implements an IoT use case
Set up an IoT-centric development and testing environment
Organize your software design by creating abstractions in Python and Java
Use MQTT, CoAP, and other protocols to connect IoT devices and services
Create a custom JSON-based data format that’s consumable across a range of platforms and services
Use cloud services to support your IoT ecosystem and provide business value for stakeholders

Large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion have unprecedented potential. Because they have been trained on all the public text and images on the internet, they can make useful contributions to a wide variety of tasks. And with the barrier to entry greatly reduced today, practically any developer can harness LLMs and diffusion models to tackle problems previously unsuitable for automation.
With this book, you'll gain a solid foundation in generative AI, including how to apply these models in practice. When first integrating LLMs and diffusion models into their workflows, most developers struggle to coax reliable enough results from them to use in automated systems. Authors James Phoenix and Mike Taylor show you how a set of principles called prompt engineering can enable you to work effectively with AI.
Learn how to empower AI to work for you. This book explains:
The structure of the interaction chain of your program's AI model and the fine-grained steps in between
How AI model requests arise from transforming the application problem into a document completion problem in the model training domain
The influence of LLM and diffusion model architecture—and how to best interact with it
How these principles apply in practice in the domains of natural language processing, text and image generation, and code

This book teaches Git in a simple, visual, and tangible manner so that you can build a solid mental model of how Git version control works. Through the use of color, storytelling, and hands-on exercises, you will learn to use this tool with confidence.
The information is introduced incrementally so that you don't get bogged down with unknown terms or concepts. Learning Git is ideal for anyone who needs to use Git for personal or professional projects: coding bootcamp students, junior developers, data professionals, and technical writers, to name just a few!
This book covers how to:
1. Download Git and initialize a local repository
2. Add files to the staging area and make commits
3. Create, switch, and delete branches
4. Merge and rebase branches
5. Work with remote repositories including cloning, pushing, pulling, and fetching
6. Use pull requests to collaborate with others

If you want to write efficient, high-quality code that's easily integrated with other languages and tools, this hands-on book will help you be productive with Python quickly. Learning Python, Fifth Edition, is an easy-to-follow, self-paced tutorial based on author and Python expert Mark Lutz's popular training course. You'll find lots of annotated examples and illustrations to help you get started with Python 2.7 and 3.3. Each chapter contains a standalone lesson on a key component of the language. Learn about Python's major built-in object types such as numbers, lists, and dictionaries Create and process objects using Python statements, and learn Python's general syntax model Structure and reuse code with Python's basic procedural tool Learn about Python modules: packages of statements, functions, and other tools organized into larger components Discover Python's object-oriented programming tool for structuring code Learn about the exception-handling model and development tools for writing larger programs Explore advanced Python tools, including decorators, descriptors, metaclasses, and Unicode processing