本书是《统一与分裂——中国历史的启示》的修订版，包括作者的增订版自序和三篇约五万字的相关文章。 中国历史的统一与分裂是作者二十多年来一直思索的重点问题，作者以理性的思考来审视中国历史上的统一与分裂，提出如何认识统一时期的消极因素和分裂时期的积极因素，并面向未来，提出了作者独特的见解。 本书史料扎实，分析深入，视角鲜明，见解独特，有助于我们更好认识中国历史的过去、现在与未来。

※本書獲Simon & Schuster出版社推薦角逐2006年普立茲獎。

2006年最具影響力的中國經商報告

本書只想說明，在中國做生意到底是什麼概念，而不是指出具體做法，因為本來就沒有包治百病的靈丹妙藥。只有通過具體講述某些交易如何成功或失敗、參與交易的人士如何彼此相待，以及政治和成見如何使預期和結果蒙塵等，才能清楚展示是什麼因素造成了中國市場既讓外國公司一籌莫展，又讓他們有利可圖。

本書每章開頭都會簡單介紹一下重點人物和相關事件。接下來的概述部分則將進一步介紹人物和事件所處的環境和背景，然後故事才會平鋪直敘地展開。在故事結尾處的「經驗總結」部分，再解釋章節中故事提供了哪些啟示。最後，作者模仿毛澤東的「語錄」模式，提煉了一些希望讀者把握住的重點。

中國當前人口的準確規模是十三億。但恰恰是這個大概的「十億」才最能說明問題。這個完全不同的數量級概念最能體現中國這個地域比起歐洲大陸的未開發市場到底有多大，等待變成消費者的人有多多，第一批來此淘金的人利潤有多豐厚，以及讓西方商賈渴望了多少世紀的中國夢到底有多迷幻。

本書的標題也表達了作者對另一位記者出身的美國商人卡爾．克羅（Carl Crow）的敬意。克羅曾在上海旅居二十六年，他一九三七年出版的《四億消費者》一書不僅提到了許多趣聞軼事，還充滿了對中國人和中國生意經的真知灼見，內容直到今天都不乏可取之處。作者和克羅一樣，對被他稱之為「妙趣橫生可又令人火冒三丈、捉摸不定而又可愛至極的中國人」滿懷著深深的敬意和欣賞。

透過此書中的學術觀點和草根民眾經歷的介紹，配合以栩栩如生的敘述和恰如其分的幽默，讀者將充分領略中國的商業文化以及中國人根深柢固的思考模式和行為習慣。

佳評如潮

「這是一本清楚界定中國做生意怎麼做可行、怎麼做不可行的好書。麥健陸帶來栩栩如生的故事，說明美國企業先鋒透過努力、專業和嘗試錯誤，在一個當今全球最重要的市場，為建立更寬廣的商業社群而披荊斬棘的軌跡。所有想在中國佔有一席之地、對中國感興趣或懷抱中國夢的人，我強烈推薦這本書為必讀之作。」

－湯瑪斯．唐納修（Thomas J. Donohue，美國商會總裁暨執行長）

「麥健陸對於如何在中國做生意的見解精闢。做為一個記者和商人，他直擊了過去二十年間中國從一個落後國家成為崛起經濟大國的非凡轉變。對於睿智的商務人士和希望更深入了解中國迅速發展的市場經濟的一般讀者而言，透過他廣泛的第一手中國經驗和傑出的說故事技巧，《與龍共舞》充滿了可貴的洞見和建議。」

－季辛吉（Dr. Henry Kissinger，前美國國務卿）

「本書之所以如此引人入勝，是因為麥健陸對當前中國的經濟狂潮問了一些大問題：中國的新銳企業家是誰？他們如何變得這麼有錢？他們獨立於政府和官僚的程度為何？西方公司能如何及何種程度分享中國的新財富？在一系列生動的、值得讚賞的中國商業世界細緻個案研究中，他給了他的答案，令人莞爾，同時令人歎息。」

－史景遷（Jonathan Spence, 耶魯大學教授、《追尋現代中國》作者）

Product Description
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.
About the Author
You-tien Hsing is Associate Professor of Geography at University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Making Capitalism in China: The Taiwan Connection (1998, Oxford University Press) and co-editor (with Ching Kwan Lee) of Reclaiming Chinese Society: Politics of Redistribution, Recognition, and Representation (Forthcoming, Routledge).

《秩序的沦陷》为著名汉学家卜正民教授近著，关注的是抗战初期的社会与人。作者选取江南五城（嘉定、镇江、南京、上海、崇明）为例，描述了日军残暴占领城市、试图重建基层机构的过程，并分析地方头面人物与日伪政府的关系交织。“这里有通敌，有抵抗，但两者之外的其他行为要多得多。”借助对这种模糊行为的分析，作者考察了战争时期城市秩序的维持，以及生活其间的个人的心态、处境与选择，以求揭示一个复杂的战时社会。

This book looks at the lives of migrants in China.

中国，这个古老与现代并存的国度，正在经历着人类历史上最大规模的移民热潮。自上世纪改革开放以来的30余年间，伴随着城市挖掘机的轰鸣声，一座座新兴城镇拔地而起。在这30年中，中国的大小城市已容纳了五亿新增居民。到2030年时，这个数字将达到十亿，占全球人口的八分之一。
中国，早已启动了全面城镇化进程的“和谐号”快车，其承载的是亿万中国人的希望之梦，以及说不尽、道不完的个中故事。
在中国，城镇化发展带来的，是社会结构的急剧变化。它打破了城乡二元化的平静，在勾起了人们欲望的同时，也强迫着大批农民背井离乡，远离土地，到城市去寻觅自己的生机。这些城市移民者们的生存之路，与中国不断深入的城镇化发展一样，走得并不平坦。
本书结合国内外媒体报道和新近研究成果，以一个在中国居住多年的西方人的视角，对中国在城镇化中取得巨大成就的同时，却未能从中获取充分的经济及社会回报，进行了冷静、理性地分析。最后得出结论：中国在城镇化进程中，务必要寻找到更健康、更具有包容性，也更持久的城市发展模式，只有这样，中国的城市才能真正实现文明，并将超越美国，成为世界上最大的经济体。

From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy—or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation. What we don’t see is how both powerful and ordinary people are remaking their lives as their country dramatically changes.
As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval. In Fortune, Truth, and Faith, he describes the greatest collision taking place in that country: the clash between the rise of the individual and the Communist Party’s struggle to retain control. He asks probing questions: why does a government with more success lifting people from poverty than any civilization in history choose to be the first regime since Germany in 1935 to prevent the relatives of a Nobel Peace Laureate from accepting his prize? And why do millions of young Chinese professionals—fluent in English and devoted to Western pop culture—consider themselves “Angry Youth,” dedicated to resisting the West’s influence?
Writing with great narrative verve and a keen sense of irony, Osnos follows the moving, illuminating stories of everyday people and reveals life in the new China to be a battleground between aspiration and authoritarianism, in which only one can prevail.

（当今美国中国近代史研究领域中最有成就的学者之一、美国中国学研究的两个最高奖——费正清奖和列文森奖获得者周锡瑞代表作）
（著名汉学家史景迁 柯文 罗威廉 裴宜理联合推荐）
（著名历史学家、教育家章开沅倾情作序并推荐）
（从晚清到民国、再到共和国，时代洪流中的家族命运沉浮）
《叶》主要讲述了中国百年历史中一个家庭的变迁，从晚清到“文革”结束，把整个国家史诗般的记述活灵活现地展示了出来。叶家人的生活显示了决定现代中国的重大事件的人性化的一面：19世纪大规模的破坏性叛乱，共和国时期的经济发展和社会转型，二战时期日本的侵略，以及文化大革命中的浩劫。
安庆叶家的缘起，最早可以追溯到元朝末年的钱塘教谕叶盛二，这就决定其后代多数走的是“学而优而仕”的传统道路。第四世叶华高中进士，此乃安庆叶氏成为显赫世家的起点。早期的文字记载很少，作者主要是借助于后世的追忆与传说，着重介绍了谱牒的纂辑与祠堂的修建，从总体上描述了古老宗法社会的根基。
安庆叶家比较完整的历史，似乎是从1802 年县衙以西叶家老宅一个婴儿的诞生开始，他的名字是坤厚。他和他的儿子伯英在道、咸年间的国内战乱中，如同曾国藩、李鸿章一样组织地方团练，为扶持风雨飘摇的大清王朝立下汗马功劳。虽然未能擢升为封疆大吏，但毕竟已从道台攀登到省一级政府中的藩臬要职。父子二人都在大清河的水利工程中有所建树，并且顺应同光新政的潮流在政府部门工作中有所革新。他们不仅为安徽叶家奠定了更为辉煌而又坚实的基础，而且还成为以后北迁天津的后世子孙心目中的创业先驱。

When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering. During World War II, the French took comfort in the story of Joan of Arc and her heroic efforts to rid France of foreign occupation. To bring the Joan narrative more into line with current circumstances, popular retellings modified the original story so that what people believed took place in the past was often quite different from what actually occurred.
Paul A. Cohen believes this interplay between story and history is a worldwide phenomenon found in countries of radically different cultural, religious, and social character. He focuses on Serbia, Israel, the Soviet Union, China, Great Britain, and France, all of which experienced severe crises in the twentieth century and, in response, appropriated age-old historical narratives that resonated with what was happening in the present to serve a unifying, restorative purpose.
A central theme in the book is the distinction between popular memory and history. Although vitally important to historians, this distinction is routinely blurred in people's minds, and the historian's truth often cannot compete with the power of a compelling story from the past, even when it has been seriously distorted by myth or political manipulation. Cohen concludes by suggesting that the patterns of interaction he probes, given their near universality, may well be rooted in certain human propensities that transcend cultural difference.

这是一部西方学者近年来发表的关于中国近现代史的论文辑选，作者都是极具知名度的学者。大致可分四个方面：中国与世界、中国革命、日常生活、历史之传承与延续。
美国的中国近现代史研究通过“区域研究”而进入学术界，又通过内部的挑战和论争，在过去的半个世纪中自觉地“走出区域研究”。对区域研究所带来的有意无意的惯性的批评今天仍然在持续。
本书收录了12篇过去20年里发表在重要英语出版物上的关于中国近现代史的文章。文章的作者是美国、加拿大、澳大利亚以及英国仍然活跃在学术界的学者。全书可分世界•区域•国家、革命作为历史变化的形式、城市与日常生活史、社会与历史之延续四个部分，大致反映了“走出区域研究”以后的学术关怀。

In 1872 in the treaty port of Shanghai, British merchant Ernest Major founded one of the longest-lived and most successful of modern Chinese-language newspapers, the Shenbao. His publication quickly became a leading newspaper in China and won praise as a "department store of news," a "forum for intellectual discussion and moral challenge," and an "independent mouthpiece of the public voice." Located in the International Settlement of Shanghai, it was free of government regulation. Paradoxically, in a country where the government monopolized the public sphere, it became one of the world's most independent newspapers.
As a private venture, the Shenbao was free of the ideologies that constrained missionary papers published in China during the nineteenth century. But it also lacked the subsidies that allowed these papers to survive without a large readership. As a purely commercial venture, the foreign-managed Shenbao depended on the acceptance of educated Chinese, who would write for it, read it, and buy it. This book sets out to analyze how the managers of the Shenbao made their alien product acceptable to Chinese readers and how foreign-style newspapers became alternative modes of communication acknowledged as a powerful part of the Chinese public sphere within a few years. In short, it describes how the foreign Shenbao became a "newspaper for China."

Glossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different reality, Gerard Lemos reveals in this extensively researched book. Lemos conducted hundreds of interviews with Chinese men and women in non-westernized areas distant from such cities as Beijing and Shanghai. He reports that the lives his subjects describe belie the myth of a harmonious, cohesive Chinese society. Much as the government promotes such a positive image, everyday people in China are beleaguered by immense social and community problems as well as personal, family, and financial anxieties. Lemos investigates a China beyond the tourist trail. He offers a revealing account of the thoughts and feelings of Chinese people regarding all facets of their lives, from education to health care, unemployment to old age, politics to wealth. Taken together, the stories of these men and women bring to light a broken society, one whose people are frustrated, angry, sad, and often fearful about the circumstances of their lives. The author considers the implications of these findings and analyzes how China's community and social problems threaten the ambitious nation's hopes for a cohesive future.

After celebrating their country's three decades of fantastic economic success, many Chinese are now asking, "What comes next?" How can China convert its growing economic power into political and cultural influence around the globe?
William Callahan's China Dreams gives voice to China's many different futures by exploring the grand aspirations and deep anxieties of a broad group of public intellectuals. Stepping outside narrow politics of officials vs. dissidents, Callahan examines what a third group - "citizen intellectuals" - think about China's future. China Dreams eavesdrops on fascinating conversations between officials, scholars, soldiers, bloggers, novelists, film-makers and artists to see how they describe China's different political, strategic, economic, social and cultural futures. Callahan also examines how the PRC's new generation of twenty- and thirty-somethings is creatively questioning "The China Model" of economic development. The personal stories of these citizen intellectuals illustrate China's zeitgeist and a complicated mix of hopes and fears about "The Chinese Century", providing a clearer sense of how the PRC's dramatic economic and cultural transitions will affect the rest of the world.
China Dreams explores the transnational connections between American and Chinese people, providing a new approach to Sino-American relations. While many assume that 21st century global politics will be a battle of Confucian China vs. the democratic west, Callahan weaves Chinese and American ideals together to describe a new "Chimerican dream".

《讲述中国历史(上下)》的价值不言自明。它的诞生，是世界各地学者、翻译人才、出版等各界人士共同艰苦卓绝努力的成果。治学为人，先生均被视为楷模。多有学人屡用大写的“人”来概括先生的一生。在治学上，先生著作等身，桃李满天下。他对中国历史的兴趣与投入，激情洋溢且经久不衰。我曾问他“你一生致力中国历史研究，要是真有来世，那时你会选什么事业？”他想了想，说：“中国历史。”“还是中国历史，没见过你这样要迷两辈子中国历史的！”他憨厚地笑了笑，点点头，然后用中文敦厚地说：“对，我太喜欢中国历史了。在我眼里，中国人是世界上最优秀的民族之一。我庆幸自己有这份缘。”

当代中国社会从未停止变化，新近在诸多方面的激进变动更是从本质上改变了社会的结构。个体的崛起，就是这样一种转型性的变革。
个体的崛起在很大程度上改变了社会关系的结构，导致了中国社会的个体化。在公共领域，特别是20世纪90年代后期以来城市化背景下的公共领域，个体的角色变得更为复杂和重要。对于当代的中国青年而言，个人幸福和个体自我的实现无疑成为了人生的终极目标。
那么，如何理解正在崛起的个体、及其在中国和世界范围内广泛而深远的影响。根本的问题在于：中国社会，是否像西方社会一样，正在经历一种个体化的进程？
作为一项持续数年的实证合作研究，本书深刻地揭示了：在中国，个人已经成为一个基本社会范畴的事实。中国已经出现了一种发展趋势，并渗透到社会生活的各个方面。这种发展不仅决定了私人领域、家庭结构和两性关系，也决定了经济的组织方式和灵活的就业，以及同样重要的，个人与国家之间的关系。同时，本书也从不同的角度表明，这一中国式的个体化进程具有其独特性，它并非是对欧洲个体化路径的单纯复制。
因此，所有想要了解当今中国社会基本构成——包括其两面性、偶然性和矛盾性等——的读者，都必须读一读此书。