The issue of death has loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Throughout the Republican period, Shanghai swallowed up lives by the thousands. Exposed bodies strewn around in public spaces were a threat to social order as well as to public health. In a place where every group had its own beliefs and set of death and funeral practices, how did they adapt to a modern, u...(展开全部)

Shanghai's nightlife, from the mid-nineteenth century until the victory of the Communist Party in 1949, was dominated by the world of prostitution. Henriot portrays the Chinese sex trade, from the sophisticated life of the courtesan to the common life of street prostitution. He examines the extent to which these worlds were integral to Chinese social life, commercial trends, an...(展开全部)

Between 1988 and 2013, the Chinese city of Zouping transformed from an impoverished town of 30,000 people to a bustling city of over 300,000, complete with factories, high rises, parks, shopping malls, and all the infrastructure of a wealthy East Asian city. FromVillage toCity paints a vivid portrait of the rapid changes in Zouping and its environs and in the lives of the once-...(展开全部)

Between 1988 and 2013, the Chinese city of Zouping transformed from an impoverished town of 30,000 people to a bustling city of over 300,000, complete with factories, high rises, parks, shopping malls, and all the infrastructure of a wealthy East Asian city. FromVillage toCity paints a vivid portrait of the rapid changes in Zouping and its environs and in the lives of the once-...(展开全部)

任柯安（Andrew Byron Kipnis）,人類學家，美國北卡羅萊納大學人類學博士，現任香港中文大學人類學系教授暨系主任。曾任澳大利亞國立大學亞太學院人類學系主任。長期關注中國及東亞地區的發展，研究興趣極廣，包括：治理、教育、城市化、後社會主義與後社會主義社會、主體化過程、親屬與性別、禮物與經濟變遷、儀式產業、語言與文化、真相與後真相等。著有The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China、From Village to City: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat、Contemporary China: Society and Social Change、Governing Educational...(展开全部)

One of the first accounts of social variation in language, this groundbreaking study founded the discipline of sociolinguistics, providing the model on which thousands of studies have been based. In this second edition, Labov looks back on forty years of sociolinguistic research, bringing the reader up to date on its methods, findings and achievements. In over thirty pages of n...(展开全部)