Review "The most important book yet to appear on China's emerging private sector, David Wank's Commodifying Communism is also a major contribution to comparative economic sociology. Drawing carefully on extensive fieldwork among China's new urban entrepreneurs, Wank shows how private entrepreneurship emerges from within the social and political relationships of an earlier perio...(展开全部)

The first contemporary enthnographic account of urban life in China, Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City studies both public and private life, including such aspects as religious belief, gender images, family life, and sexual attraction.

As a result of the strength and dominance of the centralized state, ritual action in China often takes its logic from political action. In this book Emily Ahern explores the implications of this. She argues that forms of control attempted ritually on non-human persons (gods and other spirits) in China parallel those forms of control which people regard as effective in ordinary ...(展开全部)

傅高义，1930年7月出生。哈佛大学费正清东亚中心前主任，社会学家，精通中文和日文，被认为是美国唯一位对中日两国事务都精通的学者，在哈佛大学享有“中国先生”的美称。他自20世纪60年代始，对我国广东社会经济情况进行考察和研究。撰有《共产主义下的广州：一个省会的规划与政治（1949—1968）》《先行一步：改革中的广东》等著作。傅高义教授目前列中国的研究主要集中在邓小平时代，是《邓小平震撼世界》的编者。傅高义教授还著有《日本的新中产阶级》《日本第一：对美国的启示》《日本仍是第一吗》等日本研究的书籍，被认为是当代美国日本研究的第一人。当20世纪80年代末中美关系处于艰难时期，傅高义教授认为中国的改革开放有利于美国的利益，有利于世界的和平与发展，敦促美国政府恢复和中国的往来。他对中国全面客观的分析有助于美国社会化解对中国的偏见和敌视态度。

傅高义，1930年7月出生。哈佛大学费正清东亚中心前主任，社会学家，精通中文和日文，被认为是美国唯一位对中日两国事务都精通的学者，在哈佛大学享有“中国先生”的美称。他自20世纪60年代始，对我国广东社会经济情况进行考察和研究。撰有《共产主义下的广州：一个省会的规划与政治（1949—1968）》《先行一步：改革中的广东》等著作。傅高义教授目前列中国的研究主要集中在邓小平时代，是《邓小平震撼世界》的编者。傅高义教授还著有《日本的新中产阶级》《日本第一：对美国的启示》《日本仍是第一吗》等日本研究的书籍，被认为是当代美国日本研究的第一人。当20世纪80年代末中美关系处于艰难时期，傅高义教授认为中国的改革开放有利于美国的利益，有利于世界的和平与发展，敦促美国政府恢复和中国的往来。他对中国全面客观的分析有助于美国社会化解对中国的偏见和敌视态度。

The first modern ethnogtaphy of a city in the People's Republic of China addresses an innovative set of questions in satisfyingly rich detail.Dip into it anywhere and you will learn something new and informative about modern China.

This second volume of a two-volume social history of Hankow focuses on the people of Hankow, in all their ethnic diversity, occupational variety, constant mobility, and social bonds.

This is the second volume of a two-volume social history of nineteenth-century Hankow, a city of over one million inhabitants and the commercial hub of central China. In the first volume, Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889 (1984), the author emphasized the dynamism of late imperial commerce, the relation of the metropolis to its hinterland, and the corpor...(展开全部)

This is the first volume of a two-volume social history of the commercial hub of central China in the nineteenth century. The emphasis here is on the dynamism of late imperial commerce, the relation of the metropolis to the hinterland, and the corporate institutions of the city, notably its guilds. The second volume, Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895, ...(展开全部)

This is the first volume of a two-volume social history of the commercial hub of central China in the nineteenth century. The emphasis here is on the dynamism of late imperial commerce, the relation of the metropolis to the hinterland, and the corporate institutions of the city, notably its guilds. The second volume, Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895, ...(展开全部)