The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape. With the migration of more than 140 million villagers to cities and rapid urbanization of rural settlements, it is no longer possible to presume that the nation can be divided into strictly urban or rural classifications. Creating Wealth and Poverty in Post...(展开全部)

The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape. With the migration of more than 140 million villagers to cities and rapid urbanization of rural settlements, it is no longer possible to presume that the nation can be divided into strictly urban or rural classifications. "Creating Wealth and Poverty in Pos...(展开全部)

In this acclaimed work, Gilder offers an illuminating discussion of how to increase wealth and curtail poverty, arguing that most welfare programs only serve to keep the poor in poverty as victims of welfare dependency.

乔治·吉尔德（George Gilder），当今美国知名未来学家、经济学家，和尼古拉斯·尼葛洛庞帝和马歇尔·麦克卢汉一起，被誉为“数字时代的三大思想家”。毕业于哈佛大学，并曾服务于美国海军陆战队。 20世纪80年代，他成为供应学派经济学的代表人物，其作品《财富与贫困》被誉为里根革命的改革指南，在美国销售超过100万册；90年代，成为新经济的倡导者，曾被白宫授予“企业杰出奖”。在90年代中期的美国高科技领域，乔治?吉尔德就已经声名远播，经常与安迪?格罗夫、彼得·德鲁克等同场演讲。他还是《福布斯》《哈佛商业评论》等著名杂志的撰稿人，《企业之魂》《知识与权力》《通信革命》《货币之惑》等著作影响极大。

This very timely, well-written and insightful exploration of gay identity and queer activism in the People’s Republic of China today is more than a study of ‘queer China’ through the lens of male homosexuality; it also examines identity, power and governmentality in contemporary China, as shaped by China’s historical conditions and contemporary situations. This book offers in-d...(展开全部)

Dr Hongwei Bao is assistant professor in Media Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He holds a Ph.D. in Gender and Cultural Studies from the University of Sydney, Australia.

Although the scale of the information economy and the impact of digital media on social life in China today could pale that of any other country, the story of their emergence in the post-Mao sociopolitical environment remains untold. Information Fantasies offers a revisionist account of the emergence of the “information society,” arguing that it was not determined by the techno...(展开全部)

Xiao Liu is assistant professor of East Asian studies at McGill University.

Managing ethnic nationalism within the People's Republic of China has become increasingly challenging. As new reforms widen economic disparities between minorities and the Han majority, even the most assimilated of minorities, the Zhuang, have begun to demand special treatment from the central government. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officially recognized the sixteen milli...(展开全部)

China and Postsocialist Anthropology applies lessons learned from socialist governance, especially in China, to the realm of social theory. Socialist governance explicitly draws on various aspects of Marxist theory and thus directly illuminates issues as varied as theorizing power, imagining the relationship between continuity and discontinuity in historical process, utilizing ...(展开全部)