In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society. This book is an ambitious attempt to offer both a method and a framework for analyzing Chinese social history in the state-making era.The author constructs a prismatic view of village-level society that shows how marketing, kinship, water control, tem...(展开全部)

In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society. This book is an ambitious attempt to offer both a method and a framework for analyzing Chinese social history in the state-making era.The author constructs a prismatic view of village-level society that shows how marketing, kinship, water control, tem...(展开全部)

朱爱岚（Ellen R.Judd），加拿大社会文化人类学家。在加拿大的不列颠歌伦比亚大学获得博士学位并在剑桥大学做博士后研究之前，于1974－1977年间曾在北京语言学院、复旦大学和北京大学就读。后在加拿大多所大学任教。目前是马尼托巴大学的人类学教授。1986－1995 年她在山东省进行田野研究，并据此撰写了两部著作和若干论文。两部著作分别是《中国北方村落的社会性别与权力》和《国家与市场之间的中国妇女》。她还主编过《中国改革时代的农村妇女》（《中国人类学和社会学》杂志1999年专刊），并合编过《从事发展事业的女权主义者》（Zed出版社2000年）。基于田野考察和文献资料，她还就中国南方各地（主要是上海、湖南和福建）戏剧中的文化生产问题做过研究。她目前正致力于中国西部农村流动、社会性别、社区结构与妇女网络的一个田野研究项目。

“For Judd, the question of how we are to think about Chinese gender is answered by situating women’s productive and reproductive work in the complex force-field generated by a changing political economy. To do this requires the theoretically informed, locally detailed, and comparative attention to observable human beings that Judd gives us here. This extraordinary book is a new...(展开全部)

Discussions of China’s early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there. As a result, the communist peasant revolution appears as a decisive historical break. Kate Merkel-Hess corrects that misconception by demonstrating how crucial the countryside was for reformers in China long ...(展开全部)

In Zoning China, Luzhou Li investigates why the Chinese government regulates online video relatively leniently while tightly controlling what appears on broadcast television. Li argues that television has largely been the province of the state, even as the market has dominated the development of online video. Thus online video became a space where people could question state me...(展开全部)

In Zoning China, Luzhou Li investigates why the Chinese government regulates online video relatively leniently while tightly controlling what appears on broadcast television. Li argues that television has largely been the province of the state, even as the market has dominated the development of online video. Thus online video became a space where people could question state me...(展开全部)

Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at opposite ends of Eurasia. Although their territories constituted only a small percentage of the global land mass, these two Eurasian polities controlled up to half of the world population and endured longer than most pre-...(展开全部)