This book presents a new perspective on attempts by the contemporary Chinese government to transform the diverse conditions found in countless rural villages into what the state’s social welfare program deems “socialist new villages.” Lili Lai argues that an ethnographic focus on the specifics of village life can help destabilize China’s persistent rural-urban divide and help c...(展开全部)

In China in recent years, one of the most dramatic and significant manifestations of modernization and globalization has been a massive increase in rural-to-urban migration. Termed the "floating population," and numbering upwards of 100 million, these rural migrants are at the front line of both domestic and global capitalist development, working for the lowest wages in occupat...(展开全部)

迈克尔·麦尔（Michael Meyer） 毕业于加州大学伯克利分校，目前在美国匹兹堡大学和香港大学教授纪实文学写作。1995年作为美国“和平队”志愿者首次来到中国，在四川省一座小城市培训英语教师。1997年他搬到北京居住了十年，并在清华大学学习中文。他的文章多次在《纽约时报》《时代周刊》《金融时报》《华尔街日报》等诸多媒体上发表。曾获得多个写作奖项，其中包括古根海姆奖（Guggenheim）、纽约市公共图书馆奖（New York Public Library）、怀廷奖（Whiting）和洛克菲勒·白拉及尔奖（Rockefeller Bellagio）。主要作品有《再会，老北京》《东北游记》。

Until recently, few villagers of rural North China ventured far from their homes. Their intensely local view of the world included knowledge of the immanent sacred realm, which derived from stories of divine revelations, cures, and miracles that circulated among neighboring villages. These stories gave direction to private devotion and served as a source of expert information o...(展开全部)

迈克尔·麦尔（Michael Meyer） 毕业于加州大学伯克利分校，目前在美国匹兹堡大学和香港大学教授纪实文学写作。1995年作为美国“和平队”志愿者首次来到中国，在四川省一座小城市培训英语教师。1997年他搬到北京居住了十年，并在清华大学学习中文。他的文章多次在《纽约时报》《时代周刊》《金融时报》《华尔街日报》等诸多媒体上发表。曾获得多个写作奖项，其中包括古根海姆奖（Guggenheim）、纽约市公共图书馆奖（New York Public Library）、怀廷奖（Whiting）和洛克菲勒·白拉及尔奖（Rockefeller Bellagio）。主要作品有《再会，老北京》《东北游记》。

Among the large caches of private documents discovered and collected in China, few rival the Huizhou sources for the insight they provide into Chinese local society and economy over the past millennium. Having spent decades researching these exceptionally rich sources, Joseph P. McDermott presents in two volumes his findings about the major social and economic changes in this i...(展开全部)

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has vastly expanded its urbanization processes in an effort to reduce the inequalities between urban and rural areas. Centered on the mountainous region of Chongqing, which serves as an experimental site for the country’s new urban development policies, The End of the Village analyzes the radical expansion of urbanization a...(展开全部)

Xiaobo Lü , University of California, Berkeley Changdong Zhang , Peking University, Beijing

In Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China, Geng Song and Derek Hird offer an account of Chinese masculinities in media discourse and everyday life, covering masculinities on television, in lifestyle magazines, in cyberspace, at work, at leisure, and at home. No other work covers the forms and practices of men and masculinities in contemporary China so comprehensively. Thro...(展开全部)