Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows, millions of immigrants make their lives in Japan, dealing with the tensions between belonging and not belonging in this ethno-nationalist country. Why do people want to come to Japan? Where do immigrants with various resources and demographic profiles fit in the economic landscape? How do immigrants ...(展开全部)

Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands engages with the evolving historiography around the concept of belonging in the Russian and Ottoman empires. The contributors to this book argue that the popular notion that empires do not care about belonging is simplistic and wrong. Chapters address numerous and varied dimensions of belonging in multiethnic territories of the O...(展开全部)

Since the 1990s, suicide in recession-plagued Japan has soared, and rates of depression have both increased and received greater public attention. In a nation that has traditionally been uncomfortable addressing mental illness, what factors have allowed for the rising medicalization of depression and suicide? Investigating these profound changes from historical, clinical, and s...(展开全部)

Based on a three-year life story study of students from working-class backgrounds at four elite universities in China, this book offers a new way to understand and be inspired by Bourdieu. This book shows how Bourdieu’s ideas can be used to go beyond the analysis of domination and imagine a positive sociology of emancipation. Drawing on life stories of high-achieving students f...(展开全部)

Thirty years ago, few residents of Asian cities had ever been on a plane, much less outside their home countries. Today, flying, and flying abroad, is commonplace. How has this leap in cross-border mobility affected the design and use of such cities? And how is it accelerating broader socioeconomic and political changes in Asian societies? In Airport Urbanism, Max Hirsh underta...(展开全部)

施坚雅(G.WilliamSkinner，1925-2008)，1925年2月14日出生于美国加州奥克兰，1954年于美国康奈尔大学获人类学博士学位，先后任哥伦比亚大学社会学助教、康奈尔大学人类学副教授、教授，1965年起任斯坦福大学人类学教授，1990年起任加州大学戴维斯分校人类学教授。1950年至1951年到中国四川考察，1977年考察中国城市市场。1980年当选为美国科学院院士，1983年至1984年任美国亚洲学会会长，1987年至1989年任斯坦福大学巴巴拉·布朗宁人文科学教授。作品中译本有《中国农村的市场和社会结构》(中国社会科学出版社1998年版)、《中华帝国晚期的城市》(中华书局2000年版)，并发表大量研究中国社会、经济结构、社会科学研究、农村和农民、人口、民族、海外华人的论文。 2008年10月26日因病逝世，享年83岁。

施坚雅(G.WilliamSkinner，1925-2008)，1925年2月14日出生于美国加州奥克兰，1954年于美国康奈尔大学获人类学博士学位，先后任哥伦比亚大学社会学助教、康奈尔大学人类学副教授、教授，1965年起任斯坦福大学人类学教授，1990年起任加州大学戴维斯分校人类学教授。1950年至1951年到中国四川考察，1977年考察中国城市市场。1980年当选为美国科学院院士，1983年至1984年任美国亚洲学会会长，1987年至1989年任斯坦福大学巴巴拉·布朗宁人文科学教授。作品中译本有《中国农村的市场和社会结构》(中国社会科学出版社1998年版)、《中华帝国晚期的城市》(中华书局2000年版)，并发表大量研究中国社会、经济结构、社会科学研究、农村和农民、人口、民族、海外华人的论文。 2008年10月26日因病逝世，享年83岁。

In the twentieth century, millions of people across the globe addressed each other as “comrade.” Now, among the left, it’s more common to hear talk of “allies.” In Comrade, Jodi Dean insists that this shift exemplifies the key problem with the contemporary left: the substitution of political identity for a relationship of political belonging that must be built, sustained, and d...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1980, but out of print for some time, this book is now again available. This book is intended for first-degree students and graduates studying sociology, especially social stratification; professional sociologists interested in quantitative analyses, especially log-linear modelling. Economists and political scientists researching social stratification, m...(展开全部)