This book traces and analyzes the transformation of the public discourse of science and technology in Mao-era China. Based on extensive primary sources such as science dissemination materials and technical handbooks, as well as mass media products of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution periods, this book delineates the emergence of a pragmatic approach to knowled...(展开全部)

This book traces and analyzes the transformation of the public discourse of science and technology in Mao-era China. Based on extensive primary sources such as science dissemination materials and technical handbooks, as well as mass media products of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution periods, this book delineates the emergence of a pragmatic approach to knowled...(展开全部)

How have the momentous policy shifts that followed the death of Mao Zedong changed families in China? What are the effects of the decollectivization of agriculture, the encouragement of limited private enterprise, and the world's strictest birth-control policy? Eleven sociologists and anthropologists explore these and other questions in this path-breaking volume. The essays con...(展开全部)

How have the momentous policy shifts that followed the death of Mao Zedong changed families in China? What are the effects of the decollectivization of agriculture, the encouragement of limited private enterprise, and the world's strictest birth-control policy? Eleven sociologists and anthropologists explore these and other questions in this path-breaking volume. The essays con...(展开全部)

顾定国（Gregory E.Guldin），1950年出生，是美国太平洋路德大学中国研究中心主任和人类学系教授、亚洲问题专家。应用人类学家。曾主编出版《中国的都市人类学》。《都市化中的中国》和《人类学在中国――对学科的界定》等著作。

1980年，一名美国游轮上的摄影师访问了中国沿海港口，他没有拍摄乘客，而是选择拍摄他遇到的当地人。其结果是一个独特而珍贵的窗口，让人们了解中国在几十年来的发展和现代化过程中改变了其社会和人民。摄影师 Mike Emery 主要关注脸部，但这组 200 多张照片中的许多元素都值得考虑。街景、建筑、服装和发型——都让人想起中国历史上的一个时代，这是贫困的过去和高科技未来之间的转折点。

"The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States" marked the beginning of the study of our post-industrial information society. Austrian-born economist Fritz Machlup had focused his research on the patent system, but he came to realize that patents were simply one part of a much bigger "knowledge economy". He then expanded the scope of his work to evaluate eve...(展开全部)

Whilst a great deal of progress has been made in recent decades, concerns persist about the course of the social sciences. Progress in these disciplines is hard to assess and core scientific goals such as discovery, transparency, reproducibility, and cumulation remain frustratingly out of reach. Despite having technical acumen and an array tools at their disposal, today's socia...(展开全部)

This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China’s contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an experimental site for economic reform into a dominant city at the crossroads of the global economy. The first of China’...(展开全部)