罗丽莎(Lisa Rofel) 美国加利福尼亚大学圣克鲁兹分校人类学系教授，美国从事中国妇女问题研究的代表人物之一。除本书之外还著有《渴望中国》一书，并合作编撰了《性别化中国：女人、文化、国家》。目前致力于中国酷儿政治及当代中国纪录片制作研究。

罗丽莎(Lisa Rofel) 美国加利福尼亚大学圣克鲁兹分校人类学系教授，美国从事中国妇女问题研究的代表人物之一。除本书之外还著有《渴望中国》一书，并合作编撰了《性别化中国：女人、文化、国家》。目前致力于中国酷儿政治及当代中国纪录片制作研究。

Everyday life in China is increasingly shaped by a novel mix of neoliberal and socialist elements, of individual choices and state objectives. This combination of self-determination and socialism from afar has incited profound changes in the ways individuals think and act in different spheres of society. Covering a vast range of daily life-from homeowner organizations and the u...(展开全部)

In the early twentieth century, China was stigmatized as the Land of Famine. Meanwhile in Europe and the United States, scientists and industrialists seized upon the soybean as a miracle plant that could help build modern economies and healthy nations. Soybeans, protein-packed and domestically grown, were a common food in China, and soybean milk (doujiang) was poised for reinve...(展开全部)

Museums in China have undergone tremendous transformations since they first appeared in the country in the late nineteenth century. Futuristic, state-of-the-art museums have today become symbols of China's global cultural, economic and technological prominence, and over the last two decades, the number of Chinese museums has increased at an unprecedented rate, with China set to...(展开全部)

This volume explores a rapidly emerging paradigm in the social sciences, which assumes culturally specific forms of modernity. Modernization is thus no longer equated with homogenization. Leading scholars from history, sociology, area studies, and economics discuss the concept’s implications. The first part covers a range of theoretical questions arising from the new approach. ...(展开全部)

达尼亚尔•穆伊努丁，毕业于耶鲁法学院，曾以富布莱特学者身份在挪威从事研究，在回到巴基斯坦经营家族农场前，曾在纽约当律师。最近刚刚结束了在普罗文斯顿艺术中心的驻馆作家身份，目前多在开罗和巴基斯坦两地居住。

Passing from the mannered drawing rooms of Pakistan s cities to the harsh mud villages beyond, Daniyal Mueenuddin s linked stories describe the interwoven lives of an aging feudal landowner, his servants and managers, and his extended family, industrialists who have lost touch with the land. In the spirit of Joyce s Dubliners and Turgenev s A Sportsman s Sketches, these stories...(展开全部)

Cultural Capitalism explores Russian literature's eager embrace of capitalism in the post-Soviet era. When the Soviet Union fell, books were suddenly bought and sold as commodities. Russia's first bestseller lists brought attention and prestige. Even literary prizes turned to the market for legitimacy. The rise of capitalism entirely transformed both the economics and the aesth...(展开全部)

This is the first monograph in English on how China's agricultural collectivization began. In 1953 the Chinese Communist Party launched a system of agricultural collectivization to lean the countryside toward socialism. It led to the Utopian Commune Movement in 1958 and was followed by the worst famine in human history. Surprisingly, its beginnings are poorly understood and oft...(展开全部)