Benjamin L. Read is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. With Robert Pekkanen, he is co-editor of Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia: Straddling State and Society (2009).

The fullest general statement of Max Weber's sociological theory to appear in any of his writings, The Theory of Social and Economic Organization is an introduction to Weber's ambitious comparitive study of the sociological and institutional foundations of the modern economic and social order. In this work originally published in German in 1920, Weber discusses the analytical m...(展开全部)

Review Lucid and comprehensive, Jackson's book elegantly synthesizes several important strands of network science from sociology, physics, mathematics, computer science, and economics. It will be an immensely useful reference for researchers and students alike. (Duncan Watts, Columbia University ) Product Description Networks of relationships help determine the careers that peo...(展开全部)

To a degree uncommon among Chinese cities, Republican Shanghai had no center. Its territory was divided among three (sometimes more) municip al governments integrated into various national states and empires. Yet, amidst deep cleavages, the city functioned as a coherent whole. What held Shanghai together? This book answers that question.

Gift-giving is a classic topic in anthropology, where on-going debates involve the principle of reciprocity, the spirit of the gift, and the relationship between gifts and commodities. In this study, the author examines the gift-giving and related social activities that pervade daily life in China, focusing on routine activities - visits between relatives, exchanges of food and...(展开全部)

阎云翔，1954年生，师从著名学者张光直，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校中国研究中心主任、文化人类学教授。著有《礼物的流动》、《私人生活的变革》《中国社会的个体化》等著作。其中，《私人生活的变革》曾获美国亚洲学会列文森奖。 李放春（译者），重庆大学人文社会科学高等研究院特聘研究员，博士生导师，学术副院长。北京大学社会学学士、硕士，加州大学洛杉矶分校历史学博士。 刘瑜（译者），清华大学人文社会科学学院政治学系副教授。中国人民大学国际政治系学士、硕士，美国哥伦比亚大学政治学博士。

This masterful blend of history and urban storytelling brings to life the people and politics that shaped a single neighborhood in a Manchurian city across several centuries. What can one neighborhood reveal about the making of a modern nation? The Neighborhood deciphers the unexpected significance of Xita, a half-square-mile quarter in Shenyang, in Northeast China. As the his...(展开全部)

This masterful blend of history and urban storytelling brings to life the people and politics that shaped a single neighborhood in a Manchurian city across several centuries. What can one neighborhood reveal about the making of a modern nation? The Neighborhood deciphers the unexpected significance of Xita, a half-square-mile quarter in Shenyang, in Northeast China. As the his...(展开全部)

Nianshen Song is professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, China. He is the author of Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Tumen River Demarcation, 1881–1919.