Based on in-depth ethnographic research - and using an approach that seeks to understand how migration is experienced by the migrants themselves - this is a fascinating study of the experiences of women in rural China who joined the vast migration to Beijing and other cities at the end of the twentieth century. It focuses on the experiences of rural-urban migrants, the particul...(展开全部)

Based on in-depth ethnographic research - and using an approach that seeks to understand how migration is experienced by the migrants themselves - this is a fascinating study of the experiences of women in rural China who joined the vast migration to Beijing and other cities at the end of the twentieth century. It focuses on the experiences of rural-urban migrants, the particul...(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)

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)

This lively study explores how social and economic changes to Chinese society create new cultural values and forms of inequality. Amy Hanser examines changes to a particular set of jobs—service work, in this case salesclerk work—and the nature of the social interactions involved. It argues that a new "structure of entitlement," which makes elite groups feel more entitled to pub...(展开全部)

Amy Hanser (PhD in Sociology, UC Berkeley) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. She has published articles and a book, Service Encounters (Stanford 2008), on service work, consumption, and inequality in urban China. Her current research projects include study of consumer rights' discourse in China, of North American media portrayals of Chin...(展开全部)

Lala (lesbian) and gay communities in mainland China have emerged rapidly in the 21st century. Alongside new freedoms and modernizing reforms, and with mainstream media and society increasingly tolerant, lalas still experience immense family and social pressures to a degree that this book argues is deeply gendered. The first anthropological study to examine everyday lala lives,...(展开全部)

黄宗智，普林斯顿大学学士，华盛顿大学博士。加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶校区历史系教授，1991年晋升“超级教授”，2004年荣休。中国研究中心创办主任（1986-1995年）。《近代中国》季刊（Modern China）创办编辑（1975年至今）。中国人民大学长江学者讲座教授。主要学术兴趣为明清以来社会史、经济史和法律史。主要著作有：《法律、习俗、与司法实践：清代与民国的比较》、《清代的法律、社会、与文化：民法的表达与实践》、《中国研究的规范认识危机》、《长江三角洲的小农家庭与乡村发展》、《华北的小农经济与社会变迁》等。

黄宗智，普林斯顿大学学士，华盛顿大学博士。加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶校区历史系教授，1991年晋升“超级教授”，2004年荣休。中国研究中心创办主任（1986-1995年）。《近代中国》季刊（Modern China）创办编辑（1975年至今）。中国人民大学长江学者讲座教授。主要学术兴趣为明清以来社会史、经济史和法律史。主要著作有：《法律、习俗、与司法实践：清代与民国的比较》、《清代的法律、社会、与文化：民法的表达与实践》、《中国研究的规范认识危机》、《长江三角洲的小农家庭与乡村发展》、《华北的小农经济与社会变迁》等。

艾华（Harriet Evans），英国伦敦大学东方与非洲研究院（SOAS）博士，英国威斯特敏斯特（Westminster）大学中国研究中心教授。