This much-needed new textbook introduces readers to the development of China’s Welfare policies since its conception of an open-door policy in 1978. Setting our basic concepts and issues, including key items and the process of policy making, it overcomes a major barrier to understanding Chinese social policy. The book explores in detail the five key policy areas of employment, ...(展开全部)

The success of this best-selling text lies in the author's belief that a good text talks with, rather than at, its readers. Shaffer does an extraordinary job of anticipating students' interests, questions, and concerns while treating them as active participants in the process of learning about social and personality development. The Sixth edition of SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY DEVEL...(展开全部)

戴维·谢弗 (David R. Shaffer) 是美国佐治亚大学心理学教授，佐治亚大学本科生项目主席，毕生发展心理学与社会心理学项目前任主席，在该大学给本科生和研究生教授人类发展课程35年。他发表的多篇研究论文涉及到利他行为、态度与说服、道德发展、性别角色与社会行为、自我表露、社会心理学与法律。他还担任《人格与社会心理学杂志》、《人格与社会学学报》、《人格杂志》的副主编。1990年，他获得佐治亚大学最高教学荣誉奖约西亚·梅格斯(Josiah Meigs)优秀教学奖。

"Show[s] the system to be made up of real human beings engaged in high-stakes political activity, impossible to capture on an organizat ion chart. . . . A major work that no serious student of politics should miss."--Michael Gasster, Annals of American Academy of Political & Social Science "The best book yet in the doing business in China' category."--Nancy Langston, Far Easter...(展开全部)

"Show[s] the system to be made up of real human beings engaged in high-stakes political activity, impossible to capture on an organizat ion chart. . . . A major work that no serious student of politics should miss."--Michael Gasster, Annals of American Academy of Political & Social Science "The best book yet in the doing business in China' category."--Nancy Langston, Far Easter...(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)

Reprint of three articles from JAS.

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。

Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present. This volume's contributors see contemporary China as haunted by the promises of capitalism, the institutional legacy of the Maoist regime, and the spirit of Marxist resistance. China's development does not result from historical imperatives or deliberate ec...(展开全部)

Susan Greenhalgh is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. She is the coauthor of Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics and the author of Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain (UC Press).