This book explores the social economic processes of inequality in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century rural China. Drawing on uniquely rich source materials, Shuang Chen provides a comprehensive view of the creation of a social hierarchy wherein the state classified immigrants to the Chinese county of Shuangcheng into distinct categories, each associated with different land...(展开全部)

The 8th edition of "Social Stratification and Inequality" continues to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date exploration of the economic and social divisions in human societies. Extensive comparative information, as well as an overview of how social stratification has changed and evolved over time, gives readers a global perspective on class conflict. Praised for its thorough res...(展开全部)

Praised for its thorough research and scholarship, Social Stratification and Inequality provides a comprehensive, up-to-date exploration of the global economic and social divisions in human societies. While the book is grounded in the nature of social stratification in the United States, this edition maintains a commitment to keeping a global perspective. Comparative informatio...(展开全部)

In this book, Li Min proposes a new paradigm for the foundation and emergence of the classical tradition in early China, from the late Neolithic through the Zhou period. Using a wide range of historical and archaeological data, he explains the development of ritual authority and particular concepts of kingship over time in relation to social memory. His volume weaves together t...(展开全部)

周雪光，1982年复旦大学本科毕业，1981年参加南开大学社会学班培训，1991年美国斯坦福大学社会学博士毕业。曾在美国康奈尔大学和杜克大学社会学系、香港科技大学商学院组织管理系任教。现任美国斯坦福大学社会学教授，主要从事组织社会学和社会分层领域的研究工作，其主要研究成果发表在《美国社会学评论》、《美国社会学学刊》、《社会力》、《行政科学季刊》、《组织科学》、《比较政治研究》等期刊上。 郝大海，中国人民大学社会学系教授，博士生导师。1982年国防科学技术大学物理系本科毕业，1992年考入中国人民大学社会学系，1995年、2001年先后获法学硕士、法学博士学位。主要研究领域为社会分层与流动，主要教学领域为社会研究方法，社会统计学。

According to imperial edict in pre-modern China, an elementary school was to be established in every village in the empire for any boy to attend. This book looks at how the schools worked, how they changed over time, and who promoted them and why. Over the course of the Ming period (1368-1644), schools were sponsored first by the emperor, then by the central bureaucracy, then b...(展开全部)

[英] 麦大维（David McMullen），有名唐史研究专家，英国学术院院士、剑桥大学圣约翰学院终身院士，曾任剑桥大学中国学讲座教授、亚非学院东亚研究所所长、中国研究中心主任，以及全英中国研究协会主席、李约瑟中国学讲席教授、花园委员会主席。张达志，厦门大学学士、复旦大学与美国宾夕法尼亚大学联合培养博士、武汉大学博士后，现任华中师范大学历史文化学院副教授，兼任台湾地区大学访问学者、中国魏晋南北朝史学会理事。蔡明琼，华中师范大学硕士，现任湖北省天门中学教师。

Is popular anger about rising inequality propelling China toward a "social volcano" of protest activity and instability that could challenge Chinese Communist Party rule? Many inside and outside of China have speculated, without evidence, that the answer is yes. In 2004, Harvard sociologist Martin King Whyte has undertaken the first systematic, nationwide survey of ordinary Chi...(展开全部)

Martin King Whyte is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.