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。

景军，男，汉族，1957年出生于北京。清华大学社会学系教授、公共管理学院社会政策研究所所长。1990-1994年，美国哈佛大学人类系社会人类学专业，获博士学位。1994年至2000年在美国纽约市立大学任教并获得终身教职，2000年秋来清华大学任教，主要研究兴趣包括历史记忆、水库移民、生态抗争运动、弱势群体以及防治艾滋病问题;目前研究聚焦在与公共健康发生密切联系的社会问题和政策议题。 其个人主要英文著作 The Temple of Memories：History, Power and Morality in a Chinese Village (神堂记忆:一个中国乡村的历史、权力与道德）由斯坦福大学出版社于1996年出版。他主编的英文论文集 Feeding China's Little Emperors（喂养中国小皇帝）也由美国斯坦福大学出版社出版，...(展开全部)

This study focuses on the politics of memory in the village of Dachuan in northwest China, in which 85 percent of the villagers are sur named Kong and believe themselves to be descendants of Confucius. It recounts both how this proud community was subjected to intense suffering during the Maoist era, culminating in its forcible resettlement in December 1960 to make way for the ...(展开全部)

杨懋春，山东省人，1904年4月16日生。私立齐鲁大学社会学系毕业，美国康奈尔大学研究院乡村社会学系理科硕士，哲学博士。曾任私立齐鲁大学历史社会学系教授兼系主任，文学院长；美国康奈尔大学，斯坦福大学，密歇根州立大学等校客座教授；华盛顿州立大学研究教授；国立台湾大学农业推广学系教授兼系主任，研究所主任；私立东吴大学社会学系教授兼系主任。著有《乡村社会学》，《一个中国村庄：山东台头》，《社会学》等中英文书籍十种。

An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business—all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of ...(展开全部)

Between 1988 and 2013, the Chinese city of Zouping transformed from an impoverished town of 30,000 people to a bustling city of over 300,000, complete with factories, high rises, parks, shopping malls, and all the infrastructure of a wealthy East Asian city. FromVillage toCity paints a vivid portrait of the rapid changes in Zouping and its environs and in the lives of the once-...(展开全部)

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).

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)