Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this understudied group of workers and their experiences of being laid off, "counseled," and then reoriented to the market economy. Using fi...(展开全部)

Dr. Jie Yang, Associate Professor of anthropology, received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Toronto in 2006. Dr. Yang’s research is at the intersection of two primary areas: linguistic anthropology and China studies. In the first area, she is interested in the analysis of how power and ideologies are embedded in and work through language and how ideologies interp...(展开全部)

China's massive economic restructuring in recent decades has generated alarming incidences of mental disorder affecting over one hundred million people. This timely book provides an anthropological analysis of mental health in China through an exploration of psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosocial practices, and the role of the State. The book offers a critical s...(展开全部)

Xiaobo Lü , University of California, Berkeley Changdong Zhang , Peking University, Beijing

赵树凯，1959年11月生，山东莱西人。文学学士（山东大学），法学硕士（中央党校），法学博士（中国人民大学）。研究员，国务院颁发政府特殊津贴专家。中共中央政治局第三十六次集体学习主讲人（2006年11月）。现任国务院发展研究中心信息中心主任。 1982年8月起在中共中央书记处农村政策研究室（国务院农村发展研究中心）工作，任秘书、助理研究员。1990年8月起在国务院发展研究中心工作，任助理研究员、副研究员、研究员，国务院发展研究中心农村部组织研究室主任、中共中央文献编辑委员会《万里文选》编辑组编辑、河北省涿鹿县委副书记、中国发展研究基金会副秘书长、国务院发展研究中心信息中心主任，[1] 兼任中国农村劳动力资源开发研究会秘书长。曾任世界银行和英国国际发展部中国农村发展项目顾问，联合国开发计划署中国农村发展项目顾问，亚洲基金会基层治理项目顾问。1995年获...(展开全部)

In the late fifth century, a girl whose name has been forgotten by history was born at the edge of the Chinese empire. By the time of her death, she had transformed herself into Empress Dowager Ling, one of the most powerful politicians of her age and one of the first of many Buddhist women to wield incredible influence in dynastic East Asia. In this book, Stephanie Balkwill do...(展开全部)

Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, The Logic of Governance in China develops a unified theoretical framework to explain how China's centralized political system maintains governance and how this process produces recognizable policy cycles that are obstacles to bureaucratic rationalization, professionalism, and rule of law. The book is unique for the overarching framewo...(展开全部)

Chinese officials put considerable effort into managing the fiscal and legal affairs of their jurisdictions, but they also devoted significant time and energy to performing religious rituals on behalf of the state. This groundbreaking study explores this underappreciated aspect of Chinese political life by investigating rainmaking activities organized or conducted by local offi...(展开全部)

Review "[A] meticulously crafted piece of research....highly stimulating and important..." -- The China Journal, January 2006 Review "Bray makes his case quite admirably. The argument is tightly woven. The framework is consistently applied. The conclusions are illuminating."—H-Net Reviews “[A] meticulously crafted piece of research....a highly stimulating and important book.......(展开全部)