An ethnography of the Mongolian capital city of Ulaanbaatar during the nation’s transition from socialism to a market-based economic system Urban Hunters is an ethnography of the Mongolian capital city, Ulaanbaatar, during the nation’s transition from socialism to a market-based economic system. Following the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Mongolia entered a period of economi...(展开全部)

An ethnography of the Mongolian capital city of Ulaanbaatar during the nation’s transition from socialism to a market-based economic system Urban Hunters is an ethnography of the Mongolian capital city, Ulaanbaatar, during the nation’s transition from socialism to a market-based economic system. Following the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Mongolia entered a period of economi...(展开全部)

Though China's urban history reaches back over five thousand years, it is only in the last quarter century that urbanization has emerged as a force of widespread social transformation while a massive population shift from country to city has brought about a dramatic revolution in China's culture, politics, and economy. Employing a historical perspective, John Friedmann presents...(展开全部)

Though China's urban history reaches back over five thousand years, it is only in the last quarter century that urbanization has emerged as a force of widespread social transformation while a massive population shift from country to city has brought about a dramatic revolution in China's culture, politics, and economy. Employing a historical perspective, John Friedmann presents...(展开全部)

John Friedmann is professor emeritus of the School of Public Policy and Social Research at the University of California, Los Angeles, and honorary professor at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of many distinguished works, most recently The Prospect of Cities (Minnesota, 2002).

The city is one of the greatest unsung heroes in cinema -- a modernist inspiration for silent classics such as Metropolis (1926) and a dense urban jungle in The Matrix (1999) -- yet there have been few attempts to grasp the cultural and aesthetic nature of its role in film. This volume is an ambitious collection of writings and photo-essays discussing this complex yet enduring ...(展开全部)

Reform of the welfare sector is an important yet difficult challenge for all countries in transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented democracies. Here a scholar of the economics of socialism and post-socialist transition and a health economist take on this challenge. This 2001 book offers health sector reform recommendations for ten countries of Eastern Europ...(展开全部)

More than two hundred magnificent, full-color photographs document the enormous productivity of eastern Asia against the background of traditional life and culture. In recent years the economies of eastern Asia have virtually exploded. What started in Japan and Taiwan after World War II and continued in Hong Kong and Korea, has now touched Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand,...(展开全部)

罗伯特·林德 (Robert Lynd，1892-1970) 和海伦·林德 (Helen Lynd，1894-1982)，夫妇二人均是美国社会学家，罗伯特·林德曾担任美国社会科学研究委员会委员，并在哥伦比亚大学教授社会学；海伦·林德曾在纽约莎拉劳伦斯学院任教。夫妇二人闻名于他们20世纪二三十年代对美国东北部一个小城镇“中镇”持续的社会研究，其成果凝结为《中镇》（1929）和《转变中的中镇》（1937）两部著作，他们的研究也使得“中镇”成为美国文化研究的重要标本。 梁文静，北京大学人类学博士，现任教于重庆大学中国语言文学系。 王晓燕，北京大学社会学硕士。 高卉，北京大学人类学博士，石河子大学法学院院长、教授。