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Why We Work, Why We Don't Work, Why We Can't Work
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025
What exactly is "work," and what is it for? What worries and confusions beset young people who step into "society" groping their way forward in anxiet…
American Folding: Reflections and Critiques from the Outside
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2023
American Folding: Reflections and Critiques from the Outside is a collection of academic essays by Tian Lei, professor at the Law School of East China…
Luoji Siwei: Bold, Interesting, Substantive
Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2013
This book is compiled from Luo Zhenyu's knowledge-oriented video talk show Luoji Siwei, launched in late 2012, and collects the early written transcri…
The Popular Foundations of European Fascism: Italy, Spain, and Romania, 1870–1945
China Friendship Publishing Company · 2025
This is the representative work of the political sociologist Dylan Riley, translated from the second edition, focusing on Italy, Spain, and Romania an…
"Dedao" Elite Daily Lessons: Becoming a High-Level Learner (6 Volumes)
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021
"Dedao Elite Daily Lessons: Becoming a High-Level Learner" is a six-volume collection of works by five Dedao authors, including Liu Qing's Becoming a …
The Power of Hope: The Struggles and Future of America's Disadvantaged Youth
Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025
This book is an empirical study of "hope" by American economist and Brookings Institution senior fellow Carol Graham, translated into Chinese by Qi Ha…
The Institutions of Reproduction
Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2025
Why must people marry? Why should children be raised jointly by both parents? These things that seem "only natural" actually rest on a set of man-made…
Understanding the State from the Borderlands: An Anthropological Study of Rubber Cultivation among the Hani/Akha
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2018
Originally titled Understanding the State from the Borderlands: An Anthropological Study of Rubber Cultivation among the Hani/Akha, this ethnographic …
Insight Series (CITIC Insight Town Humanities and Social Sciences Series)
CITIC Press · 2017
The "Insight Series" is a large interdisciplinary general-knowledge series launched in 2017 by "Insight Town," a brand under CITIC Press Group. It adv…
The Arrival of the Post-Materialist Age
CITIC Press · 2016
The Arrival of the Post-Materialist Age is a sociological work in which Zheng Yefu systematically explains "consumption." It grew out of his course "R…
No Urban Villages in the Future: The Demolition-Fueled Wealth Myth of a Pioneering City
China Democracy and Legal System Publishing House · 2011
No Urban Villages in the Future: The Demolition-Fueled Wealth Myth of a Pioneering City was compiled by Southern Metropolis Daily under the chief edit…
Media Worship: The Aberrant Relationship Between Modern Humans and Mass Media
Communication University of China Press · 2008
Media Worship is a theoretical work on communication studies by Fan Kui, PhD from the Institute of Communication Studies at Zhejiang University and as…
Advertising: A Very Short Introduction
Yilin Press · 2014
Advertising: A Very Short Introduction is a short primer for general readers by Winston Fletcher, a veteran of the British advertising industry. It is…
Alternative Hedonism
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2025
In today's world, climate anomalies are inseparable from the mass consumerist society we live in. The superstition of endless economic growth and the …
Professional Ethics and Civic Morals
The Commercial Press · 2015
Professional Ethics and Civic Morals is a late representative work by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim, translated by Qu Jingdong from texts incl…
Female Suffrage: A Letter to the Christian Women of America
· 1870
Female Suffrage: A Letter to the Christian Women of America is a long essay by the American writer Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813–1894), originally publi…
The Sociology of Science (Two Volumes)
The Commercial Press · 2003
This book is a representative collection of essays by the American sociologist Robert K. Merton, subtitled "Theoretical and Empirical Investigations."…
The Disconnected Society
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2014
Written collectively by reporters from NHK's Special Programs unit and drawn from interviews conducted for the documentary of the same name, this book…
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2012
This is the magnum opus of the American sociologist and historian Barrington Moore. First published in English in 1966, it is regarded as a landmark w…
The Myth That Points to Life (Four-Volume Set)
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2016
This book is the Chinese collection of four representative works by Joseph Campbell, the master of mythology, published by Cheers Publishing. It inclu…