《新史学》是探索史学发展新路的连续出版物，已出版两卷。本卷洋溢着新文化史的气息，注重从观念与社会、学术与信仰互动关系的角度探讨问题，剖析精彩个案，如马钊从女性视角对“职业”概念与话语历史内涵的别致揭示，曹新宇对传教士汉学向汉学人类学转变的谱系学分析，李淑珍对林语堂信仰历程的细腻把握，让人深感学术的魅力。另外，知名学者汪晖、王铭铭的文章也为本卷增色不少。

In a book whose insight and originality have already had a dazzling impact in France, Alain Corbin has put the sense of smell on the historical map. He conjures up the dominion that the combined forces of smells--from the seductress's civet to the ubiquitous excremental odors of city cesspools--exercised over the lives (and deaths) of the French in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

《东亚的厕所》对东亚各国的卫生间及厕所民俗进行了简要研究。1919年在古代苏美尔文化的中心地——幼发拉底河下游发现了世界上最早的厕所遗迹——一种在阿卡德王朝(公元前24一公元前22世纪)私人住宅里使用的水冲式厕所。大约在公元前2000年统一的巴比伦，其第4代王朝乌尔纳穆王陵的第5个墓室里，发掘出了用砖砌成的坐式厕所。

作者长期关注中国近世思想文化史，近年更以概念史研究独树一帜。本书前半部分为文化史理论探讨，对文化史研究路径进行了深入辨析；后半部分为个案研究，结合清代至民国时期中国文化史上的重要或特色问题做出了精彩解读。作者的思考，对于读者了解文化史的内涵与方法，当不无助益。

長久以來，養生一直是中國傳統醫學、仙道與部分政治權貴關注的課題，儒家對於養生的態度向來隱微不張。自宋代之後，帶有濃厚宗教、方技色彩的養生思維與作為跨越原有軫域，開始在不同的社會場域中現身。到了晚明，除了道教修練手冊與醫學典籍，文人專書、文集、筆記與日用類書也大量傳抄養生法、攝生術，提出各式看法。為了釐清這個養生的「世俗化」、「文人化」甚至「商品化」在明代社會及其在整個中國史上的意義，本書將著重於考察晚明的養生書寫與文人修身的關係，提供一個關於傳統日常生活史的側面瞭解。

Sibao today is a cluster of impoverished villages in the mountains of western Fujian. Yet from the late seventeenth through the early twentieth century, it was home to a flourishing publishing industry. Through itinerant booksellers and branch bookshops managed by Sibao natives, this industry supplied much of south China with cheap educational texts, household guides, medical handbooks, and fortune-telling manuals. It is precisely the ordinariness of Sibao imprints that make them valuable for the study of commercial publishing, the text-production process, and the geographical and social expansion of book culture in Chinese society. In a study with important implication for cultural and economic history, Cynthia Brokaw describes rural, lower-level publishing and bookselling operation at the end of the imperial period. Commerce in Culture traces how the poverty and isolation of Sibao necessitated a bare-bones approach to publishing and bookselling and how the Hakka identity of the Sibao publishers shaped the configuration of their distribution networks and even the nature of their publication. Sibao's industry reveals two major trends in print culture: the geographical extension of commercial woodblock publishing to hinterlands previously untouched by commercial book culture and the related social penetration of texts to lower-status levels of the population.