Is modernity in non-Western societies always an “alternative” modernity, a derivative copy of an “original modernity” that began in the West ? No, answer the contributors to this book, who then offer an absorbing set of case studies from modern China to make their point. By focusing on people’s ordinary routines of working, eating, going to school, and traveling, the authors examine the notion of modernity as it has been staged in the minute details of Chinese life. Essays explore people’s basic search for food, water, and lighting during the late-Qing -- early republican era; contradictory attitudes toward women and the violence of foot-binding; the role of Chinese scientists in promoting a shift to modern, nationalistic discourses; the growing popularity of savings banks among urban Chinese in the early twentieth century; the transnational and national identities of returned overseas Chinese in Xiamen, Fujian Province; and middle-class “Shanghai travelers” who imagined themselves as cosmopolitan consumers. Looking at the post-Mao reform era of the late twentieth century, contributors explore the theme of “revaluation” – that is, the way China’s move into global capitalism is commoditizing goods and services that previously were not for sale, from domestic labor to recycling and water resources, in an increasingly consumer-oriented society.

《当代学术棱镜译丛•全球文化系列•全球现代性:全球资本主义时代的现代性》中，德里克主张，现在代表的不是全球化的开始，而是其终结。目前我们正处于资本主义展开的一个新时代——“全球现代性”。随着20世纪80年代东欧剧变，资本主义的全球化在文化上产生了对现代性的反要求。全球化的现代性导致了现代这个概念的分裂。

本書的知識－政治主旨可表達如下：本書揭示公共世界與私人生活的互相關連，因此談論經濟、政治、資本等議題時不能不論及性、情緒、個性（自戀）文化等等之作用，反之亦然。然而本書同時也指出：公與私無法彼此完全相通──本書在探討憂鬱症時很清楚地顯示：社會壓迫與客觀的現代動力固然是憂鬱症的成因條件，但是仍有個人身體、家庭關係與生命史的偶然因素。這些不能被納入公共的偶然，雖然屬於私密領域，不能被社會完全建構或被政治方案改造，但是卻又有十足的政治蘊涵，可以用來說明那些企圖「透過公共集體努力來改造偶然私密」的政治路線之不可行，例如保守的傳統主義者、女性主義、禁慾左派的路線等（不論是反變態、反色情、反不文明）。同樣的，因為這些無法被社會建構與公共努力所掌握的偶然因素作祟，（壞）情緒無法完全納入社會的理性管理，相反的，社會控制與情感理性化的企圖反而持續產生不適當或沒來由的情緒，易言之，某些情緒管理反而帶來無法管理的情緒。 一言以敝之，本書指出：「情感的理性化」與「獸性的文明化」均有其限度，故而「道德進步」亦有其限度。 本書是處理情感現代性與情緒疾病的學術論著，對流行的進步觀念與批判成見提出質疑。本書同時也解釋了當代思潮與批判理論的許多基本觀念與學術常識，部份章節可供對社會運動有研究興趣的學生閱讀，還有部份章節也適合對情緒哲學有興趣的哲學學生。 本書從批判理論與情緒哲學這兩種取向探究心理疾病與社會的關連，延續著性政治對公∕私區分的辯證，主張被視為私密的情感情緒應該是社會批判理論的基本核心範疇，而且公共無法窮盡私密的意義，社會與心理之間存在著斷裂縫隙。本書指出了（西方）現代性的黑暗面，認為高舉文明現代、政治正確的道德進步主義，看似與道德保守主義對立，其實兩者所構成的新道德主義是當代新自由主義的側翼。

Why and how do contemporary questions of culture so readily become highly charged questions of identity? The question of cultural identity lies at the heart of current debates in cultural studies and social theory. At issue is whether those identities which defined the social and cultural world of modern societies for so long - distinctive identities of gender, sexuality, race, class and nationality - are in decline, giving rise to new forms of identification and fragmenting the modern individual as a unified subject. Questions of Cultural Identity offers a wide-ranging exploration of this issue. Stuart Hall firstly outlines the reasons why the question of identity is so compelling and yet so problematic. The cast of outstanding contributors then interrogate different dimensions of the crisis of identity; in so doing, they provide both theoretical and substantive insights into different approaches to understanding identity.

《从西天到中土•印度当代新思潮读本•我们的现代性:帕沙•查特吉读本》收录了查特吉的五篇文章，“流行文化批判”、“我们的现代性”、“社群在东方”等；经由这些文章，可以了解查特吉所擅长的关于下列问题的批评、思考：流行文化在塑造大众对文化乃至社会、政治事件的认知方面的影响，现代社会的公共生活，以及亚洲各国内部不同社会阶层、群体的自我认知及其交往。