Deep China investigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, Arthur Kleinman, Yunxiang Yan, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua delve into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice to observe and narrate the drama of Chinese individualization. The essays explore the remaking of the moral person during China’s profound social and economic transformation, unraveling the shifting practices and struggles of contemporary life.

本书的目的不在于向读者提供一个社会学概述，而在于呈现一种社会学的意识。通过引入对社会阶级、犯罪与反常、官僚制中的工作方式、宗教和政治组织的变迁等主题的研究，作者深入探究了人在社会中的角色与社会对个人的塑造之间的张力关系，并且展现了社会学作为一种视角在理解现代世界方面的独特价值。 与竞选中的政客一样，不同学派的支持者竭力在自身与对手之间划出清楚的界线。然而，又跟掌权的政客一样，当这些支持者转过身来搞社会学研究（而不是仅仅宣传主张）时，他们往往会退回到某个共同的中间立场上来。 ——摘自本书

本书是最新的大众传播学教材，吸纳了国际传播学界最新的理论和研究成果，比以前的版本更加重视前沿问题，比如媒介角色研究、传播的全球化、受众接受问题、媒介行为的评价等。本书的最大特点是媒介理论放在大众传播理论的中心位置。它按照历史的线索对大众传播理论进行了权威的介绍，描述了大众传播理论两大主要流派——经验学派和文化批判学派的产生和发展过程，对这两种学术传统是如何支持媒介文化运动的发展进行了总结性陈述，同时提出了一种将二者结合起来的新的媒介传播理论。 　　本书的作者是两位很出色的美国传播学教授。巴兰（Stanley J.Baran）在广播电视和电影研究方面获过很多奖项。戴维斯（Dennis K.Davis）博士是媒体研究的教授，多次获美国的传播学教学奖。这本书的叙述方式和思维逻辑独到、内容表述上简单洁明晰、体例也很新颖，每一章都提供相关的“重要人物及其著作”介绍。 　　本书适合作为新闻传播专业的大众传播学课程的核心教材或参考书，对广大新闻从业人员也不失为一本很好的案头书。我们推出这套原版教材就是希望学习者能够原汗原味地去理解和把握西方传播学的精髓和妙处。 强力推荐：Mass Communication Theory: Foundations, Ferment, and Future 英文原版火热发售

“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.” For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green tea, and jasmine, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera, a live spectacle few females have ever seen. Like the heroine in the drama, Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family, trapped like a good-luck cricket in a bamboo-and-lacquer cage. Though raised to be obedient, Peony has dreams of her own. Peony’s mother is against her daughter’s attending the production: “Unmarried girls should not be seen in public.” But Peony’s father assures his wife that proprieties will be maintained, and that the women will watch the opera from behind a screen. Yet through its cracks, Peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome man with hair as black as a cave–and is immediately overcome with emotion. So begins Peony’s unforgettable journey of love and destiny, desire and sorrow–as Lisa See’s haunting new novel, based on actual historical events, takes readers back to seventeenth-century China, after the Manchus seize power and the Ming dynasty is crushed. Steeped in traditions and ritual, this story brings to life another time and place–even the intricate realm of the afterworld, with its protocols, pathways, and stages of existence, a vividly imagined place where one’s soul is divided into three, ancestors offer guidance, misdeeds are punished, and hungry ghosts wander the earth. Immersed in the richness and magic of the Chinese vision of the afterlife, transcending even death, Peony in Love explores, beautifully, the many manifestations of love. Ultimately, Lisa See’s new novel addresses universal themes: the bonds of friendship, the power of words, and the age-old desire of women to be heard. From the Hardcover edition.

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