In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values. It is in this context that historian Andrea S. Goldman harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. Her meticulous yet playful account takes up the multiplicity of opera types that proliferated at the time, exploring them as contested sites through which the Qing court and commercial playhouses negotiated influence and control over the social and moral order. Opera performance blurred lines between public and private life, and offered a stage on which to act out gender and class transgressions. This work illuminates how the state and various urban constituencies manipulated opera to their own ends, and sheds light on empire-wide transformations underway at the time.

In The Big Penis Book we explore the centuries-old fascination with the large phallus, a fascination common to men and women alike. This hefty book is profusely illustrated with over 400 historic photos of spectacular male endowments, including rare photos of the legendary John Holmes. The majority of the photographs are from the 1970s, when the sexual revolution first freed photographers to depict the male entirely nude. Photographers include Bob Mizer of Athletic Model Guild, David Hurles of Old Reliable, Colt, Falcon, Sierra Domino, Third World, and Champion Studios, with each of these iconic photographers interviewed or profiled, along with information about each of their models. And if this isn’t enough, the book closes with a special surprise comparable to the Guinness Book of Records’ Norma Stitz featured in The Big Book of Breasts! Can you guess what body part Dian is dissecting next?

《英国原来是这样:英国社会与文化50主题(英汉对照读本)》作者Martin Boyte从我们自以为熟悉的典故入手，告诉我们每一个想象后面的真实故事，作为一名从事多元文化研究的大学老师，Martin还特别关注外国人在英国可能会遇到的各种文化冲突，通过背景介绍和情景会话，让我们切身领会英国文化的方方面面。也许，在阅读《英国原来是这样:英国社会与文化50主题(英汉对照读本)》后，你会对那个欧洲西北海岸外的岛国有一些不同的了解。说起英国你会想到什么？是绅士和教堂的传统欧洲国家？还是莎士比亚喜剧的文化胜地？是炸鱼薯条的市民乐园？还是披头士和007的时尚老巢？关于英国，你也许能说出一长串典故，但一个本土英国人可能对你的清单付之一笑：“真正的英国不那么简单……”

在线阅读本书 Based on the author's seminal article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a provocative and prescient analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism. In this incisive work, the renowned political scientist explains how "civilizations" have replaced nations and ideologies as the driving force in global politics today and offers a brilliant analysis of the current climate and future possibilities of our world's volatile political culture.

《美国的智慧》是一本通俗哲学著作，介绍了美国建国以来的许许多多的重要哲学家、作家，例如富兰克林、爱默生、梭罗、桑塔雅那等等，内容涉及到社会生活的方方面面：生活、生命、情感、自由、幸福、自然、宗教、幽默与讽刺、爱情与婚姻、战争与和平，等等。 林语堂提倡“以自我为中心，以闲适为格调”的小品文创作。在本书中，林先生挥毫泼墨，收放自如，真正体现了这一风格。阅读本书，犹如与大师面对面交谈，心灵会得到一次净化和升华。

Terry Eagleton once wrote in the Guardian, 'Few post-colonial writers can rival Homi Bhabha in his exhilarated sense of alternative possibilities'. In rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity, one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. A scholar who writes and teaches about South Asian literature and contemporary art with incredible virtuosity, he discusses writers as diverse as Morrison, Gordimer, and Conrad. In The Location of Culture, Bhabha uses concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent. Speaking in a voice that combines intellectual ease with the belief that theory itself can contribute to practical political change, Bhabha has become one of the leading post-colonial theorists of this era.

In WATCHING THE ENGLISH anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. She puts the English national character under her anthropological microscope, and finds a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and byzantine codes of behaviour. The rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid-pantomime rule. Class indicators and class anxiety tests. The money-talk taboo and many more ...Through a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments (using herself as a reluctant guinea-pig), Kate Fox discovers what these unwritten behaviour codes tell us about Englishness.

一.社会解读 娱乐解读 性情解读 二.漫游于现代与后现代之间