《南方人物周刊》是南方日报报业集团主管、南方周末出品的综合类人物周刊。它以“记录我们的命运”为办刊宗旨，以“平等、宽容、人道”为理念，关注那些 “对中国的进步和我们的生活产生重大影响的人、在与命运的抗争中彰显人类的向善力量和深遂驳杂的人性魅力的人”，为历史留存一份底稿，为读者奉上一席精神的盛宴。

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法国向当代世界奉献出的一份珍贵礼物：西蒙娜·薇依。
——切斯瓦夫·米沃什
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如何摆脱工作中的痛苦和烦闷？为了像被压迫者那样感受压迫并尽可能真实地追求她所认为的自由社会，1934年12月，西蒙娜·薇依抛下哲学教师的身份，进入工厂。在将近一年的时间里，这位反叛的哲学教师轮流做切割工、包装工和铣床工，经历疾病、事故、解雇的折磨，遭受服从、羞辱和不公。这种残酷性给她留下了终生的烙印。
在这本《工厂日记》中，薇依记录下自己的观察、遭遇、工作时间和收入、肉体和精神的痛苦，以及对这段经历的哲学和道德的思考。这本书是一份原始的文件，没有抒情，也没有感伤，展现出西蒙娜·薇依对当下现实的关注和她始终站在劳动者一边的立场。

In the early 1980s, many observers, argued that powerful organized economic interests and social democratic parties created successful mixed economies promoting economic growth, full employment, and a modicum of social equality. The present book assembles scholars with formidable expertise in the study of advanced capitalist politics and political economy to reexamine this account from the vantage point of the second half of the 1990s. The authors find that the conventional wisdom no longer adequately reflects the political and economic realities. Advanced democracies have responded in path-dependent fashion to such novel challenges as technological change, intensifying international competition, new social conflict, and the erosion of established patterns of political mobilization. The book rejects, however, the currently widespread expectation that 'internationalization' makes all democracies converge on similar political and economic institutions and power relations. Diversity among capitalist democracies persists, though in a different fashion than in the 'Golden Age' of rapid economic growth after World War II.

Hailed by national leaders as politically diverse as former Vice President Al Gore and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Generations has been heralded by reviewers as a brilliant, if somewhat unsettling, reassessment of where America is heading. William Strauss and Neil Howe posit the history of America as a succession of generational biographies, beginning in 1584 and encompassing every-one through the children of today. Their bold theory is that each generation belongs to one of four types, and that these types repeat sequentially in a fixed pattern. The vision of Generations allows us to plot a recurring cycle in American history -- a cycle of spiritual awakenings and secular crises -- from the founding colonists through the present day and well into this millenium. Generations is at once a refreshing historical narrative and a thrilling intuitive leap that reorders not only our history books but also our expectations for the twenty-first century.

大前研一在《中華聯邦》中，除了力說中華聯邦對日本前途的重要性外，也提出台灣和中國可能會在2005年統一的說法，並且探討台灣今後生存的戰略方向。內文並附錄作者與李登輝的訪談，以及在行政院的演講。
在《中華聯邦》書中，大前研一引述調查指出，與大陸進一步結合，已經是多數台灣人心中的共識，二００四年的台灣總統大選，陳水扁不能也不敢昧於時勢，最重要議題將是「如何」與大陸融合，而非「是否」與中共統一。
大前研一分析指出，江澤民已經順利讓香港回歸，接著又使中國及早加入ＷＴＯ、成功接辦二００八年奧運與接下來的世界博覽會。現今距離奧運還有很長時間，但是江澤民卻處於交出權力的狀態，江澤民殷切想為自己尋得歷史上不低於鄧小平的地位，因此，二００五年、最遲二００七年，他將致力讓台灣回歸中國，使得中華聯邦初具雛形。為撰寫本書，足跡遍及大陸的大前研一觀察得知，中國各地其實已經形成高度自治的地方政府，未來將朝向更大程度自治、但不分裂的狀態發展，與台灣形成「聯邦」的形態。
大前研一說明，不論是聯邦、邦聯、國協、合眾國，甚至歐盟體制，兩岸結合的「名義」並非最重要，但兩岸一定會很快步向統一，台灣因此得以重返國際社會；而新加坡很可能會加入中華聯邦，至於日本、韓國，為求得經濟發展，也將不得不加入中華經濟圈，亦即未來亞洲的經濟龍頭將非日本，而是中國。