在某个离奇的雨夜，一颗球状闪电闯进了少年的视野。它的啸叫低沉中透着尖利，像是一个鬼魂在太古的荒原上吹着埙。当鬼魂奏完乐曲，球状闪电在一瞬间将少年的父母化为灰烬，而他们身下板凳却是奇迹般的冰凉。 这一夜，少年的命运被彻底改变了，他将毕其一生去解开那个将他变成孤儿的自然之谜。但是他未曾想到，多年以后，单纯的自然科学研究被纳入进“新概念武器”开发计划，他所追寻的球状闪电变成了下一场战争中决定祖国生存或是灭亡的终极武器！ 当被禁锢在终极武器中的大自然的伟力被释放时，一轮冰冷的“蓝太阳”升起在大西部的戈壁滩上，整个戈壁淹没在它的蓝光中，这个世界变得陌生而怪异。一个从未有人想像过的未来，在宇宙观测者的注视下，降临在人类面前……

Celebrated Chinese couturier Guo Pei is perhaps best known for designing the brilliant gold gown Rihanna wore to the Met Ball in 2015. But Guo’s quest to be recognized by the gatekeepers of Paris haute couture goes beyond the red carpet and taps into global power dynamics and the perpetual tension between art and commerce.

A pig farmer, a busboy, a salon owner, an expat architect and a jaded rich girl cross paths as thousands of dead pigs float down the Yangtze River toward Shanghai.

At the twilight of the nineteenth century, China sent a detachment of boys to America in order to learn the ways of the West, modernise the antiquated empire, and defend it from foreigners invading its shores. After spending a decade in New England's finest schools, the boys returned home, driven by a pioneering spirit of progress and reform. Their lives in America influenced, not only their thinking, but also their nation's endeavour to become a contemporary world power, an endeavour that resonates powerfully today. Drawing on diaries, letters and other first-person accounts, Fortunate Sons tells a remarkable tale, weaving together the dramas of personal lives with the momentous thrust of a nation reborn. Shedding light on a crucial yet largely unknown period in China's history, Fortunate Sons provides insight into the issues concerning that nation today, from its struggle towards economic supremacy to its fraught relationship with the United States.

In twenty-first-century China, socialist educational traditions have given way to practices that increasingly emphasize the individual. This volume investigates that trend, drawing on fieldwork in a rural high school in Zhejiang where students, teachers, and officials of different generations, genders, and social backgrounds form what is essentially a miniature version of Chinese society. Hansen paints a complex picture of the emerging "neo-socialist" educational system and shows how individualization of students both challenges and reinforces state control of society.

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“奴隶社会”公众号每周六火热连载，阅读量突破百万！无数读者随之欢笑也为之唏嘘！ 我们都非自愿地从高空降落， 看过磅礴的云层， 躲过惊心的乱流， 方能安稳度日。 生命来来往往，没有来日方长。别把最好的留到最后，因为你不知道还有没有机会等到那个时候。 ——一诺 但愿多年以后 的陈墨与程皎皎，生活中的每一个陈墨与程皎皎，都尚有一点闲暇与心情，过一个春风沉醉的务虚的夜晚，或是于清晨一地鸡毛尚未扬起时，翻一翻《三万英尺》这样的小说。 ——Autumn 【内容提要】 这一代年轻人，既可倾心投入，又能抽身而退。 公司与社会，职业与生活，工作与感情， 他们在矛盾中成长，又在割裂后重生。 陈墨只听说, 她攒足了资历以后, 在某一个时刻, 有人会来告诉她, 你在, 或者不在那条通往合伙人的路上。合伙人这个律所之中的巅峰职位，固然美好，然相距甚远，如海市蜃楼。在攒够资历之前，你永远不知道自己有没有运气到达山巅。 对程皎皎来说，咨询工作两三年就要上一个台阶，否则就要直接走人。虽然有盼头，但也如履薄冰，旦夕祸福，始终有把达摩克利斯之剑悬在头上，不知哪天就要掉下来。 混迹职场日久，两人早已练就一身刀枪不入，宠辱不惊的本领。 对待感情，也渐渐变得云淡风轻，去留随意。

上海，曾经在二战期间庇护了约两万犹太人。其中很多人，成为其家族唯一的幸存者。遗憾的是，这段历史仍然有很多人不了解。为了给这段历史一个清晰的旁证，上海广播电视台电视新闻中心筹拍了这部纪录片，摄制组历时八个月，辗转德国、奥地利、美国和以色列等多国，采访了近40位曾经避难上海的犹太难民。其中，摄制组从各国的二战纪念馆、犹太博物馆、犹太人联合会等处获得了大量珍贵的档案资料，很多文献、照片和视频等，都是首度对外公开。这部纪录片的制作，是与时间的赛跑，更是向生命的致敬。

我們把在潮中戲水的弄潮兒，來比喻有勇敢進取精神的人。 本書分為兩個部分。第一部分的主人公是企業家。他們從貧窮到富有的故事多姿多彩，而且帶有明顯的中國特色：潘石屹、張欣是一對在外人看來不太可能成為夫妻的夫妻，攜手成為中國房地產界中的翹楚；孫立哲是一個善於順應時代潮流的天才，把自己從文革中毛澤東喜愛的「赤腳醫生」變成了特立獨行的出版商；張大中是一個矢志為母親洗清冤屈的家電連鎖企業巨頭，他的母親以「反革命分子」的罪名被當局用最殘忍的方式處決。 第二組人物以知識分子為主。文中涉及北京大學的教授們，他們如何捲入了一場關於教育改革的激烈論戰；作者哥哥查建國，一個因參與組建「中國民主黨」而獲罪並在監獄服刑九年的持不同政見者；最後是一位當過文化部長的作家王蒙，人們為他到底是共產黨的辯護士亦或是可能獲得諾貝爾文學獎的偉大作家而分成兩派。 追蹤並記錄這些鮮活的人物和他們的故事，讓這些故事加深讀者對當代中國的理解。這本書可以幫助讀者更好地瞭解目前發生在中國以及中國人身邊的、錯綜複雜、前景未明但卻生機勃勃的歷史轉變。

第二年（2011）春运，我们一如既往回到这个派出所…… 除了那几位老“差人”，上一部片中的“新疆人”、“来广州混的少年”、“忏悔的青年”……没有一位再次出现。 派出所，普通人一生也难得进去一次，可也有人一个春运要进去好几次。故事就从一些总要在这进进出出的人说起…… 影片似乎仍然是没有重点，结构松散，主题混沌。 其实，人本身就是一矛盾体，由人组成的社会注定也是如此。

Since China began its open-door and reform policies in 1978, more than three million Chinese students have migrated to study abroad, and the United States has been their top destination. The recent surge of students following this pattern, along with the rising tide of Chinese middle- and upper-classes' emigration out of China, have aroused wide public and scholarly attention in both China and the US. This book examines the four waves of Chinese student migration to the US since the late 1970s, showing how they were shaped by the profound changes in both nations and by US-China relations. It discusses how student migrants with high socioeconomic status transformed Chinese American communities and challenged American immigration laws and race relations. The book suggests that the rise of China has not negated the deeply rooted "American dream" that has been constantly reinvented in contemporary China. It also addresses the theme of "selective citizenship" – a way in which migrants seek to claim their autonomy - proposing that this notion captures the selective nature on both ends of the negotiations between nation-states and migrants. It cautions against a universal or idealized "dual citizenship" model, which has often been celebrated as a reflection of eroding national boundaries under globalization. This book draws on a wide variety of sources in Chinese and English, as well as extensive fieldwork in both China and the US, and its historical perspective sheds new light on contemporary Chinese student migration and post-1965 Chinese American community. Bridging the gap between Asian and Asian American studies, the book also integrates the studies of migration, education, and international relations. Therefore, it will be of interest to students of these fields, as well as Chinese history and Asian American history more generally.

2015 film by Zhang Yang

Yana is a 24-year-old rural migrant who recently arrived in Chongqing to pursue her “Chinese Dream.” Drawn by the glamour and easy riches of China’s historic real estate boom, she opens a foreigner rental agency designed to help Chinese real estate developers market their new developments. But this business takes a dubious turn as her foreigners are increasingly used in a surreal effort to turn remote rural ghost towns into “globalized booming cities” on the days that outside investors and political leaders visit.

Throughout Maoist China's turbulent history, the artist Mu Xin sacrificed everything to create his art. While illegally imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution, he risked his life writing and painting while in solitary confinement. It was through his artistic faith that he survived this period, while so many others did not. He has avoided speaking of the horrors he has seen - until now. A documentary portrait by OSCAR® Nominated filmmakers Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello, "DREAMING AGAINST THE WORLD" will expose audiences to one of the most original, yet largely unknown artists of the past century.

The Chinese often use the expression du hua, “to read a painting,” in connection with their study and appreciation of such works. This volume closely “reads” thirty-six masterpieces of Chinese painting from the encyclopedic collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to reveal the major characteristics and themes of this rich pictorial tradition. The book examines multiple layers of meaning—style, technique, symbolism, past traditions, and the artist’s personal circumstances—through accessible texts and numerous large color details. A dynastic chronology, map, and list of further readings supplement the text. Spanning a thousand years of Chinese art, these landscapes, flowers, birds, figures, religious subjects, and calligraphies illuminate the main goal of every Chinese artist: to capture not only the outer appearance of a subject but also its inner essence.

From New York City to the farmlands of the Midwest, there are 50,000 Chinese restaurants in the U.S., yet one dish in particular has conquered the American culinary landscape with a force befitting its military moniker—“General Tso’s Chicken.” But who was General Tso and how did this dish become so ubiquitous? Ian Cheney’s delightfully insightful documentary charts the history of Chinese Americans through the surprising origins of this sticky, sweet, just-spicy-enough dish that we’ve adopted as our own.

What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an undemocratic, late developing country as China? To answer this profound political as well as theoretical question, Jie Chen explores attitudinal and behavioral orientation of China's new middle class to democracy and democratization. Chen's work is based on a unique set of data collected from a probability-sample survey and in-depth interviews of residents in three major Chinese cities, Beijing, Chengdu and Xi'an—each of which represents a distinct level of economic development in urban China-in 2007 and 2008. The empirical findings derived from this data set confirm that (1) compared to other social classes, particularly lower classes, the new Chinese middle class-especially those employed in the state apparatus-tends to be more supportive of the current Party-state but less supportive of democratic values and institutions; (2) the new middle class's attitudes toward democracy may be accounted for by this class's close ideational and institutional ties with the state, and its perceived socioeconomic wellbeing, among other factors; (3) the lack of support for democracy among the middle class tends to cause this social class to act in favor of the current state but in opposition to democratic changes. The most important political implication is that while China's middle class is not likely to serve as the harbinger of democracy now, its current attitudes toward democracy may change in the future. Such a crucial shift in the middle class's orientation toward democracy can take place, especially when its dependence on the Party-state decreases and perception of its own social and economic statuses turns pessimistic. The key theoretical implication from the findings suggests that the attitudinal and behavioral orientations of the middle class-as a whole and as a part-toward democratic change in late developing countries are contingent upon its relationship with the incumbent state and its perceived social/economic wellbeing, and the middle class's support for democracy in these countries is far from inevitable.

For over three decades, China exercised unprecedented control over the reproductive habits of its billion citizens. Now, with its economy faltering just as it seemed poised to become the largest in the world, the Chinese government has brought an end to its one-child policy. It may once have seemed a shortcut to riches, but it has had a profound effect on society in modern China. Combining personal portraits of families affected by the policy with a nuanced account of China’s descent towards economic and societal turmoil, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mei Fong reveals the true cost of this most controversial of policies. Drawing on eight years spent documenting its repercussions, she reveals a dystopian legacy of second children refused documentation by the state, only children supporting their parents and grandparents, and villages filled with ineligible bachelors. An exceptional piece of on-the-ground journalism, One Child humanizes the policy that defined China and warns that the ill-effects of its legacy will be felt across the globe.

Beyond the human realm, there is a magical race of beings who control the tides and the changing of the seasons. One of these beings, a young girl named Chun, seeks something more—she wants to experience the human world! At sixteen, she finally gets her chance and transforms into a dolphin in order to explore the world that has her fascinated. But she soon discovers that it's a dangerous place and nearly gets killed in a vortex. Luckily, her life is spared when a young boy sacrifices himself to save her. Moved by his kindness and courage, she uses magic to bring him back to life only to learn that this power comes at a serious price. On a new adventure, she’ll have to make her own sacrifices in order to protect his soul until it is ready to return to the human world.

DATONG follows the life and work of a controversial Chinese Communist Mayor GENG YANBO to tell the story about how he takes a radical reform to demolish 140,000 households and relocate half a million people to give way to restoration of Ancient relic walls in order to adopt a clean economic growth from tourism and culture, which he believes will do good to DA TONG citizen in the long term. With two years in the footsteps of GENG, along with the changing ideology and confrontations from the public, the film is trying to draw a looming shape of future of China.