Social Sciences Academic Press is a top publishing company specializing in publishing books in the field of humanities and social sciences, and has many series of books such as Oracle, Nine-colored Deer, Fangcun, Mingsha and so on. Reading books in the field of social sciences, this publishing house can't miss it!
Recently, the Social Sciences Academic Press released the 2023 Good Books List, involving professional academic and popular academic categories, including some good social science books that frequently appear in our perspective in 2023. Without further ado, let's get straight to the point.
Professional and academic
"Surviving with Illness".Author: Xun Jianjian.
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Subtitle: A Study on the Illness Experience of Chronic Patients in Shacun.
Binding: Paperback.
Introduction:The sociology of chronic diseases is an emerging field in China. This book aims to examine the experience of chronic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular patients at the village level, and aims to answer two interrelated questions: first, how does social structure affect the experience of chronic patients, and second, how chronic patients survive with the disease in their daily lives.
"East to West".Author: Chen Yexuan.
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Subtitle: A Study on the History of the Maritime Silk Road from the 8th to the Early 13th Century.
Binding: Paperback.
Series: Peking University Maritime Silk Road and Regional History Research Series.
Introduction:How did the Arabs of the Middle Ages come to China to do business? How did the Chinese during the Tang and Song dynasties go to Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean coast to do business? Using detailed hand-me-down documents, modern inscriptions and commercial documents, as well as archaeological data from shipwrecks, the author attempts to break the traditional historical view of dynastic history and examine the long-term historical development of the Maritime Silk Road from the perspective of merchants coming and going.
Understanding Long-Term Economic GrowthAuthor: Dora LCosta (Dora L.).Costa) Naomi RNaomi R lamoreaux）
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Subheading: Geography, Institutions and the Knowledge Economy.
Translators: Zeng Yongmei, Sun Buzhong, Qi Wenping.
Binding: Paperback.
Book Series: Translations of Quantitative Economic History.
Introduction:Quantitative Economic History Classics Translation Series (5 volumes), including Hungry Ireland, Quantitative Methods for Historians, Big Data in Economic History, and Quantitative Economic History: The Role of Statistics.
"The Origins of Inner Asia".Author: Luo Xin.
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Subtitle: A Study of the Names of the Middle and Northern Tribes.
Binding: Hardcover.
Book Series: Nine-colored deer.
Introduction:This book is a collection of the author's essays on a variety of names that were closely related to various populations in Inner Asia in the Middle Ages. By analyzing the structure, function, etymology, application and rheology of these Inner Asian names, we will sort out some incomprehensible Chinese transliteration words in traditional literature, so that they can play a role in revealing the complex aspects of history.
"Rider's World".Authors: Zhu Di, Cui Yan, Zheng Shaoxiong, Gao Wenjun.
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Subheading: Social Survey of New Occupational Groups.
Binding: Paperback.
Introduction:Based on large-scale questionnaires and in-depth interviews, Rider's World: A Social Survey of New Occupational Groups provides a comprehensive picture of the working life, identity, social mobility, urban integration and development dilemmas of this group, thus revealing their complex and diverse situation in today's society. ——Xiang Wen, Associate Professor, School of Sociology and Population, Chinese Minmin University.
"Journey Upstream".Author: Steven B miles）
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Subheading: Population Mobility and the Ming and Qing Dynasties' Strategies for South China.
Binding: Hardcover.
Book Series: Oracle Bone Series.
Introduction:In the 16th and 19th centuries, there was a special group of people who came from the lowlands of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong and migrated along the Xijiang River to the upper highlands, widely scattered in western Guangdong, Guangxi, southern Guizhou, eastern Yunnan and even northern Vietnam. They were the ones who went to the frontier to take up their posts, the scholars who participated in the less competitive imperial examinations, and the merchants who did business across regions, built ancestral temples and built guild halls.
"The Web of Luxury".Author: Wu Yulian.
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Producer: Qiwei.
Subheading: Huizhou Salt Merchants, Social Classes, and the Way of the World in the Eighteenth Century.
Binding: Hardcover.
Book Series: Qiwei Book Series.
Introduction:From the perspective of material culture history, this manuscript attempts to jump out of the previous understanding of "Jia and good Confucianism", and from the investigation of the flow of various goods produced and consumed by wealthy merchants, to re-propose a new interpretation of the formation and history of the luxury phenomenon of Huizhou salt merchants. By examining the relationship between merchants and goods, this paper reinterprets the extravagant behavior of salt merchants, enriches our understanding of the relationship between people and things in the 18th century, especially through the analysis of the relationship between Huizhou salt merchants and the Qianlong court, and proposes a new relationship structure for understanding the formation of salt merchant society in China in the 18th century, the relationship network between the imperial court and salt merchants.
"Wartime Prosperity".Author: Feng Xiaocai.
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Subheading: Wenzhou's Economy and Its Control from 1937 to 1945.
Book Series: Mingsha.
Introduction:Feng Xiaocai, a professor of the Department of History of East China Normal University, discussed the complex aspects of wartime society and the problems of wars other than military by examining the changes of Wenzhou's commerce and the practice of controlling the economy from 1937 to 1945, and understood the impact and challenges brought by war to the country and the people as a whole. - Green Tea Writer and Book Reviewer.
Mingsha (14 volumes in total), this series also includes "The Artifact Has a Life", "The Creation of Chinese Literature", "From Measurement, Narrative to Text Interpretation", "Boiling the Sea into a Gathering", "The Rural World of Land Travel" and so on.
Finance and the State in Ancient ChinaAuthor: [Japanese] Shinichiro Watanabe.
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Binding: Hardcover.
Book Series: Oracle Bone Series.
Introduction:Finance and the State in Ancient China is a representative academic monograph by Shinichiro Watanabe, a Japanese historian of Oriental history, and can be regarded as a summary of his research achievements in China's fiscal history for more than 20 years. Breaking through the limitations of the study of the fiscal history of the dynasties, Mr. Watanabe uses a grand holistic perspective to connect the fiscal situation from the Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang dynasties, and by analyzing the characteristics of the fiscal structure, the evolution of related institutions between the Han and Tang dynasties, and clarifying the characteristics of social reproduction process and state domination.
Popular Academics
"Tea".Author: George Van Dreem
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Subtitle: The Legend and History of a Leaf: The History of Tea from Prehistory to the Present.
Binding: Hardcover.
Book Series: Oracle Bone Series.
Introduction:The book is a novel approach to the global history of tea in terms of its linguistic origins (the thing or the word), but it is an encyclopedic work on linguistics, history, geography, literature, tea science, medicine, physics, and chemistry.
Making Things Happen: A General Theory of Population, Finance, and CapitalAuthor: Yin Jianfeng.
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Binding: Paperback.
Introduction:From a historical perspective and a global perspective, this book tells a comprehensive truth: whether it is positive population growth or negative population growth, the logic of economic development is that a stable currency promotes credit expansion, credit expansion promotes capital accumulation, and capital accumulation determines economic development.
The author, Yin Jianfeng, is an award-winning economist of the "Sun Yefang Economic Science Award", a professor at the University of International Economics, the chief economist of Zheshang Bank, the deputy director of the National Finance and Development Laboratory, the director of the Chief Economist Forum, and the executive director and member of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Society of Modern Finance"Empire and Revolution (Up and Down)".Author: Richard Bourke
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Subtitle: The Political Career of Edmund Burke.
Binding: Hardcover.
Book series: Thorn Bird
Introduction:Edmund Burke (January 1729 – July 1797) was an Irish politician, writer, orator, political theorist and philosopher. This biography vividly recreates Burke's main concerns, overturning his traditional image of opposition to progress, and helping us to rethink Burke's intellectual legacy and that tumultuous era, as well as the crucial role he played.
"The Palace".Author: [Sweden] Bo Sandelin [de] Hans-Michael Trautwein [de] Richard Wundrak
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Subheading: The Thoughts of the Masters of Economics.
Binding: Paperback.
Introduction:"The Palace" condenses the current 6 most innovative moments of human economic thought, just like when the stars of mankind shine. This is a dialogue with Plato, Aristotle, Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, Marx, Bombavik, Marshall, Veblen, Fisher, Keynes, Hayek, Schumpeter, Samuelson, Friedman, Stiglitz and dozens of other masters who have carved their names in the development of economics today.
"Jianmin's Ledger".Author: Liu Tao Zhang Hongwei.
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Subtitle: 1952 1993, the digital life of an old Communist Party member.
Binding: Paperback.
Book Series: Tree Rings.
Introduction:Jianmin, also known as Zhang Jianmin, was the deputy secretary-general of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Zhang Jianmin left behind 12 ledgers, spanning more than 40 years from the 1950s to the 1990s. "Jianmin's Ledger - 1952 1993, the Digital Life of an Old Communist Party Member" conducts a detailed study and combing of Zhang Jianmin's 41-year life account. Analyzing the rich information of the times contained in the ledger is not only a personal life history, but also has a high value of social history and economic history.
"Lu Zhengxiang's Commentary".Author: Tang Qihua.
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Producer: Qiwei.
Binding: Hardcover.
Book Series: Qiwei Book Series.
Introduction:This book takes Lu Zhengxiang as the center, uses diplomatic archives and historical materials such as Lu Zhengxiang's documents stored in Belgian monasteries, newspapers, personal documents, etc., and combines political, social, and personal perspectives to examine Lu Zhengxiang's interaction with China's diplomacy, modern China and the world from the late Qing Dynasty, Beiyang, and the national ** period.
"None**: The Rise of the East India Company".Author: Willim Dalrymple
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Subtitle: The Rise of the East India Company.
Original title: The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Binding: Hardcover.
Book Series: Oracle Bone Series.
Introduction:This book recounts the history of the East India Company in India.
Stage and Camera: National Geographic and Southwest ChinaAuthor: Luo Anping.
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press.
Producer: Qiwei.
Subheading: National Geographic and Southwest China.
Binding: Paperback.
Book Series: Qiwei Book Series.
Introduction:In 1911, the American geologist Rollin T. Chamberlin (Rollin T. Chamberlin)Chamberlin's encounter between the stage and the camera in the small town of Dujiangyan**, published in National Geographic magazine, has become a metaphor for the history of the West and the East looking at each other. Taking this as a starting point, this book traces National Geographic's coverage of China over the past 100 years, focusing on the humanistic stories and geographical landscapes of different historical stages, and giving multiple perspectives to the silent words and images spanning a century.
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In 2024, we look forward to the publication of more excellent professional academic and popular academic books by Social Sciences Academic Press!