作品简介

　　《种族与文化》是被誉为“美国知识界奇迹”的明星学者托马斯·索威尔经典重磅“文化三部曲“系列作品，为重新审视许多当代社会问题提供深刻思想基础，帮助我们更好地理解社会进化的复杂过程。

　　在当下世界格局、秩序发生深刻变革的当下，这本书对我们重新审视过去、现在和未来都有非常重要的意义，在为提供一个了解近现代国家演变和民族承传的线索的同时，书中的很多内容也能对当今中国走向世界的“一带一路”和构建人类命运共同体提供了历史的、政治的、经济的、文化的和民族的诸多参考和深度思考。

　　索威尔的另一部重要作品《美国种族简史》曾被罗永浩称为“可能这辈子花的最值的10块钱！”，索威尔的每一部作品都是有故事、有深度，获得了包括诺贝尔经济学奖得主道格拉斯·诺斯、华东师范刘擎教授、清华唐晓阳教授、人大毛寿龙教授等多位国内外专家学者的联袂推荐！

　　《种族与文化》是作者托马斯·索威尔15年研究和旅行的成果，也是作者“文化三部曲”系列作品之一。索威尔曾两次环游世界，多次到访地中海、波罗的海和环太平洋地区，他希望通过研究国家内部和国家之间的文化差异，帮助我们理解在今天和过去的几个世纪中，种族文化在塑造各国人民和世界文明的经济、政治、文化、社会命运方面所起的作用，重新审视当下与未来。

　　从古代城墙环绕的耶路撒冷到高度现代化的城市国家新加坡，每个地方的人都用自己的方式讲述着自己的故事。在《种族与文化》中，索威尔的核心观点认为，无论是当今世界正在发生的重大事件，还是漫长人类历史进程中的某一次转折，不同种族之间的文化差异在历史的剧变中都发挥了重要的作用。理解文化资本对一个民族或一个文明社会的经济命运的影响为何远远超过政治、偏见或基因，而认识到这一点，不仅有利于我们认识差异本身，更重要的是能够帮助我们尽可能避免因文化差异导致的民族问题，从内在发展的角度，为自己所属的民族、国家、社会争取更多的文化资本和文化自信。



　　托马斯·索威尔（Thomas Sowell）

　　美国经济学家、社会评论家；斯坦福大学胡佛研究所高级研究员，长期任职于康奈尔大学、加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校、艾姆赫斯特学院和其他学术机构以及智囊团；著有《美国种族简史》《经济学的思维方式》《歧视与不平等》等30部作品，常常在《福布斯》、《财富》、《新闻周刊》、《时代》周刊、《华盛顿邮报》等媒体发表文章，曾获得“博伊尔奖”、美国“国家人文科学奖章”、“布莱德雷基金奖”等荣誉。

Introduction of works

"Race and Culture" is the classic "cultural trilogy" series of works by star scholar Thomas Sowell, known as "the miracle of American intellectual circle", which provides a profound ideological basis for re-examining many contemporary social issues and helps us better understand the complex process of social evolution.

At a time when the current world pattern and order are undergoing profound changes, this book is of great significance for us to re-examine the past, present and future. While providing a clue to understand the evolution of modern countries and the inheritance of nations, Many of the contents of the book can also provide historical, political, economic, cultural and national references and deep thinking for China's "Belt and Road Initiative" and the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.

Another important work of Sowell's, A Brief History of Race in America, was once called by Luo Yonghao "probably the best $10 I've ever spent in my life!"

Race and Culture is the result of 15 years of research and travel by Thomas Sowell and is part of the author's Culture Trilogy series. Sowell has travelled the world twice, visiting the Mediterranean, the Baltic and the Pacific Rim, and by studying cultural differences within and between nations, he hopes to help us understand the role that ethnic cultures have played in shaping the economic, political, cultural and social destinies of peoples and world civilizations today and in centuries past, and to re-examine the present and the future.

From ancient walled Jerusalem to the highly modern city-state of Singapore, people everywhere tell their own stories in their own way. In Race and Culture, Sowell's central idea is that cultural differences between different races have played an important role in the upheavals of history, whether it is a major event happening in the world today or a turning point in the long course of human history. Understanding why cultural capital affects the economic fate of a people or a civilised society far more than politics, prejudice or genetics, not only helps us to understand the differences themselves, but more importantly helps us to avoid the national problems caused by cultural differences as much as possible, from the perspective of internal development. Strive for more cultural capital and cultural self-confidence for the nation, country and society to which we belong.

Thomas Sowell

American economist and social critic; A senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, with long stints at Cornell University, UCLA, Elmhurst College, and other academic institutions and think tanks; He is the author of 30 books, including "A Brief History of Race in America", "Ways of Thinking in Economics", "Discrimination and Inequality", and has frequently published articles in Forbes, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, The Washington Post and other media. He has won the Boyle Award, the National Humanities Medal, and the Bradley Foundation Award.