Library

1. Technology and Information Society

• Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman, 1985.
• Theories of the Information Society, Frank Webster, 1995.
• The Future of Money in the Information Age, edited by James Dorn, 1997.
• Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, 2006.
• The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, Yochai Benkler, 2006.
• Code: Version 2.0, Lawrence Lessig, 2006.
• The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, Jonathan Zittrain, 2008.
• The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam, Philip Howard, 2010.
• The Net Delusion, Evgeny Morozov, 2011.
• The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as a Culture Machine, Peter Lunenfeld, 2011.
• Cyberpolitics in International Relations, Nazli Choucri, 2012.
• Internet Architecture and Innovation, Barbara van Schewick, 2012.
• The End of Money, David Wolman, 2012.
• Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age, Ian Brown and Christopher Marsden, 2013.
• Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy, Melanie Swan, 2015.
• Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor’s Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond, Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar, 2017.
• The Bitcoin Standard, Saifedean Ammous, 2018.

2. Politics, Philosophy and Science

• The Spirit of the Laws, Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, 1748.
• The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1856.
• The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche, 1872.
• Untimely Meditations, Friedrich Nietzsche, 1876.
• The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, Gustave Le Bon, 1895.
• The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen, 1899.
• The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel, 1907.
• Ancient and Modern Imperialism, The Earl of Cromer, 1910.
• The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper, 1934.
• Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Joseph Schumpeter, 1942.
• The True Believer, Eric Hoffer, 1951.
• The Hedgehog and the Fox, Isaiah Berlin, 1953.
• The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins, 1976.
• The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama, 1992.
• The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington, 1996.
• Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda, Noam Chomsky, 1997.
• A Brief History of the Paradox, Roy Sorensen, 2003.
• On Bullshit, Harry Frankfurt, 2005.
• Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond, David Runciman, 2008.
• Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, 2010.
• Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics, John Mearsheimer, 2011.
• Money as God?, edited by Jürgen von Hagen and Michael Welker, 2014.
• The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto, edited by Terrell Carver and James Farr, 2015.

3. East Asia: History, Politics and Diplomacy

• On Protracted War (論持久戰), Mao Zedong, 1938. [zh]
• The Meiji Restoration, W.G. Beasley, 1972.
• The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific, 1945-1995, Michael Yahuda, 1996.
• China and Historical Capitalism, edited by Timothy Brook and Gregory Blue, 1999.
• The Making of Modern Japan, Marius Jansen, 2000.
• The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen, 2005.
• War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe, Victoria Hui, 2005.
• The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective
  • Volume I, edited by John Steinberg et al., 2005.
  • Volume II, edited by David Wolff et al., 2007.
• East Asia and the Global Economy: Japan’s Ascent, with Implications for China’s future, Stephen Bunker and Paul Ciccantell, 2007.
• The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity, Hui Wang, 2009.
• Non-Western International Relations Theory, edited by Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan, 2010.
• The Making of Northeast Asia, Kent Calder and Min Ye, 2010.
• International Relations and Non-Western Thought: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity, edited by Robbie Shilliam, 2011.
• The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949, S. C. M. Paine, 2012.
• Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law, Teemu Ruskola, 2013.
• China from Empire to Nation-State, Hui Wang, 2014.
• China’s Path to Innovation, Xiaolan Fu, 2015.
• Out of Imperialism (走出帝制), Qin Hui, 2015. [zh]

4. Literature and Criticism

• The Trial, Franz Kafka, 1925.
• The Castle, Franz Kafka, 1926.
• The Book of Fantasy, edited by Jorge Luis Borges et al., 1940.
• The Book of Imaginary Beings, edited by Jorge Luis Borges, 1967.
• The Aleph and Other Stories, Jorge Luis Borges, 1970.
• The Book of Sand, Jorge Luis Borges, 1975.
• The Brothers Karamazov and the Poetics of Memory, Diane Oenning Thompson, 1991.
• Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Non-Fictions, edited by Eliot Weinberger, 1999.
• Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: Oedipus Rex, edited by Harold Bloom, 2007.