季風讀者最喜歡的月度榜單 · 2026年8月
八月的季風書單，圍繞「身分」與「記憶」兩個關鍵詞展開。中文書單從查建英四十餘年的中國觀察出發，經王柯對「從民族想像國家」思維模式的解剖、徐賁對三大極權政體如何界定人民身分的追問，抵達余汝信為江青編纂的一部基礎史料；另一半則轉向個體與土地——雲南寨子裡長大的彝族女孩、《血色黃昏》作者老鬼筆下八〇年代的民主啟蒙、黎恩灝從比較經驗檢視香港的司法抗爭、張戎續寫《鴻》的家族與離散，以及一位技術官僚首度公開的台灣核武秘史。壓卷的是王力雄的政治預言小說《黃禍》，三十餘年後讀來依然驚心。
英文書單同樣在歷史與權力之間往返。從中共如何把抗戰的起點從一九三七年改寫為一九三一年，到中國政府如何把網路舆論管控外包給企業；從檊繼繩的文革全史，到齊加爾筆下蘇聯解體那場「未竟的勝利」。台灣與香港各有一冊——一部走訪八十餘位受訪者的國族認同紀錄，一部以警探與抗爭者兄妹為軸線的香港犯罪小說。文學部分則收入邱妙津《鱴魚手記》的英譯本、劉奕德關於兩岸酷兒馬克思主義的理論力作，以及張愛玲首度英譯結集的小說與散文。
The August list turns on identity and memory. From the Chinese Communist Party's rewriting of the Second World War to the outsourcing of online censorship; from Yang Jisheng's history of the Cultural Revolution to Russia's short-lived victory over totalitarianism. Taiwan's search for nationhood and a Hong Kong on fire appear side by side, alongside four works of fiction and theory that ask what it means to write, love, and remember across two Chinas.
【中文書單 Top 10】
《國家公敵》
查建英／局外人書店
這是一位世界公民四十餘年的中國觀察記錄。查建英從組黨求民主的哥哥、堅持原則的德商張大中、赤腳資本家孫立哲，寫到阿城與陳丹青的文化訪談、北大教育改革與季羡林、梁左；再往前推，是西單民主牆、八九六四、九八組黨，往後則是白紙運動與四通橋事件。她始終關注思想自由、人物歷史、文藝思潮與公民抗爭，對那些致力於中國轉型的思想者與行動者心懷敬意，卻又能在更高的維度上公允持中。全書無審查、無刪節，是理解中國政治變遷與文化脈動最值得期待的文本之一。
《從「民族」想像「國家」：民族想像、國家權力與當代中國的多數暴力》
王柯／知彼堂出版社
神戶大學名譽教授王柯的最新力作，深刻揭示中國「民族主義」如何被武器化。二十世紀以後，中國政治操縱人民的一個基本手段，是製造並利用「從『民族』想像『國家』」的思維模式：透過將「民族」神聖化為超時空的存在，政治權力得以把人民轉化為服從「國家」的工具。從清末的「驅除韃虜，恢復中華」，到二十一世紀高呼「中華民族偉大復興」、追求「築牢中華民族共同體意識」，整個漢人社會一直被結構性地鎖定在這道魔咒裡——而做出牽牲的永遠是個人，不是政府。
《極權下的我是誰：活在希特勒、史達林和毛澤東時代的身分焦慮》
徐賁／壹壹陸工作室
本書以希特勒的德國、史達林的蘇聯與毛澤東的中國為觀察對象，分析這三個政權如何製造「將然未然」的臨界狀態，以政治主張界定人民的身分，並以身分作為給予獎賞或施加迫害的標準。在無法掌控自己身分的時代，人們一方面無法適應被強加的標籤，另一方面為了保命或趨吉避凶，往往必須做出表裡不一的言行，最終陷入深重的身分焦慮。本書與《極權下的人性》《極權下的日常生活》構成三聯組合，各自從一個特殊角度剖析極權主義對人性的扭曲與對正邪的混淆。
《江青年譜（1914–1991）》
余汝信 編、秦暉 作序／新世紀出版社
文革史研究專家余汝信繼《陳伯達年譜》《康生年譜》之後的第三部文革人物年譜。全書分為山東時期、上海時期、陝北時期、第一夫人、文革旗手、秦城女囚與保外就醫等九個階段，收入的全部史料均經編者以常識與邏輯推理反覆考證、對勘與辨析。作者自陳，本書並非對江青生平的系統性研究，而是為後繼者提供研究的基礎性史料——正因如此，它成為理解那個年代最可靠的工具書之一。
《我是寨子裡長大的女孩》
扎十一惹／上海譯文出版社
「我叫扎十一惹：扎是家族名字，十一是我出生的季節，惹是一種草。」作者生於一九九〇年，花腰彝族，在雲南深山的寨子裡長大。這本書記錄她三十四年的人生軌跡，也為她的女性親人與鄉鄰留下生命記事。早年村寨貧苦，生活難免坡垓窘迫，卻不缺天然的浪漫：花草、林木、小溪、山野、牛馬與玩伴，織成讓心靈柔軟的舊夢。兩代彝族鄉村女性的私人生活變化，與國家城市化進程的加速並行，也伴隨著鄉村記憶與邊地經驗的失落。
《血的黎明》
老鬼／讀道社
《血色黃昏》的續集。前作寫的是內蒙古下鄉的歲月，本書則從一九七六年返回內地寫到一九八九年四月耀邦去世——那十三年間，作者任職《法制日報》，飽嘗身在報社的壓抑與苦悶。四五運動、打倒四人幫、西單民主牆、北大民主競選、新書出版、耀邦下台……他以一貫真實、粗糲的文風，撕開家庭與社會的外表，展現其赤裸裸的一面，讓人震驚甚至失語。獻詞頁上寫著：「獻給為了自由、民主、人權前仆後繼的人們。」
《在夾縫中抵抗：從依法治國與司法抗爭的比較經驗看香港》
黎恩灝／春山出版
當國家權力透過法律、法庭與法治的語言不斷膀脹，猪如霍布斯筆下的「利維坦」，作為微小個體的我們還有什麼空間去抵抗？黎恩灝從法律的根本概念入手，指出香港法治之建立本是英殖時期的政治手段——有司法獨立的外衣，卻不曾擁有真正的民主問責，也為日後威權主義式的法律文化銘路。主權移交後司法逐步被政權馴服，《港區國安法》通過後更形嚴峻。作者同時比較南非、美國、巴勒斯坦與台灣的經驗，看各地行動者如何以法庭為戰場，為仍在夾縫中頑抗的人們開啟新的思考空間。
《飛吧，鴻！母親、我與中國》
張戎／麥田出版
《鴻》以史詩般的家族回憶錄定義了一個世代；續作《飛吧，鴻！》再續這個家族與中國的命運，自一九七〇年代末寫至當下。那段時間裡，中國從破敗與封閉逐步崩起，挑戰美國主導的國際秩序；張戎則在西方另関人生道路，成為文革結束後少數離開故土的中國人，也是第一位在英國取得博士學位的中國大陸人。即便知道寫出真相將迫使女兒遠離家園，母親仍鼓勵她勇敢去做想做的事。這是一封寫給母親的情書，也是對受難於文革的祖母與父親最深情的致敬。
《台灣核彈》
童兆勤／時報文化
一段塵封四十年、關於台灣核子武器夢碘的真實記錄。一九八八年初，隨著唇經國辞世與核研所副所長張憲義潛逃美國，台灣歷經二十餘年、耗資巨大的核武研發計畫在美國強勢干預下顷刻瓦解。作者童兆勤時任行政院原子能委員會綜合計畫處處長，身處軍方、原能會、外交部與美國多方角力的風暴中心，以第一手觀察與當時的日記為基礎，記錄核研所如何從國防重鎮淪為官僚爭奪權位的工具、美國如何以「不平等條約」與突擊檢查閹割台灣的核能自主，以及他如何死精竭慮與法國達成保防協定。四十年後，真相不再沈默。
《黃禍（新修完整版・上中下三冊合售）》
王力雄／大塊文化
洪水肆虐、人口過剩引發粧食危機，中國簽下爭議性的國際經濟合作協議，隨即引爆政治鬥爭：總書記遽暗殺，沿海富庶地區乘機獨立，南北戰爭爆發，台灣為自保援助南方自治政府，北京則以核打擊摧毀台北……一場失控的連鎖反應，最終讓一個文明整體崩潰，並改寫全世界的局勢。苏曉康稱其為「恢宏而又章法井然的政治小說」，作者想像力之大膽奇詭、知識結構之寬闊豐厚，令人驚詭。本書入選《亞洲週刊》二十世紀中文小說一百強，此次為王力雄新修訂的最完整典藏版本。
【English Top 10】
China's Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II
Emily Matson / University of Michigan Press
In 2017 China's Ministry of Education ruled that the country's Second World War had lasted fourteen years, not eight — moving the starting point from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 1937 back to the Mukden Incident of September 1931. Emily Matson shows that this was not simply a decree handed down from above. Since the 1980s, scholars from Manchuria had pressed for a timeline that included the invasion of their own homeland; by the 1990s others pushed back, and a fierce "date debate" followed, resolved only by the ministry's proclamation. Recentering Manchuria as a region critical to Chinese national identity, the book traces how a question of dates became a question of legitimacy at home and image abroad.
Outsourcing Surveillance: Online Opinion Management in China (Elements in Political Economy)
Lynette Ong, Huihua Nie & Jesslene Lee / Cambridge University Press
The digital age has given autocrats new tools to co-opt, pre-empt, and repress dissent — but what happens when the state lacks the technical capacity to build those tools itself? Drawing on an analysis of more than 3,000 public procurement documents and a dozen elite interviews, the authors show that the Chinese state has outsourced much of its online surveillance work to private firms and to the for-profit arms of state-owned corporations. Outsourcing, they argue, is not a sign of weakness but a way to augment state capacity and fine-tune digital repression — and it opens a Pandora's box of state–business collaboration in authoritarian settings.
Notes of a Crocodile (NYRB Classics)
Qiu Miaojin 邱妙津; translated by Bonnie Huie / NYRB Classics
Set among a group of queer misfits at Taiwan's most elite university in the late 1980s, Qiu Miaojin's cult novel follows the narrator Lazi through obsessive love, friendship, and the search for a self that the language around her cannot name. Interleaved are the absurdist notes of a crocodile in a human suit — a creature the media cannot decide whether to celebrate or exterminate. Qiu took her own life in Paris in 1995 at the age of twenty-six; two decades later she became the second Chinese-language author, after Eileen Chang, to enter the NYRB Classics series, and this translation won the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize.
City on Fire: A Novel of Hong Kong
Simon Elegant / Pegasus Crime
Hong Kong is ablaze — its streets filled with protesters, its government in crisis, its people torn between rage and fear of what defiance might cost. At the centre stands Superintendent Killian Tong, once a rising star in the police, now disgraced and haunted by a death at a protest. Exiled to a remote post, he is called back when a dismembered body surfaces in a landfill: a chance at redemption, if he can withstand the superiors desperate to bury the truth. Meanwhile his younger sister Jun has given herself to the movement, and the once-inseparable siblings face each other across the barricades. A taut thriller and a study of loyalty, betrayal, and love in a city under siege.
Taiwan Undaunted: In Search of the Nation That Cannot Call Itself a Nation
Neal E. Robins / World Scientific
Drawing on more than eighty in-depth interviews conducted across the island for a documentary film of the same name, this book traces the emergence of Taiwanese nationhood and identity from colonial and dynastic times to the democratic awakening. Robins blends personal anecdote with sharp analysis to capture how ordinary Taiwanese see themselves — their aspirations, dreams, hopes, and fears — and locates the tensions between the island's indigenous heritage, its immigrant roots, and the geopolitics of the strait. As Beijing's territorial claims intensify, it is a timely reflection on the resilience of Taiwan's democracy and the uncertainty that lies ahead.
The Dark Side of the Earth: Russia's Short-lived Victory over Totalitarianism
Mikhail Zygar / Scribner
Named a Best History Book of the Year by The Times. Mikhail Zygar was ten years old when the Soviet Union collapsed; after a decade of research he argues that what looked like a triumph for freedom and political courage led inexorably to the reestablishment of totalitarianism. Beginning with the launch of the first human into space in April 1961, he unfolds a story of resistance and resilience — Sakharov, Solzhenitsyn, Vysotsky — drawn from several hundred exclusive interviews with Gorbachev, the first presidents of the post-Soviet republics, leaders of independence movements, and the Western politicians and diplomats who watched it happen. A history of why the Cold War never really ended.
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas
Petrus Liu / Duke University Press
Many scholars read the emergence of queer cultures in China as evidence that Marxism is finished. Petrus Liu argues the opposite. Challenging the Cold War assumption that Marxism and queer theory are intellectually incompatible, he shows how queer Marxism in mainland China and Taiwan offers a non-liberal alternative to Western models of queer emancipation — one grounded not in ideologies of inclusion and diversity but in the geopolitical tensions that shape how queerness is lived and understood on either side of the strait. A revision of what queer theory is, does, and can be.
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Yang Jisheng 楊繼繩 / Picador
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked both the zenith and the nadir of Mao's ultra-leftist politics: a decade-long class struggle, waged on a massive scale, that devastated China's economy and its inherited culture. Following Tombstone, his award-winning history of the Great Famine, Yang Jisheng here delivers the only history of the Cultural Revolution written by an independent scholar based in mainland China. Every political incident of those ten years, major and minor, is placed under withering scrutiny — and the book arrives in English at a moment when Chinese governance is again leaning toward a highly centralized power structure and a Mao-style cult of personality.
The Man Who Died Seven Times
Yasuhiko Nishizawa; translated by Jesse Kirkwood / Pushkin Vertigo
A subversively cozy Japanese murder mystery with an ingenious Groundhog Day twist, and the English-language debut of a contemporary Japanese legend. Hisataro, a young member of the wealthy Fuchigami family, occasionally and against his will falls into a time-loop in which he must live the same day nine times over. He has never had much use for the ability — until the day his grandfather mysteriously dies. With a sizeable inheritance at stake, motives abound and everyone is a suspect; returning to the day of the murder again and again, Hisataro must solve it before his powers run out. Witty and playful, for readers of Agatha Christie, Richard Osman, and Stuart Turton.
Time Tunnel: Stories and Essays
Eileen Chang 張愛玲 / NYRB Classics
"China's Virginia Woolf." — The Wall Street Journal. Now in English for the first time, a selection of stories and essays on love, sex, and migration drawn from every stage of Eileen Chang's career: her debut in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, her flight after the Revolution to Hong Kong and America, and her last years as a bus-riding flaneuse on the highways and byways of Los Angeles. "Genesis," left out of the two volumes that made her name in the 1940s, shows her transfixing eye for visual detail; "Blossoms Afloat, Flowers Adrift" addresses the vertigo of exile; and the late masterpiece "Those Old Schoolmates They're All Quite Classy Now" looks back across a lifetime at the world she came from.
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