For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years’ fieldwork that has resulted in this book―a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of family change and the transformation of private life in rural China from 1949 to 1999. The author’s focus on the personal and the emotional sets this book apart from most studies of the Chinese family. Yan explores private lives to examine areas of family life that have been largely overlooked, such as emotion, desire, intimacy, privacy, conjugality, and individuality. He concludes that the past five decades have witnessed a dual transformation of private life: the rise of the private family, within which the private lives of individual women and men are thriving.
Yunxiang Yan is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Policy and Social Development, Fudan University, China. He is the author of Te Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village (Stanford University Press, 1996), Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949–1999 (Stanford University Press, 2003) and The Individualization of Chinese Society (Berg, 2009). His research interests include family and kinship, social change, the individual and individualization, and moral changes in post-Mao China.
文:成庆 当在80 年代末读到著名作家张贤亮的小说《绿化树》时,其时方为 青春少年,懵懂无知,读完全书,却为那位农村少妇马缨花对章永璘的爱情表白感到震惊,"你放心吧!就是钢刀把我头砍断,我血身子还陪着你哩!"抛开小说本身想象的情调,当时于我的最深印象,乃是农村女...
评分十分失望,仅仅是一个标准化的中国研究,拿到列文森奖也就不奇怪也不值得吹嘘了。虽然是一个严肃的研究,但是套路是西方理论加中国经验,先不论有没有中国主体性的问题意识,本身对于西方理论自身反思性不足,而经验田野也不进行深描。导致研究在理论还是在经验上都显得...
评分 评分我出生并生活了十几年的村庄坐落在华北平原一个靠近渤海湾的地方。阅读此书的时候,我很容易就可以将其与我的记忆做互参文本对照比较。此书的截止时间定在1999年。新世纪到来,变化加剧。然而其中的很多结论都有助于我对自己村庄种种事件的理解。虽然因发展速度和地域的差异,...
评分3年前,我读完余华的《兄弟》下,难掩内心的失望,在个人空间上留下了这样一段话: “故事黑暗,充满了性和狂乱,这都没有关系,谁都知道现在就算不是一个最坏的时代,也绝非天堂,人类正不可避免地走向堕落。但,难道余华你也仅仅看到了这些,并只能用一个‘伦理...
作者先做了一个天罗地网一样的理论框架,然后把自己的田野访谈summary往里面填。这其实也没啥,往远里说,黑格尔的历史哲学讲演录也是这个逻辑,一切学术研究都是这个逻辑。真正的问题倒是,如果呈现的是更“活生生”的ethnography与个人体验,而不只是作者自己的概括概括概括,可能更具打动人的力量。而现在的行文,明显有些dry。拖拉了几个礼拜才看完。不过直到读完最后一章,我还是觉得这是本好书。单是private field和public field的讨论,就可以让读者回想起比如Arendt等人曾经讨论过的很多经典问题。究竟何为个体,何为自由,何为the human condition?等等吧。
评分arguments are not complicated, but still interesting to read
评分巨好看
评分论文需要又重读了其中几章,有些东西的确没谈透。比如中国乡村社会对浪漫爱情和情感的定义表达。这大概就是人类学的优势和问题。在现象层面白描一个村子,但理论解释总是差强人意。
评分深深赞叹人类学家观察的细致
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