Sebastian Veg is professor of the intellectual history of twentieth-century China at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris. He is the author of Fictions du pouvoir chinois. Littérature, modernisme et démocratie au début du XXe siècle (2009) and the editor of Popular Memories of the Mao Era: From Critical Debate to Reassessing History (2019).
Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead of harking back to the traditional role of the literati or pronouncing on democracy and modernity like 1980s public intellectuals, they derive legitimacy from their work with the vulnerable and the marginalized, often proclaiming their independence with a heavy dose of anti-elitist rhetoric. They are proudly minjian—unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people.
In this book, Sebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian intellectuals and how they have profoundly transformed China’s public culture. An intellectual history of contemporary China, Minjian documents how, amid deep structural shifts, grassroots thinker-activists began to work outside academia or policy institutions in an embryonic public sphere. Veg explores the work of amateur historians who question official accounts, independent documentarians who let ordinary people speak for themselves, and grassroots lawyers and NGO workers who spread practical knowledge. Their interventions are specific rather than universal, with a focus on concrete problems among disenfranchised populations such as victims of Maoism, migrant workers and others without residence permits, and petitioners. Drawing on careful analysis of public texts by grassroots intellectuals and the networks and publics among which they circulate, Minjian is a groundbreaking transdisciplinary exploration of crucial trends developing under the surface of contemporary Chinese society.
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Minjian intellectuals的提法非常innovative且ambitious,整个提法顺承经济开放政治改革现代科技普及的post89时代重新定义了整个intellectual field。作者显然是Foucault粉丝,用的是the rise of specific intellectuals的理论去作支撑。
评分intro说了从三个角度来认识知识分子(intellectual history,sociology,cultural studies)但是后面的重点放在了history和文本上面,感觉对于social部分的东西少了一点。不过确实history上对于从96年王小波以及“沉默的大多数”开始的传统延续到21世纪新的各个种类的民间知识分子的价值取向的描述还是蛮有意思的……
评分An excellent use of source. A critical analysis of minjian intellectuals. An insightful reflection of the cultural-political climate in China since the 1980s.
评分Minjian intellectuals的提法非常innovative且ambitious,整个提法顺承经济开放政治改革现代科技普及的post89时代重新定义了整个intellectual field。作者显然是Foucault粉丝,用的是the rise of specific intellectuals的理论去作支撑。
评分An excellent use of source. A critical analysis of minjian intellectuals. An insightful reflection of the cultural-political climate in China since the 1980s.
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