Li Zhang is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis
With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migration policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China’s “floating population,” have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This massive flow of rural migrants directly challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control.
This book traces the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks within a mobile population that has broken through the constraints of the government’s household registration system. The author explores this important social change through a detailed ethnographic account of the construction, destruction, and eventual reconstruction of the largest migrant community in Beijing. She focuses on the informal privatization of space and power in this community through analyzing the ways migrant leaders build their power base by controlling housing and market spaces and mobilizing social networks.
The author argues that to gain a deeper understanding of recent Chinese social and political transformations, one must examine not only to what extent state power still dominates everyday social life, but also how the aims and methods of late socialist governance change under new social and economic conditions. In revealing the complexities and uncertainties of the shifting power and social relations in post-Mao China, this book challenges the common notion that sees recent changes as an inevitable move toward liberal capitalism and democracy.
2011年夏,我从中央民族大学硕士研究生毕业后赴香港中文大学人类学系攻读博士学位。当时陈志明教授开设一门人类学中国研究的讨论课。开课伊始,陈教授特地从课程大纲中指出几本著作,叮嘱我们几个博士班的学生,“可以向人家学学如何写博士论文”,其中就有这本《城市里的陌生...
评分 评分与晚期社会主义不同的是,在治理术愈发精致的今天,流动人口将空间和权力稳固私有化的努力不会再轻易成功(哪怕就是在一小段时期内)。要么或主动或被动地消解在摇篮中(比如,在传统上被视为“组织起来”的要件——“同乡忠诚”在如今的可行性还有多高?况且,同乡群体内部的...
评分京津冀一体化正在被热议。但中国作为一个中央集权制的国家,一切经济资源和文化资源都是依靠于权力而进行分配的。从这个意义上出发,那些声称将被拆分和搬迁到外省的各大部委、国企央企总部以及大型企事业单位,在短时间内不可能被撼动。它们的背后牵扯了太多深厚的政经关系。...
评分撰写推荐江苏人民出版社“海外中国研究”系列中《城市里的陌生人》一书的书评,是在今年五一假期前夕。众所周知,五一是劳动人民的节日,而《城市里的陌生人》里所讲述的,正是支撑起中国改革开放高速发展经济成果的劳动阶层,所不同的是,他们的工作场所都远离故乡,在千里之...
观点很悲观。发了这种东西估计这辈子都得呆在国外了。
评分观点很悲观。发了这种东西估计这辈子都得呆在国外了。
评分观点很悲观。发了这种东西估计这辈子都得呆在国外了。
评分佩服佩服
评分扎实的田野调查,记录了上世纪末京郊“浙江村”的兴衰,与其说是一个社群的发展史,不如说是国家的市场化进程在城市治理层面的微观呈现。不同层级政府之间的利益不一致,经济和社会关系的相互纠缠,再到舆论导向对一个群体的塑造,以及性别差距在富裕的过程中进一步扩大,都涵盖在作者细腻的观察和富有条理的讲述中。
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