China Studies

驼毛

驼毛 @Brandon_Chan

24 本书  

海内外中国研究

Red Revolution, Green Revolution [图书] 豆瓣
7.6 (5 个评分) 作者: Singrid Schmalzer University of Chicago Press 2016 - 3
In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term “green revolution” to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world—and forestall the spread of more “red,” or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where modernization and scientific progress could not be divorced from politics, green and red revolutions proceeded side by side.
In Red Revolution, Green Revolution, Sigrid Schmalzer explores the intersection of politics and agriculture in socialist China through the diverse experiences of scientists, peasants, state agents, and “educated youth.” The environmental costs of chemical-intensive agriculture and the human costs of emphasizing increasing production over equitable distribution of food and labor have been felt as strongly in China as anywhere—and yet, as Schmalzer shows, Mao-era challenges to technocracy laid important groundwork for today’s sustainability and food justice movements. This history of “scientific farming” in China offers us a unique opportunity not only to explore the consequences of modern agricultural technologies but also to engage in a necessary rethinking of fundamental assumptions about science and society.
“Sigrid Schmalzer creates an entirely new vision of the meaning and significance of “scientific farming” in China during the Mao era.….[A] must-read not only for modern China scholars but also for those who are interested in the history of science as political and social process, and in ongoing efforts to shed light on the possibilities of putting science to work in the service of greater equality and dignity for the world’s rural poor.”
(American Historical Review)
"At its core, this book is about socialist China's uses of science and technology to improve food production and the sociopolitical changes over time that have affected those involved in modern farming and agriculture. Cautioning that the Mao era was not one of unmitigated totalitarian oppression and ecological disaster, historian Schmalzer examines the complex relations of science and politics, raising such issues as who should be regarded as “scientists,” and how agriculture should be organized to maximize its benefits for all. Particularly interesting is the author’s investigation of the “rural scientific experiment movement." By comparing the fortunes of the “green revolution” in India and Africa, Schmalzer offers some unexpected political and social insights, contrasting US interests with those of the Chinese, who have also sought to bring their methods of agriculture and farming to third-world countries where politics is a highly visible concern on both sides of the capitalist-communist divide. Instructive and rewarding reading in recent Chinese history as well as the social politics of agriculture and farming in China and throughout the third world."
(Choice)
"Right on cue, this new work reveals the multifaceted and complex nature of science in the PRC. Red Revolution, Green Revolution looks at agricultural science and the unique and distinctive trajectory of the Chinese green revolution....demonstrates the manifold ways science filtered into the countryside and became the basis of the party’s interactions with the rural populace."
(Cross-Currents)
“Schmalzer’s reconstruction of the lived experiences of those who participated in the mass scientific experiment movement in China serves as a corrective to accounts of science in the years of the Cultural Revolution that emphasize failure, hardship, and suffering…[R]eading Red Revolution, Green Revolution productively upends one’s ideas about the nature of an agricultural experiment.”
(Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences)
“Upending familiar assumptions about the origins and consequences of the global Green Revolution, Schmalzer breaks important new ground in our understanding of modern Chinese history and the role of science in industrial agriculture. Rather than relying on misleading distinctions between modern and traditional, laboratory and field, politics and science, or even between the capitalist West and socialist East, Schmalzer convincingly draws our attention to the diversity of approaches taken in the effort to revolutionize Chinese agriculture in the 1960s and 1970s. This is a sophisticated political history from the ground up.”
(Shane Hamilton, University of Georgia)
“Writing with both elegance and precision, Schmalzer unveils the continuing imbrication of science and politics, not simply in the obviously hyperpolitical Maoist period, but also in the supposedly technologically driven Dengist era. She produces a nuanced, sophisticated description of agricultural scientific practices in the People’s Republic of China, one that challenges our assumptions about both Maoist agriculture and the Maoist period in general. Red Revolution, Green Revolution is a must-read for historians of modern China and historians of socialism, as well as historians of science and agriculture.”
(Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona)
"Agricultural science is inherently political. We may distrust the claim of technocrats and agribusiness that they conduct neutral research for the benefit of all, yet few of us would go so far as to advocate a full politicization of research, putting politics in command of laboratories and experimental fields. This, however, is what Maoist China did—and as Schmalzer demonstrates in her meticulously researched and beautifully written book, Maoist agricultural science worked, producing a socialist Green Revolution that was as impressive as the US-led Green Revolutions in India, Mexico, or the Philippines. Without romanticizing Maoist mass science, Schmalzer not only corrects the oft-repeated myth that Maoists were 'anti-science'; she shows that a different, more democratic and inclusive science was and remains possible."
(Jacob Eyferth, University of Chicago)
重返天安門 [图书] 谷歌图书 Goodreads 谷歌图书 博客來
The People's Republic of Amnesia
9.2 (34 个评分) 作者: 林慕蓮 译者: 廖珮杏 八旗文化 2019 - 5
※2014年《經濟學人》年度選書

※2015年紐約公共圖書館海倫伯恩斯坦(Helen Bernstein Book Award)卓越新聞獎決選

※2015年吉爾伯圖書獎(Lionel Gelber Award)入圍

※《紐約時報書評》:「1989年之後,探討天安門事件對中國的影響最好的分析之一。」

三十年前,他們懷抱熱血與夢想,試圖改變中國。
三十年後,他們仍是國家的敵人,人生支離破碎。
中共企圖以恐怖與謊言消滅真相,但曾經的暴行與傷痛不會被人們忘記。

1997年,九月,被軟禁已經長達八年的前任中共總書記趙紫陽向中共高層上書,希望在21世紀結束前、迎向新世紀的關鍵時刻,針對「六四」事件重新評估,實事求是,還給這群愛國學生一個公道,摘除「反黨反社會主義」這項莫須有的罪名……

直到今天,又過了二十多年,六四屆滿三十週年,中國政府對六四的態度不但沒有改變,反而益加蠻橫、粗暴,企圖以鋪天蓋地的手段,將這段歷史從人民的記憶中徹底抹去。封鎖新聞、竄改教科書、對異議人士人身自由的箝制、全面性的新聞與網路言論審查、在敏感日期對天安門廣場進行監控,給予服從妥協的人就業保障與升遷管道等等,種種在自由民主國家無法想像的人權侵犯,成為中國百姓的生活日常。如民運領袖王丹所言,「黑色專制」與「紅色恐怖」讓大多數人民噤若寒蟬。

本書作者林慕蓮在派駐北京的期間驚訝地發現,不僅一般老百姓對天安門事件默不作聲,即使是在頂尖學府、受過嚴格學術培訓的大學生都對之一無所知。作者以全球知名的「坦克人」照片詢問了100位在北京四所大學就讀的大學生,只有15位能正確辨認該照片的意義。而這15位學生或是選擇對此敏感議題避而不談...
Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics [图书] 谷歌图书 Goodreads
作者: Yingyao Wang Columbia University Press 2024 - 05 其它标题: Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State
China’s breathtaking economic development has been driven by bureaucrats. Even as the country transitioned away from socialist planning toward a market economy, the economic bureaucracy retained a striking degree of influence and control over crafting and implementing policy. Yet bureaucrats are often dismissed as faceless and inconsequential, their role neglected in favor of party leaders’ top-down rule or bottom-up initiatives.

Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics offers a new account of economic policy making in China over the past four decades that reveals how bureaucrats have spurred large-scale transformations from within. Yingyao Wang demonstrates how competition among bureaucrats motivated by careerism has led to the emergence of new policy approaches. Second-tier economic bureaucrats instituted distinctive—and often conflicting—“policy paradigms” aimed at securing their standing and rewriting China’s long-term development plans for their own benefit. Emerging from the middle levels of the bureaucracy, these policy paradigms ultimately reorganized the Chinese economy and reshaped state-market relations. Drawing on fine-grained biographical and interview data, Wang traces how officials coalesced around shared career trajectories, generational experiences, and social networks to create new alliances and rivalries. Shedding new light on the making and trajectory of China’s ambitious economic reforms, this book also provides keen sociological insight into the relations among bureaucracy, states, and markets.
The End of the Village [图书] 豆瓣
作者: Nick R. Smith University of Minnesota Press 2021 - 6
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has vastly expanded its urbanization processes in an effort to reduce the inequalities between urban and rural areas. Centered on the mountainous region of Chongqing, which serves as an experimental site for the country’s new urban development policies, The End of the Village analyzes the radical expansion of urbanization and its consequences for China’s villagers. It reveals a fundamental rewriting of the nation’s social contract, as villages that once organized rural life and guaranteed rural livelihoods are replaced by an increasingly urbanized landscape dominated by state institutions.
Throughout this comprehensive study of China’s “urban–rural coordination” policy, Nick R. Smith traces the diminishing autonomy of the country’s rural populations and their subordination to larger urban networks and shared administrative structures. Outside Chongqing’s urban centers, competing forces are at work in reshaping the social, political, and spatial organization of its villages. While municipal planners and policy makers seek to extend state power structures beyond the boundaries of the city, village leaders and inhabitants try to maintain control over their communities’ uncertain futures through strategies such as collectivization, shareholding, real estate development, and migration.
As China seeks to rectify the development crises of previous decades through rapid urban growth, such drastic transformations threaten to displace existing ways of life for more than 600 million residents. Offering an unprecedented look at the country’s contentious shift in urban planning and policy, The End of the Village exposes the precarious future of rural life in China and suggests a critical reappraisal of how we think about urbanization.
以竹为生 [图书] 豆瓣
Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots:The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920-2000
9.0 (6 个评分) 作者: [德] 艾约博 译者: 韩巍 译 / 吴秀杰 校 江苏人民出版社 2017 - 1
夹江县是四川境内的山区,地处成都与乐山之间。传统上,当地居民利用当地自然产出的毛竹为原料从事手工造纸谋生,并围绕这一核心技能形成特定的亲属关系网络和社区组织形式。进入20世纪以后,夹江的手工造纸技术面临着一系列重大冲击,改朝换代、战争、革命、集体化、现代化的理念和建设实践、改革开放和市场化,这些发生在“城乡鸿沟”宏观背景下的每一项重大社会变革都促使造纸人在技术层面和社会层面上重新定义身份认同。本书追踪了知识分配在一个世纪内的变迁,这导致了对技能的控制权大量地从农村转向城市,从初级生产者转向管理精英,从女人转向男人。在作者看来,造纸技能是一种资源,是分配和争夺的对象。作者从这一独特的角度出发,从一项传统技艺个案入手来介入对大问题的思考:革命、建国以及市场化等现代化进程如何改变着20世纪的中国农村。
Irony, Cynicism and the Chinese State [图书] 豆瓣
作者: Hans Steinmüller / Susanne Brandtstädter Routledge 2015 - 11
This volume explores irony and cynicism as part of the social life of local communities in China, and specifically in relation to the contemporary Chinese state. It collects ethnographies of irony and cynicism in social action, written by a group of anthropologists who specialise in China. They use the lenses of irony and cynicism - broadly defined to include resignation, resistance, humour, ambiguity and dialogue - to look anew at the social, political and moral contradictions faced by Chinese people. The various contributions are concerned with both the interpretation of intentions in everyday social action and discourse, and the broader theoretical consequences of such interpretations for an understanding of the Chinese state.
As a study of irony and cynicism in modern China and their implications on the social and political aspects of everyday life, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of social and cultural anthropology, Chinese culture and society, and Chinese politics.
The Nanyang Revolution [图书] 豆瓣
作者: Anna Eduardovna Cambridge University Press 2019 - 5
In this innovative reading the development of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) is explored in the context of an emerging nationalism in Southeast Asia, the interplay of overseas Chinese networks and the Comintern. Based on extensive new archival material, Anna Belogurova shows how the MCP was shaped by the historical contingencies of anti-imperialism in Southeast Asia, long-term Chinese migration trends, networks, identity, and the organizational practices of the Comintern. This is the story of how a group of left-leaning Chinese migrant intellectuals engaged with global forces to create a relevant and lasting Malayan national identity, providing fresh international perspectives on the history of Malaysia, Chinese communism, the Cold War, and decolonization.
Intimate Politics [图书] 豆瓣
作者: Sara L. Friedman Harvard University Asia Center 2006 - 6
On a visit to eastern Hui'an in 1994, Sara Friedman was surprised to see a married woman reluctant to visit her conjugal home. The author would soon learn that this practice was typical of the area, along with distinctive female dress styles, gender divisions of labor, and powerful same-sex networks. These customs, she would learn, have long distinguished villages in this coastal region of southeastern China from other rural Han communities.
Intimate Politics explores these practices that have constituted eastern Hui'an residents, women in particular, as an anomaly among rural Han. This book asks what such practices have come to mean in a post-1949 socialist order that has incorporated forms of marriage, labor, and dress into a developmental scale extending from the primitive to the civilized. Government reform campaigns were part of a wholesale effort to remake Chinese society by replacing its "feudal" elements with liberated socialist ideals and practices. As state actors became involved in the intimate aspects of Huidong women's lives, their official models of progress were challenged by the diversity of local practices and commitment of local residents. These politicized entanglements have generated what the author calls "intimate politics," a form of embodied struggle in which socialist civilizing agendas--from the state-sponsored reforms of the Maoist decades to the market-based "reform and opening" of the post-Mao era--have been formulated, contested, and, in some cases, transformed through the bodies and practices of local women.
From Chinatown to Every Town [图书] 豆瓣
作者: Zai Liang University of California Press 2023 - 2
From Chinatown to Every Town explores the recent history of Chinese immigration within the United States and the fundamental changes in spatial settlement that have relocated many low-skilled Chinese immigrants from New York City's Chinatown to new immigrant destinations. Using a mixed-method approach over a decade in Chinatown and six destination states, sociologist Zai Liang specifically examines how the expansion and growing popularity of Chinese restaurants has shifted settlement to more rural and faraway areas. Liang's study demonstrates that key players such as employment agencies, Chinatown buses, and restaurant supply shops facilitate the spatial dispersion of immigrants while simultaneously maintaining vital links between Chinatown in Manhattan and new immigrant destinations.
Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China [图书] Goodreads 谷歌图书 豆瓣
作者: Yan Long Oxford University Press 2024 - 11 其它标题: Authoritarian Absorption
Authoritarian Absorption portrays the rebuilding of China's pandemic response system through its anti-HIV/AIDS battle from 1978 to 2018. Going beyond the conventional domestic focus, Yan Long analyzes the influence of foreign interventions which challenged the post-socialist state's inexperience with infectious diseases and pushed it towards professionalizing public health bureaucrats and embracing more liberal, globally aligned technocratic measures. This transformation involved a mix of confrontation and collaboration among transnational organizations, the Chinese government, and grassroots movements, which turned epidemics into a battleground for enhancing the state's domestic control and international status. Foreign interveners effectively mobilized China's AIDS movement and oriented activists towards knowledge-focused epistemic activities to propel the insertion of Western rules, knowledge, and practices into the socialist systems. Yet, Chinese bureaucrats played this game to their advantage by absorbing some AIDS activist subgroups—notably those of urban HIV-negative gay men—along with their foreign-trained expertise and technical proficiency into the state apparatus. This move allowed them to expand bodily surveillance while projecting a liberal façade for the international audience.

Drawing on longitudinal-ethnographic research, Long argues against a binary view of Western liberal interventions as either success or failure, highlighting instead the paradoxical outcomes of such efforts. On one hand, they can bolster public health institutions in an authoritarian context, a development pivotal to China's subsequent handling of COVID-19 and instrumental in advancing the rights of specific groups, such as urban gay men. On the other hand, these interventions may reinforce authoritarian control and further marginalize certain populations—such as rural people living with HIV/AIDS and female sex workers—within public health systems.
鍍金的鳥籠 [图书] 豆瓣
The Gilded Cage
作者: 雷雅雯 译者: 李宗義 / 許雅淑 國立臺灣大學出版中心 2025 - 2
自2000年代中期以來,中國逐漸從勞動密集、出口導向的製造業,轉向以數位科技為中心的社會發展進程。有些人將中國的後改革時期與美國的鍍金時代來相提並論;本書則認為前者更像是一只鍍金的鳥籠,中國政府與科技資本正使得社會不平等逐日加劇,並製造新形式的社會排斥。在這些矛盾之中,中國的鳥籠經濟演變為一種高度控制的體系,部分群體被排除在成長與繁榮的機會之外,沒有人擁有真正的自由和安全感。
作者描繪這種技術發展體制的輪廓及其產生的國家資本主義形式,並透過針對低端與高端人口,以及從傳統製造業、外送平台到科技公司之間的深入訪談及親身觀察,講述那些因中國迅速崛起成為經濟和科技主導地位而改變生活的人及其背後的故事。
China's Media in the Emerging World Order [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: Hugo De Burgh Legend Press 2020 - 03
'I have fond memories of watching Hugo de Burgh handle the Chinese media and I can think of no one better qualified to tell us about a subject of ever-growing importance'
Boris Johnson, Prime Minster, United Kingdom'An excellent, well-written and important survey which should be on the shelves of all those interested in China and in the media'
Alan MacFarlane, Professor of Anthropology, University of Cambridge'Well written and a good access point particularly for students that have not previously been exposed to the Chinese media... I will definitely recommend it to my students'
Dr Pablo Morales, Lecturer in Media and Communication, University of LeedsChina is challenging the mighty behemoths, Google and Facebook, and creating alternative New Media. 750 million people are active on its Social Mediascape and there are a billion mobile phones deploying the innovative apps with which the Chinese conduct their lives.Though late starters, already four of the world's leading New Media companies are Chinese. China's old media - television, newspapers, radio - challenge the established powers which were long thought unassailable, such as CNN and BBC. Produced in many languages on every continent, they are re-defining the agenda and telling the story in China's way, with not just news and documentary series but also entertainment. The world's biggest manufacturer of TV drama is now making its stories for export.China's Media tells you why and how. It investigates the Chinese media, their strengths and weaknesses and how they are different. from the West. This detailed and comprehensive guide aims to showcase their immense variety and diversity, and demonstrates how they came to be a powerful new force in the media world.
不确定的爱 [图书] 豆瓣
Love's Uncertainty: The Politics and Ethics of Child Rearing in Contemporary China
作者: [美] 关宜馨 译者: 毛超予 上海译文出版社 2025 - 1
中国式母亲的情感宣言
一本关于道德选择、情感与挣扎的育儿沉思录
家庭里,需要社会化的不再是不成熟的孩子,而是有问题的父母。
在生活的无数变数中,我们如何分辨可控与不可控的边界。
在可控与不可控中,寻找爱与回报的确定性。
《不确定的爱》是一本教育民族志方面的著作,关宜馨在书中探讨了当代中国城市中产阶级父母在育儿上的希望与困惑。将长期的民族志研究和对流行的育儿指南、电视剧以及官方文件的分析相结合,关宜馨见证了普通中国父母的困境,他们在有限资源的现实中努力调和“好父母”的新定义。
关宜馨与昆明的十多户中产家庭结成了超越调查者与被调查者之间关系的长期友谊,在与这些父母、学校的老师等相关人员的交谈和来往中,关宜馨以人类学学者特有的对叙述和细节的敏锐,将田野调查、民族志研究与学术规范相结合,对当代中国城市中产阶级父母雄心勃勃的育儿方式以及他们身处其中的希望与焦虑提供了一种理论性的解释,揭示了在当前中国教育体制下城市中产阶级父母所处的道德困境,以及在急剧变化的现代化进程中家庭这一最基础单位内部的人与人之间的情感经历。
将这些父母的经历置于国家努力提高“人口质量”的历史背景下,《不确定的爱》揭示了经济变革如何在人类最私密的经历中表现出来。本书提供了一种对道德能动性的本质的思考,探讨人们如何在生活无数的意外事件中,辨识什么是可以控制的,什么是不可以控制的。
中国“马达” [图书] 豆瓣
China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism
作者: (美) 葛希芝 译者: 马丹丹 等译 / 石峰 审校 广西师范大学出版社 2025 - 2
一部考察宋代以来传统中国社会的人类学著作,展示中国古代社会发展的动力机制,通过对生产方式和社会结构的分析,解读传统中国民间风俗的形成和精神世界的塑造。
以经济视角重新思考传统中国人的家庭体系和精神生活,学者王铭铭、魏乐博推荐,杜赞奇、马立博等曾为英文原版撰写书评。
☆ 内容简介
一部考察宋代以来传统中国社会的人类学著作,重新思考传统中国民间风俗的形成与精神世界的塑造。作者认为,基于家族和市场进行的生产为“小资本主义”生产方式,它与国家运作的贡赋制生产方式之间的互动,形成了中国古代社会发展的动力机制,即中国“马达”。通过对生产方式和社会结构的分析,本书阐明了传统中国的社会结构,揭示“宗族”这一重要民间组织的形成与发展。同时,本书透过经济视角,分析了民间嫁娶习俗、信仰塑造、男女地位的地区性差异等文化现象,描绘出中国人依据现实世界构建的神鬼形象,揭示了中国人的精神世界。
☆ 本书亮点
1.一部考察宋代以来传统中国社会的人类学著作。学者王铭铭、魏乐博推荐,杜赞奇、马立博、梅丽莎•麦柯丽等著名汉学家曾为英文原版撰写书评;
2.提出“小资本主义”生产方式,重新界定推动中国历史发展的经济因素。本书将“小资本主义”生产方式定义为基于家族和市场进行的生产,并将其视作中国古代社会发展的动力机制(中国“马达”);
3.揭示“宗族”这一重要民间组织的形成与发展,以及其与“小资本主义”生产方式的联系。本书提出了两种生产方式,即由国家主导的贡赋制和以家族为主体的“小资本主义”,通过分析两者的互动,阐明传统中国的社会结构;
4.基于经济互动,揭示传统中国民间风俗的形成与精神世界的塑造。书中运用经济视角呈现了民间嫁娶习俗、男女地位的地区性差异及其与生产方式的相关性,也描绘出中国人依据现实世界构建的神鬼形象,揭示了中国人的精神世界,从另一个角度展示了中国文化的延续性和整体性;
5.综合运用多种材料。作者不仅运用了传统史料、已有研究成果,还通过田野调查把握民间风俗,利用与各地居民的访谈资料,以及流传于广东、香港等地的“哭嫁歌”等民谣,在书写宏观历史的同时,勾勒出一个个具体而鲜活的历史面容。
☆ 名家推荐
四十多年来,中国的经济成就举世瞩目。中国的巨大经济增长能力来自哪里?其现代性何以如此发达?《中国“马达”》一书提供了一个隐含的答案:中国的“现代性”,依然是中国文化(尤其是其中的朝贡生产方式和“小资本主义”因素)的延伸形态,而不可能是别的。
——王铭铭 北京大学社会学系教授
就西方学界的中国研究而言,《中国“马达”》堪称最具创新性的著作之一。它对一代人的历史学和人类学研究产生了影响。葛希芝所展示的是,应该如何重新界定推动现代历史发展的经济因素。她指出,我们应该像对待其他生产方式一样认真思考小商品生产方式所发挥的作用。借此,她又向我们揭示了不同生产模式之间的互动作用,并引导我们不仅重新认识经济领域,而且重新思考家庭体系和精神生活层面的问题。这部著作不仅敢为人先,而且颇具独创性,重塑了我们在这些领域的研究。
——魏乐博(Robert P. Weller) 波士顿大学人类学系教授
在对历史学和民族志的微观分析展露出不同时空的巨大差异时,《中国“马达”》却面临书写宏观历史的挑战。葛希芝的论点主要基于英语研究,具有启发性,并抓住了中国社会关系的重要方面。
——杜赞奇(Prasenjit Duara) 杜克大学历史学系教授
人类学家葛希芝写了一本关于中国的非常吸引人、非常可读的书,这将引起历史学家的兴趣。葛希芝讲述了关于中国人类学的主题,如中国家族和血缘组织、性别和婚姻中的性习俗,以及民间宗教,同时提出了关于中国过去一千年历史王朝学的有力论点。
——马立博(Robert B. Marks) Richard and Billie Deihl历史学讲座教授
向这位把风险抛之脑后,大胆地从宋朝(960—1279)开始将中国复杂的政治经济学系统化的学者致敬!葛希芝运用大量引人注目的关于中国国家和社会的二次文献,提供了一个富有解释力和可能性的动力理论。
——梅丽莎•麦柯丽(Melissa Macauley) 美国西北大学历史系教授
☆ 编辑推荐
◎编辑推荐1:婚姻,自古以来就是一桩生意
人类学家葛希芝在描述婚姻时用了一个有趣的说法:婚姻是传统家庭再生产的根本之道。这完全是从经济视角来看待婚姻的。揭开温情的面纱,婚姻的本质就是一桩充满利益考量的生意。
《中国“马达”》一书通过对嫁妆与聘礼的考察讨论了历史中的各种婚姻模式,试图剖析其中隐含的贡赋制与“小资本主义”逻辑。在贡赋制下,女性的价值被定义为人口再生产者兼家庭主妇,因此她更有必要用自己的嫁妆来保障日常生活,否则就会在生育之前一直被视为挤占了不属于她的家庭资源,在家中处于非常尴尬的境地。而近年来不断引起社会争议的“天价彩礼”实际上来自“小资本主义”的逻辑,背后隐含着对女性的高度商品化——女方家庭获得的聘礼多少取决于新娘的劳动力是否有价值;通俗地说就是:她能否为家里挣钱?她的出嫁对原生家庭而言是损失了劳动力还是减轻了负担?同理,对嫁入的家庭而言,她是能创造价值的劳动者,还是资源的消费者?
◎编辑推荐2
本书的独特之处在于,作者在考察传统中国社会民间风俗的同时,试图解释这些风俗背后隐含的共同逻辑。在“小资本主义”这一“马达”下,作为血缘组织的“宗族”拥有了重要的经济属性,家庭成员被作为劳动力来衡量价值;民间嫁娶等风俗隐含着经济的考量,女性的价值所在——生产人口还是劳动挣钱——决定了嫁妆和聘礼的多少;民间信仰塑造的神鬼世界映照出充满利益纠葛的现实关系,鬼反映出“小资本主义”组织对陌生人的厌恶和恐惧,要求贡品的神灵则可以和索取贿赂的地方官画上隐秘的等号……
值得一提的是,作者不仅运用了传统史料,还到中国进行了田野调查,抓住了当代民间风俗中那些属于传统社会的蛛丝马迹。她利用与各地居民的访谈资料,以及流传于广东、香港等地的“哭嫁歌”等民谣,让那些遥远而模糊的人物形象变得鲜活,也让本书看似宏大的理论研究变得具体而生动。
The Political Economy of China [图书] 博客來
作者: Wang / Hongying Polity 2025 - 8



China’s economic rise over the last four decades has been as confounding as it has been impressive. Few economies have grown as fast and changed the lives of so many people in such a short time. How is it that a nominally Communist state has been able to achieve this "economic miracle"? And what are the consequences of this rapid transformation into a global economic powerhouse both inside China and abroad?The Political Economy of China is a lively and comprehensive introduction to China’s economic development in the contemporary era. Across its twelve thematic chapters, the book offers a multifaceted examination of the history, sectors and policies that are essential for understanding China’s growth experience. Chapter topics include the evolution of the state and private sectors; rural economic development; the labour market; social welfare in China, the environment; macroeconomic management and finance; foreign trade and direct investment; and China’s "going out" strategy of overseas investment, that includes the Belt and Road Initiative.Written by a respected authority on the subject with more than a decade of experience teaching it to students, the book will serve as a vital resource for anyone new to the study of Chinese political economy or seeking a deeper understanding of the political and economic logic behind the headlines about the miracle and mirage of China’s rise.

Creating Market Socialism [图书] 豆瓣
作者: Carolyn L. Hsu Duke University Press Books 2007 - 9
In the midst of China’s post-Mao market reforms, the old status hierarchy is collapsing. Who will determine what will take its place? In Creating Market Socialism, the sociologist Carolyn L. Hsu demonstrates the central role of ordinary people—rather than state or market elites—in creating new institutions for determining status in China. Hsu explores the emerging hierarchy, which is based on the concept of suzhi, or quality. In suzhi ideology, human capital and educational credentials are the most important measures of status and class position. Hsu reveals how, through their words and actions, ordinary citizens decide what jobs or roles within society mark individuals with suzhi, designating them “quality people.”
Hsu’s ethnographic research, conducted in the city of Harbin in northwestern China, included participant observation at twenty workplaces and interviews with working adults from a range of professions. By analyzing the shared stories about status and class, jobs and careers, and aspirations and hopes that circulate among Harbiners from all walks of life, Hsu reveals the logic underlying the emerging stratification system. In the post-socialist era, Harbiners must confront a fast-changing and bewildering institutional landscape. Their collective narratives serve to create meaning and order in the midst of this confusion. Harbiners collectively agree that “intellectuals” (scientists, educators, and professionals) are the most respected within the new social order, because they contribute the most to Chinese society, whether that contribution is understood in terms of traditional morality, socialist service, or technological and economic progress. Harbiners understand human capital as an accurate measure of a person’s status. Their collective narratives about suzhi shape their career choices, judgments, and child-rearing practices, and therefore the new practices and institutions developing in post-socialist China.
The Party Family [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: Kimberley Ens Manning Cornell University Press 2023 - 08
Co-winner of the Canadian Political Science Association Prize in Comparative Politics of the Canadian Political Science AssociationThe Party Family explores the formation and consolidation of the state in revolutionary China through the crucial role that social ties—specifically family ties—played in the state's capacity to respond to crisis before and after the foundation of the People's Republic of China. Central to these ties, Kimberley Ens Manning finds, were women as both the subjects and leaders of reform. Drawing on interviews with 163 participants in the provinces of Henan and Jiangsu, as well as government documents and elite memoirs, biographies, speeches, and reports, Manning offers a new theoretical lens—attachment politics—to underscore how family and ideology intertwined to create an important building block of state capacity and governance.As The Party Family details, infant mortality in China dropped by more than half within a decade of the PRC's foundation, a policy achievement produced to a large extent through the personal and family ties of the maternalist policy coalition that led the reform movement. However, these achievements were undermined or reversed in the complex policy struggles over the family during Mao's Great Leap Forward (1958–60).
Writing to the Rhythm of Labor [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: Benjamin Kindler Columbia University Press 2025 - 05
What does it mean to write in a socialist revolution? What defines labor in a communist society? In revolutionary China, writers were regularly dispatched to the countryside or factories with the expectation that, through immersion in the life of workers and peasants, they would be remade as “culture workers” whose writing could serve the communist project. Their cultural labor would not merely reflect or represent the process of building socialism—it would actively participate in it by excavating the contradictions and challenges of the ongoing reorganization of social relations.

Benjamin Kindler examines how writing transformed the Chinese Revolution even as the revolution remade what it meant to write. He argues that the revolution sought in unparalleled ways to overcome the basic division between those who write and those who work. This book combines close readings of a wide range of texts—from the works of established figures to the writings of amateur workers drawn from the factory floor—with analysis of Chinese socialist political economy. Far from being drab instances of state propaganda, these texts and cultural experiments were lively and inventive attempts to determine what a different, more equal society might look like. Offering new ways to understand cultural production as a material, embodied process, this book reconsiders the role of art and literature in radical politics.
In China's Wake [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: Nicholas Jepson Columbia University Press 2020 - 01
In the early 2000s, Chinese demand for imported commodities ballooned as the country continued its breakneck economic growth. Simultaneously, global markets in metals and fuels experienced a boom of unprecedented extent and duration. Meanwhile, resource-rich states in the Global South from Argentina to Angola began to advance a range of new development strategies, breaking away from the economic orthodoxies to which they had long appeared tied.

In China’s Wake reveals the surprising connections among these three phenomena. Nicholas Jepson shows how Chinese demand not only transformed commodity markets but also provided resource-rich states with the financial leeway to set their own policy agendas, insulated from the constraints and pressures of capital markets and multilateral creditors such as the International Monetary Fund. He combines analysis of China-led structural change with fine-grained detail on how the boom played out across fifteen different resource-rich countries. Jepson identifies five types of response to boom conditions among resource exporters, each one corresponding to a particular pattern of domestic social and political dynamics. Three of these represent fundamental breaks with dominant liberal orthodoxy—and would have been infeasible without spiraling Chinese demand. Jepson also examines the end of the boom and its consequences, as well as the possible implications of future China-driven upheavals. Combining a novel theoretical approach with detailed empirical analysis at national and global scales, In China’s Wake is an important contribution to global political economy and international development studies.
The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa [图书] 谷歌图书 Goodreads
作者: Ching Kwan Lee The University of Chicago Press 2018 - 1
China has recently emerged as one of Africa’s top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent’s booming construction market. Among major foreign investors in Africa, China has stirred the most fear, hope, and controversy. For many, the specter of a Chinese neocolonial scramble is looming, while for others China is Africa’s best chance at economic renewal. Yet, global debates about China in Africa have been based more on rhetoric than on empirical evidence. Ching Kwan Lee’s The Specter of Global China is the first comparative ethnographic study that addresses the critical question: Is Chinese capital a different kind of capital?

Offering the clearest look yet at China’s state-driven investment in Africa, this book is rooted in six years of extensive fieldwork in copper mines and construction sites in Zambia, Africa’s copper giant. Lee shadowed Chinese, Indian, and South African managers in underground mines, interviewed Zambian miners and construction workers, and worked with Zambian officials. Distinguishing carefully between Chinese state capital and global private capital in terms of their business objectives, labor practices, managerial ethos, and political engagement with the Zambian state and society, she concludes that Chinese state investment presents unique potential and perils for African development. The Specter of Global China will be a must-read for anyone interested in the future of China, Africa, and capitalism worldwide.
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