一本来自人类学、社会学、政治经济学、营养学等领域的儿童饮食调查报告
关注中国独生子女群体的食品消费、全球化经济影响下的儿童食品变迁
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本书的形成源于哈佛大学人类学系资深教授华琛(James L. Watson)在费正清中国研究中心发起的“中国社会饮食消费格局”研究项目。九名作者中包括华琛本人，华琛教授的老同事，六人是华琛先生的弟子，因而论文相互呼应的程度非同寻常，在文集类书籍中实属难得。
全书围绕五个议题铺开而论：一是改革开放后中国人的饮食营养，二是儿童食品产业在中国的兴起，三是国家科学育儿话语，四是全球消费文化对中国家庭生活的渗透，五是饮食变迁伴随的社会认同和价值观变迁。
“小皇帝”一词向来被联想到被娇生惯养的独生子女，但所有作者对此都采取了慎重对待的态度，没有简单粗暴地认定独子女必然会有这样或那样的心理问题或某些固化偏执的行为习惯。作者们将更具有学术价值的讨论集中在一连串的具体问题上。例如，郭于华关心的食品和饮食习惯所代表的代际差异问题与景军讨论的科学话语、宗教信念、电视广告在儿童食品消费领域的博弈问题都分析了儿童、家长、老人三代人的代际关系。
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在中国独生子女家庭这个富有争议的议题研究上，景军主编的论文集向前推进了重要的一步。全书没有任何薄弱章节。正如华琛教授总结的那样，这本书的独一无二之处在于，它率先观察到了在对儿童的社会态度上的深刻历史转变。
——著名国际学术期刊《太平洋事务》
本书呈现了一种对文化和饮食行为变迁的丰富描述，指出了研究的多样性以及中国健康研究的未来。
——美国人类学会《营养人类学》期刊

☆许倬云、王铭铭、罗丰、荣新江等倾情推荐 一部跨越历史学和人类学的经典之作
☆蒙古高原的匈奴| 高原河谷的西羌| 森林草原的鲜卑与乌桓
☆探察三大游牧社会及其与汉帝国的互动 重新理解族群及民族国家的发展轨迹
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以人类学的游牧社会研究成果及思 考取径，结合历史学、文献学、地理学等所学科研究方法，王明珂教授对中国北方早期游牧社会——汉代的匈奴、西羌，以及鲜卑与乌桓——进行了考察。主要探究了三大游牧部落的环境生态、动物生态与饲养、经济活动、社会组织、游牧与定居人群关系等方面，以及在此基础上他们与汉帝国的交往互动。
游牧者们看似“自由”的抉择，乃是在一种生存境况下“不得已”的生存选择。族群的发展并不能以高低为论，而是一种基于环境、内部社会结构所呈现出来的状态。王明珂教授通过精细的史料梳理与辩证论述，希望以此形成对族群历史关系的新认知，重新理解族群及民族国家的发展轨迹。
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名家评论
王明珂洞察族群认同与共同体意识之间微妙的关系，在中国民族学田野报告的传统方式之外，开阔了报道与阐释双管齐下的方法学。这是一本跨越历史学、人类学和地理学的作品，很有价值。
——许倬云
我们这个时代学术中最重要之事，莫过于指出，以定居的乡土格局来形容中国社会是有问题的。“中国乡土定居性理论”抹杀了我们历史经验中的许多“另类元素”。本书为我们呈现了汉代中国北方游牧社会的诸种形态，使长期被我们视作“他者”的匈奴、西羌、东胡及其后裔，成为我们的自我认识的一个步骤。
——王铭铭
没有哪个古代帝国的周边，拥有像中国那样多的游牧民族；也没有哪种文字中留下像汉文一样对于游牧民族的丰富记载；然而当下游牧民族研究却是西方、俄国或日本学者的领地。当读完这部非凡拔俗的著作后，我们可以略感自豪地宣称，游牧世界的研究中终于增添了一份中国经验——从理论到微观。
——罗丰
作者既解构了旧史家的片面记载，又谨慎地对待前人的研究成果，以使自己不要走过头。作者基于多年来对游牧社会的亲身观察和体验，加之对中国历史文献、考古材料的熟悉，本书可以说是王明珂一部更加宏观的著作，是一部跨越历史学和人类学的经典之作。
——荣新江
尽管历史事件，或者所谓“史实”并非不重要，但这本书中的“反思性研究”，却无意针对“历史事件的重建与其因果关系的安排”本身，而是要将一系列相关历史事件之由以展开的根源，追溯到中原王朝的资源边界与游牧各人群的不同人类经济生态，以及二者之间的相互关系诸方面。正由于这样高远的立意，本书才会写得新见迭出，引人入胜。
——姚大力

Digital payment technology is rapidly changing the way we think about money. Digital payment has been slow to take off in the United States but is rapidly displacing cash in countries as diverse as China, Kenya, and Sweden. In Reimagining Money Sibel Kusimba offers a rich portrait of how this technology changes the economic and social landscape, allowing users to create webs of relationships as they exchange, pool, borrow, lend, and share digital money in user-built networks. These networks, Kusimba argues, will shape the future of financial technologies and their impact on poverty, inclusion, and empowerment. She describes how urban and transnational migrants maintain a presence in rural areas through money gifts; how farmers coordinate sales and transport of livestock via mobile money to present them at coming-of-age rituals; and how families use crowdfunding software to assemble donations for emergency medical care. The author presents fascinating accounts that challenge accepted wisdom by examining the notion of money as wealth-in-people—an idea long-cultivated in sub-Saharan Africa and now brought to bear on the digital age with homegrown financial technologies such as digital money transfer, digital microloans, and crowdfunding. The book concludes by proposing a new theory of money that can be applied to designing better financial technologies in the future.

The 21st century has seen growing numbers of seniors turning to migration in response to newfound challenges to traditional forms of retirement and old-age support, such as increased longevity, demographically aging populations, and global neoliberal trends reducing state welfare. Chinese-born migrants to the U.S. serve as an exemplary case of this trend, with 30% of all migrants since 1990 being at least 60 years old. This book tells their story, arguing that they demonstrate the significance of age as a mediating factor that is fundamentally important for considering how migration is experienced. The subjects of this study are situated at the crossroads of Chinese immigrant and Chinese-American experiences, embodying many of the ambiguities and paradoxes that complicate common understandings of each group. These are older individuals who have waited their whole lives to migrate to the U.S. to rejoin family but often experience unanticipated family conflict when they arrive. They are retirees living at the social and economic margins of American society who nonetheless find significant opportunities to achieve meaningful retired lifestyles. They are members of a diaspora spanning vast regional and ideological differences, yet their wellbeing hinges on everyday interactions with others in this diverse community. Their stories highlight the many possibilities for mutual engagement that connect Chinese and American ways of being and belonging in the world.

The breathless pace of China’s economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people’s inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological counseling to grapple with their mental distress. This book offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times. Li Zhang shows that anxiety—broadly construed in both medical and social terms—has become a powerful indicator for the general pulse of contemporary Chinese society. It is in this particular context that Zhang traces how a new psychotherapeutic culture takes root, thrives, and transforms itself across a wide range of personal, social, and political domains.

In the classroom, Asian Americans, often singled out as so-called “model minorities,” are expected to be top of the class. Often they are, getting straight As and gaining admission to elite colleges and universities. But the corporate world is a different story. As Margaret M. Chin reveals in this important new book, many Asian Americans get stuck on the corporate ladder, never reaching the top.
In Stuck, Chin shows that there is a “bamboo ceiling” in the workplace, describing a corporate world where racial and ethnic inequalities prevent upward mobility. Drawing on interviews with second-generation Asian Americans, she examines why they fail to advance as fast or as high as their colleagues, showing how they lose out on leadership positions, executive roles, and entry to the coveted boardroom suite over the course of their careers. An unfair lack of trust from their coworkers, absence of role models, sponsors and mentors, and for women, sexual harassment and prejudice especially born at the intersection of race and gender are only a few of the factors that hold Asian American professionals back.
Ultimately, Chin sheds light on the experiences of Asian Americans in the workplace, providing insight into and a framework of who is and isn’t granted access into the upper echelons of American society, and why.

好消息！人工智能无法取代人类，自动化永远存在最后一英里悖论。
坏消息！所有人都将被隐藏起来，成为信息机器上默默运转 的齿轮。
高度警觉视为“灵活”，孤立无援称为“自主”，克扣工资只是“技术错误”……
朝九晚五的全职就业逐步瓦解，在家工作得到的却不是自由。
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5年跨界研究，200余次实地访谈，10000余份问卷调查，
揭开即将波及全球数亿人，却鲜少见诸报端的新世界。
荣获——
★《金融时报》2019年评论家精选图书奖
★福特汉姆大学麦格农中心图书奖
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系统出现的一个小故障导致琼的MTurk账户突然被冻结——这是按需工人最可怕的噩梦。“没有一封电子邮件通知我软件出了问题；我只知道自己不能再登陆了，”她说，“我给客服打电话，他们告诉我必须等网站修复这个问题。账户冻结让我损失了近200美元。我失去了高薪工作，原因是平台自己出了问题，而不是我的工作质量有问题。”当事情出错的时候，琼这样的幽灵劳工根本不知道发生了什么，更别提追索补偿了。“我等了40个小时，不知道自己还能不能继续工作，能不能维持收入，也完全不知道原因。”
人类学家玛丽和计算机科学家西达尔特联手，揭露了人工智能和数字经济背后隐藏的人类劳动力。这支看不见的线上就业大军正不断扩张，它既不存在于现有的法律中，也未得到固有文化的承认，而算法无意识的残酷又带来了诸多未知。
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《销声匿迹》是一部即时的经典之作。它与那些阐明了制造业车间的伟大民族志形成共鸣。然而过去的产业依赖于一个生机勃勃的社区，其中人们一起工作、玩乐、生活。新的数字流水线上的工人们彼此并不相识，对我们而言也是陌生的。他们的不可见性使他们成了幽灵。格雷和苏里让我们能够看到他们，与他们共情，并认识到我们对于其处境的共谋。通过强调人工智能如何依赖于人类劳动，以及对于提供这些劳动的生命的丰富描述，作者们提出一个有着牢靠基础的面向改善和行动的策略工具包，从而为我们带来了希望。
——玛格丽特·莱维（Margaret Levi, 斯坦福大学政治学教授）

In this innovative collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese ventures in the fashion industry, Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako offer a new methodology for studying transnational capitalism. Drawing on their respective linguistic and regional areas of expertise, Rofel and Yanagisako show how different historical legacies of capital, labor, nation, and kinship are crucial in the formation of global capitalism. Focusing on how Italian fashion is manufactured, distributed, and marketed by Italian-Chinese ventures and how their relationships have been complicated by China's emergence as a market for luxury goods, the authors illuminate the often-overlooked processes that produce transnational capitalism—including privatization, negotiation of labor value, rearrangement of accumulation, reconfiguration of kinship, and outsourcing of inequality. In so doing, Fabricating Transnational Capitalism reveals the crucial role of the state and the shifting power relations between nations in shaping the ideas and practices of the Italian and Chinese partners.

A vivid look at China’s shifting place in the global political economy of technology production
How did China’s mass manufacturing and “copycat” production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets? Prototype Nation offers a rich transnational analysis of how the promise of democratized innovation and entrepreneurial life has shaped China’s governance and global image. With historical precision and ethnographic detail, Silvia Lindtner reveals how a growing distrust in Western models of progress and development, including Silicon Valley and the tech industry after the financial crisis of 2007–08, shaped the rise of the global maker movement and the vision of China as a “new frontier” of innovation.
Lindtner’s investigations draw on more than a decade of research in experimental work spaces—makerspaces, coworking spaces, innovation hubs, hackathons, and startup weekends—in China, the United States, Africa, Europe, Taiwan, and Singapore, as well as in key sites of technology investment and industrial production—tech incubators, corporate offices, and factories. She examines how the ideals of the maker movement, to intervene in social and economic structures, served the technopolitical project of prototyping a “new” optimistic, assertive, and global China. In doing so, Lindtner demonstrates that entrepreneurial living influences governance, education, policy, investment, and urban redesign in ways that normalize the persistence of sexism, racism, colonialism, and labor exploitation.
Prototype Nation shows that by attending to the bodies and sites that nurture entrepreneurial life, technology can be extricated from the seemingly endless cycle of promise and violence.
Cover image: Courtesy of Cao Fei, Vitamin Creative Space and Sprüth Magers

China's one-child rule is unassailably one of the most controversial social policies of all time. In the first book of its kind, Susan Greenhalgh draws on twenty years of research into China's population politics to explain how the leaders of a nation of one billion decided to limit all couples to one child. Focusing on the historic period 1978-80, when China was just reentering the global capitalist system after decades of self-imposed isolation, Greenhalgh documents the extraordinary manner in which a handful of leading aerospace engineers hijacked the population policymaking process and formulated a strategy that treated people like missiles. Just One Child situates these science- and policymaking practices in their broader contexts--the scientization and statisticalization of sociopolitical life--and provides the most detailed and incisive account yet of the origins of the one-child policy.

In the United States, public talk about charity for the poor is highly moralistic, even in our era of welfare reform. But how do we understand the actual experience of caring for the poor? This study looks at the front lines of volunteer involvement with the poor and homeless to assess what volunteer work means for those who do it. Rebecca Allahyari profiles volunteers at two charities - Loaves & Fishes and The Salvation Army - to show how they think about themselves and their work, providing new ways for discussing charity and morality. Allahyari explores these agencies' differing ideological orientations and the raced, classed, and gendered contexts they provide volunteers for doing charitable work. Drawing on participant observation, intensive interviewing, and content analysis of organizational publications, she looks in particular at the process of self-improvement for these volunteers. The competing visions of charity Allahyari finds at these two organizations reveal the complicated and contradictory politics of caring for the poor in the United States today.

Scholars and practitioners who witness violence and loss in human, animal, and ecological contexts are expected to have no emotional connection to the subjects they study. Yet is this possible? Following feminist traditions, Vulnerable Witness centers the researcher and challenges readers to reflect on how grieving is part of the research process and, by extension, is a political act. Through thirteen reflective essays the book theorizes the role of grief in the doing of research—from methodological choices, fieldwork and analysis, engagement with individuals, and places of study to the manner in which scholars write and talk about their subjects. Combining personal stories from early career scholars, advocates, and senior faculty, the book shares a breadth of emotional engagement at various career stages and explores the transformative possibilities that emerge from being enmeshed with one's own research.

　　「田野」不只是一種研究工具。
　　「田野」更是不確定年代的處世技藝！

　　田野是什麼？「田野」一直在改變。

　　今日，在許多意想不到的空間，越來越多人在「做田野」。不論是在紐約華爾街、西方與非西方的科學實驗室、世界各地的電子工廠、醫院診所、瀕臨絕種的紅毛猩猩棲地、「第二人生」的線上虛擬遊戲，甚至是殘酷的戰場邊緣。有越來越多領域伸臂擁抱「田野」，期待「田野」能帶來更正確的市場評估、更精準的受眾認識，協助解決更多社會問題。在這個全球化的年代，不只強調演算法的大數據夯；與大數據精神完全相反，強調「純手工、親體驗」的田野工作，也正夯。

　　反觀已經強調「田野工作」一百年的人類學者，卻丟出了一個個對「田野」的疑惑。什麼是田野的典範？傳統田野強調的長期浸淫，在今日高度破碎化的社會中還有什麼意義？對田野又愛又恨的人類學者，在田野裡沮喪受傷，卻依然痴心不悔，只因為田野帶她／他們在最不可能的地方遇見愛。

　　《辶反田野：人類學異托邦故事集》是一本非典型卻讓人大開眼界、回味無窮的田野故事集。書裡不會給你「什麼是田野」的定義，或「如何做田野」的SOP，但會娓娓道來田野工作者如何與國家機器、綠能、小農、原運、社運、移工、科學家，乃至動物植物真心地相遇。

　　田野如何與國家、體制「對話」？旁聽立法院開會、參與發展計畫，甚至介入決策機構與當地居民的風電爭議，這些「非典型田野」獲得了什麼？人類學者回饋了什麼？

　　怎麼拿捏與「報導人」的關係？用臉書做田野是不得不為，但也因而見到報導人更真實的一面？進入工廠也要畫親屬圖？人類學者在香港菲傭的選美大賽中扮演什麼角色？都蘭阿美族跟峇里島華人社群，人類學者在哪裡才是局內人？部落長老說，外來者更適合記錄傳統儀式禁忌，為什麼？

　　宗教、科學、人類學可以產生怎樣的互動？於是，人類學者與穆斯林科學家，一起探詢伊斯蘭清真戒律如何進入自然科學實驗室。人類學一定得研究「人」嗎？可不可以賦予「他者」更寬廣的定義？

　　「辶反」是反對、反思，也是奔赴與回返。多義的書名，層層翻轉的世界觀。

　　「反田野」，是對人類學古典田野工作範式與大眾想像的「反對」及「反思」，同時也帶出田野這門技藝之於當代的回應。「返田野」，是人類學者們關於「返回」田野的思考，並透過不同田野的對比與反差、不同田野的斷裂與承接，探問田野工作的本質。「辶」有忽走忽停與奔走的流動意涵，「辶反田野」因而帶入更多時間性的思考：田野可以如何回應人生不同階段的困惑與陰影；田野中的互動醞釀了什麼？生成了什麼？

　　書中的思考承接了過往人類學反省的基本精神，但更強調從空間的反思進入時間的反思，並迎向非生產性導向的另類時間觀，裡面有學習、醞釀，與等待，更有驚喜、頓悟與啟發。這一切看似缺乏「效率」與浪費「時間」，卻正有助於捕捉複雜繽紛的動態真實。

　　原來，田野不只是研究工具，更會改變生命，甚至是面對當代生活種種危機、災難、創傷，與不確定性的人生必備技藝。
　　10位人類學家、10個田野故事，讓你對田野的想像更上層樓。
　　歡迎光臨，田野異托邦。

Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be self-reliant, individualistic, and free, even as the system and the culture constrain them within terms of ethnicity, race, and class. "Buddha Is Hiding" tells the story of Cambodian Americans experiencing American citizenship from the bottom-up. Based on extensive fieldwork in Oakland and San Francisco, the study puts a human face on how American institutions - of health, welfare, law, police, church, and industry - affect minority citizens as they negotiate American culture and re-interpret the American dream. In her earlier book, "Flexible Citizenship", anthropologist Aihwa Ong wrote of elite Asians shuttling across the Pacific. This parallel study tells the very different story of 'the other Asians' whose route takes them from refugee camps to California's inner-city and high-tech enclaves. In "Buddha Is Hiding" we see these refugees becoming new citizen-subjects through a dual process of being-made and self-making, balancing religious salvation and entrepreneurial values as they endure and undermine, absorb and deflect conflicting lessons about welfare, work, medicine, gender, parenting, and mass culture. Trying to hold on to the values of family and home culture, Cambodian Americans nonetheless often feel that 'Buddha is hiding'. Tracing the entangled paths of poor and rich Asians in the American nation, Ong raises new questions about the form and meaning of citizenship in an era of globalization.

入圍二○一○年英國社會學協會（BSA）「健康與疾病社會學」書卷獎
與疾病共處，是我們逃不了的命運，
但「什麼是好的照護？」
我們以為，醫護人員給予病人越多的資訊、越詳盡的解釋、越透明的知情同意，醫病關係就越順暢，病人越能做出正確的決定，過著更理想的生活，但實情比這個還複雜。
過去，我們共同抵抗醫療霸權，擘畫出更多病人的主動性，但「選擇的邏輯」並沒有打造出對病人最適合的照護情境。在「選擇的邏輯」下，病人表達了意願，做出了選擇之後，一切就要自行負責，無論疾病多麼不可預期，日常多麼出乎意料，一旦事情出了差錯，病患只能抱持悔恨和罪惡感。
透過荷蘭某家醫院的民族誌田野觀察，作者以糖尿病患為研究對象，結合哲學、人類學、社會學等面向，提煉出「照護的邏輯」。照護不只是「溫柔的愛」，在這邏輯之下，「行動」先於「判斷」，「實作」先於「事實」，沒有什麼事情是被保證的，沒有什麼決定是做了就能心想事成的。病患、醫護人員、技術、儀器等各項元素在日常中不斷協調、不斷修補（doctoring），我們得持續堅定地做些嘗試。生活（名詞）的好壞不是重點，要點是如何「過生活」（動詞）。
照護的邏輯講求「關注」，在病患做了選擇之後，仍不斷地給予關注，才能彌補選擇之後，病患被施予的「忽略」。照護的邏輯期望病人主動積極，醫護人員實踐醫療專業更多的可能性。不過，不要超過極限，因為我們終究得（學會）放手，面對死亡。
作者長期蹲點荷蘭地區醫院，用人類學之眼，加上哲學思辨，凝視現代人的重要疾病——糖尿病，以此為觀察焦點，提出「照護的邏輯」之下的病患該如何自處，外人又該如何協助讓他們與疾病共存。這本書描繪一個理想的照護體系，適合醫護人員、政策制定者和社會科學愛好者作為思想的種子。
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陳俐伊（護理師、陽明科技與社會所碩士）
林文源（清華大學通識中心教授）
這本書會讓你看到，荷蘭健康照護人員做得最好的一面，這些醫護人員如何提供既嚴格又寬容的照護……呈現她們對道德主義的保留、善體人意的鼓勵，以及充滿創意的彈性調適。――安瑪莉•摩爾（本書作者）
近年來社會人文研究，有一些探索理想的新取向。無論是真實烏托邦、性別化創新，還是本書所談的「照顧的邏輯」，既能敏銳於學界批判的任務，也意圖建立一些新作法，很值得刺激本地討論。――吳嘉苓（台大社會系教授）
我認為本書是最重要的當代經典之一，對於反思醫療、科技與社會、哲學研究，甚至醫療實務工作都有相當幫助。――林文源（清華大學通識教育中心教授）
在臨床上，要想區分病人究竟是「不想做」還是「不能做」從來都不是一件容易的事情。可是透過摩爾的分析我們卻能清楚發現，唯有看見決策背後那緊密交織的顧慮及擔心，醫療人員才有辦法針對病人所面臨的困難，提出具體有效的解決方式。――陳俐伊（護理師、陽明大學科技與社會所碩士）

The Genealogical Science analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. A biological discipline that relies on genetic data in order to reconstruct the geographic origins of contemporary populations—their histories of migration and genealogical connections to other present-day groups—this historical science is garnering ever more credibility and social reach, in large part due to a growing industry in ancestry testing.
In this book, Nadia Abu El-Haj examines genetic history’s working assumptions about culture and nature, identity and biology, and the individual and the collective. Through the example of the study of Jewish origins, she explores novel cultural and political practices that are emerging as genetic history’s claims and “facts” circulate in the public domain and illustrates how this historical science is intrinsically entangled with cultural imaginations and political commitments. Chronicling late-nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century understandings of race, nature, and culture, she identifies continuities and shifts in scientific claims, institutional contexts, and political worlds in order to show how the meanings of biological difference have changed over time. In so doing she gives an account of how and why it is that genetic history is so socially felicitous today and elucidates the range of understandings of the self, individual and collective, this scientific field is making possible. More specifically, through her focus on the history of projects of Jewish self-fashioning that have taken place on the terrain of the biological sciences, The Genealogical Science analyzes genetic history as the latest iteration of a cultural and political practice now over a century old.

Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. For older people in rural areas, food now symbolizes everything from misery and extreme want to relative abundance. Young people, on the other hand, have a different relationship to food. Many young rural Chinese are migrating to rapidly industrializing cities for work, happy to leave behind the backbreaking labor associated with peasant agriculture.
Bitter and Sweet examines the role of food in one rural Chinese community, as it has shaped everyday lives over the course of several tumultuous decades. In her superb ethnographic accounts, Ellen Oxfeld compels us to reexamine some of the dominant frameworks that have permeated recent scholarship on contemporary China, work that describes increasing dislocation and individualism and a lack of moral centeredness. By using food as our lens, we see a more complex picture, one in which connectedness and sense of place continue to play an important role, even in the context of rapid change.

在中国抗日战争最艰苦的1939年，著名历史学家顾颉刚先生在《益世报》《边疆周刊》发表一篇题为《中华民族是一个》的文章，明确提出中国只存在一个“中华民族”，把中国的汉、满、蒙、回、藏等群体都称为“民族”，是帝国主义分化和瓦解中国的策略和阴谋，“伪满洲国”即是一例。文章发表后引发了关于“中华民族”定义的激烈争论。有人支持，有人反对，费孝通先生曾撰文明确表示不同意见。距离当年那场围绕“中华民族是一个”的争辩已经过去70多年，今天中国固然没有面临帝国主义侵略和瓜分的直接威胁，但一些地区民族关系的发展趋势令人担忧。中国的“民族构建”（nation-building）究竟应当以“中华民族”为单元，还是以56个“民族”为单元，直至今日这个问题并没有真正得到解决。本书汇集了1939年围绕着一议题的重要论文以及对这一争论的回顾文章，希望读者能够了解当年这场大讨论的原貌并思考应如何理解今天中国的民族问题。