Private Life under Socialism
内容简介
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.
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作者简介
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.
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读书文摘
走出祖荫的个人似乎并没有获得真正独立、自立、自主的个性。恰恰相反，摆脱了传统伦理束缚的个人往往表现出一种极端功利化的自我中心取向，在一味伸张个人权利的同时拒绝履行自己的义务，在依靠他人支持的情况下满足自己的物质欲望。在这方面最突出的例子莫过于许多女青年在赢得婚姻自主权——“自己找婆家”之后，仍然向未来的公婆索取高额彩礼。
我们了解到的家庭，更多的是一种抽象的制度，而不是个人生活的场所；我们所知道的家庭演进，更多的是制度性的变迁，而不是家庭生活的变化；我们所看到的家庭模式，更多反映的是城市而不是农村。
Balke,Fred. 1981. Ethic Groups and Social Change in a Chinese Market Town. California: University of Hawaii Press.
这场恋爱就这样被当时浓厚的政治气氛所包围的公共场合所催化。这种激进的政治气氛同时也带有非常浪漫的色彩。Fred Blake曾经在他关于“大跃进”情歌的研究中分析过这种氛围（参见Blake，1981）。
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