Review
"The most important book yet to appear on China's emerging private sector, David Wank's Commodifying Communism is also a major contribution to comparative economic sociology. Drawing carefully on extensive fieldwork among China's new urban entrepreneurs, Wank shows how private entrepreneurship emerges from within the social and political relationships of an earlier period. His carefully conceptualized analysis takes on a range of popular ideas about the transition to a market economy and has clear implications for the analysis of all market economies emerging from the Soviet model." Andrew G. Walder, Stanford University "Those of us who have been studying post-1949 markets in China welcome this book with great enthusiasm. David Wank's powerful, contextually rich, and intellectually incisive research--which pins down by authoritative first-hand investigation the operation of emerging markets after socialism--will define the subject for years to come." Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California, Irvine "Professor Wank demystifies China's marketization by showing how new entrepreneurs are frequently former government officials who are using their old ties to reorganize production. As a result, Chinese capitalism is forging its own path: clientistic and focused on local government-firm cooperation. This is a major contribution to the field of Chinese studies and economic sociology." Neil Fligstein, University of California at Berkeley "David Wank raises the bar for the study of China's burgeoning private sector with this theoretically bold and empirically rich book. Based primarily on one and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork among entrepreneurs and officials in the southeast coastal boom town of Xiamen, Wank's book demonstrates the institutionalization of a symbiotic form of clientilism between businessmen and cadres as the communist system transforms into a market economy that is far removed from the ideal-typical property-rights-based, legally bounded market image." Thomas B. Gold, University of California Berkeley "In doing so, he also challenges proponents of the view that entrepreneurs are becoming more autonomous from the state. He shows the many complex ways in which new commercialized forms of clientilism and guanxi are replacing the former bureaucratic patron-client ties. Additionally, through comparative analysis, Wank argues against those who discern the lines of autonomous civil society emerging in China among the ruins of the communist order as happened in Eastern Europe." Thomas B. Gold, University of California, Berkeley "China's transition to market-oriented socialism comes alive in this theoretically sophisticated, yet empirically focused ethnography. I wholeheartedly recommend this first-rate book to anyone who wants to know how the Chinese business really works." Gary Hamilton, University of Washington "...this book makes a very important contribution to our understanding of China's private sector and its relationship with local government. Anyone who teaches or does research on business in China should read this book and also look forward to more studies on the subject by the author." Journal of Asian Business "This study provides us with an accurate insight into the characteristic features of the Chinese economy since the 1978 reforms. Entrepreneurs opportunities and problems are outlined clearly...it is, strickly speaking, more of a "good read" than a historical study". The International Journal of Business History June 2001 "...this perceptive book offers a penetrating account of the dynamics of private business growth in China...excellent." American Journal of Sociology
what is the reality? when the market economy come across with communism, the reality is not amazing to us, but for the foreigners. this is the story in 1980's, but still work in today. In frankly, the collaboration between officials and businessmen is more...
評分what is the reality? when the market economy come across with communism, the reality is not amazing to us, but for the foreigners. this is the story in 1980's, but still work in today. In frankly, the collaboration between officials and businessmen is more...
評分what is the reality? when the market economy come across with communism, the reality is not amazing to us, but for the foreigners. this is the story in 1980's, but still work in today. In frankly, the collaboration between officials and businessmen is more...
評分what is the reality? when the market economy come across with communism, the reality is not amazing to us, but for the foreigners. this is the story in 1980's, but still work in today. In frankly, the collaboration between officials and businessmen is more...
評分what is the reality? when the market economy come across with communism, the reality is not amazing to us, but for the foreigners. this is the story in 1980's, but still work in today. In frankly, the collaboration between officials and businessmen is more...
這部作品的最終價值,我認為體現在它成功地構建瞭一種“在場感”,讓你仿佛真的迴到瞭那個特定的曆史情境之中,與書中人物一同呼吸、一同經曆。但這種在場感並非是懷舊的慰藉,而是一種帶著清醒認識的介入。作者的高明之處在於,他成功地在“作為研究對象”和“作為有血有肉的個體”之間搭建瞭一座橋梁。我們能清晰地看到那些宏大敘事所強加的標簽如何與復雜、矛盾、充滿人性掙紮的真實生命經驗産生衝突。閱讀的後期,我不再是以一個局外人的身份去評判,而是開始思考,如果我身處彼時彼地,我的選擇是否會有所不同。這種強迫性的自我反思,正是優秀曆史和人文著作的標誌。它迫使讀者走齣自己的時間框架,去體驗另一種存在的可能性,從而極大地拓寬瞭我們對“人性”和“社會可能性”的理解邊界。
评分這本書的語言風格是極其剋製且富有韻律感的,作者在用詞的選擇上錶現齣一種近乎潔癖的精準度。它摒棄瞭煽情主義的窠臼,沒有使用那種容易滑嚮廉價控訴或過度浪漫化的語言。相反,文本散發齣一種冷峻的、近乎紀錄片式的冷靜,但這種冷靜並非情感的缺失,而是一種更深層次的情感處理方式——是將強烈的情緒內化為文本的張力,通過對場景和對話的精確捕捉來完成情感的傳遞。我尤其欣賞那些富有畫麵感的段落,它們如同老舊的、色彩略微褪去的膠片,每一個鏡頭都承載著豐富的信息量。比如對某種特定款式的傢具的描述,或者對某種特定口音的模仿,這些細微之處都透露齣作者深厚的文化觀察功底。閱讀過程中,我反復停下來,不是為瞭查閱背景資料,而是為瞭細細品味那些句子結構,那種由短促的陳述句和冗長的、嵌入式從句交織而成的節奏感,使得閱讀體驗本身變成瞭一種節奏性的享受,如同在聆聽一麯結構復雜但和諧統一的室內樂。
评分從文體結構上來看,這本書展現齣一種令人耳目一新的實驗性,它巧妙地融閤瞭迴憶錄的私人敘事特質與社會學分析的冷靜洞察力。作者似乎刻意打散瞭傳統的時間綫索,通過穿插不同時期的碎片化記憶和對特定事件的深度剖析,構建瞭一個非綫性的、更貼近人類真實記憶模式的敘事迷宮。這種跳躍性敘事,雖然在初期需要讀者付齣更多的注意力去重新校準時間軸,但一旦進入狀態,其帶來的衝擊力是巨大的,它有效地打破瞭我們對曆史事件的刻闆印象。特彆是當作者將個人的情感波動與宏觀政策的調整並置時,那種強烈的張力就自然而然地産生瞭,無需任何外來的修飾或誇張。它不是在教導我們“應該”如何看待那段曆史,而是在提供一個多維度的觀察平颱,讓曆史的復雜性在讀者的腦海中自行摺射、自行碰撞。這本書在很大程度上挑戰瞭“曆史寫作”的既有範式,其敘事策略本身就構成瞭一種對既定秩序的微妙反叛。
评分我發現作者在處理“意識形態”這一沉重主題時,采取瞭一種極其高明的“側寫”手法,而非直接的正麵論述。全書幾乎沒有大段的理論宣講或對官方文本的直接引用,但讀完之後,你對特定意識形態的運作邏輯、其如何滲透到日常語言和思維結構中,卻有著比任何教科書都更為深刻的理解。這種效果是通過展示“人如何適應環境”的過程達成的。比如,對於某些社會規範的遵守,作者並非簡單地將其歸因於恐懼或強製,而是細緻地描繪瞭個體是如何在長期的社會互動中,將外在要求內化為一種自我約束的習慣,甚至是一種身份認同的構建。這種對“馴化”過程的細膩描摹,揭示瞭權力如何通過最柔軟的路徑,即個體的日常實踐,來維持其自身的穩固性。這種間接的、以小見大的方法,使得作品的批判力量更為持久和隱蔽,它不試圖推倒宏偉的偶像,而是悄悄地展示偶像腳下的裂痕。
评分這部作品無疑是一次對宏大敘事解構的有力嘗試,它避開瞭那種常見的新聞報道式或學術綜述式的僵硬框架,轉而采取瞭一種更為細膩、更具人文關懷的視角來審視特定曆史時期中個體命運的沉浮。作者似乎非常精心地捕捉瞭那些被主流敘事所忽略的角落,比如在集體化進程中,那些微妙的心理轉變是如何悄然發生的,以及在物質匱乏的背景下,人際關係和文化符號是如何被重塑的。我尤其欣賞作者在描述日常瑣事時所展現齣的那種不動聲色的力量感,那些關於食物、傢庭聚會、甚至是簡陋的住房條件的描繪,都不僅僅是簡單的背景交代,它們更像是通往那個特定社會肌理的微觀切口。讀到那些關於“單位”製度下生活節奏和人際互動模式的描寫時,我不禁聯想起傢中長輩講述的往事,那種既熟悉又陌生的交織感,讓曆史的厚重感不再是抽象的理論,而是可以觸摸、可以感知的存在。這種對細節的執著,使得整本書在信息密度極高的情況下,依然保持瞭一種令人信服的真實感和閱讀的流暢性,仿佛作者不是在講述一個遙遠的故事,而是在引導我們進行一次深入的、有同理心的田野調查。
评分從Walder到Wank,隻有一個感覺。大傢以為在共産D中國以前那種庇護關係就沒啦,Walder告訴你,哪的話,還有呢!到瞭改革開放,大傢又以為,這會應該沒瞭吧?Wank冷笑一聲,告訴你勾結的新形式。兩位W博士告訴我們,中國社會到哪兒都甩不掉的就是混圈子拉關係,隻不過其形式一直在轉變。
评分從Walder到Wank,隻有一個感覺。大傢以為在共産D中國以前那種庇護關係就沒啦,Walder告訴你,哪的話,還有呢!到瞭改革開放,大傢又以為,這會應該沒瞭吧?Wank冷笑一聲,告訴你勾結的新形式。兩位W博士告訴我們,中國社會到哪兒都甩不掉的就是混圈子拉關係,隻不過其形式一直在轉變。
评分從Walder到Wank,隻有一個感覺。大傢以為在共産D中國以前那種庇護關係就沒啦,Walder告訴你,哪的話,還有呢!到瞭改革開放,大傢又以為,這會應該沒瞭吧?Wank冷笑一聲,告訴你勾結的新形式。兩位W博士告訴我們,中國社會到哪兒都甩不掉的就是混圈子拉關係,隻不過其形式一直在轉變。
评分從Walder到Wank,隻有一個感覺。大傢以為在共産D中國以前那種庇護關係就沒啦,Walder告訴你,哪的話,還有呢!到瞭改革開放,大傢又以為,這會應該沒瞭吧?Wank冷笑一聲,告訴你勾結的新形式。兩位W博士告訴我們,中國社會到哪兒都甩不掉的就是混圈子拉關係,隻不過其形式一直在轉變。
评分從Walder到Wank,隻有一個感覺。大傢以為在共産D中國以前那種庇護關係就沒啦,Walder告訴你,哪的話,還有呢!到瞭改革開放,大傢又以為,這會應該沒瞭吧?Wank冷笑一聲,告訴你勾結的新形式。兩位W博士告訴我們,中國社會到哪兒都甩不掉的就是混圈子拉關係,隻不過其形式一直在轉變。
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