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.
Li Zhang is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis
我很好奇,对于能否由不同的研究者在同一个地方展开民族志研究,人类学自身已经有怎样的反思。或者说得更确切一些,是在一个规模不大、情况也并不那么复杂的地方,没有绵长且多面化得让每一个受访者自己都晕头转向的历史/历史叙事。 浙江村就是这样一个地方,我不知道项飚带了...
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 评分连续看了两本关于北京“浙江村”研究的书籍,两位教授也在作品里相互提到对方。 对比起来,项飙教授所著《跨越边界的社区:北京“浙江村”的生活史》细节更多,在叙述上更为丰富,可能张教授研究本身开展本是在项飙之后(书中提到其被项引荐入村),故阅读该书总有似曾相识之感...
花了三天在写论文前集中读完了这本书,想起了2018年的低端人口。
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。
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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。
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