Li Zhang is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis
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.
撰写推荐江苏人民出版社“海外中国研究”系列中《城市里的陌生人》一书的书评,是在今年五一假期前夕。众所周知,五一是劳动人民的节日,而《城市里的陌生人》里所讲述的,正是支撑起中国改革开放高速发展经济成果的劳动阶层,所不同的是,他们的工作场所都远离故乡,在千里之...
评分我很好奇,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...
评分与晚期社会主义不同的是,在治理术愈发精致的今天,流动人口将空间和权力稳固私有化的努力不会再轻易成功(哪怕就是在一小段时期内)。要么或主动或被动地消解在摇篮中(比如,在传统上被视为“组织起来”的要件——“同乡忠诚”在如今的可行性还有多高?况且,同乡群体内部的...
评分我很好奇,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...
评分简洁,明确,细腻。博士论文的范本。说句题外话:Zhang Li和Xiang Biao之间一直保持着积极的交流,后者还是带领前者进入浙江村的关键向导,总有一些豆瓣上的2B非要在这两个人中间比出一个高下来,长点儿心吧山炮……
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评分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。
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