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- 人类学
- 中国研究
- ethnography
- 移民
- anthropology
- 民族志
- 当代中国
- mobility
- 信用体系
- 宇宙观
- 金融哲学
- 债务文化
- 社会资本
- 数字时代
- 经济结构
- 全球化
- 流动性
- 信任机制
具体描述
Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggler. That longed-for call will send her out her door, away from Fuzhou, China, on a perilous, illicit journey to the United States. Nothing diffuses the promise of an overseas destiny: neither the ever-increasing smuggling fee for successful travel nor her knowledge of the deadly risks in transit and the exploitative labor conditions abroad. The sense of imminent departure enchants her every move and overshadows the banalities of her present life. In this engrossing ethnographic account of how the Fuzhounese translate their desires for mobility into projects worth pursuing, Julie Y. Chu focuses on Fuzhounese efforts to recast their social horizons beyond the limitations of "peasant life" in China. Transcending utilitarian questions of risks and rewards, she considers the overflow of aspirations in the Fuzhounese pursuit of transnational destinations. Chu attends not just to the migration of bodies, but also to flows of shipping containers, planes, luggage, immigration papers, money, food, prayers, and gods. By analyzing the intersections and disjunctures of these various flows, she explains how mobility operates as a sign embodied through everyday encounters and in the transactions of persons and things.
作者简介
Julie Y. Chu is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
目录信息
Notes on Orthography and Names xiii
Introduction 1
Part I. Edgy Dispositions 23
1. To Be Emplaced: Fuzhounese Migration and the Geography of Desire 31
2. Stepping Out: Contesting the Moral Career from Peasant to Overseas Chinese 59
Part II. Exits and Entrances 101
3. Snakeheads and Paper Trails: The Making of Exits 107
4. Bad Subjects: Human Smuggling, Legality, and the Problem of Entrance 141
Part III. Debts and Diversions 165
5. For Use in Heaven or Hell: The Circulation of the U.S. Dollar among Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors 171
6. Partings and Returns: Gender, Kinship, and the Mediation of Renqing 217
Conclusion: When Fortune Flows 257
Notes 269
Bibliography 295
Index 321
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从一半的时候就在等这句"agents of fate ... were never beyond approach and negotiation"等到了倒数第三页的最后一句话，急死我了。第二章和最后一章最精彩。用词好难..
评分除了好看以外太爱这个冥币封面了。
评分well written. i found the language style in the introduction too ambiguous and suggesting. but once it gets to fieldwork materials, it is very clear. i like the theoretical frame of the book.
评分事无巨细，各种理论。。但民族志还是非常扎实的。
评分事无巨细，各种理论。。但民族志还是非常扎实的。
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