Jun Jing is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York.
This study focuses on the politics of memory in the village of Dachuan in northwest China, in which 85 percent of the villagers are sur named Kong and believe themselves to be descendants of Confucius. It recounts both how this proud community was subjected to intense suffering during the Maoist era, culminating in its forcible resettlement in December 1960 to make way for the construction of a major hydroelectric dam, and how the village eventually sought recovery through the commemoration of that suffering and the revival of a redefined religion.
Before 1949, the Kongs had dominated their area because of their political influence, wealth, and, above all, their identification with Confucius, whose precepts underlay so much of the Chinese ethical and political tradition. After the Communists came to power in 1949, these people, as a literal embodiment of the Confucian heritage, became prime targets for Maoist political campaigns attacking the traditional order, from land reform to the “Criticize Confucius” movement. Many villagers were arrested, three were beheaded, and others died in labor camps. When the villagers were forced to hastily abandon their homes and the village temple, they had time to disinter only the bones of their closest family members; the tombs of earlier generations were destroyed by construction workers for the dam.
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Review
"One of the best local ethnographies to date on post-reform China. . . . Conceptually sophisticated yet undiminished by unnecessary jargon, the book provides one of the most readable and intelligently framed accounts of change and continuity at the local level in China." —Journal of Asian Studies
"Anthropologists and historians will find themselves rewarded by this nuanced examination of social memory, ritual life, and the traumatic recent history of a remarkable village."—China Review International
"This gem of a book takes the study of Chinese village culture to new levels of theoretical sophistication, ethnographic nuance and literary evocativeness. . . . There are many fine books that tell similar stories of the devastation of rural communities during the Maoist era. Dachuan is different only in that the depth of its tragedy was several degrees worse than most. But what makes Jun Jing's book unique is his discovery of a way to probe the meaning of such a history for the villagers."—China Quarterly
"All audiences can enjoy the universal subjects of the book—children and food. . . . Feeding China's Little Emperor's is useful both for anthropologists or those looking at social change over the last few decades."—The China Business Review
"In 1961 the entire village of Dachuan was destroyed when it was submerged under a reservoir created by a newly constructed hydroelectric dam. . . . In Jun Jing's beautifully written account, The Temple of Memories, he reveals how the villagers tra
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本書的英文版齣版於1996年,距今已二十餘年。在這二十餘年間,無論是作為整體的中國還是作為個體的大川村,都發生瞭翻天覆地且意想不到的變化。當年重建孔廟的人們大概會有依托孔廟提高村落名望的考慮,但那並非他們當時最重要的目的。而現在,情況完全不同瞭。 筆者通過檢索近...
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評分神堂筆記作為一本老師推薦的書籍,一開始隻是覺得來源於學術創作的文章不會很好讀,但是一接觸到文字之後發現整個文本讀下來沒有什麼難度,都是一些很細碎的很真實的故事,由現在的描寫有對過去的追溯,整個文章以各項記憶的方式既包括瞭迴憶的成分,更有一種迴頭看一切清晰可...
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圖書標籤: 人類學 景軍 集體記憶 社會記憶 海外中國研究 宗教 曆史 記憶
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評分96年齣版的民族誌,至今仍深有藉鑒意義。
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評分一部發生在西北中心蘭州的民族誌,作者用西方民族誌的描寫手法,用變熟為生的方法,書寫瞭一部中國傢族政治的標本。
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