Haiyan Lee is Associate Professor for East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at Stanford University.
发表于2025-02-02
The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 海外中国研究 文化研究 社会学 文学 李海燕 当代中国 中国文学 社会史
In the last two decades, China has become a dramatically more urban society and hundreds of millions of people have moved residence in the process. Family and communal bonds have been broken in a country now known as "a society of acquaintances." There has been a resulting breakdown of civility and trust in contemporary China, and the new market economy doesn't offer any solutions.
This book investigates how the Chinese have coped with the condition of modernity in which strangers are routinely thrust together, testing the moral limits of a society known for the primacy of blood relations and familiarity. Haiyan Lee dismisses the easy answers claiming that this "moral crisis" is not merely smoke and mirrors conjured up by paternalistic, overwrought leaders, policy makers, and scholars, nor should it be simply chalked up to the topsy-turvy of a market economy on steroids. Rather, Lee argues that the perception of crisis is itself symptomatic of a deeper problem that has roots in both the Confucian tradition of kinship and the modern state management of stranger sociality.
This ambitious work is the first to investigate the figure of the stranger—foreigner, peasant migrant, bourgeois intellectual, class enemy, dangerous woman, animal—across literature, journal articles, film, television, and popular museum exhibits. Lee's aim is to show that hope lies with a robust civil society in which literature and the arts play a key role in sharpening the moral faculties and apprenticing readers in the art of living with strangers. In so doing, she make a historical, comparative, and theoretically informed contribution to the on-going conversation on China's "uncivil society."
读完第五章之后,决定加一颗星
评分伦理学转向的力作。导论借助列维纳斯的他者之脸,指出一个真正的道德能动者必须有和陌生人社交的能力,同时警惕作为威权形象的第三方将原本偶然、自主且不可化约的道德行为加以编码、标准乃至社会建制化。解读部分,如灵山成功捕捉到遭遇陌生人之不可言喻、当代小说中的动物形象如何揭橥其(与底层人)赤裸生命状态和生命政治的运作、晚清小说中的妓院作为间隙型的公共空间、女性当自觉地以贱民姿态而非暴发户憧憬在政治场域中周旋、收租院通过交租粮的展览-恋物和水牢-贱斥来操演阶级种族观、鬼子来了中的白话世界主义等,颇具洞见。结语指出,由于审美经验使读者/观众无我化,从而移情、判断等机制会带来伦理公正或诗学正义;相对的则是作者的虚构能力常沦为政治义务的共谋。故此,读者在虚构世界中遭遇陌生的经验,是文学克服“平庸的恶”之所在。
评分Introduction + C4. Transient strangers who break the social stagnation and moral ossification of the local community in the "heterogenetic city." 略城乡二元化,floating population还可以有很多组成成分。
评分伦理学转向的力作。导论借助列维纳斯的他者之脸,指出一个真正的道德能动者必须有和陌生人社交的能力,同时警惕作为威权形象的第三方将原本偶然、自主且不可化约的道德行为加以编码、标准乃至社会建制化。解读部分,如灵山成功捕捉到遭遇陌生人之不可言喻、当代小说中的动物形象如何揭橥其(与底层人)赤裸生命状态和生命政治的运作、晚清小说中的妓院作为间隙型的公共空间、女性当自觉地以贱民姿态而非暴发户憧憬在政治场域中周旋、收租院通过交租粮的展览-恋物和水牢-贱斥来操演阶级种族观、鬼子来了中的白话世界主义等,颇具洞见。结语指出,由于审美经验使读者/观众无我化,从而移情、判断等机制会带来伦理公正或诗学正义;相对的则是作者的虚构能力常沦为政治义务的共谋。故此,读者在虚构世界中遭遇陌生的经验,是文学克服“平庸的恶”之所在。
评分天花乱醉。
The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书