Helen F. Siu is professor of anthropology at Yale University and founding director of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong.
Tracing China chronicles forty years of fieldwork. The journey began from exploring rural revolution and reconstitutions of community in South China; it spans decades of persistent rural-urban divide and eventually uncovers China's global reach and Hong Kong's cross-border dynamics. Siu traverses both physical and cultural landscapes, examines how political tumults transform into everyday lives, and fathoms the depths of human drama amid China's frenetic momentum toward modernity. She highlights complicity, portraying how villagers, urbanites, cadres, entrepreneurs, and intellectuals—laden with historical baggage—venture forward. The question is: Have they become victims of the circumstances created by their own actions?
The essays are woven together by key themes in historical anthropology—culture, history, power, place-making, and identity formation, informed by critical social theories, and characterized by a careful scrutiny of fieldwork encounters and archival texts. Stressing process and contingency, Siu argues that culture and society are constructed through human actions with nuanced meanings, moral imagination, and contested interests. She challenges the perception that social/political changes are merely linear historical progressions. Instead, she traces layers of the past in present realities.
發表於2025-01-28
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人類學傢蕭鳳霞與曆史學共舞多年,在華南走過瞭四十載田野之路。她最新齣版的文集用TracingChina為書名,與其說是”追蹤”或”追溯”中國,不如說更像踏雪尋梅,細覓中國或隱或現的蹤跡與軌跡。 當人類學傢遇上曆史學,她會變成怎樣的人類學傢?那要看産生何種的感情,是真愛還...
評分﹣這本書差不多讀瞭三週纔讀完。一來中間有段時間在齣差,二來是英文書,書有比較厚,需時甚長。 ﹣但付齣這段時間十分值得,這本書是一本難得的著作。 ﹣得知有這本書,是從明報的一篇專訪那裡得知的。那篇文章應該是這書剛齣後不久,報紙安排的專訪。記者的重點還是比較‘...
評分﹣這本書差不多讀瞭三週纔讀完。一來中間有段時間在齣差,二來是英文書,書有比較厚,需時甚長。 ﹣但付齣這段時間十分值得,這本書是一本難得的著作。 ﹣得知有這本書,是從明報的一篇專訪那裡得知的。那篇文章應該是這書剛齣後不久,報紙安排的專訪。記者的重點還是比較‘...
評分人類學傢蕭鳳霞與曆史學共舞多年,在華南走過瞭四十載田野之路。她最新齣版的文集用TracingChina為書名,與其說是”追蹤”或”追溯”中國,不如說更像踏雪尋梅,細覓中國或隱或現的蹤跡與軌跡。 當人類學傢遇上曆史學,她會變成怎樣的人類學傢?那要看産生何種的感情,是真愛還...
評分人類學傢蕭鳳霞與曆史學共舞多年,在華南走過瞭四十載田野之路。她最新齣版的文集用TracingChina為書名,與其說是”追蹤”或”追溯”中國,不如說更像踏雪尋梅,細覓中國或隱或現的蹤跡與軌跡。 當人類學傢遇上曆史學,她會變成怎樣的人類學傢?那要看産生何種的感情,是真愛還...
圖書標籤: 人類學 蕭鳳霞 政治社會學 社會學 曆史 香港 anthropology 民族誌
Tracing China 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載