Understanding Canton

出版者:Oxford University Press

作者:Virgil Kit Yiu Ho

页数:520

出版时间:2006-2-16

价格:USD 195.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780199282715

图书标签:社会史广州历史何杰尧社会眼光海外中国研究晚晴民国

By studying six different aspects of culture in Canton in the period between the two World Wars, this book helps broaden our limited knowledge of the social and cultural lives of the common people in this largest city of South China. The author examines how the Cantonese in this period indulged in their imagined cultural superiority as "modern" citizens, ushering in a cult of the modern city. During this period, Cantonese opera was also emerging and evolving into a widely accepted form of commercialised mass entertainment. The process of social and cultural change and its impact on the development of this city and its people are revealed throughout the book. This book also aims to redress some major misconceptions of the socio-cultural realities as seen in official rhetoric or academic discourse on the matters of patriotism and anti-foreignism, gambling, prostitution, and opium consumption. Contemporary non-official and folk materials reveal that the common people were much more pro-Western than xenophobic in attitude, and the alleged social and political "calamities" of gambling, opium consumption and prostitution were more rhetorical than real. Understanding Canton provides us with, not only a fuller and more comprehensive picture of city life and popular mentalities, but also an important clue to understand how and why the social history of this city was distorted and constructed in ways that suited the political ideology and nation-building agenda of the ruling regimes.

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本書以城鄉關係、華洋關係，鴉片吸食、賭博、賣淫嫖娼問題和粵劇文化六個議題進行社會文化史研究。本書一大企圖是修正過去歷史學家所誤讀、簡化與迴避的歷史現象。首先，社會階級的複雜性被視作分析框架基礎部份，面對同一事象不同群體觀點的矛盾性張力是被著重而由始至終分析的方法論。其次，圖像、詩文、故事、小說、學生期刊和地方雜誌等被引入作為分析材料，都帶出了經濟政治史以外的廣州民國史脈絡。再者，作者較強調對廣州人的思維特質和行為模式的觀察，將廣州地方性的觀點放置在更為重要的位置予以分析。最後，雖然廣州此後經歷了幾十年的社會主義統治，但「黃賭毒」問題以及民眾對其態度是始終承續自民國的。但全書較為拖沓。