Only Hope

Vanessa Fong (PhD,Harvard)is an anthropologist interested in how the experiences of a now partly transnational cohort of Chinese only-children and their families shed light on theories of gender, citizenship, transnationalism, migration, education, and demographic, medical, and psychological anthropology.Her research focuses on a cohort of youth who attended the Chinese junior high and high schools where she conducted her initial fieldwork (1997–2000). Almost all members of this cohort were born under China's one-child policy, which began in 1979. She is in the early phases of a longitudinal project that follows members of this cohort throughout the course of their lives. The first phase of this project focused on how members of the cohort experienced adolescence, and was based on participant observation in schools and homes as well as on a survey of 2,273 junior high and high school students. The current phase of this project examines how members of the cohort are dealing with two kinds of life-changing processes: marriage, pregnancy, and childbearing; and study abroad in Australia, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, and North America. Future phases of this project will examine how members of the cohort (in China and abroad) negotiate cultural, national, and political identities; make decisions about fertility; raise children of their own; deal with physical and psychological health issues; and try to provide economic support and medical and nursing care for their aging parents and grandparents.She is also collaborating with psychologists and sociologists on a project in Nanjing, China, examining relationships between parents' socioeconomic trajectories, parenting beliefs and practices, and child development among 414 families with infants and 710 families with adolescents.

出版者:Stanford University Press

作者:Vanessa L. Fong

页数:256

出版时间:2004-03

价格:USD 45.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780804749619

图书标签:人类学独生子女现象Anthropology社会学中国社会学/人类学ethnography现代化

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The first generation of children born under China’s one-child family policy is now reaching adulthood. What are these children like? What are their values, goals, and interests? What kinds of relationships do they have with their families? This is the first in-depth study to analyze what it is like to grow up as the state-appointed vanguard of modernization. Based on surveys and ethnographic research in China, where the author lived with teenage only children and observed their homes and classrooms for 27 months between 1997 and 2002, the book explores the social, economic, and psychological consequences of the government’s decision to accelerate the fertility transition.

Only Hope shows how the one-child policy has largely succeeded in its goals, but with unintended consequences. Only children are expected to be the primary providers of support and care for their retired parents, grandparents, and parents-in-law, and only a very lucrative position will allow them to provide for so many dependents. Many only children aspire to elite status even though few can attain it, and such aspirations lead to increased stress and competition, as well as intense parental involvement.

读后感

作者透过纷繁复杂的社会表像，从独特的视角，精准的剖析出独生子女制度下社会方方面面存在的问题，是一本值得当今父母仔细阅读的好书。译者结合国情现实，融入自身观点，很接地气，赞！每个人生活在当今社会怎么能不深入细致地考虑一下这个问题呢？推荐大家读这本书，推荐大家...  

用户评价

2.5

很有意思的田野调查，语言平实，在家长里短中探寻独生子女成长中的困惑以及宏观上的意义。

Singletons were accused been spoiled because they felt entitled to elite status in a world where most people could not be elite. The desire to gain elite status against all odds can be problematic in a world where opportunities to attain elite status are far outnumbered by those who aspire to attain it.

对于90年代末城市青少年生活很仔细生动的描绘。捕捉到了「第三世界的家长和第一世界的孩子」这个很独特的时刻，其中的张力，以及青少年的状态（当然是某些青少年）。理论不是这本书的长处（没有挑战任何的现代化叙事，不过这也是在城市里主流价值），而是刺激读者回到那个独特的时间点。最后引用鲁迅「路」的那个讨论没展开挺可惜的，不过我也是后见之明。

其实看完这书，我的感觉是我也可以出书了。。。