This book presents a new perspective on attempts by the contemporary Chinese government to transform the diverse conditions found in countless rural villages into what the state’s social welfare program deems “socialist new villages.” Lili Lai argues that an ethnographic focus on the specifics of village life can help destabilize China’s persistent rural-urban divide and help c...
This book presents a new perspective on attempts by the contemporary Chinese government to transform the diverse conditions found in countless rural villages into what the state’s social welfare program deems “socialist new villages.” Lili Lai argues that an ethnographic focus on the specifics of village life can help destabilize China’s persistent rural-urban divide and help contribute to more effective welfare intervention to improve health and hygienic conditions of village life.
作者简介
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Lili Lai is a postdoctoral researcher with the Institute of Medical Humanities at the University of Southampton.
Looking back, my interest in these situated perceptions of hygiene stemmed from my own experiences – the unfamiliarity, inconvenience, and adjustments of living in a village – under conditions in Shang village to which I was quite unaccustomed. People live a practical understanding of hygiene as part of a local habitus. And habitus, while inarticulate, is a powerful determinant of a sense of comfort and of propriety. The washstand, to be found in every household in Shang village, is a silent yet powerful indication of villagers’ attention to cleanliness and concern with weisheng(i.e. both hygiene and health), in both a general collective sense and also a personal and, of course, embodied sense. One wonders how I, a so-called urbanite who washed her hair less often than many in the village,... (查看原文)
Although, to Freud, the uncanny was more a sensation, feeling, or fear, it also refers to experiences where the world we live in suddenly seems strange; or, better put, both familiar and strange. In his famous 1919 essay, Freud sets out to explain the uncanny, or more precisely, unheimlich [unhomely] in German, saying that “what is heimlich comes to be unheimlich” (1919: 4). That is to say, the un- both negates (represses) and releases (reveals) theheimlich that connotes “familiar” and “belonging to the home” (1919: 1). By paraphrasing Schelling’s def inition, Freud makes it clear that the uncanny is “something which ought to have been kept concealed but which has nevertheless come to light” (1919: 13). The un- in uncanny connotes both repression and revelation, and, according to Collins a... (查看原文)
0 有用 加我QQ 2025-09-12 11:18:47 天津
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6 有用 姐是女王 2021-08-16 15:07:34
uncanny 用的有说服力，曾经习惯的变成诡异的陌生。比如城市人习惯了干净，忽略了干净背后的高成本，农村那样的才是曾经大多人的生存环境，比如中世纪肮脏的城市。用uncanny打破同质化的城乡二元对立。卫生和现代化rogaski已经写的很好了，这部换了角度从农村人抗拒自己被认为是不卫生的，和屋外因为现代化农业而导致human waste 没有处理好形成“dirty”。反思moral crisis（... uncanny 用的有说服力，曾经习惯的变成诡异的陌生。比如城市人习惯了干净，忽略了干净背后的高成本，农村那样的才是曾经大多人的生存环境，比如中世纪肮脏的城市。用uncanny打破同质化的城乡二元对立。卫生和现代化rogaski已经写的很好了，这部换了角度从农村人抗拒自己被认为是不卫生的，和屋外因为现代化农业而导致human waste 没有处理好形成“dirty”。反思moral crisis（比饮水思源那本好）和hollow village中的延伸的immanent sociality也不错。最终还是逃不过不可避免的都市化。作者引经据典，看的出费心思了，没有掉书袋的感觉 (展开)
3 有用 一颗柠檬水儿 2024-10-03 15:08:30 湖北
建设新农村作为新自由主义/现代化工程忽视了农村本土的卫生观念、潜在社会性、农业知识、休闲娱乐方式等，造成自上而下的政策“水土不服”。城乡二元的对立不仅是经济体制上的，还是观念和日常实践上的。
1 有用 Friction 2026-03-31 14:58:42 北京
我们确实处在一个特殊的历史时刻，现代化同时制造了互为依存的先进的城市和落后的农村，也生产了一代/二代城市人回望农村的尴尬不适以至于uncanny感。而在宏观层面上的建设新农村也因此十分错位，道路以外基础设施的缺席也注定不可能农村和城市一样实现“现代化”的卫生或“高素质”。
1 有用 不爱吃零食 2026-02-02 17:34:33 上海
整体写的比较descriptive，但讲的内容都很切中要害。“建设社会主义新农村”一下子将urban/rural放在了两个对立的位置，曾经很多所谓“农村”“农村人”的行为、习惯一下子变成了需要摒弃的陋习（所以是uncanny）、而农民自己却不觉得有什么错，也并不羡慕城市和现代的生活。整个让农村现代化的过程事实上以牺牲农民自己的声音和想法为代价，所以才有了作者提到有村民一开始错误地将其视为向上反馈意... 整体写的比较descriptive，但讲的内容都很切中要害。“建设社会主义新农村”一下子将urban/rural放在了两个对立的位置，曾经很多所谓“农村”“农村人”的行为、习惯一下子变成了需要摒弃的陋习（所以是uncanny）、而农民自己却不觉得有什么错，也并不羡慕城市和现代的生活。整个让农村现代化的过程事实上以牺牲农民自己的声音和想法为代价，所以才有了作者提到有村民一开始错误地将其视为向上反馈意见的渠道。 (展开)