Yan Y
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 1999 Mar;23(1):75-97. doi: 10.1023/a:1005403731567.
This article describes how economic reforms have transformed the local world of village life in North China, specifically the emergence of a rural "youth culture" that reflects urban values and styles. This culture has both challenged and enriched rural China's tradition and its more recent communal structure, a change that reshapes the relations amongst family members of different age cohorts as well as between peasants and cadres, it is argued that this transformation in the Chinese countryside holds opportunities to improve living conditions and unmake the constraints of tradition and the modern nation-state on life chances and everyday experience. The sheer number of rural youth in China suggests that the future impact of this transformation on social realities could be enormous.
本文描述了经济改革如何改变了中国北方乡村生活的地方世界，特别是反映城市价值观和风格的农村“青年文化”的出现。这种文化既挑战了又丰富了中国农村的传统及其最近的社区结构，有人认为，这种变化重塑了不同年龄群体家庭成员之间以及农民与干部之间的关系。中国农村的这一转变为改善生活条件以及消除传统和现代民族国家对生活机会和日常经历的限制提供了机遇。中国农村青年的庞大数量表明，这一转变对社会现实的未来影响可能是巨大的。
