自我的他性

在《自我的他性》中，流心以华南某一沿海城市的商业实践逻辑作为研究对象，通过对三类人（官员、商人和小姐）作民族志描述，阐释他们所讲述的有关自我或他人的故事，从而揭示当代中国的自我结构。

本书的特色在于，进行以城市空间为分析对象的田野工作，或明或暗地对以村庄为分析对象的人类学研究的经典模式提出批判，民族志描述的焦点不再是人们的实际经验，而是他们讲述的故事。当代中国正在经历一场剧烈的变革，在变革中，中国人的性格发生极大的变化，他们随时改变自己，甚至很容易就能在性格上变为另一个人，这就是作者所说的自我的他性。

Liu Xin is a professor of sociocultural anthropology in University of California at Berkeley. His English works include The Mirage of China: Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World (New York and London: Berghahn, 2009), New Reflections on Anthropological Studies of greater China (the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berk...

Liu Xin is a professor of sociocultural anthropology in University of California at Berkeley. His English works include The Mirage of China: Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World (New York and London: Berghahn, 2009), New Reflections on Anthropological Studies of greater China (the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 2004), The Otherness of Self: A Genealogy of the Self in Contemporary China (University of Michigan Press, 2002), In One’s Own Shadow: An Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post-Reform Rural China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).