中国城市化的礼物——城市礼物回收店的社会观察

The Gifts Featured Chinese Urbanization ——A Sociological Examination into Cities' Getting-Back Shops

在当今城市社会人与人之间普遍流通的礼物并非从来如此,而是其自身有社会变化的特性相伴随。礼品回收店视角、通过梳理新中国以后各阶段城市礼物的特征探视社会连接的方式与性质。认为,始于知青下放、被体制改革强化的生活不确定性是中国城市礼物流动背后的逻辑。并且,本文试图借此为礼物作为人类学经久不衰的话题、为面临急剧分化与分层的社会开具药方的理论界提供一个另类视角。

In contemporary China, the great circulation of gifts among citizens features no static state but ever-lasting social change. This article, from the perspective of cities' getting-back shops, and by way of organizing different phases of historical facts on circulation of urbanized gifts since 1949, assumes that the life uncertainty that began in settling-down of educated young people and developed in structural reformation causes such a circulation. And, as an eternal topic, the circulation gives an unusual viewpoint of polarized society that theorist are anxious to describe.