微型社区研究的范本——《江村经济》再读

A famous book of cultural anthropology, navigation of miniature community study——After reading JiangCun Economy

《江村经济》(英文名《中国农民的生活》)是费孝通1938年在英国伦敦大学学习时撰写的博士论文。作者根据对中国东部,太湖东南岸开弦弓村的实地考察,描述了中国农民的消费、生产、分配和交易等体系,旨在说明这一经济体系与特定地理环境,以及与所在社区的社会结构的关系。该书1939年在英国出版,其微型社区研究开启了文化人类学的新篇章,被列入"国际社会学丛书"。

JiangCun Economy, whose English name is Peasant Life in China, was Fei Xiaotong＇s doctoral thesis, which was written in 1938 at University of London. According to the survey of east China and Kaixiangong Village at south bank of Tai Lake, Fei Xiaotong described the system of Chinese peasants＇ consumption, production, distribution and trade and so on in order to explain the relationship between this economic system and specific geographic environment and social structure of the community. This book was published in England in 1939, its miniature community study has initiated a new chapter of the cultural anthropology, and it was included in International Sociological Collection.