Dissertation Research: Food Rationing Practices in Urban China: A View from Shanghai

论文研究：中国城市的食品配给实践：来自上海的视角

• 批准号: 9807440
• 负责人: James Watson
• 金额: $ 1.03万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-08-01 至 1999-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9807440&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Food; Rationing; Practices

This dissertation research project by a cultural anthropology student at Harvard University. The project will develop an historical and ethnographic account of food rationing and consumption practices in urban China. It will demonstrate the process by which a socialist rationing system, in effect from 1953-1993, evolved, developed and transformed into a scheme of post-socialist welfare assistance. The central hypothesis of the project is that individual strategizing subverted a rigid system of rationing and control and facilitated the system's final absorption into a market-oriented, capitalist economy. The hypothesis will be tested through archival research and in-depth investigation of routine practices of food rationing. During the project the student will systematically collect and examine official statistics, life stories and work histories. A detailed analysis of these data, both qualitative and quantitative, will help determine the extent to which everyday transactions in coupons under rationing served as a prologue to the revival of market competition and entrepreneurial behavior in post-Mao China. The project will advance the anthropological understanding of the social meaning of money and exchange, enrich the existing literature on everyday life in socialist and post-socialist societies and contribute a fresh approach to the study of China's social and economic transition.

该论文研究项目由哈佛大学文化人类学学生完成。 该项目将对中国城市的食品配给和消费实践进行历史和民族志描述。 它将展示1953年至1993年间实行的社会主义配给制度演变、发展并转变为后社会主义福利援助计划的过程。 该项目的中心假设是，个人战略颠覆了严格的配给和控制体系，并促进该体系最终被市场导向的资本主义经济所吸收。 该假设将通过档案研究和对食品配给常规做法的深入调查来检验。 在项目期间，学生将系统地收集和检查官方统计数据、生活故事和工作经历。对这些数据进行详细的定性和定量分析，将有助于确定配给下的优惠券日常交易在多大程度上是后毛泽东时代中国市场竞争和创业行为复兴的序幕。 该项目将促进人类学对货币和交换的社会意义的理解，丰富有关社会主义和后社会主义社会日常生活的现有文献，并为研究中国的社会和经济转型提供新的方法。