高家村: 共和國農村生活素描

三十．三十書系

by 高默波, Mobo C.F. Gao

本書作者以自己的故鄉高家村作為研究對象，近距離深描了這個江西的普通農村從1949年到1990年代中期各方面的情況和變遷。作者刻意回避宏大敘事而回歸個體經驗，力求站在高家村人的立場上，書寫底層農民在這數十年間的真正經歷和感受。作者本就來自農村，因此他的平民立場格外地自發自然，筆下的農民和農村也尤具說服力。

在書中，作者展現了一幅迥異於國內外主流論述所塑造的農村圖景。因此全書雖是白描式的日常敘述，卻始終處在一種無形的論辯中。本書在還未進入中文世界之前，就已引起中國知識界的激烈論爭，足見其背後蘊含的巨大衝擊力。

Genres: China, History, Nonfiction, Anthropology

288 pages, Paperback

First published March 11, 1999

Reviews

[Will · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this comprehensive, personal study of a small village in rural China as part of my sociology class on social inequalities in China. Gao, who was born in the village that shares his surname, was the only village child to attend college, and if not for the affirmative action policies put in place during the radical era of the Cultural Revolution (not an entirely negative campaign, though it did kill hundreds of thousands and erase centuries of Chinese culture and architecture), he wouldn't have gone at all.

Gao studies Gao Village from a sociological and analytic perspective, but the narrative's explanation of healthcare, education, corruption, the collective era, migrant labor, wealth, and industry has a personal touch. The villagers are Gao's family, and he makes that clear; but he expresses the plethora of difficulties rural Chinese faced and still face before, during, and after the collective era. Some of his anecdotes are familiar and positive, while others are critical of Chinese Communist Party policies. However, Gao succeeds in creating an account of his village and the trials it faced in the last tumultuous century. Recommended.

[Lyset · Rating 2 out of 5]

發現現在有的學者超級雞賊。在寫作的時候特意強調自己的著作不涉及意識形態的討論，卻習慣性利用「特例」與社會長期批判的「非正確」觀點背後已被證實真實存在且具有廣泛性的現象相聯繫，試圖強調「特例」的存在以發起對「非正確」觀點的隱形反駁。我為啥說是隱形反駁？因為有相當一部分讀者習慣性將書中的「特例」誤作「常態化」——事實是，書中已經發生的事情並不具有「常態化」的性質。在非黑即白思想的推動下，觀點也隨之趨於「偏執」，成為學術切磋時的「絕對真理」——高默波的《高家村》就是一個典型，今晚讀完他這本著作著實讓我大開眼界。汪暉作為左派學者，甚至親自下場為這本書寫序和稀泥進而為高這種雞賊學者的「翻案」行動站台，這與北大中文系的孔慶東頗為類似，二者在我看來極其可恥。