编者按 学术会议往往被视为知识生产的中心舞台，但在聚光灯与纷扰的学术社交场之外，参会者们如何安放他们的身体、田野与生命经验？作者可仔记录了自己第一次前往首尔参加人类学会议的“非正式”之旅。旅程中真正具有“修复性”的相遇并未发生在流程化、表演性的会场，而是降临在临时合租房、菜市场地下室的昏暗格子间里。一场在深夜休息室里意外展开的“采耳”与相互抚触，牵引出了被在英文学术报告中被压缩、隐匿的田野感官记忆…
· 编按 · 你有没有在买机票时见过一个选项：只要多付几块钱，你就能“碳抵消”“碳补偿”这趟飞行，有时还会获得一张电子证书。这种环保“赎罪券”的原理是：既然此时此地的排放（如坐飞机、企业生产）难以避免，那么就可以通过购买彼时彼地的减排项目（如种树、护林）来达成平衡。在这个过程中，自然界的实体与过程被转化为可计算、可交易、可流通的金融资产，因而也可以在纸面上达成“抵消”与“补…
Song of the Small Island is a cycle of fictional stories grounded in the lived realities of Ryukyuan Chinese communities, who endured multiple colonialisms and devastating wars across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
《小岛歌》是一组虚构故事，所立足的现实是琉球华人在十九和二十世纪遭受的多重殖民和酷烈战争。
何为“义”？我们如何理解自己和所在群落所经历的公平和冤屈？义是否有高低，它如何在情与法之间获得平衡？本文作者Xuting就这些思考，带读者进入李海燕2023年出版的《一定的正义：中国法律想象的生态学（A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination）》。 讨论正义在中国古典文学中自成脉络，对于当下面对时代巨浪…
Life’s Answer Sheet: Self-Study Exam of Female Migrant Workers in Pearl River Delta
生命的答卷：珠三角打工女性的自考
· 编者按 · The Higher Education Self-Study Exam (commonly abbreviated as zikao) is China’s largest exam outside the national college entrance exam (gaokao). In 2024, it recorded 5.38 million exam …
This is a fieldwork handbook for County-Level Ethnography in China. County, xian 县, has long been a crucial analytical unit in China, in both academic social science and people’s conventional wi…
As the year draws to a close, many may have noticed the continuous decline in beef prices. But have you ever considered the meat industry economy behind this feast? The impact on Tibetan herders is pr…
This piece is an ethnographic fiction about Hainan, the second-largest island in China. Through the story of an intellectual who went to Hainan to “jump into the sea” (xiahai) in the 1980s, it traces …
This piece is a critical review of the book Glyphosate and the Swirl. Just a reminder—glyphosate, marketed as Roundup by Monsanto, is neither merely a universal chemical term nor just another Western …
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity delivers a revolutionary jolt to anthropology. Yet, celebrating it as a new canon would be ironic—precisely the kind of intellectual heroism the book …