Flora & Fauna: Domestic Nature and Private Collecting in Reform Era Beijing

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出版時間｜2025-06

作者｜謝一誼

出版社｜Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN｜9789819654031

簡介

｜內容簡介｜

本書探討了北京家庭自然栽培中所展現出的親密關係與共同變化。作者提出了一個簡單的問題：當國家對言論的管控日益嚴格、公共空間逐漸被市場取代時，人們如何表達自我？

 

透過對「花草與動物」（Flora and Fauna）興起的民族誌描寫——也就是在家中進行自然栽培的美學實踐——本書關注的是中國傳統「收藏」（shoucang）習慣的轉變，並講述了在言論自由不斷退縮的背景下，自然所承載的象徵意涵如何成為對歷史、自我與政治進行情感評論的錨點。

 

隨著自然的詩學成為一種表達文化的形式，本書描繪了家居空間如何轉變為充滿政治意涵的場域，在其中人們協商自身的美學主權。Flora & Fauna 促使讀者重新思考自然的美學與家居馴化中的政治性，特別是在當今中國因市場危機而引發的巨大社會變遷中。

 

｜作者介紹｜

謝一誼是台灣國立陽明交通大學文化研究國際中心的研究員。

 

｜目錄｜

CHAPTER 1: Introduction: The Use of an Object…1

CHAPTER 2: Aesthetic Sovereignty: Humming Insects and Ethno-Entomology…35

CHAPTER 3: Tanked Fish and Aquatic Happiness…61

CHAPTER 4: Flower and Bird: Aesthetics of Domestic Nature…93

CHAPTER 5: Grotesque Angels of History: The Eight Great Marvels…127

CHAPTER 6: Coda: Flora and Fauna in Crisis…177

Index…187

 

 

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"This sophisticated, beautifully written book explores the sensorial worlds of Old Beijing connoisseurs and their nonhuman companions. I-Yi Hsieh’s text immerses us in nostalgic activities including the poetics of cricket-human communication and the mutually sustaining labor of heritage goldfish and their breeders. The result is an unforgettable account of multispecies life existing on the margins of a city marked by its relentless pursuit of growth."  

--- Nicholas Bartlett, Assistant Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University. 

 

"This is a brilliant and timely book. Blending political economy, social psychology, ethnography and ecology, Hsieh’s original and engaging study views modern China through the traders and clients of the city’s insect-fish-flower-bird markets. The author paints an intimate picture of their lives and livelihoods, showing how the nostalgic traditions of folk-art connoisseurship subsist in a society under intense political control and commercial pressures. Hsieh’s work is at the same time theoretically sophisticated and deeply humane, taking seriously the domestic care of nature in miniature, against the background of implacable external forces." 

--- Peter Stewart, Director, Classical Art Research Centre Professor of Ancient Art University of Oxford

 

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