Modernity through Grassroots Lens:
The Cultural Transformation of an Ethnic Community in Southwestern China
中文书名：
石门坎文化百年兴衰：中国西南一个山村的现代性经历
作者：沈红
一本关于贵州石门坎苗族文化变迁的研究新近问世，作者为中国社会科学院社会学学者沈红。全书包括两个专题研究。一部分以中文写就，一部分以英文写就。 英文专题研究《石门坎苗民的信仰变迁：社区认同的符号建构》，初成于二十世纪九十年代末；中文专题研究《石门坎乡村教育兴衰：现代性的嵌入》，则写作于2001至2004年寒来暑往的田野工作和书案劳动。
这本书写给关注乡村教育和少数民族宗教文化发展的人们。笔者试图以贵州西北一个苗族社区的基督教文化传播和现代乡村教育的历史兴衰起伏，为现代化和现代性这样一些宏大叙事提出一个地方性文本，做出一些不同以往的说明。
这本书写给关注石门坎历史与现实的人们，无论他们居住在石门坎本土或者远在他乡。笔者调查和访问了许多见证石门坎文化变迁的人士，书里引用的虽然不足他们讲述的百分之一，已然使我们得以遥望石门坎百年风云，观察那些曾经的辉煌。
This new book is for memory of the development of modern education of Stone Gateway in the past hundred years. Shen Hong, the author, is a Miao scholar of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The Miao in its long history of collective migration has been one of the poorest and most marginalized ethnic groups in China. Nevertheless, like the rest of the Chinese population, the Miao has not been immune to modern influences. With the penetration of Western influences in general and Christianity in particular, Stone Gateway, a community of the Flowery Miao located in southwestern China, changed rapidly from an isolated ethnic village to “the cultural center of the Miao.”
The monograph in English is a case study of cultural transformations in the Stone Gateway community in modern times. It focus on the symbolic construction and reconstruction of ethnic and national identity among the Flowery Miao as a consequence of the interactions of local traditions, Christian movements, and interventions from the central government. It attempt to explore various strategies and systems the central government in China has adopted to shape the inter-ethnic integration of the related ethnic groups and to build their national identity.
The monograph in Chinese is second output in the same community, in which the author moves the focus from identity issues to the modern education issues. Based on the fieldwork in the summer of 2001, the winter of 2002 and 2004, the analysis is to show how the Miao in Stone Gateway went down in education, as well as in sense of modernity.
目 录
上篇 石门坎苗民的信仰变迁：社区认同的符号建构
一 导论：族群认同的符号建构
二 中国历史上的苗族认同
三 石门坎的基督教运动
四 文化流变和符号创新
五 底层社会关于共同体的建构
下篇 石门坎乡村教育兴衰：现代性的嵌入
一 石门在何方
二 村民的教育程度
三 学校和学生的困境
四 记忆: 石门乡村教育过去的辉煌
五 记忆: 穷人求学和穷人办学
六 一个村庄两种教育
七 现代教育在贫困社区的嵌入
作者：沈红，中国社会科学院社会学研究所
Shen Hong，Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences