将生命还给社会:传记法作为一种总体叙事方式

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Biography is a unique way of narration in ethnography and historiography. This paper attempts to position the works of Lin Yaohua in the context of the sociological and anthropological debates since the 1920s,and by doing so,explores the potentials of biographical method in the study of Chinese history and society. Although Lin was a bearer of the biographical tradition of Chinese literature and history,his works were also deeply influenced by both the narrative method of life history in America and the social life studies in France. In addition to the two influential western biographical traditions,anthropologists in Britain developed the genealogical method in their investigation of sacred kingship. This study regards these three traditions of individual life biography,social life studies,and genealogical methods as "biography triangle". Relevant works in contemporary Chinese sociology and anthropology are reviewed under this framework. It is conceivable that phenomenological description alone is not sufficient when applying the biographical method. One must take into consideration of the Chinese centralized power and the overall social structure. Only by placing life biography against the everchanging process of society can it turn individual stories into powerful narratives depicting the whole structure of Chinese social life.

Key words: biography, genealogical method, life history, social structure, conjuncture

ZHAO Bingxiang. Return Life to Society: Biography as a Narrative of the Whole[J]. Chinese Journal of Sociology, 2019, 39(1): 37-70.

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