传统宗族与跨国社会实践

作为中国农村尤其是南方地区的一种有效传统社会组织,宗族曾经被自20世纪以来的现代化、工业化和社会主义革命运动视为妨碍中国现代化进程的封建落后组织而加以打击,一度销声匿迹。过去的20多年来,东南部乡村尤其是闽南乡村见证了宗族组织的普遍复兴。作为产生于明清时期的社会组织,宗族显示了其在全球化的现代化条件下的适应性和灵活性。基于血缘上的认同(当今仍然是重要的几种基本认同之一),宗族成为联结中国东南沿海地区和东南亚的另一种跨国纽带。从闽南一个宗族的个案当中,我们可以探讨文化和社会传统组织在东南沿海的复兴与海外华人跨国社会实践的关系。

Traditional Lineage and the Transnational Social Practice

As a traditional indigenous social institution,the Chinese lineage which had been forced to disappear as a viable organi-zational form in the onslaughts of modernization,industrialization,and revolution,has emerged once again as an important medi-um of forging transnational connections between coastal China and Southeast Asia.Given the right historical and political condi-tion,the lineage,a late imperial Chinese social institution,has the flexibility to adapt to and flourish in the modern conditions ofglobalization.It poses as an alternative medium of transnational connectedness based on the primary identity of kinship.