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專題特稿I ‧Feature Article I Understanding China: Agenda for Research Nan Lin Professor Department of Sociology Duke University 瞭解中國：研究議題的提出 林南 美國杜克大學社會系教授 中國近年來經濟的持續發展，西方學者特別關注政治與經濟層面的後果，一方 面有人疑惑在腐敗不斷擴張之下，政治與社會秩序能否持續維持，過熱的經濟是否 可能突然變調，導致世界的巨變？另一方面也有人認為目前的經濟榮景會持續下 去，因此思考中國的崛起將帶給當今美國為首的世界秩序何種影響。雖然這些問題 都很重要，但我認為以上這些問題帶有過多的假設和不實際的想法。與其推敲中國 崩潰或世界秩序重組的問題，不如致力於更紮實的研究，如此才可能更切實地評估 中國的未來。從社會學的角度，我認為以下幾個方向的問題非常值得學界繼續深入 探討：(1) 社會不平等的各種面向；(2) 休閒生活與消費行為；(3) 變遷中的社會關係 與社會網絡；(4) 重構中的財產權關係；(5) 轉換中的組織結構與制度，尤其在工作單 位上；(6) 移民問題及戶口制度的轉變；(7) 台灣資源不斷湧入中國，所帶來的政治、 經濟及社會後果；(8) 中國崛起對變動中的世界秩序的影響。 The last five to six years have witnessed Western Europe, its economy tripled in the 1990s. enormous economic and social changes in China that According to most projections, in five years, its will have significant implications for her internal economy will become the third largest, only behind development and her positioning in Asia and the US and Japan, and surpassing Germany. It is now world. It is important, for observers and scholars the fourth largest-exporter and third-largest importer interested in analyzing and understanding China, to in the world. It now accounts for the second largest take note of these changes and trends and to re- direct foreign investment, only following the U.S. Its assess agenda for research. incredible industrialization and demands for consumer goods have seen imports of raw and