Labor Pain And Metamorphosis

With the development of urbanization, an increasing number of farmers have lost their lands and thus have been resettled to be city residents. As the socio-cultural environment changes, the life style, behavioral conscience and social attitude of the resettled residents change as well, making them full of research values. Based on previous researches, this paper takes a resettled family in Binhu new district as the object of study, aiming at describing and recording its life through the field work of participation, observation and in-depth interview from the perspective of the family’s cultural change. After collecting a great amount of first-hand data, this paper presents the cultural change of a resettled family like an ethnographic record, trying to observe and describe problems arising from the farmer’s citizenship through the perspective of cultural change and providing references for further researches.The paper is composed of three parts. The first one is the introduction. Culture leads the past and guides to the future. In today’s Chinese social development, material and technology change usually takes place before the immaterial adapted culture emerges, and culture adjusts the changed environment through changes at this point, which indicates the realistic meaning of studying the cultural change. Then the paper studies and generalizes both domestic and foreign researches on problems of cultural change and the farmer’s citizenship, finding out that few researches have focused on the micro-level to depict and analyze the cultural change of the farmer’s citizenship through the perspective of a family by various means, which is also the academic innovation of this paper. The smooth study requires that the concept of farmer’s citizenship----the object of study involved----should be defined clearly; the paper also describes the field spots multi-dimensionally and comprehensively. Before the field work, it is necessary to have an in-depth understanding of the natural and historical environments that need to be investigated, which plays an important role in successfully entering the investigated spots and thoroughly accomplish the investigation. Therefore, the paper depicts the Binhu new district in Hefei and the Binhu resettled residential quarter in detail, finding out that Binhu new district, as an important component of Hefei urban construction, has had a great many residents resettled due to the urban planning and demolition. These residents, used to be farmers living in the countryside, are transferred to be residents living in the city now. Confronted with the new citizen culture in the city, their old culture has undergone an enormous change. So it is distinctly representative to choose a typical family in the Binhu resettled residential quarter as a case of study. The second part is an ethnographic record. This paper describes the life style, behavioral conscience and social attitude of Aunt Wang’s family, a resettled family, by means of field work like participation, observation and deep description. The final part is the conclusion. On the basis of on-the-spot investigation data, the author theoretically interprets and analyzes the life style, behavioral conscience and social attitude of Aunt Wang’s family----a representative of resettled families, proposes problems arising from farmer’s citizenship in cultural change, and briefly discusses the solutions.