改革开放三十多年来，中国城乡社会在现代工业化影响下快速转型，而消费主义与技术革新所迸发的巨大力量，正将其进一步带进现代性的悖论之中。现代性下的城与乡，以历史上前所未有之共生和对立的关系而紧密存在。在现代性带来进步和异化的同时，与之并存的城乡社区中的传统力量仍然强韧，并以一种日常展演的实践方式呈现自身的存在，二者如何共同重构城乡，是本项目研究之主旨。我们拟选择中国东部沿海、西部、港澳台等案例区域，以典型乡村和城市为研究对象，深入分析现代性与本土传统（价值观、信仰、日常生活、社会关系、聚落景观等）多维度的对话过程，解释城市性与乡村性在现代消费社会中是如何被混杂化、动态化地重构的，以及这种重构是如何以有别于既往的文化形态而被认同。本项目拟聚焦城与乡这两个既独立又紧密联系的主体，探索其重构文化认同的新机制。

Chinese urban and rural society have experienced great transformation under modern industrialization within more than 30 years since the reform and opening up in 1978. Great powers of consumerism and technological innovation, however, are now bringing China further into a paradox of modernity. Urban and rural closely exist in an unprecedented way of symbiosis and opposition under modernity. Although modernity brings progress and alienation, co-existential traditional powers remain strong in urban and rural communities simultaneously, and present in a practical way of everyday performance. The purport of this project is to explore how these two aspects jointly reconstruct urban and rural areas. This project intends to choose typical villages and cities in Chinese eastern coastal areas, western regions, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan as the study cases. Based on intensive analysis on the multi-dimensional dialogues between modernity and local traditions (e.g. values, beliefs, daily life, social relationships, and landscape), this project attempts to explain how urbanism and rurality are reconstructed in a state of hybridity and dynamics in the modern consumption society, as well as how this reconstruction be identified in new cultural forms differing from the past. Furthermore, this project aims to explore new reconstruction mechanisms of cultural identity by focusing on two subjects including urban and rural, which are independent but closely connected.