中国的数字支付:一个实用主义货币人类学的几个问题

Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1515/ael-2021-0102
Horacio Ortiz
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本文探讨了中国数字支付的一些特征,为实用主义的货币人类学提出了分析问题。报告显示,中国的数字支付集中在两家公司手中,这两家公司属于为数不多的寡头垄断企业,它们在中国约8.5亿人之间组织数字连接。这引发了关于数字支付在社会相互依存和社会等级构成中的作用的问题。第二部分分析了这种情况发生的制度背景和合法化叙事。它显示了国有和非国有大型科技公司之间复杂的相互依存关系,它们产生了可以共享、分歧甚至矛盾的合法化叙事。这就提出了关于数字支付在构建国家社会项目中的作用的问题。在结论中,该论文回顾说,尽管中国境内的这些发展无法在其他地方复制,但它们为分析全球数字货币的现状和潜在未来提出了重要问题。
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Digital Payments in China: Some Questions for a Pragmatist Anthropology of Money
Abstract This article explores some features of digital payments in China to raise analytical questions for a pragmatist anthropology of money. It shows that digital payments in China are concentrated in two companies, that are part of a small oligopoly of companies that organize digital connections among around 850 million people in the territory. This raises questions concerning the role of digital payments for social interdependence and the constitution of social hierarchies. The second section analyzes the institutional setting and the legitimizing narratives with which this happens. It shows a complex interdependence between the state and non-state-owned big technological companies, which produce legitimizing narratives that can be shared, divergent or even contradictory. This raises questions concerning the role of digital payments in the project of constituting a national society. In the conclusion, the paper recalls that, although these developments in the Chinese territory cannot be replicated elsewhere, they pose important questions for the analysis of digital money’s present and potential futures worldwide.
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