邻里社区(即“社区”)作为城市的基本组成单元,其生存发展状态与整个城市的发展息息相关、密不可分。然而,我们对当代都市邻里社区的历史发展轨迹、地方政治、社区组织、社会阶层等方面的内容都处于一个懵懂的、似是而非的状态。为了揭开邻里社区的朦胧面纱,著名的人类学家西奥多·C·贝斯特(Theodore C.Bester)通过长达两年的田野调查及多次回访追踪,对东京当代都市邻里进行了 Neighborhood community (ie “community ”) as the city’s basic unit, its survival and development status and the development of the entire city are closely linked, are inseparable. However, we are ignorant and paradoxical about the historical development of local neighborhood communities, local politics, community organizations and social strata. To uncover the hazy veils of its neighborhood community, the famous anthropologist Theodore C. Bester conducted a two-year fieldwork and multiple follow-up visits to contemporary urban neighborhoods in Tokyo