本文是作者对香港新界文氏宗族调查研究40年的概要性总结。作者具体分析文氏宗族的内部结构和海外移民史后得出一个结论:即使像汉人宗族那样的被看做前现代的亲属形态,也仍然生机勃勃地活在后现代的世界里。对今天层次更高而超越国境的大部分中国移民来说,亲属集团继续提供着形成社会组织的重要平台。 This article is a summary of the author’s 40 years of research on the Manchu clan in the New Territories, Hong Kong. After analyzing the internal structure of the Manchurian clan and the history of overseas immigrants, the author came to the conclusion that even if it is regarded as a pre-modern kinship like the Han clan, it still vividly lives in a postmodern world. For most Chinese immigrants who are at higher levels today and beyond their borders, kinship groups continue to provide an important platform for social organization.