在中国学者研究美国的众多著述中 ,涉及美国乡村问题研究的非常有限。这也难怪 ,作为世界上城市化最为发达的一个国家 ,许多美国人自己也认为美国的乡村日趋衰落 ,失去了在美国社会生活中曾经拥有过的重要性。在 2 0世纪初的头 2 0年里 ,大多数美国人还居住在乡村 ,而今天乡村? Among the many Chinese scholars studying the United States, there are very limited studies on American rural issues. It’s no wonder that as a country with the most developed urbanization in the world, many Americans themselves think that the decline of the American countryside is losing the importance it once had in American social life. During the first 20 years of the early 2000s, most Americans lived in rural areas. Today’s rural areas?