接近的距離：中國大陸台資廠的核心大陸員工與台商

本文以一個廠場為主的觀察，及核心大陸員工與台商的深入進行，嘗試探討中國大陸台資廠中核心大陸員工與台商，以及經由廠場場域中介的台商與中國大陸人接觸經驗的可能模式。藉由群體對日常生活互動過程的關係描述與評價，本文將進行的核心大陸員工與台商個案，各集分為不同的陌生經驗類型。由此指出大陸員工與台商，及台商與大陸人的接觸，以台資廠空間場域及台商的台胞身份，使大陸員工與台商處於關係上的接近。但經由密集互動，由於大陸員工對台商的台胞身分期待失望，以及台商表達對大陸社會適應與融入的不易，反而呈現他們之間不等的關係距離。

The focus of this article is social relationships between Mainland Chinese employees and Taiwanese entrepreneurs in China. Special attention is directed to understanding how these groups structure their interactions in terms of daily contact. Data consists of personal observations in a Taiwanese factory located in Shenzhen, as well as information obtained from in-depth interviews with Chinese core employees and Taiwanese business owner/managers. From a content analysis of their descriptions and assessments of day-to-day relations, the author distinguishes between different types in which otherness is experienced by members of each group. Results show that Chinese employees feel compelled to establish close relations with their Taiwanese superiors because of their interpretation of the entrepreneurs as Taibao (Taiwanese countrymen). However, their daily interactions reveal a sense of remoteness between the two groups, most likely resulting on the one hand from the disappointment of Chinese employees over their expectations of Taibao behavior, and on the other hand from the difficulties that the Taiwanese entrepreneurs experience if they attempt to integrate into the local social order.