In the The Confucian-Legalist State, Dingxin Zhao offers a radically new analysis of Chinese imperial history from the eleventh century BCE to the fall of the Qing dynasty. This study first uncovers the factors that explain how, and why, China developed into a bureaucratic empire under the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE. It then examines the political system that crystallized during the Western Han dynasty, a system that drew on China's philosophical traditions of Confucianism and Legalism. Despite great changes in China's demography, religion, technology, and socioeconomic structures, this Confucian-Legalist political system survived for over two millennia. Yet, it was precisely because of the system's resilience that China, for better or worse, did not develop industrial capitalism as Western Europe did, notwithstanding China's economic prosperity and technological sophistication beginning with the Northern Song dynasty.
In examining the nature of this political system, Zhao offers a new way of viewing Chinese history, one that emphasizes the importance of structural forces and social mechanisms in shaping historical dynamics. As a work of historical sociology, The Confucian-Legalist State aims to show how the patterns of Chinese history were not shaped by any single force, but instead by meaningful activities of social actors which were greatly constrained by, and at the same time reproduced and modified, the constellations of political, economic, military, and ideological forces. This book thus offers a startling new understanding of long-term patterns of Chinese history, one that should trigger debates for years to come among historians, political scientists, and sociologists.
Dingxin Zhao is Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and the author of several books, including the award-winning Power of Tiananmen (University of Chicago Press, 2001).
【本文节选自《开放时代》2019年第4期】 编者按 赵鼎新的英文近著《儒法国家:中国历史的新理论》(The Confucian-Legalist State:A New Theory of Chinese History)自出版以来,广受国内外学界关注,且于2016年荣获美国社会学学会政治社会学分会年度杰出专著奖。本刊曾于201...
评分非常荣幸能被邀请为这部精彩的著作写一份简短的书评。第一次与该书作者见面时,他还是就读于麦吉尔大学的学生,自那时起,我就对他很是钦佩,而今天他对中华文明特质的阐释工作圆满完成,我为他感到高兴。我在本文中的评论只不过是把作者书中所讲的内容又强调了一遍,原因极为...
评分【本文选自《开放时代》2019年第4期】 【内容提要】 本文旨在对八位欧美历史社会学界领军学者对拙作《儒法国家》的评论作出两点回应:第一点关乎我书中提出的社会变迁理论,第二点关乎我对为什么高度商业化的明清中国不可能自发地产生工业资本主义这一问题作出的回答。通过这两...
评分【本文节选自《开放时代》2019年第4期】 编者按 赵鼎新的英文近著《儒法国家:中国历史的新理论》(The Confucian-Legalist State:A New Theory of Chinese History)自出版以来,广受国内外学界关注,且于2016年荣获美国社会学学会政治社会学分会年度杰出专著奖。本刊曾于201...
评分赵鼎新的新书《儒法国家:中国历史的新理论》(以下简称“赵书”)是一本内容极其丰富的专著。①从时间上说,此书主要检查(examine)了古代中国自西周至西汉的历史,但也延伸到整个古代中国,即19世纪西方列强到达中国之前的中国历史。这本书检查和冲击了学术界、知识界近年来...
读过中国工业资本主义一章。这学期大家上了赵鼎新教授的课都颇有微词。看来今天社会学的结构功能主义研究方法已经过气,火的还是后现代文化研究那一套。
评分感觉只是把《东周战争》提出的框架用历史细节给补充了而已,仍然是在Tilly和Mann的基础上推进战争在国家的诞生中起的作用。不过这本书赵将重心放在了儒法国家的诞生以及其超稳定结构,从历史学的角度来看没什么新鲜的,但是社会科学重点是要找出分析机制,也是挺无聊的。赵真是在何处都要黑彭慕兰。
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评分比较失望。很多部分不是用社会学化的历史学观点,要么就是一锅粥;解决李约瑟问题的解释,跟贾斯汀·林的控制实验说法没区别啊~经常自我矛盾,一边说别人用一套理论来解释盛衰的办法无意义,一边自己要用一套理论来处理长程问题~章节也极不平衡,data少的先秦-汉部分分析了将近300页,之后data多的1800年用不到80页解决,所以还是只能根据证据少的部分做社会学分析,证据多起来以后,就很难处理和解释了(估计也是怕被历史学家捶)~经常根据中学历史水平知识和anecdote来组建论证,最后又开始跟出租司机聊,醉了...前有bring state back in,中有war-driven,后有Gorski的bring religion back in,赵老是要bring ideology back in么?
评分没有想象中那么好,一流但不是超一流。好话当然可以说很多:宏大历史架构与具体机制操作之间的熟稔勾连,赵本人津津乐道地多因对多果的方法,儒法国家概念本身蕴含的理论概括力和独特的问题意识等。遗憾:过度推论的漏洞仍然没有补上,核心内容没有超越十年前的中文草稿,对曼的理论应用比较机械……
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