Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025
- 法律史
- 社会史
- 清史
- 海外中国研究
- 苏成捷
- 明清史
- 婚姻
- 历史
- Qing Dynasty
- Polyandry
- Wife-selling
- Chinese history
- Social customs
- Marriage systems
- Gender studies
- Historical sociology
- Traditional society
- Cultural practices
具体描述
This book is a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912). By analyzing over 1200 legal cases from local and central court archives, Matthew Sommer explores the functions played by marriage, sex, and reproduction in the survival strategies of the rural poor under conditions of overpopulation, worsening sex ratios, and shrinking farm sizes. Polyandry and wife-selling represented opposite ends of a spectrum of strategies. At one end, polyandry was a means to keep the family together by expanding it. A woman would bring in a second husband in exchange for his help supporting her family. In contrast, wife sale was a means to survive by breaking up a family: a husband would secure an emergency infusion of cash while his wife would escape poverty and secure a fresh start with another man.
Even though Qing law prohibited both practices under the rubric “illicit sexual relations,” Sommer shows how magistrates charged with propagating and enforcing a fundamentalist Confucian vision of female chastity tried to cope with their social reality in the face of daunting poverty. This contradiction illuminates both the pragmatism of routine adjudication and the increasingly dysfunctional nature of the dynastic state in the face of mounting social crisis. By casting a spotlight on the rural poor and the experiences of both men and women, Sommer provides an alternative to the standard paradigms of women’s history that have long dominated scholarship on gender and sexuality in late imperial China.
作者简介
Matthew H. Sommer teaches Chinese history at Stanford University. He is the author of Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China.
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学术史：1. Female agency; 2. 经典社会经济史对于农民生活状况和社会危机的研究; 3. 法律史。论点最后归根于清帝国地方控制的失效。感觉不如第一本。
评分砍一些案件Conclusion再长一点，把话说清楚就更好了（criminalization of poverty就提了一句）。
评分大致翻了一遍，这书原本可以更短些。在“内卷化”以及性别比严重失调的前提下，讲到3%-3.5%的极端贫穷的农民如何采取非常极端的家庭“策略”，来尽可能的消解生存压力。在这个意义上，社区的道德、基层的法律都成为了“合谋者”。借由这一“同谋”，Sommer进一步证实了“大清药丸”，指出国家治理在基层的触角已经完全失控。这一点与他的师弟白德瑞写巴县衙役一样。人口史比较关注trend, normative behavior, 在统计的时候，5%粗略的说都可以不算了。而且八旗本身就是土地相对充足，社会相对封闭的community。在euro-asia的三大本里也强调，我们不是在进行国家间的比较，而是社区的间的。总之，已经晕。越来越不太了解大家在吵啥。
评分verbose; finally get through it.
评分学术史：1. Female agency; 2. 经典社会经济史对于农民生活状况和社会危机的研究; 3. 法律史。论点最后归根于清帝国地方控制的失效。感觉不如第一本。
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