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- 历史
- 海外中国研究
- 明清史
- 宋怡明
- 社会学
- 社会史
- 历史人类学
- 明史
- 政治哲学
- 治理艺术
- 权力结构
- 公民意识
- 制度设计
- 社会秩序
- 公共管理
- 领导力
- 政府责任
- 公民参与
具体描述
How did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi explores the myriad ways that families fulfilled their obligations to provide a soldier to the army. The complex strategies they developed to manage their responsibilities suggest a new interpretation of an important period in China's history as well as a broader theory of politics.
Using previously untapped sources, including lineage genealogies and internal family documents, Szonyi examines how soldiers and their families living on China's southeast coast minimized the costs and maximized the benefits of meeting government demands for manpower. Families that had to provide a soldier for the army set up elaborate rules to ensure their obligation was fulfilled, and to provide incentives for the soldier not to desert his post. People in the system found ways to gain advantages for themselves and their families. For example, naval officers used the military's protection to engage in the very piracy and smuggling they were supposed to suppress. Szonyi demonstrates through firsthand accounts how subjects of the Ming state operated in a space between defiance and compliance, and how paying attention to this middle ground can help us better understand not only Ming China but also other periods and places.
作者简介
Michael Szonyi is professor of Chinese history and director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. His books include Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China and Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line.
目录信息
Dramatis Familiae xiii
Introduction A Father Loses Three Sons to the Army: Everyday Politics in Ming China 1
PART I IN THE VILLAGE
1 A Younger Brother Inherits a Windfall: Conscription, Military Service, and Family Strategies 25
2 A Family Reunion Silences a Bully: New Social Relations between Soldiers and Their Kin 64
PART II IN THE GUARD 3 An Officer in Cahoots with Pirates: Coastal Garrisons and Maritime Smuggling 83
4 An Officer Founds a School: New Social Relations in the Guards 109
PART III IN THE MILITARY COLONY
5 A Soldier Curses a Clerk: Regulatory Arbitrage Strategies in the Military Colonies 131
6 A Temple with Two Gods: Managing Social Relations between Soldier-Farmers and Local Civilians 159
PART IV AFTER THE MING
7 A God Becomes an Ancestor: Post-Ming Legacies of the Military System 191
Conclusion 215
Acknowledgments 239
Glossary 241
Notes 245
Bibliography 269
Illustration Sources 291
Index 293
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读后感
1）页269 “实际上，它代表了连续不断的仪式蜕变历史的新篇章” 以下 The Houshan temple's ritual network expanded dramatically as recently as 2014, with the creation of the "outer" parade, about which I have so far said very little. This is a new innovation, an...
评分 评分平素读书，喜好读史，以明心智。年轻时候，眼高气盛，喜欢读“大历史”：史记汉书、资治通鉴、人物传记、诸子原典……沉浸于上下五千年的滔滔长河，纵揽风云际会的胸胆开张，读得久了，也会做青史留名的梦，幻想自己也能像历史上的贤才名将似的建一番功业。然而，我们中的绝大...
评分用户评价
the description of basic facts and institutions may be not surprising, or even superficial in terms of the scholarship of institutional history, but such an endeavor to incorporate institutional history into social history, which the author have long been trained and familiar with, and the excellent art of storytelling are the most intriguing parts
评分终于读完了！我本人对第3章更感兴趣，但还是有点值得商榷的地方，另外抓到注释里引用文献的typo啦。第5、6章实在是太累了就摸鱼了，不过有时候用英文看对家谱文本本身的描述很容易找不到北，可能是我英文太菜了吧。anyway非常值得一看。P.S.大陆版一定会被censor这个跑不了。
评分Even after the Ming dynasty collapsed, people still manage to maintain prerogatives to serve their interests in the Qing dynasty. Interestingly, local magistrate was choosing to apply an outdated regulatory regime because he saw no alternative. Seems like learning how to benefit from regulatory arbitrage has embedded in Chinese’s’ NDA.
评分Even after the Ming dynasty collapsed, people still manage to maintain prerogatives to serve their interests in the Qing dynasty. Interestingly, local magistrate was choosing to apply an outdated regulatory regime because he saw no alternative. Seems like learning how to benefit from regulatory arbitrage has embedded in Chinese’s’ NDA.
评分小切口历史人类学。从家谱民间叙述和documents中重建明代军户制度的原貌。细致有趣。作者从none-structural perspective挖掘被统治者如何maximize family interest和整体解构进行互动，顺带讲了明代海上贸易与军户“倭寇”间的复杂关系，以及屯戍制度与土地流转的张力。Impressive story telling!
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