图书标签: 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
发表于2024-12-22
The Art of Being Governed pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
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.
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.
有点意思
评分从如此小且冷门的角度切入明史,所探讨的问题却是明朝根本的军事制度问题,且讨论了平民与国家之间互动,并利用这种互动,让自己的利益最大化。老百姓虽是被统治的对象,却在互动中并非被动的一方,其中可操作可主导的空间很大。作者还进一步论证了民间应对策略的问题,这些策略直至今天仍在中国民间与国家的关系中起着作用。
评分学术也是arbitrage的艺术……
评分以小见大的又一范本。从军户在不同circumstances的生存智慧出发,结合“everyday politics”的概念,对明朝历史的一些既有理解提出挑战或做出修正(contract,lineage,withdrawal of the state,commercial revolution)。Conclusion显示野心,尝试归纳一般意义上premodern state中state-society relations的特点(regulatory arbitrage),最后对Mitchell “state effect”的概念进行升华,提出“premodern state effect"的概念,即the presence of state是地方统治的必要资源和一些社会现象的源头。
评分理论一团糟,但是有重要的介入
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评分为了确保军队维持在一定的规模,明朝实行了一项军户制度。简略地说,军户制度就是从民户中选出一部分定为军户,要求每个军户必须保证任何时候始终提供一名士兵在军队服役。如果在服役的士兵病死、战死或出现其他意外状况,对应的军户必须再提供一个新的男丁补充。这名正在服役...
评分为了确保军队维持在一定的规模,明朝实行了一项军户制度。简略地说,军户制度就是从民户中选出一部分定为军户,要求每个军户必须保证任何时候始终提供一名士兵在军队服役。如果在服役的士兵病死、战死或出现其他意外状况,对应的军户必须再提供一个新的男丁补充。这名正在服役...
评分2020—13! 集权专制体制下,百姓像钟摆般在顺民与暴民两端来回摆档,在这中间,百姓又是什么状态呢?象我们一般想象的逆来顺受吗? 本书以明代卫所军事体制下的福建沿海军户生存状态为切入点,利用当地族谱,向我们展示了中间状态下的百姓的日常政治,这些狡黠的沉默的大多数...
The Art of Being Governed pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024