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.
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 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...
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...
非常好,尤其是书写策略。
评分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The conversation with James Scott is interesting. Not sure if I like the engagement with Foucault.
评分简直就是历史写作的典范! 越来越觉得历史呀,就是关于时间的民族志。
评分献给的三位老师说明了学术渊源:卜正民,科大卫,郑振满。讲得一手好故事,虽然读完时不少细节都记不清了。micro-history, bottom-up, social and cultural. 结论思绪飞扬,有格局有情怀。
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