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发表于2024-11-22
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.
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。
评分理论受影响于福柯的governmentality, James Scott的<The Art of Not Being Governed>还有再地化。其实一直觉得everyday politics本身就是一个用来挑战福柯非常好用的概念。
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1)英文本剛出版的時候就買了,但一直放在書架上沒打開來過。現在中譯本也已經出了,還是老老實實拿來讀一遍吧;2)本書在學術上的貢獻,中譯本條目下薩博·羅薩博士(Dr. Sub Rosa XD...)的短評已經寫得很清楚了。我相信,對明清史,尤其是明清社會經濟史和法制史,以及華南研究有了解的朋友,應該是很能夠進入本書的脈絡的。其實Szonyi講的東西並不難,但值得注意的是,他用了怎樣的理論架構以及敘述脈絡,串起一些既有的研究,然後把故事講得清楚,說得精彩;3)關於「套利」,可以讀一讀宮崎廣和(Hirokazu Miyazaki)的Arbitraging Japan;4)突然發現宋怡明的三本書我都讀過,講金門的依稀還有印象,第一本Practicing Kinship已經完全不知道講的是啥了。。。
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【编者按】宋教授於 2017 年 11 月底出版第三本專著《The Art of Being Governed:Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China》(被統治的技藝:帝制中國晚期的日常政治,簡稱《被統治的技藝》)。從書名可知,此書與《前線島嶼》同樣受到斯科特的影響。此書以明代沿海衛所為背...
评分 评分The Art of Being Governed pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024