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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.
- 曆史
- 海外中國研究
- 明清史
- 宋怡明
- 社會學
- 社會史
- 曆史人類學
- 明史
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.
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【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...
評分 評分翻了翻笔记，从1月29号开始看，每天从写志的时间中抽出约一个小时阅读，到3月20日正式读完。收获不小。本书可以笼统概括为“上有政策下有对策”的研究，但若是仔细探究又会觉得这种概括太过于简略而忽略了很多细节。要完整概述本书主题不容易：在明代军事制度下，民众是如何应...
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學術也是arbitrage的藝術……
评分繼承瞭傳統漢學見微知著的特點，從微觀研究中探討基本的「國傢-社會」的宏大問題，在如今的美國中國史研究中顯得尤為難得。太久沒讀明代研究，感覺還是那麼熟悉。
评分以小見大的又一範本。從軍戶在不同circumstances的生存智慧齣發，結閤“everyday politics”的概念，對明朝曆史的一些既有理解提齣挑戰或做齣修正（contract，lineage，withdrawal of the state，commercial revolution）。Conclusion顯示野心，嘗試歸納一般意義上premodern state中state-society relations的特點（regulatory arbitrage)，最後對Mitchell “state effect”的概念進行升華，提齣“premodern state effect"的概念，即the presence of state是地方統治的必要資源和一些社會現象的源頭。
评分以小見大的又一範本。從軍戶在不同circumstances的生存智慧齣發，結閤“everyday politics”的概念，對明朝曆史的一些既有理解提齣挑戰或做齣修正（contract，lineage，withdrawal of the state，commercial revolution）。Conclusion顯示野心，嘗試歸納一般意義上premodern state中state-society relations的特點（regulatory arbitrage)，最後對Mitchell “state effect”的概念進行升華，提齣“premodern state effect"的概念，即the presence of state是地方統治的必要資源和一些社會現象的源頭。
评分我磕磕絆絆讀完然後戰戰兢兢打個四星。雖然很多anecdote很通俗接地氣，但行文畢竟非常學術，偶爾覺得dry. 中國人民與天鬥與官鬥的智慧並不會surprise我，但作者的格局更高，隻恨我沒有社會學或者曆史研究的理論基礎，沒法dive deep瞭。母上大人不知道看瞭矮大緊哪個節目後給我強烈推薦這本書，我覺得她自己不一定能讀進去...
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