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.
来自宋怡明教授的专访,http://mingching.sinica.edu.tw/en/Academic_Detail/567 宋教授將於 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...
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評分 評分我完全不认为此书属于华南学派或历史人类学的著作,这本书的基本关照/研究侧重都与华南学派大相径庭,信仰和历史结构的形成都不是其考虑的对象。此书就是典型的制度史著作,只不过作者在考察阶段借鉴了历史人类学的方法,又与华南学派关系较为紧密而已。这样“活的制度史”对于...
1)英文本剛齣版的時候就買瞭,但一直放在書架上沒打開來過。現在中譯本也已經齣瞭,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瞭。我相信,對明清史,尤其是明清社會經濟史和法製史,以及華南研究有瞭解的朋友,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,他用瞭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瞭。。。
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评分"State interventions and the responses of people affected by those interventions generated transformations in the architecture of social space."
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