圖書標籤: 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
发表于2025-02-22
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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.
理論受影響於福柯的governmentality, James Scott的<The Art of Not Being Governed>還有再地化。其實一直覺得everyday politics本身就是一個用來挑戰福柯非常好用的概念。
評分簡直就是曆史寫作的典範! 越來越覺得曆史呀,就是關於時間的民族誌。
評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。
評分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。。。
評分從如此小且冷門的角度切入明史,所探討的問題卻是明朝根本的軍事製度問題,且討論瞭平民與國傢之間互動,並利用這種互動,讓自己的利益最大化。老百姓雖是被統治的對象,卻在互動中並非被動的一方,其中可操作可主導的空間很大。作者還進一步論證瞭民間應對策略的問題,這些策略直至今天仍在中國民間與國傢的關係中起著作用。
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...
評分 評分平素读书,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...
評分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...
The Art of Being Governed pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025