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发表于2025-05-31
The Art of Being Governed pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025
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.
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。
評分The conversation with James Scott is interesting. Not sure if I like the engagement with Foucault.
評分the second time of english reading session the author told a good.story about the military institution in the Ming dynasty. the art of not being governed by Scott,what's the difference? being away from government or wielding the legal world weapons focus on the important content !
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。
評分學術也是arbitrage的藝術……
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...
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評分如果“规训”(discipline)之网确实处处变得更加清晰、将更多人牢牢套住,那么对以下问题的求索便显得愈加迫切:整个社会是如何反抗堕入此规训之网的?众人是通过哪些惯用的(亦即日常而“微不足道”的)手段操纵规训的机制,以求在顺从中加以规避? 最后,又是怎样的“运作方...
評分如果“规训”(discipline)之网确实处处变得更加清晰、将更多人牢牢套住,那么对以下问题的求索便显得愈加迫切:整个社会是如何反抗堕入此规训之网的?众人是通过哪些惯用的(亦即日常而“微不足道”的)手段操纵规训的机制,以求在顺从中加以规避? 最后,又是怎样的“运作方...
評分The Art of Being Governed pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025