图书标签: 城市史 城市 海外中国研究 费丝言 历史 社会史 明史 明清史
发表于2025-02-16
Negotiating Urban Space pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025
Urbanization was central to development in late imperial China. Yet its impact is heatedly debated, although scholars agree that it triggered neither Weberian urban autonomy nor Habermasian civil society. This book argues that this conceptual impasse derives from the fact that the seemingly continuous urban expansion was in fact punctuated by a wide variety of “dynastic urbanisms.” Historians should, the author contends, view urbanization not as an automatic by-product of commercial forces but as a process shaped by institutional frameworks and cultural trends in each dynasty.
This characteristic is particularly evident in the Ming. As the empire grew increasingly urbanized, the gap between the early Ming valorization of the rural and late Ming reality infringed upon the livelihood and identity of urban residents. This contradiction went almost unremarked in court forums and discussions among elites, leaving its resolution to local initiatives and negotiations. Using Nanjing—a metropolis along the Yangzi River and onetime capital of the Ming—as a central case, the author demonstrates that, prompted by this unique form of urban-rural contradiction, the actions and creations of urban residents transformed the city on multiple levels: as an urban community, as a metropolitan region, as an imagined space, and, finally, as a discursive subject.
Si-yen Fei is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
前两章对明代社会生活的观察很独特,后两章基本上是textual analysis。费强调明代城市的特质,排斥将明清城市统而论之的做法;描述城市认同的建构,勾勒城市空间的边缘,将城市与乡村进行区分。其实在大方向上没有偏离台湾前辈们的路数,只是将那些熟悉的结论翻译成了英文而已。
评分Intro非常惊艳,但第二章开始出现一些minor problem。总体上看瑕不掩瑜,回应多方学术传统并尝试开辟新战场。
评分urbanization and agency.
评分About places and space; thinking about why “space” is more powerful and popular than “place” in the literati circle
评分常读常新 越读越好
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评分费丝言的这本书是近几年最好的关于晚期中华帝国城市史研究作品之一 。本书的导论:A New Approach to Chinese Urbanism,对以往中国城市史研究中的“都市化(urbanization)”问题的探讨提出了自己的质疑。费认为以往的研究使得宋元时期的城市与明清时期的城市只有规模上的...
评分The introduction part of this book summarizes and critiques existing studies of Chinese cities. It in turn reviews several key issues regarding Chinese urbanization: 1. Urbanization and commercialization. The author rightly notes that “the triumph of marke...
评分费丝言的这本书是近几年最好的关于晚期中华帝国城市史研究作品之一 。本书的导论:A New Approach to Chinese Urbanism,对以往中国城市史研究中的“都市化(urbanization)”问题的探讨提出了自己的质疑。费认为以往的研究使得宋元时期的城市与明清时期的城市只有规模上的...
Negotiating Urban Space pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025