Prasenjit Duara is chair of the department of history at the University of chicago. He is the author of Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 and Sovereignty and Authentcity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern.
Prasenjit Duara offers the first systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and including discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of postcolonial nation-states have adopted a linear, evolutionary history of the Enlightenment/colonial model. As a result, they have written repressive, exclusionary, and incomplete accounts.
The backlash against such histories has resulted in a tendency to view the past as largely constructed, imagined, or invented. In this book, Duara offers a way out of the impasse between constructionism and the evolving nation; he redefines history as a series of multiple, often conflicting narratives produced simultaneously at national, local, and transnational levels. In a series of closely linked case studies, he considers such examples as the very different histories produced by Chinese nationalist reformers and partisans of popular religions, the conflicting narratives of statist nationalists and of advocates of federalism in early twentieth-century China. He demonstrates the necessity of incorporating contestation, appropriation, repression, and the return of the repressed subject into any account of the past that will be meaningful to the present. Duara demonstrates how to write histories that resist being pressed into the service of the national subject in its progress—or stalled progress—toward modernity.
發表於2025-01-22
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曆史不再純粹地關心過去究竟發生瞭什麼。所謂真實曆史的問題,本身遭到瞭質疑和解構。存在於敘述象徵之中的曆史,而不是所謂的過去存在之全部,纔能被把握被想象。於是決定曆史如何呈現的不僅僅是過去,還有現在。杜贊奇提齣“復綫的曆史”(bifurcated history),來反思...
評分20世紀60年代以來,受西方學術界“語言學轉嚮”(linguistic turn)的影響,曆史學傢認識到:“曆史敘述的功能像其它的意識形態論述一樣,並不是透明地、而是具有道德和政治上的意味來展示現實的”,因而,“把敘述學的理論視角應用於我們所探求的關於過去的敘述實踐中”就非常...
評分讀完杜贊奇的《從民族國傢拯救曆史》花瞭將近一個月的時間,主要是中間停瞭大半個月,不忍卒讀。究其原因就在於翻譯之後的書稿語言、邏輯增加或隱藏瞭很多細節,導緻對句子的完整理解、文章段落的邏輯連貫齣現瞭睏難,尤其是頭兩章。所以有的朋友勸我棄療,有的朋友說直接讀英...
評分分享提綱: 1.近現代中國的救亡圖強與國傢政治話語的變遷:落後就要挨打——洋務運動——維新變法——反滿革命——現代民族國傢——之於工具理性的民主——聯省自治——中央集權的大一統國傢 2.對安德森《想象的共同體》一書的結論反思:中國曆史與現實語境下的民族主義——...
評分20世紀60年代以來,受西方學術界“語言學轉嚮”(linguistic turn)的影響,曆史學傢認識到:“曆史敘述的功能像其它的意識形態論述一樣,並不是透明地、而是具有道德和政治上的意味來展示現實的”,因而,“把敘述學的理論視角應用於我們所探求的關於過去的敘述實踐中”就非常...
圖書標籤: 曆史 杜贊奇 民族主義 海外中國研究 nationalism nation-state 海外漢學 政治
所謂的bifurcate history好像隻是個新瓶舊酒罷瞭,好的是對梁啓超,康有為,汪精衛思想的解讀,真是refreshing,我原來學瞭這麼久,對自己國傢的曆史知道得那麼少。。。。
評分杜先生,能把書寫個稍微通俗點嗎?
評分高山仰止。
評分Chap 1&2
評分中間幾章很不錯,比如反滿的民族主義如何把秘密會社和革命黨人聯結起來,以及辛亥革命後短暫的聯省自治、知識分子們關於聯邦體製的激辯。但是沒理解全書的general thesis…
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