Culture, Power, and the State

Prasenjit Duara is Director of the Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore.

出版者:Stanford University Press

作者:Prasenjit Duara

页数:340

出版时间:1991-4-1

价格:USD 30.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780804718882

图书标签:海外中国研究杜赞奇历史社会学中国研究文化PrasenjitDuaraDuara

In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society. This book is an ambitious attempt to offer both a method and a framework for analyzing Chinese social history in the state-making era.The author constructs a prismatic view of village-level society that shows how marketing, kinship, water control, temple patronage, and other structures of human interaction overlapped to form what he calls the cultural nexus of power in local society. The author's concept of the cultural nexus and his tracing of how it was altered enables us for the first time to grapple with change at the village level in all its complexity.The author asserts that the growth of the state transformed and delegitimized the traditional cultural nexus during the Republican era, particularly in the realm of village leadership and finances. Thus, the expansion of state power was ultimately and paradoxically responsible for the revolution in China as it eroded the foundations of village life, leaving nothing in its place.The problems of state-making in China were different from those of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe; the Chinese experience heralds the process that would become increasingly common in the emergent states of the developing world under the very different circumstances of the twentieth century.

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一位有灵气的学者写的一本有灵气的书。史料详实，引用克制且不过度引申；逻辑慎密，对复杂的机制梳理得十分到位。Social reality is so insusceptible to scientific, law-like understanding.

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