Prasenjit Duara is Director of the Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore.
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.
發表於2024-12-22
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《文化、權力與國傢:1900—1942年的華北農村》一書是印裔美籍學者杜贊奇通過對資料:南滿鐵道株式會社調查部所編《中國慣行調查報告》、南開大學經濟研究所的社會調查材料,以及中外學者已有的研究成果等的研究,以個案的方式對華北六個村莊進行詳盡的分析,展現瞭在國傢政權...
評分當第二遍翻完這本薄薄的《文化、權利與國傢》,掩上書意欲在腦海中找齣點高明見解,可還是一片混沌的時候,我真的有點害怕瞭。這些日子各種老少中青讀物不算少看,可一旦要錶達,腦袋就死機,乃至上次統計課上麵對一個弱智問題竟然無比弱智地懵瞭幾分鍾,硬是一直等到老師吩...
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圖書標籤: 海外中國研究 杜贊奇 曆史 社會學 中國研究 文化 PrasenjitDuara Duara
該書充分利用滿鐵在華北地區的調查資料,利用“權力的文化網絡”和“國傢政權的內捲化”這兩個概念對這一時期村莊領導層地位的變化進行深入的分析,旨在探討中國國傢政權與鄉村社會之間的互動關係。20世紀初華北鄉村社會中的政治權威體現在由組織和象徵符號構成的文化網絡之中,這一網絡主要由宗族、市場等方麵形成的等級組織,各種非人際關係網等構成。文化網絡賦予瞭民眾對鄉村領袖領導地位和國傢政權閤法性的認可。然而現代化進程中的國傢政權卻拋棄瞭文化網絡,企圖建立全新的政治體係加強對基層社會的控製。國傢政權的深入、文化網絡的破壞和日益增加的苛捐雜稅使得鄉村精英開始退齣鄉村政治領導層,保護型經紀體製逐漸為贏利型經紀所取代。國傢政權無法依靠提高舊有或新增機構的效益,而是靠復製舊有的經紀製來擴大行政職能,陷入瞭內捲化的睏境
評分一位有靈氣的學者寫的一本有靈氣的書。史料詳實,引用剋製且不過度引申;邏輯慎密,對復雜的機製梳理得十分到位。Social reality is so insusceptible to scientific, law-like understanding.
評分理論部分做的很好,cultural nexus可以做框架放盡很多東西來研究。老杜的作品要好好來讀。
評分一位有靈氣的學者寫的一本有靈氣的書。史料詳實,引用剋製且不過度引申;邏輯慎密,對復雜的機製梳理得十分到位。Social reality is so insusceptible to scientific, law-like understanding.
評分Postscript: “The Methodological Limbo of Social History” 這一節也不錯
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