David Faure is Professor of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the coeditor of Down to Earth: The Territorial Bond in South China (Stanford University Press, 1995).
This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China to be absorbed into the imperial Chinese state—first, by introducing rituals that were acceptable to the state, and second, by providing mechanisms that made group ownership of property feasible and hence made it possible to pool capital for land reclamation projects important to the state. Just as taxation, defense, and recognition came together with the emergence of powerful lineages in the sixteenth century, their disintegration in the late nineteenth century signaled the beginnings of a new Chinese state.
發表於2024-12-26
Emperor and Ancestor 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
本書作者科大衛教授,現任香港中文大學曆史係主任及講座教授、英國牛津大學聖安多尼學院院士。他的研究領域和旨趣包括有:The history of the lineage in south China(中國華南宗族曆史)、Chinese business history(中國商業史)、The history of Hong Kong(香港史)、...
評分本書主要描述瞭珠三角地區明清時期宗族的形成、發展、擴散和衰亡的曆史。本書從製度層麵討論“皇帝”與“祖宗”,“皇帝”主要指用於控製地方的裏甲製度為核心的賦稅、服役、軍事等的製度,“祖宗”主要指宗族為核心的控製土地、繳稅、教育、水利和地方防衛的地方組織製度。可...
評分我花瞭2個晚上和一個下午,很認真地把這本書一頁頁地讀瞭一遍。期待我能發現不少新的東西,不過失望之餘,我還是被作者(20年之研究)和譯者(2年之翻譯)的誠懇感動瞭。 作者與許多“華南學派”的學者一樣,把珠江口沙田的開發及圍繞這一經濟-生計行為展開的文化互動,作為幾...
圖書標籤: 科大衛 人類學 曆史 社會學 歷史人類學 宗族 海外中國研究 廣東
寫作方麵問題不少,比較零散,行文晦澀。有的小節甚至有些文不對題(不知道是不是我沒看仔細),比如佛山霍氏那章最後一節,沒看到market體現在哪裏瞭。但老爺子寫到不少發人深省的細節,時刻提醒讀者製度法令(比如裏甲,比如地方管理和中央政權的脫節)執行的不徹底性,真正站在當時官員與平民的立場考量,非常難得。另外讀到十二章開篇,論及崇禎皇帝自縊時珠三角人民在看戲,而一個去順德赴任的官員途中聽到皇帝的消息而滿懷哀傷上任,頓時感到國傢和地方和個人之間那遙遠而又緊密的關聯,不禁深深思索國傢風雨飄搖之際個人的命運該如何。
評分Faure illustrates that "lineage" is anything but a static and "natural" tradition. Instead, it is an institution that both resulted from and propelled the integration of state and local society around the 16th c.. It came to its full cycle upon the early 20th c., when the society was reoriented around new institutions emerging in coastal cities.
評分有意思。不過科氏的英文不太好看。
評分Faure illustrates that "lineage" is anything but a static and "natural" tradition. Instead, it is an institution that both resulted from and propelled the integration of state and local society around the 16th c.. It came to its full cycle upon the early 20th c., when the society was reoriented around new institutions emerging in coastal cities.
評分我覺得這書寫得挺好的。很有啓發。對我之前很多半懂不懂的問題都有很好的解釋。應該算是歷史人類學在中國的一個研究典範。
Emperor and Ancestor 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載