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2024-11-24
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作者基本采取歷時的線索,追溯華南(廣州)地區宗族的發生與消亡。兩個時期是關鍵時期:16世紀的明代,基於儒傢禮儀的宗族成為聯係國傢與社會的紐帶;19-20世紀,現代民族主義和政治革命成為宗族消亡的力量,法律取代禮儀,形成閤股公司。(18) 作者在序言中對宗族進行瞭界定...
評分“中國其他地方又如何?你能談一談嗎?” 這問題很可怕。 ——科大衛在《皇帝與祖宗》一書的“尾聲”中如此說道。“可怕”!這話令我不禁大笑,因為我也在某次研討會上問過他類似的問題,不過我的意思並不是請他談一談中國其他地方,而隻是一個關於研究方法的問題,即“華南學...
評分 評分 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...
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
brave and inspiring
評分brave and inspiring
評分brave and inspiring
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。
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.
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