Philip A. Kuhn is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History at Harvard University. His most recent book is Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768, winner of the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies.
发表于2024-11-24
Origins of the Modern Chinese State 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
读导论,一上来就给中国现代国家的形成的“中国的过程”,“根本性议程”等高深的提法给震慑了。作者政治学术语层出不穷,天马行空,论及“根本性议程”所谓三协调、三难题,让我如堕云雾、雾里看花,似又确有启发,总之笔记记了,觉也睡了。 读了第一章,若有小悟。魏源的身...
评分孔飞力在费正清退休后,被哈佛大学邀请主持中国研究中心。他的主要代表作《叫魂》和《中国晚期叛乱及其敌对势力》,手中这本《中国现代国家的起源》则是根据他在法兰西学院系列演讲整理出来的一本论文集。这本书是他关于中国现代国家形成的一些想法与现代性构建关系的思考系统...
评分孔飞力在费正清退休后,被哈佛大学邀请主持中国研究中心。他的主要代表作《叫魂》和《中国晚期叛乱及其敌对势力》,手中这本《中国现代国家的起源》则是根据他在法兰西学院系列演讲整理出来的一本论文集。这本书是他关于中国现代国家形成的一些想法与现代性构建关系的思考系统...
评分翻完了孔飞力的《中国现代国家的起源》,去惠州时带着但也只看了导论,当时看到说清朝末年的社会制度是“无法同自身政治使命和任务相契合的制度”(p.8)时还心想,嗯,挺马克思的。昨天读第一章时发现其迷人之处,史料丰富,论证流畅,今天读完这122页觉得能在这么短的篇幅处...
图书标签: 孔飞力 海外中国研究 历史 中国 思想史 中国政治 政治学 History
What is “Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese confronted such constitutional questions as: How does the scope of political participation affect state power? How is the state to secure a share of society’s wealth? In response to the changing demands of the age, this agenda has been expressed in changing language. Yet, because the underlying pattern remains recognizable, the modernization of the state in response to foreign aggression can be studied in longer perspective.
The author offers three concrete studies to illustrate the constitutional agenda in action: how the early nineteenth-century scholar-activist Wei Yuan confronted the relation between broadened political participation and authoritarian state power; how the reformist proposals of the influential scholar Feng Guifen were received by mainstream bureaucrats during the 1898 reform movement; and how fiscal problems of the late empire formed a backdrop to agricultural collectivization in the 1950s. In each case, the author presents the “modern” constitutional solution as only the most recent answer to old Chinese questions. The book concludes by describing the transformation of the constitutional agenda over the course of the modern period.
一般,味儿淡
评分此书的主要贡献,不在于它论证了什么,而在于它提出了值得人们思考和讨论的问题。在中国建立现代国家的核心议程,或许不只三条;但时至今日,孔飞力所提出的三个核心问题,仍然是执政者和研究者需要应对和尚未解决的大问题——无论他们的意识形态和个人背景如何,只要希望让中国富强,就必然要回答这些问题。至于书中的三个案例,与其将它们视为论据,不妨把它们理解为不同中国人回应现代国家根本议程的三种尝试,这些尝试虽然都未获成功,却对于后来者和旁观者不无启发之处。
评分強調從中國內部的脈絡觀察近代史
评分说是起源,其实是过程,而且没有结果-甚至不知道“结果”是否可能。读完之后略绝望。
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Origins of the Modern Chinese State 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书