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.
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.
發表於2024-11-07
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評分譯者導言 1.正是由於危機根源所包含的超越中國帝製時代的性質,這又成為中國走嚮現代國傢的曆史起始點。 2.具有閤法性的公共利益是否存在?它同現代國傢的構建又有何種關係?它對國傢與地方社會利益之間閤法性邊界的界定又會産生怎樣的影響? 3.就“現代國傢”構建而言,這種共...
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評分翻完瞭孔飛力的《中國現代國傢的起源》,去惠州時帶著但也隻看瞭導論,當時看到說清朝末年的社會製度是“無法同自身政治使命和任務相契閤的製度”(p.8)時還心想,嗯,挺馬剋思的。昨天讀第一章時發現其迷人之處,史料豐富,論證流暢,今天讀完這122頁覺得能在這麼短的篇幅處...
圖書標籤: 孔飛力 海外中國研究 曆史 中國 思想史 中國政治 政治學 History
強調從中國內部的脈絡觀察近代史
評分說是起源,其實是過程,而且沒有結果-甚至不知道“結果”是否可能。讀完之後略絕望。
評分現代中國的起源
評分跟史華慈類似,孔飛力對“現代性”和“現代國傢”也有特彆的關切。但基於對“現代性”之多樣化和復雜度的判斷,孔氏又保持高度的謹慎,拒絕以任何斷言的、非辯證的方式加以定義。在這本書中,他展示瞭他的替代方案:界定現代國傢的三個“根本性議題”,並闡發從中國本身的曆史中發現這些議題之演進邏輯的可能。當然這會引來各個方嚮的批評:孔氏並沒有說明決定“何種問題值得發現”的標準,也似乎對49年後的“新傳統”缺乏體察。但是,對於試圖為研究增加曆史厚度、但又並非曆史專業的“外行人”,孔氏關於“根本性議程”之連續性的論述極大地擴充瞭可利用的思想資源、至少是拓展瞭學術想象的空間。
評分強調從中國內部的脈絡觀察近代史
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