Kate Merkel-Hess is assistant professor of history and Asian studies at Penn State University.
Discussions of China’s early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there. As a result, the communist peasant revolution appears as a decisive historical break. Kate Merkel-Hess corrects that misconception by demonstrating how crucial the countryside was for reformers in China long before the success of the communist revolution.
In The Rural Modern, Merkel-Hess shows that Chinese reformers and intellectuals created an idea of modernity that was not simply about what was foreign and new, as in Shanghai and other cities, but instead captured the Chinese people’s desire for social and political change rooted in rural traditions and institutions. She traces efforts to remake village education, economics, and politics, analyzing how these efforts contributed to a new, inclusive vision of rural Chinese life. Merkel-Hess argues that as China sought to redefine itself, such rural reform efforts played a major role, and tensions that emerged between rural and urban ways deeply informed social relations, government policies, and subsequent efforts to create a modern nation during the communist period.
發表於2024-12-23
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圖書標籤: 海外中國研究 梅凱悅 社會學 社會史 曆史 新書記 近代史 民國
民國史的寫法大都是寫成一個失敗的故事:2、30年代的帶有平等、自治、精英/農民互相轉化理想的鄉村建設運動(晏陽初、陶行知、梁漱溟...)如何在之後的危機中(反共、抗日)逐漸精英化,整閤進國民黨黨國的建設和動員。
評分講個rural modern,居然一個農民的source都沒有,就這樣也敢當作第一本書來寫,膽子是不是太大瞭...
評分民國史的寫法大都是寫成一個失敗的故事:2、30年代的帶有平等、自治、精英/農民互相轉化理想的鄉村建設運動(晏陽初、陶行知、梁漱溟...)如何在之後的危機中(反共、抗日)逐漸精英化,整閤進國民黨黨國的建設和動員。
評分看notes感覺是一個比較誠實認真的作者。雖然主要是按主題劃分的結構,但是時間變化和不同地區的改革之間的對比也比較清晰。延伸拓展部份集中在Intro,章節主要關注於鄉村改革本身,內容充實但是不夠豐富,一些可以展開的角度似乎發掘不足,例如城鄉差異、城市化的實際情況,中國的鄉村改革和印度、愛爾蘭等地的對比,且沒有討論燕京大學的清河實驗區。
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The Rural Modern 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載