Johanna S. Ransmeier is Assistant Professor of History and the College at the University of Chicago.
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原载于:《中國文化研究所學報》Journal of Chinese Studies No. 67 - July 2018 Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China. By Johanna S. Ransmeier. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 395. $49.95/£35.95. ...
评分原载于:《中國文化研究所學報》Journal of Chinese Studies No. 67 - July 2018 Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China. By Johanna S. Ransmeier. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 395. $49.95/£35.95. ...
评分原载于:《中國文化研究所學報》Journal of Chinese Studies No. 67 - July 2018 Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China. By Johanna S. Ransmeier. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 395. $49.95/£35.95. ...
评分原载于:《中國文化研究所學報》Journal of Chinese Studies No. 67 - July 2018 Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China. By Johanna S. Ransmeier. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 395. $49.95/£35.95. ...
评分原载于:《中國文化研究所學報》Journal of Chinese Studies No. 67 - July 2018 Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China. By Johanna S. Ransmeier. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 395. $49.95/£35.95. ...
图书标签: 海外中国研究 社会学 人口买卖 社会史 社会文化史 人口 民国史 历史
A robust trade in human lives thrived throughout North China during the late Qing and Republican periods. Whether to acquire servants, slaves, concubines, or children—or dispose of unwanted household members—families at all levels of society addressed various domestic needs by participating in this market. Sold People brings into focus the complicit dynamic of human trafficking, including the social and legal networks that sustained it. Johanna Ransmeier reveals the extent to which the structure of the Chinese family not only influenced but encouraged the buying and selling of men, women, and children.
For centuries, human trafficking had an ambiguous status in Chinese society. Prohibited in principle during the Qing period, it was nevertheless widely accepted as part of family life, despite the frequent involvement of criminals. In 1910, Qing reformers, hoping to usher China into the community of modern nations, officially abolished the trade. But police and other judicial officials found the new law extremely difficult to enforce. Industrialization, urbanization, and the development of modern transportation systems created a breeding ground for continued commerce in people. The Republican government that came to power after the 1911 revolution similarly struggled to root out the entrenched practice.
Ransmeier draws from untapped archival sources to recreate the lived experience of human trafficking in turn-of-the-century North China. Not always a measure of last resort reserved for times of extreme hardship, the sale of people was a commonplace transaction that built and restructured families as often as it broke them apart.
在读ing。因为不好的人啃英文原著真的很悲伤,查词的时间远超看内容的时间。但能咋地,还不得看嘛。看完再说感想。
评分史料把握得太好了!开篇陈述晚晴忽视人口贩卖源于该现象的地方化,大量社会动乱分散了朝廷的注意力,贩卖人口为落魄家庭提供了生路(非卖不可)。一章谈女子被父亲、丈夫、作为男性的财产被几重倒卖。二章延续了贩卖女性的性/生育资本停留于私人领域,由于等级制家庭结构、当地默许的规范和腐败依旧猖獗,与西方的奴隶不同。三章再谈人口贩卖在晚清解决危难人口的生存,是现存社会问题的集结,但因为规模全国化后引起了社会恐慌;改革家强调解放、认为奴隶不适于宪政体制,1910年设立十项法规、大量使用法律术语来断绝买卖。四五六章再谈民初经济不稳定/饥荒导致大量女性和儿童通过铁路设施、人际网络被贩卖成为乳妈仆人乞丐童养媳,网络、流通、商业化、城市化促成更多掠夺性、高私密的人口贩卖组织,症结仍在家庭权力结构对女性儿童的轻视。M
评分文笔超级好,就是8章读起来实在是辛苦。从买卖人口切入中国北方的家庭关系,全篇围绕transactional family而讨论,非常新颖,比起Sommer的卖老婆,视角更多元,但又有异曲同工的妙处。今年读过的里面很棒的一本~更加感谢导师课上的引导
评分参见书评 China Review International: Vol. 23, No. 2, 2016
评分稀见档案的使用无疑是任思梅此书的一大亮点,更细心的发现则是当时所谓人口贩卖实际以交易居多。除了史料,社会史或文化史研究的成败往往取决于作者的专业素养,就像在国内,做医学史的多是医盲,做藏族史的不解佛教,习惯了两点一线的高校师生去“研究”地方社会……
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