Johanna S. Ransmeier is Assistant Professor of History and the College at the University of Chicago.
发表于2025-04-10
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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.
transactional family、community network for trafficking; 法律、环境、交通、性别等视角交汇
评分挺好的。写作建构上的多领域交融(法制、社会、环境、交通融会贯通),性别文化在政权易代间的变迁导致家庭结构女性地位的变化,适合与马钊专著同读(一个主动一个被动)——流动性从来都不会是冷门的研究话题
评分作者说的人口贩卖不只是现象而是症状,人口贩卖如何把家庭中阶级等级建立起来,如何讲周围的人勾联起来。背后是一个更大的社会背景:一方面,19c晚期中国逐渐纳入世界版图,蓄奴作为一种话语和自由'合法等观念相连; 另一方面,人口买卖作为一种生存手段客观解决了清末的人口存活,婚姻,劳力缺失等问题。学理上,作者想对话将奴隶当做财产(华琛)或权力关系(Patterson, O.)的范式,认为前二者都没法将家庭这一型塑中国人口买卖的重要力量纳入考虑。
评分参见书评 China Review International: Vol. 23, No. 2, 2016
评分在读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。
Sold People 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书