Michael Szonyi is professor of Chinese history and director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. His books include Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China and Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line.
发表于2024-04-27
The Art of Being Governed 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
2020—13! 集权专制体制下,百姓像钟摆般在顺民与暴民两端来回摆档,在这中间,百姓又是什么状态呢?象我们一般想象的逆来顺受吗? 本书以明代卫所军事体制下的福建沿海军户生存状态为切入点,利用当地族谱,向我们展示了中间状态下的百姓的日常政治,这些狡黠的沉默的大多数...
评分 评分我完全不认为此书属于华南学派或历史人类学的著作,这本书的基本关照/研究侧重都与华南学派大相径庭,信仰和历史结构的形成都不是其考虑的对象。此书就是典型的制度史著作,只不过作者在考察阶段借鉴了历史人类学的方法,又与华南学派关系较为紧密而已。这样“活的制度史”对于...
评分 评分来自宋怡明教授的专访,http://mingching.sinica.edu.tw/en/Academic_Detail/567 宋教授將於 2017 年 11 月底出版第三本專著《The Art of Being Governed:Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China》(被統治的技藝:帝制中國晚期的日常政治,簡稱《被統治的技藝》)。從書名...
图书标签: 历史 海外中国研究 明清史 宋怡明 社会学 社会史 历史人类学 明史
How did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi explores the myriad ways that families fulfilled their obligations to provide a soldier to the army. The complex strategies they developed to manage their responsibilities suggest a new interpretation of an important period in China's history as well as a broader theory of politics.
Using previously untapped sources, including lineage genealogies and internal family documents, Szonyi examines how soldiers and their families living on China's southeast coast minimized the costs and maximized the benefits of meeting government demands for manpower. Families that had to provide a soldier for the army set up elaborate rules to ensure their obligation was fulfilled, and to provide incentives for the soldier not to desert his post. People in the system found ways to gain advantages for themselves and their families. For example, naval officers used the military's protection to engage in the very piracy and smuggling they were supposed to suppress. Szonyi demonstrates through firsthand accounts how subjects of the Ming state operated in a space between defiance and compliance, and how paying attention to this middle ground can help us better understand not only Ming China but also other periods and places.
1)英文本剛出版的時候就買了,但一直放在書架上沒打開來過。現在中譯本也已經出了,還是老老實實拿來讀一遍吧;2)本書在學術上的貢獻,中譯本條目下薩博·羅薩博士(Dr. Sub Rosa XD...)的短評已經寫得很清楚了。我相信,對明清史,尤其是明清社會經濟史和法制史,以及華南研究有了解的朋友,應該是很能夠進入本書的脈絡的。其實Szonyi講的東西並不難,但值得注意的是,他用了怎樣的理論架構以及敘述脈絡,串起一些既有的研究,然後把故事講得清楚,說得精彩;3)關於「套利」,可以讀一讀宮崎廣和(Hirokazu Miyazaki)的Arbitraging Japan;4)突然發現宋怡明的三本書我都讀過,講金門的依稀還有印象,第一本Practicing Kinship已經完全不知道講的是啥了。。。
评分我磕磕绊绊读完然后战战兢兢打个四星。虽然很多anecdote很通俗接地气,但行文毕竟非常学术,偶尔觉得dry. 中国人民与天斗与官斗的智慧并不会surprise我,但作者的格局更高,只恨我没有社会学或者历史研究的理论基础,没法dive deep了。母上大人不知道看了矮大紧哪个节目后给我强烈推荐这本书,我觉得她自己不一定能读进去...
评分小切口历史人类学。从家谱民间叙述和documents中重建明代军户制度的原貌。细致有趣。作者从none-structural perspective挖掘被统治者如何maximize family interest和整体解构进行互动,顺带讲了明代海上贸易与军户“倭寇”间的复杂关系,以及屯戍制度与土地流转的张力。Impressive story telling!
评分理论一团糟,但是有重要的介入
评分"State interventions and the responses of people affected by those interventions generated transformations in the architecture of social space."
The Art of Being Governed 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书