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2025-02-02
The Art of Being Governed 2025 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1)页269 “实际上,它代表了连续不断的仪式蜕变历史的新篇章” 以下 The Houshan temple's ritual network expanded dramatically as recently as 2014, with the creation of the "outer" parade, about which I have so far said very little. This is a new innovation, an...
评分如果“规训”(discipline)之网确实处处变得更加清晰、将更多人牢牢套住,那么对以下问题的求索便显得愈加迫切:整个社会是如何反抗堕入此规训之网的?众人是通过哪些惯用的(亦即日常而“微不足道”的)手段操纵规训的机制,以求在顺从中加以规避? 最后,又是怎样的“运作方...
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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.
明朝福建东南沿海的平民与军户注册制度的互动:最优化策略optimization(宗族内轮流提供兵丁、宗族的某支长期提供兵丁,其他分支给予其补偿、雇佣外人代替服役)、接近性策略proximity(利用在军事制度中的特殊地位逐利<军人勾结海盗走私>)、监管套利regulatory arbitrage(利用不同管理体制的重叠和间隙<军田与民田>)、先例策略precedent(在清代军户寻求延续其在明朝体制下的特权)。东南沿海的宗族亲属结构不只是文化和历史的产物,还是政治选择,是作为其与国家之间的中介的非正式制度。平民利用国家的语言、主动被国家看见,并将其转化为政治资源。明朝东南沿海的商品化早于商业化,在前现代中国,合同发挥的作用与其在西方政治经济生活中不同,是平民最优化与国家互动的一种工具。
评分明朝福建东南沿海的平民与军户注册制度的互动:最优化策略optimization(宗族内轮流提供兵丁、宗族的某支长期提供兵丁,其他分支给予其补偿、雇佣外人代替服役)、接近性策略proximity(利用在军事制度中的特殊地位逐利<军人勾结海盗走私>)、监管套利regulatory arbitrage(利用不同管理体制的重叠和间隙<军田与民田>)、先例策略precedent(在清代军户寻求延续其在明朝体制下的特权)。东南沿海的宗族亲属结构不只是文化和历史的产物,还是政治选择,是作为其与国家之间的中介的非正式制度。平民利用国家的语言、主动被国家看见,并将其转化为政治资源。明朝东南沿海的商品化早于商业化,在前现代中国,合同发挥的作用与其在西方政治经济生活中不同,是平民最优化与国家互动的一种工具。
评分the second time of english reading session the author told a good.story about the military institution in the Ming dynasty. the art of not being governed by Scott,what's the difference? being away from government or wielding the legal world weapons focus on the important content !
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!
评分终于读完了!我本人对第3章更感兴趣,但还是有点值得商榷的地方,另外抓到注释里引用文献的typo啦。第5、6章实在是太累了就摸鱼了,不过有时候用英文看对家谱文本本身的描述很容易找不到北,可能是我英文太菜了吧。anyway非常值得一看。P.S.大陆版一定会被censor这个跑不了。
The Art of Being Governed 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书