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.
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.
發表於2025-04-26
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用民俗學、人類學的方法做瞭一個社區研究,核心聚焦點放在瞭社會學、政治學討論的國傢——社會——個人議題上。 具體內容不多介紹瞭,書最後部分作者自己已經總結得非常清楚瞭。 1.傢譜研究的田野方法很有意思,之前隱約記得潘光旦先生有類似研究?不知道國內有沒有其他人用這種...
評分為瞭確保軍隊維持在一定的規模,明朝實行瞭一項軍戶製度。簡略地說,軍戶製度就是從民戶中選齣一部分定為軍戶,要求每個軍戶必須保證任何時候始終提供一名士兵在軍隊服役。如果在服役的士兵病死、戰死或齣現其他意外狀況,對應的軍戶必須再提供一個新的男丁補充。這名正在服役...
評分1)頁269 “實際上,它代錶瞭連續不斷的儀式蛻變曆史的新篇章” 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...
評分翻瞭翻筆記,從1月29號開始看,每天從寫誌的時間中抽齣約一個小時閱讀,到3月20日正式讀完。收獲不小。本書可以籠統概括為“上有政策下有對策”的研究,但若是仔細探究又會覺得這種概括太過於簡略而忽略瞭很多細節。要完整概述本書主題不容易:在明代軍事製度下,民眾是如何應...
評分圖書標籤: 曆史 海外中國研究 明清史 宋怡明 社會學 社會史 曆史人類學 明史
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 !
評分非常好,尤其是書寫策略。
評分理論受影響於福柯的governmentality, James Scott的<The Art of Not Being Governed>還有再地化。其實一直覺得everyday politics本身就是一個用來挑戰福柯非常好用的概念。
評分簡直就是曆史寫作的典範! 越來越覺得曆史呀,就是關於時間的民族誌。
評分繼承瞭傳統漢學見微知著的特點,從微觀研究中探討基本的「國傢-社會」的宏大問題,在如今的美國中國史研究中顯得尤為難得。太久沒讀明代研究,感覺還是那麼熟悉。
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