William T. Rowe is Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University.
发表于2024-11-16
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作者通过对汉口19世纪经济社会史的考察,借助施坚雅中心地理论分析框架,形成了很多关于传统帝国城市发展的判断和看法,包括1)国家与商业的关系,不是专制主义勾结的关系。2)19世纪后期,中国传统银行业至少已部分成功的形成了统一的、反应敏捷的全国性金融市场。3)集中的地...
评分这本书像是一篇散文,只有读到其结论部分,才知道作者为什么要研究其所涉及的的各个方面:即汉口的commence, personal identity, social structure and social organization。 主要观点:“Nineteenth-century Chinese society was not stagnant, listlessly awaiting the sho...
评分作者通过对汉口19世纪经济社会史的考察,借助施坚雅中心地理论分析框架,形成了很多关于传统帝国城市发展的判断和看法,包括1)国家与商业的关系,不是专制主义勾结的关系。2)19世纪后期,中国传统银行业至少已部分成功的形成了统一的、反应敏捷的全国性金融市场。3)集中的地...
评分WILLIAM ROWE. Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 1984. pp. viii, 436. ------. Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 1989...
评分从外国人的视角对清末汉口的商业经济系统进行了深入、细致的研究,其中有大量极其鲜活的旧时汉口镇景观、风俗的描绘,让我们看到了一个不同于今日的国际大商都。尤其是那些熟悉当今汉口的人如果读到这本书,可能都会对它那段绚烂多姿的岁月赞叹不已。
图书标签: 城市史 汉口 武汉 社会史 罗威廉 汉学 城市 历史
This is the second volume of a two-volume social history of nineteenth-century Hankow, a city of over one million inhabitants and the commercial hub of central China. In the first volume, Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889 (1984), the author emphasized the dynamism of late imperial commerce, the relation of the metropolis to its hinterland, and the corporate institutions of the city, notably its guilds, which assumed a number of functions we normally attribute to a municipal government. In this volume, the focus is on the people of Hankow, in all their ethnic diversity, occupational variety, and constant mobility, and on the social bonds that enabled this mass of people to live and work in a crowded city with much less disruptive social conflict than occurred in Hankow's counterparts in early modern Europe.
Built into the argument of the book is a running comparison nineteenth-century Hankow with such cities as London and Paris in the somewhat earlier period when they, too, were experiencing the growing pains of nascent preindustrial capitalism. How are we to account for the fact that the cities of early modern Europe were so much more prone to protest and social upheaval than Hankow was in a comparable stage of development? The author finds the answer in the cultural hegemony of an activist elite that fostered moral consensus, social harmony, and an aura of solicitude for the well-being of residents at every social level, exemplified in such service institutions as poor relief, firefighting, and public security.
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, however, the social bonds that had held Hankow together were beginning to fragment, as social polarization and growing class-consciousness fostered an atmosphere of increasing unrest.
城市史有看头,笔触细腻,早期现代性也尚可咀嚼,硬与西欧平行、蹚公民社会公域浑水则力不从心。罗氏眼中汉口早期现代性:长距离贸易扩张将汉口置于货物贸易与转运中心地位,商行规模突破家庭作坊但未出现大规模流水线生产;人口扩张导致市内阶层分野和各阶层/地域自我结社保护等,形成内卷化城市认同和保护共同体,各社会群体借助市内空间联结沟通、排斥无赖等无社会纽带人群,但未出现欧洲式城市贫民集聚、动乱和阶级矛盾;公共建设、社会治安等事业无需工业化已逐渐科层和专业化;冲突割裂并未将社区推向自由社会。此皆赖无行政层级名分汉口城内自发精英团体—商团、行会、士绅公会等—资助管理地方建设、慈善事业、人口管理、治安控制、营造团结,创造公域,官府只起支持、结盟、核准作用。可谓中国式公域,无必要硬拗哈贝马斯之文化、批判公域概念
评分可能有人不同意他的结论,但是这个研究还是相当扎实的。读完真是觉得可惜,何必非扯进哈贝马斯呢,你们的点明明不一样啊。
评分A Habermas story (how merchant-elites became more and more involved in the institutionalization of city order) and a Simmel Story (conflicts can be both integrative and destructive). The book ends beautifully at the 1883 crisis, which makes Hankow not only an unique case before 1911, but also an indicative prelude to structural changes after 1911.
评分作者云:“我写两本汉口花了20年,第三本书花了15年,写那篇public sphere的文章花了20分钟。可是别人说起我,都要引那篇文章。”说完大笑,“remember, life is unfair.”
评分作者在书里的每一章都有意识地把汉口的经历和现代早期西欧城市的经历作比较,并且强调汉口和西欧城市的不同和相同处,可见直到80年代末,整个城市史领域不管是理论框架还是实例的研究,研究非西方地区的学者依然免不了以西方历史经验为参照物。罗威廉也许影响最大的就是对public sphere的讨论了。此书里对public sphere概念的定义和材料的论证,应该可以算是跳出了哈贝马斯的框架,在如今依然有参考性。 算是中国近现代史必读吧。
Hankow 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书