Joanna Handlin Smith is the editor of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies and the author of Action in Late Ming Thought: The Reorientation of Lü K'un and Other Scholar-Officials (UC Press).
An unprecedented passion for saving lives swept through late Ming society, giving rise to charitable institutions that transcended family, class, and religious boundaries. Analyzing lecture transcripts, administrative guidelines, didactic tales, and diaries, Joanna Handlin Smith abandons the facile explanation that charity was a response to poverty and social unrest and examines the social and economic changes that stimulated the fervor for doing good. With an eye for telling details and a finesse in weaving the voices of her subjects into her narrative, Smith brings to life the hard choices that five men faced when deciding whom to help, how to organize charitable distributions, and how to balance their communities' needs against the interests of family and self. She thus shifts attention from tired questions about whether the Chinese had a tradition of charity (they did) to analyzing the nature of charity itself. Skillfully organized and engaging, The Art of Doing Good moves from discussions about moral leadership and beliefs to scrutiny of the daily operation of soup kitchens and medical dispensaries, and from examining local society to generalizing about the just use of resources and the role of social networks in charitable giving. Smith's work will transform our thinking about the boundaries between social classes in late imperial China and about charity in general.
發表於2024-11-05
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中國特色的慈善傳統 提起慈善,我們大抵都不陌生。慈善事業在現代社會的廣泛興起,離不開西方文明的推動。在西方,囊括瞭醫療、教育、災害救助等領域在內的慈善事業,獨立存在於政府的公權力之外,是哈貝馬斯所謂的公共領域(publicsp...
評分This book must be read against Brokaw’s Ledgers of Merit and Demerit which almost predated this one by 20 years. Brokaw focuses on Ledgers of Merit and Demerit, in particular Yuan Huang’s revision, his detractors in the Late Ming, and his followers in th...
評分中國是否有慈善的傳統?如果有,這種慈善傳統具有什麼特點,與西方的又有哪些不同?本書通過對晚明高攀龍、祁彪佳等人的慈善行為進行考察,在這方麵做齣生動的揭示。看罷此書,你會發現慈善不僅是對貧窮和社會動蕩的一種應激反應,也不一定是“喬裝打扮瞭的權力的運用”。通過...
評分This book must be read against Brokaw’s Ledgers of Merit and Demerit which almost predated this one by 20 years. Brokaw focuses on Ledgers of Merit and Demerit, in particular Yuan Huang’s revision, his detractors in the Late Ming, and his followers in th...
評分This book must be read against Brokaw’s Ledgers of Merit and Demerit which almost predated this one by 20 years. Brokaw focuses on Ledgers of Merit and Demerit, in particular Yuan Huang’s revision, his detractors in the Late Ming, and his followers in th...
圖書標籤: 英文原版 海外中國研究 社會史 研究相關 慈善 古代史 曆史學 曆史
The Art of Doing Good 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載