Michael Szonyi received his BA from the University of Toronto and his D.Phil from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has also studied at National Taiwan University and Xiamen University. Prior to coming to Harvard in 2005, Prof. Szonyi taught at McGill University and University of Toronto. His main research interests are the local history of southeast China, especially in the Ming dynasty; the history of Chinese popular religion, and Overseas Chinese history. His most recent book is Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line, published in 2008.
发表于2024-12-22
Practicing Kinship 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
Similar to Faure, this study focuses on a local area in southern China to trace the development of kinship/lineage from early Ming to 20 century. Szonyi’s site is Nantai, a Fuzhou area comprising 100-200 villages. The author draws from 4 types of materials...
评分Similar to Faure, this study focuses on a local area in southern China to trace the development of kinship/lineage from early Ming to 20 century. Szonyi’s site is Nantai, a Fuzhou area comprising 100-200 villages. The author draws from 4 types of materials...
评分Similar to Faure, this study focuses on a local area in southern China to trace the development of kinship/lineage from early Ming to 20 century. Szonyi’s site is Nantai, a Fuzhou area comprising 100-200 villages. The author draws from 4 types of materials...
评分Similar to Faure, this study focuses on a local area in southern China to trace the development of kinship/lineage from early Ming to 20 century. Szonyi’s site is Nantai, a Fuzhou area comprising 100-200 villages. The author draws from 4 types of materials...
评分Similar to Faure, this study focuses on a local area in southern China to trace the development of kinship/lineage from early Ming to 20 century. Szonyi’s site is Nantai, a Fuzhou area comprising 100-200 villages. The author draws from 4 types of materials...
图书标签: 海外中国研究 人类学 社会史 宗族研究 宗族 宋怡明 历史 福建
Presenting a new approach to the history of Chinese kinship, this book attempts to bridge the gap between anthropological and historical scholarship on the Chinese lineage by considering its development in terms of individual and collective strategies. Based on a wide range of newly available sources such as lineage genealogies and stone inscriptions, as well as oral history and extensive observation of contemporary ritual practice in the field, this work explores the historical development of kinship in villages of the Fuzhou region of southeastern Fujian province.
In the late imperial period (1368-1911), the people of Fuzhou compiled lengthy genealogies, constructed splendid ancestral halls, and performed elaborate collective rituals of ancestral sacrifice, testimony to the importance they attached to organized patrilineal kinship. In their writings on the lineage, members of late imperial elites presented such local behavior as the straightforward expression of universal and eternal principles. In this book, the author shows that kinship in the Fuzhou region was a form of strategic practice that was always flexible and negotiable. In using the concepts and institutions of kinship, individuals and groups redefined them to serve their own purposes, which included dealing with ethnic differentiation, competing for power and status, and formulating effective responses to state policies. Official efforts to promote a neo-Confucian agenda, to register land and population, and to control popular religion drove people to organize themselves on kinship principles and to institutionalize their kinship relationships. Local efforts to turn compliance with official policies, or at least claims of compliance, to local advantage meant that policymakers were continually frustrated.
Because kinship was constituted in a complex of representations, it was never stable or fixed, but fluid and multiple. In offering this new perspective on this history of Chinese lineage practices, the author also provides new insights into the nature of cultural integration and state control in traditional Chinese society.
史料扎实,但是论点很intuitive
评分看完DAVID FAURE来看这本不能更NEAT,结构很清楚语言也不错,使用史料很用心,不断地以商量的语气反驳之前的学术观念,做人类学的底子使全文优势明显,FLUIDITY AND CONSTANT ADAPTATION, TAKE THE POINT.
评分how "lineage" transformed from exclusive strategies to inclusive practices
评分史料扎实,但是论点很intuitive
评分史料扎实,但是论点很intuitive
Practicing Kinship 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书