孔飞力(英文名:Philip Alden Kuhn,1933年9月9日-2016年2月15日),生于英国伦敦,1964年获得哈佛大学博士学位。当费正清1977年从哈佛大学荣休后,孔飞力由已任教十年的芝加哥大学转回母校接替其空缺,任哈佛大学历史系和东亚语言文化系讲座教授。他曾担任过芝加哥大学 远东语言文化系主任,哈佛大学费正清东亚研究中心主任,哈佛大学东亚研究委员会主席。曾获得包括古根汉姆学术研究奖在内的多种学术荣誉,是美国艺术人文科学院院士。本书(1990)为他最主要的代表作,获“列文森中国研究最佳著作奖”;此外他所著《中华帝国晚期的叛乱及其敌人》(1970)、《中国现代国家的起源》(2002)和《海外中国人》(2009)等,均有重要深远的影响。
Midway through the reign of the Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, in the most prosperous period of China's last imperial dynasty, mass hysteria broke out among the common people. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land, clipping off the ends of men's queues (the braids worn by royal decree), and chanting magical incantations over them in order to steal the souls of their owners. In a fascinating chronicle of this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of soulstealers that ensued, Philip Kuhn provides an intimate glimpse into the world of eighteenth-century China. Kuhn weaves his exploration of the sorcery cases with a survey of the social and economic history of the era. Drawing on a rich repository of documents found in the imperial archives, he presents in detail the harrowing interrogations of the accused--a ragtag assortment of vagabonds, beggars, and roving clergy--conducted under torture by provincial magistrates. In tracing the panic's spread from peasant hut to imperial court, Kuhn unmasks the political menace lurking behind the queue-clipping scare as well as the complex of folk beliefs that lay beneath popular fears of sorcery. Kuhn shows how the campaign against sorcery provides insight into the period's social structure and ethnic tensions, the relationship between monarch and bureaucrat, and the inner workings of the state. Whatever its intended purposes, the author argues, the campaign offered Hungli a splendid chance to force his provincial chiefs to crack down on local officials, to reinforce his personal supremacy over top bureaucrats, and to restate the norms of official behavior. This wide-ranging narrative depicts life in imperial China as it was actually lived, often in the participants' own words. "Soulstealers" offers a compelling portrait of the Chinese people--from peasant to emperor--and of the human condition.
对孔飞力选取的分析素材和角度非常赞叹,读西方学者的著作我时常会比较中国学者的做法,至少对于这种充满迷信性质的妖案只怕很难做到社会史与制度史的深入分析,当然中国人有中国人的做法,但西方的视角也有关注的必要性。不过本书其实很难被模仿和超越,不是作者自身的水准而...
评分与中国人治史不同,西方学者多从社会现状出发,去分析其中的肌理与脉络,对各种不同社会范畴切割与连接,不断深入,凸显社会结构的构成,以及其中矛盾与冲突的深层原因。中国传统史书则惯于一系列材料的纷然罗列,虽巨细靡遗,却缺乏针对史料的有效整理与分析,难以得出叫人...
评分孔飞力先生作古,才关注到这本他的经典著作。读过后感到故事本身其实并不复杂,但通过故事本身折射出的民间、官场和皇帝的反应确实耐人寻味。值得深思和痛惜的是,今天的中国民间、官场和高层依旧在叫魂的故事中逡巡不前,只不过叫魂的戏法变化了而已,其余照旧。
评分厚厚的英文原本让我度过了几个好眠的夜晚,译本却很容易的囫囵吞了下去。当我已经不再是个对叫魂这种所谓神奇的民间习俗好奇的小朋友的时候,我简直对孔飞力怎样在档案馆人员脸色极其难看的八十年代,坚韧不拔的把一档馆地板磨穿的精神,佩服的五体投地。 这书最精彩的部分,是...
评分这本书试图通过对一个历史事件(乾隆年间的一次全国范围内妖术恐慌)的解读来试图对当时社会做一个剖面分析,下至以僧乞为代表的流动人口的生活现实,上至高宗个人的担忧与喜怒,应当说是要走见微知著的路线的,可惜,全书所做的论证,所引的论据,无法撑起这样宏大的主题。 ...
可能因为盛名之下,略微失望,总体水准仍然很高。如果把最后两章的内容放到前面穿插着解读,并且多写一些平凡人对权力利用的事情,可能会更好。
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