Prasenjit Duara is Director of the Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore.
In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society. This book is an ambitious attempt to offer both a method and a framework for analyzing Chinese social history in the state-making era.The author constructs a prismatic view of village-level society that shows how marketing, kinship, water control, temple patronage, and other structures of human interaction overlapped to form what he calls the cultural nexus of power in local society. The author's concept of the cultural nexus and his tracing of how it was altered enables us for the first time to grapple with change at the village level in all its complexity.The author asserts that the growth of the state transformed and delegitimized the traditional cultural nexus during the Republican era, particularly in the realm of village leadership and finances. Thus, the expansion of state power was ultimately and paradoxically responsible for the revolution in China as it eroded the foundations of village life, leaving nothing in its place.The problems of state-making in China were different from those of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe; the Chinese experience heralds the process that would become increasingly common in the emergent states of the developing world under the very different circumstances of the twentieth century.
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评分可以和神堂記憶、叫魂以及Keenth Dean的福建儀式網絡的研究對照起來看,杜贊奇是少見的人類學會引用的關於中國的做曆史的人,二十多年前的書現在看也不過時。
评分need to re-read~
评分一位有靈氣的學者寫的一本有靈氣的書。史料詳實,引用剋製且不過度引申;邏輯慎密,對復雜的機製梳理得十分到位。Social reality is so insusceptible to scientific, law-like understanding.
评分Postscript: “The Methodological Limbo of Social History” 這一節也不錯
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