图书标签: 政治学 海外中国研究 社会学 中国研究 中国政治 乡村政治 Shue 政治社会学
发表于2025-04-12
The Reach of the State pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025
These four conceptual and critical essays on state and society in contemporary China argue vigorously against the grain of prevailing scholarly interpretation. In substantive content, they explore two major themes from different historical and theoretical points of departure.
First, the author argues that the party/state under Mao fell far short of the full control over China's peasant society that outside observers often assumed it had achieved. She shows, instead, how the Maoist state frequently pursued policies that in fact had the ironic effect of strengthening the resistance of rural communities against the central political apparatus. Second, she contends that once the true limitations on the Maoist state's power in rural areas are rightly understood, it becomes clear that one effect of the post-Mao economic and political reforms may be to enhance rather than to diminish the state's authority in the countryside — despite all the reformists' rhetoric to the contrary.
These essays on "how to think about the Chinese state" are designed to stimulate debate about assumptions and methods in the field of Chinese political analysis. The controversies they raise, however, make them highly relevant to scholars outside Chinese studies who are interested in theories of the state, in the interrelations of state and society, and in the fate of the peasantry under socialism.
Vivienne Shue is Professor and Chair of the Department of Government at Cornell University.
架构清晰,材料匀称妥帖,也是社会学研究的典范。第三章写得挺精彩的,拉出了历史的脉络,格局也很大,不过对于论证还没有能力批判吧。(作者提出的剧情翻转在于:被西方认为极权主义的毛时代,地方其实有自主性,有独立能力,不那么容易被国家穿透,比如人民公社,所谓cellularity结构;而邓的改革则并非国家的撤退,反而经过“现代化”和市场的扩张,原有阻碍国家reach的架构被削弱瓦解了,农民可能直接暴露在国家和市场面前,国家权力虽有边界但是可以do more)
评分有的地方已成常识,有的地方值得商榷,有的地方过于理想化,但依旧值得一读。英文写得很漂亮,抄了不少(
评分文笔好好……居然可以把political economy写得这么有文采orz
评分Beautifully written, but sometimes can be repetitive.一些观点过于ideal和simplified,在作者提出关注“process”的同时却缺乏更多的细致描写。当然不能太过苛求一本近似methodology的书。第一章对social scientist关于PRC的研究梳理得很好,第三章的长时段变迁阅读体验不错但略显粗糙。如果和Duara的作品一起读会很有趣。虽然Duara同样擅长建立新概念和模型,但相比Shue显得更令人信服。Still biased toward a historian.
评分so, in the post-reform era, only the appearance of localistic and complicit bureaucrats persists, the morality of local protectionism along with the honeycomb-like social structure in which it was embedded in are replaced by the calculation of self-interested technocrats and their structural buddy of the web-like market economy.
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The Reach of the State pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025