作者:
Si-yen Fei 出版社: Harvard University Asia Center 副标题: Urbanization and Late Ming Nanjing 出版年: 2010-3-15 页数: 370 定价: USD 45.00 装帧: Hardcover 丛书:The Harvard East Asian Monographs ISBN: 9780674035614
Urbanization was central to development in late imperial China. Yet its impact is heatedly debated, although scholars agree that it triggered neither Weberian urban autonomy nor Habermasian civil society. This book argues that this conceptual impasse derives from the fact that the seemingly continuous urban expansion was in fact punctuated by a wide variety of “dynastic urbanis...
Urbanization was central to development in late imperial China. Yet its impact is heatedly debated, although scholars agree that it triggered neither Weberian urban autonomy nor Habermasian civil society. This book argues that this conceptual impasse derives from the fact that the seemingly continuous urban expansion was in fact punctuated by a wide variety of “dynastic urbanisms.” Historians should, the author contends, view urbanization not as an automatic by-product of commercial forces but as a process shaped by institutional frameworks and cultural trends in each dynasty.
This characteristic is particularly evident in the Ming. As the empire grew increasingly urbanized, the gap between the early Ming valorization of the rural and late Ming reality infringed upon the livelihood and identity of urban residents. This contradiction went almost unremarked in court forums and discussions among elites, leaving its resolution to local initiatives and negotiations. Using Nanjing—a metropolis along the Yangzi River and onetime capital of the Ming—as a central case, the author demonstrates that, prompted by this unique form of urban-rural contradiction, the actions and creations of urban residents transformed the city on multiple levels: as an urban community, as a metropolitan region, as an imagined space, and, finally, as a discursive subject.
The Harvard East Asian Monographs(共280册)，
这套丛书还有
《Japanese Studies of Modern China since 1953》《Realms of Literacy》《The Sound of the Whistle》《Zhou Zuoren and An Alternative Chinese Response to Modernity》《House and Home in Modern Japan》
等
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费丝言的这本书是近几年最好的关于晚期中华帝国城市史研究作品之一 。本书的导论：A New Approach to Chinese Urbanism，对以往中国城市史研究中的“都市化（urbanization）”问题的探讨提出了自己的质疑。费认为以往的研究使得宋元时期的城市与明清时期的城市只有规模上的...
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The introduction part of this book summarizes and critiques existing studies of Chinese cities. It in turn reviews several key issues regarding Chinese urbanization: 1. Urbanization and commercialization. The author rightly notes that “the triumph of marke...
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0 有用 sharpy 2010-10-14 14:54:01
很精彩的書，前兩章結合政治與社會史的取徑尤其有意思。強調朝代作為城市史研究尺度的重要性，也很有啟發。
0 有用 昭歌山 2020-10-14 13:55:04
作者延续了近代中国城市研究中的有关城乡连续体的讨论，从协商这个动态关系而不是静态史学的视角剖析了城市文化表征的多种特征，关于文本的分析尤为精彩！
0 有用 shichalo 2018-09-13 06:25:38
这个选题是极好的，方法和撰写策略都很好，但是概念和材料上有很多问题，但仍值得一读。
0 有用 BOXING 2023-02-10 10:04:57 广东
尽管研究时段不同，但此著对我博论产生过很大启发。在问题意识上，国家如何以地图、空间规划等文化权力介入并重塑城市空间，地方精英和社会群体又如何面对和行动？在研究方法上，此著（特别是第三章）让我看到了视觉材料如何能够回应”重问题“？这让当时迷失在新文化史各式史料的自己脑子清醒了许多。在写作上，此著导论堪称范本，如何从前人研究一步步导向自己的问题意识，其提供了极佳范例。
0 有用 了无痕 2015-05-31 22:40:44
待写。
0 有用 张八折 2024-03-13 06:23:56 美国
地图那章很有启发
0 有用 BOXING 2023-02-10 10:04:57 广东
尽管研究时段不同，但此著对我博论产生过很大启发。在问题意识上，国家如何以地图、空间规划等文化权力介入并重塑城市空间，地方精英和社会群体又如何面对和行动？在研究方法上，此著（特别是第三章）让我看到了视觉材料如何能够回应”重问题“？这让当时迷失在新文化史各式史料的自己脑子清醒了许多。在写作上，此著导论堪称范本，如何从前人研究一步步导向自己的问题意识，其提供了极佳范例。
0 有用 野合万事兴 2022-05-16 09:37:21
啊 喜欢这种综述
0 有用 輕輕 2021-11-05 21:03:40
Introduction非常丰富有条理，期待中文版。
0 有用 昭歌山 2020-10-14 13:55:04
作者延续了近代中国城市研究中的有关城乡连续体的讨论，从协商这个动态关系而不是静态史学的视角剖析了城市文化表征的多种特征，关于文本的分析尤为精彩！