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, tem...
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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杜赞奇 作者
Zemminevos
江苏人民出版社2003版
降维
江苏人民出版社2003版
平静求知者
江苏人民出版社2003版
优雅骑士
江苏人民出版社2003版
曳尾涂中
江苏人民出版社2003版
食糠少女王钢蛋
江苏人民出版社2003版
0 有用 大锅小蝈落地盘 2020-02-18 11:23:36
cultural nexus of power, broker system (protective and entrepreneur), state involution (from Clifford Geertz's agricultural involution in Java)
0 有用 小红帽 2009-09-30 23:37:07
deeply appreciated.
0 有用 张泡沫小姐 2013-06-04 16:30:07
理论部分做的很好，cultural nexus可以做框架放尽很多东西来研究。老杜的作品要好好来读。
0 有用 浮生若梦 2017-11-02 13:06:17
local society
0 有用 掀文明的裙底 2025-07-26 21:37:26 北京
State expansion weakened local governance by destroying local cultural networks, triggering state involution