Statesmen and Gentlemen is an important study of the way in which, during the twelfth- and thirteenth-centuries, China's ruling meritocracy was transformed into a locally rooted elite whose principal aim was the consolidation of their power, wealth and influence on a local as opposed to a national and dynastic basis. Professor Hymes offers a remarkable picture of the institutio...
Statesmen and Gentlemen is an important study of the way in which, during the twelfth- and thirteenth-centuries, China's ruling meritocracy was transformed into a locally rooted elite whose principal aim was the consolidation of their power, wealth and influence on a local as opposed to a national and dynastic basis. Professor Hymes offers a remarkable picture of the institutional and social changes this process entailed, but he also examines in detail the subtle ways in which the elite's perception of itself and its social role changed and it came to offer powerful support to local self-defence, social welfare, religious cults and temple-building.
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Acknowledgements
Explanatory notes: terms and units
A note on the maps
Introduction
Purpose and background
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Maps
Acknowledgements
Explanatory notes: terms and units
A note on the maps
Introduction
Purpose and background
Method
A sketch of the setting
1. Examinations, office, and social mobility
2. The elite and its origins
3. Elite transformation: from Northern to Southern Sung
4. Elite ideals and the "local gentleman"
5. Local defense
6. Social welfare
7. Temple-building and religious life
8. The state in Fu-chou: Northern and Southern Sung
Conclusion
List of Abbreviations
Appendix I: Reconstructed elite families
Appendix II: Population
Appendix III: Economy
Notes
Glossary
List of Works Cited
Index
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for all (the five families) but the 危 family the rise to importance in the 抚州 elite can be shown to have come in the first decades of 南宋. More importantly, these four families make their first appearance en/gaged in a common enterprise (即local defense) (查看原文)
A rather similar cluster of families comes from 崇仁 County (which "a number of its highest Southern Sung officials came from")...the families as group were living at the uppermost navigable end of the 崇仁 River system. (查看原文)
ROBERT P. HYMES. Statesmen and Gentlemen: the Elite of Fu-chou, Chiang-hsi, in Northern and Southern Sung. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986. pp. xv, 379. Through his investigation of Fu-chou from the Northern to Southern Sung dynasties, Hym...
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0 有用 蒹葭 2014-01-14 14:06:12
hymes成名作。大學時候讀過,為了論文再看一遍。與當初印象無異。可見我對local community studies無愛其來有自。整個argument建基在對cracke的批評之上。然而剃人頭者人亦剃其頭。要之亦不免以偏概全之病也。
0 有用 曼联哈哈哈 2021-12-31 22:09:46
2021读的最后一本书。需要学习的东西还很多！
6 有用 席缪 2020-04-22 21:17:56
其实很多国内包括台湾的大佬们，对韩明士的批评之所以难看，就在于他们说不出口的一句话：韩明士有道理，但，不完整。——韩在学术史上承担一个最重要的点就在于，家族不一定非要做官，它可以像公司一样通过族产投资分成来维系同居关系，在社会竞争中保全自己的生活水平，而不是都像买彩票一样去培养进士——但这并不能说明国家统治很松动（大佬们批判完之后就会把结论摆回到“统治依然很完整”这个更愚蠢的点上）如果一个统治完美... 其实很多国内包括台湾的大佬们，对韩明士的批评之所以难看，就在于他们说不出口的一句话：韩明士有道理，但，不完整。——韩在学术史上承担一个最重要的点就在于，家族不一定非要做官，它可以像公司一样通过族产投资分成来维系同居关系，在社会竞争中保全自己的生活水平，而不是都像买彩票一样去培养进士——但这并不能说明国家统治很松动（大佬们批判完之后就会把结论摆回到“统治依然很完整”这个更愚蠢的点上）如果一个统治完美无缺，那怎么会出现农民起义？即使到后来明清最强大的时期，依然没有停止过农民起义，某国的五六十年代都出现了农民起义，难道说这些时期都是统治松动的时期么？韩的不完整性是任何作品都会存在的，但他的学术史意义实在是让后来者受惠良多。 (展开)
2 有用 philohistoria 2011-04-24 17:07:01
论证过程非常漂亮
3 有用 人间别久不成悲 2023-11-21 21:05:49 新疆
上次问作者什么时候能翻译引进（中国），他说“Nope”