How did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi explores the myriad ways that families fulfilled their obligations to provide a soldier to the army. The complex strategies they developed to manage their responsibilities suggest a new interpretation of an important period in China's history ...
How did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi explores the myriad ways that families fulfilled their obligations to provide a soldier to the army. The complex strategies they developed to manage their responsibilities suggest a new interpretation of an important period in China's history as well as a broader theory of politics.
Using previously untapped sources, including lineage genealogies and internal family documents, Szonyi examines how soldiers and their families living on China's southeast coast minimized the costs and maximized the benefits of meeting government demands for manpower. Families that had to provide a soldier for the army set up elaborate rules to ensure their obligation was fulfilled, and to provide incentives for the soldier not to desert his post. People in the system found ways to gain advantages for themselves and their families. For example, naval officers used the military's protection to engage in the very piracy and smuggling they were supposed to suppress. Szonyi demonstrates through firsthand accounts how subjects of the Ming state operated in a space between defiance and compliance, and how paying attention to this middle ground can help us better understand not only Ming China but also other periods and places.
Michael Szonyi is professor of Chinese history and director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. His books include Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China and Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line.
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Illustrations xi
Dramatis Familiae xiii
Introduction A Father Loses Three Sons to the Army: Everyday Politics in Ming China 1
PART I IN THE VILLAGE
1 A Younger Brother Inherits a Windfall: Conscription, Military Service, and Family Strategies 25
2 A Family Reunion Silences a Bully: New Social Relations between Soldiers and Their Kin 64
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Illustrations xi
Dramatis Familiae xiii
Introduction A Father Loses Three Sons to the Army: Everyday Politics in Ming China 1
PART I IN THE VILLAGE
1 A Younger Brother Inherits a Windfall: Conscription, Military Service, and Family Strategies 25
2 A Family Reunion Silences a Bully: New Social Relations between Soldiers and Their Kin 64
PART II IN THE GUARD 3 An Officer in Cahoots with Pirates: Coastal Garrisons and Maritime Smuggling 83
4 An Officer Founds a School: New Social Relations in the Guards 109
PART III IN THE MILITARY COLONY
5 A Soldier Curses a Clerk: Regulatory Arbitrage Strategies in the Military Colonies 131
6 A Temple with Two Gods: Managing Social Relations between Soldier-Farmers and Local Civilians 159
PART IV AFTER THE MING
7 A God Becomes an Ancestor: Post-Ming Legacies of the Military System 191
Conclusion 215
Acknowledgments 239
Glossary 241
Notes 245
Bibliography 269
Illustration Sources 291
Index 293
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the description of basic facts and institutions may be not surprising, or even superficial in terms of the scholarship of institutional history, but such an endeavor to incorporate institutional histo...the description of basic facts and institutions may be not surprising, or even superficial in terms of the scholarship of institutional history, but such an endeavor to incorporate institutional history into social history, which the author have long been trained and familiar with, and the excellent art of storytelling are the most intriguing parts(展开)
1）页269 “实际上，它代表了连续不断的仪式蜕变历史的新篇章” 以下 The Houshan temple's ritual network expanded dramatically as recently as 2014, with the creation of the "outer" parade, about which I have so far said very little. This is a new innovation, an...
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来自宋怡明教授的专访， http://mingching.sinica.edu.tw/en/Academic_Detail/567 宋教授將於 2017 年 11 月底出版第三本專著《The Art of Being Governed：Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China》（被統治的技藝：帝制中國晚期的日常政治，簡稱《被統治的技藝》）。從書...
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宋怡明 作者
阅湖
中国华侨出版社2019版
朝凪
中国华侨出版社2019版
汗青堂
中国华侨出版社2019版
后浪
中国华侨出版社2019版
流惜子
中国华侨出版社2019版
格野
九州出版社2023版
0 有用 斯瑕 2022-09-10 13:16:10 四川
@2019-01-23 11:45:22
6 有用 dow 2020-01-26 21:06:25
理论一团糟，但是有重要的介入
1 有用 oo 2020-01-26 08:35:39
"State interventions and the responses of people affected by those interventions generated transformations in the architecture of social space."
0 有用 无心恋战 2022-07-28 12:07:30
从如此小且冷门的角度切入明史，所探讨的问题却是明朝根本的军事制度问题，且讨论了平民与国家之间互动，并利用这种互动，让自己的利益最大化。老百姓虽是被统治的对象，却在互动中并非被动的一方，其中可操作可主导的空间很大。作者还进一步论证了民间应对策略的问题，这些策略直至今天仍在中国民间与国家的关系中起着作用。（阅读时间：2022年4月26日-7月28日；自评：8.2；推荐指数：★★★★★）
0 有用 無處覓征鴻 2019-08-03 18:27:55
the description of basic facts and institutions may be not surprising, or even superficial in terms of the scholarship of institutional history, but such an endeavor to incorporate institutional histo... the description of basic facts and institutions may be not surprising, or even superficial in terms of the scholarship of institutional history, but such an endeavor to incorporate institutional history into social history, which the author have long been trained and familiar with, and the excellent art of storytelling are the most intriguing parts (展开)
0 有用 sswant 2023-10-24 07:41:02 美国
力荐 了解一段不为大众所知的历史，提升了对明朝的认知，搭配显微镜下的大明效果更佳，推荐！
0 有用 慕月 2023-10-03 03:00:47 美国
讲的东西不复杂，但胜在对自己掌握的素材、在同领域研究中的位置有清晰的认识且运用自如，另外讲故事的能力也强大。
0 有用 wzb 2023-08-09 16:58:49 上海
精彩的宗族视角下的制度史研究，如作者在结尾所言，regulatory arbitrage等“艺术”不仅仅是军户的策略，那么相关的理论讨论还需要进一步深入或延展
0 有用 斯瑕 2022-09-10 13:16:10 四川
@2019-01-23 11:45:22
0 有用 无心恋战 2022-07-28 12:07:30
从如此小且冷门的角度切入明史，所探讨的问题却是明朝根本的军事制度问题，且讨论了平民与国家之间互动，并利用这种互动，让自己的利益最大化。老百姓虽是被统治的对象，却在互动中并非被动的一方，其中可操作可主导的空间很大。作者还进一步论证了民间应对策略的问题，这些策略直至今天仍在中国民间与国家的关系中起着作用。（阅读时间：2022年4月26日-7月28日；自评：8.2；推荐指数：★★★★★）