作者:
Jonathan N. Lipman 出版社: State University of New York Press 副标题: Essays in Culture and Counterculture 出版年: 1990-5 页数: 249 定价: USD 31.95 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780791401156
In this volume, Lipman and Harrell explore the prevalence and ubiquity of violence in China, a society whose official norms value harmony and condemn conflict. The book investigates violence in a wide variety of situations through the sweep of history and in contexts ranging from the family to the national polity.
The book explores motivations for violence from both a historica...
In this volume, Lipman and Harrell explore the prevalence and ubiquity of violence in China, a society whose official norms value harmony and condemn conflict. The book investigates violence in a wide variety of situations through the sweep of history and in contexts ranging from the family to the national polity.
The book explores motivations for violence from both a historical and a contemporary perspective. Historically, the authors cover bloody religious rebellions in premodern times, the depiction of violence in traditional popular novels, ethnic strife between Muslims and Han Chinese in the Northwest, and feuding local communities in the Southeast. Modern China is depicted by analyses of rural and urban violence in Mao’s Cultural Revolution and an examination of continuing domestic violence. This depiction of the cultural themes and motivations for violence allow lessons drawn from specific contexts to be applied to the nature of Chinese culture in general.
作者简介
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Jonathan N. Lipman is Associate Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College.
Stevan Harrell is Professor of Anthropology and International Studies and Director of the Arts and Sciences Honors Program at the University of Washington.
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I think the reluctance of Chinese governments to prosecute cases of violence perpetrated against lowerranking family members, including the presentday lax enforcement of laws and official norms prohibiting violence against women, as described in Gilmartin's paper in this volume, may be explained in the same way as the justification for violence against those who threaten the political or the class order. In all these cases, vertical violence is justified by the threats to the orthodox order posed by its opponents. Men are allowed to beat their wives, or mothersinlaw their daughtersinlaw, or parents their children, because the husbands or mothersinlaw or parents are representatives of the orthodox order, in the same way as dynasties conceived of themselves as having the Mandate of Heaven or... (查看原文)
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