Philip A. Kuhn is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History at Harvard University. His most recent book is Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768, winner of the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies.
What is “Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese confronted such constitutional questions as: How does the scope of political participation affect state power? How is the state to secure a share of society’s wealth? In response to the changing demands of the age, this agenda has been expressed in changing language. Yet, because the underlying pattern remains recognizable, the modernization of the state in response to foreign aggression can be studied in longer perspective.
The author offers three concrete studies to illustrate the constitutional agenda in action: how the early nineteenth-century scholar-activist Wei Yuan confronted the relation between broadened political participation and authoritarian state power; how the reformist proposals of the influential scholar Feng Guifen were received by mainstream bureaucrats during the 1898 reform movement; and how fiscal problems of the late empire formed a backdrop to agricultural collectivization in the 1950s. In each case, the author presents the “modern” constitutional solution as only the most recent answer to old Chinese questions. The book concludes by describing the transformation of the constitutional agenda over the course of the modern period.
读导论,一上来就给中国现代国家的形成的“中国的过程”,“根本性议程”等高深的提法给震慑了。作者政治学术语层出不穷,天马行空,论及“根本性议程”所谓三协调、三难题,让我如堕云雾、雾里看花,似又确有启发,总之笔记记了,觉也睡了。 读了第一章,若有小悟。魏源的身...
评分孔飞力在费正清退休后,被哈佛大学邀请主持中国研究中心。他的主要代表作《叫魂》和《中国晚期叛乱及其敌对势力》,手中这本《中国现代国家的起源》则是根据他在法兰西学院系列演讲整理出来的一本论文集。这本书是他关于中国现代国家形成的一些想法与现代性构建关系的思考系统...
评分孔飞力(Philip Alden Kuhn)是海外汉学中“中国中心观”的代表人物。“中国中心观”滥觞于美国汉学家柯文,而孔飞力的《中国现代国家的起源》是这一立场的代表作之一。“中国中心观”所要克服的就是长期盘踞于海外汉学界的“刺激—反应”模式、“传统—现代”模式和“帝国主...
评分孔飞力(Philip Alden Kuhn)是海外汉学中“中国中心观”的代表人物。“中国中心观”滥觞于美国汉学家柯文,而孔飞力的《中国现代国家的起源》是这一立场的代表作之一。“中国中心观”所要克服的就是长期盘踞于海外汉学界的“刺激—反应”模式、“传统—现代”模式和“帝国主...
评分孔飞力对中国现代国家形成的讨论基于“晚期中华帝国”的框架,而这一概念也是海外汉学圈学术积累的结果。如果说《叫魂》不断转动万花筒,折映出晚期帝制中国不同的症结和隐患,那么此书则是用一个视角更广大,理路更通贯的叙述对近现代中国的政治变迁进行整合,孔氏的思考和关...
The content is great, but Philip Kuhn's writing is really dry......
评分说是起源,其实是过程,而且没有结果-甚至不知道“结果”是否可能。读完之后略绝望。
评分说是起源,其实是过程,而且没有结果-甚至不知道“结果”是否可能。读完之后略绝望。
评分a loosely collection
评分现代中国的起源
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