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.
译者导言 1.正是由于危机根源所包含的超越中国帝制时代的性质,这又成为中国走向现代国家的历史起始点。 2.具有合法性的公共利益是否存在?它同现代国家的构建又有何种关系?它对国家与地方社会利益之间合法性边界的界定又会产生怎样的影响? 3.就“现代国家”构建而言,这种共...
評分我想孔飞力的研究和学理源头是对中国社会“建制议程”——内在发展动力的探询,其中必须处理的是中央政府权力对地方势力的管控(矛盾)和渗透,及其在不同时期的变异、政策与具体情境,而这些问题的直接线索便是税收制度,或者说,是国家税收制度在地方所遇到阻力、效用及失效...
評分孔飞力的这本小书,不过100多页,是基于他1994年在法兰西学院所作的一系列讲座,也是他大半辈子学术探索的一个总结。他的第一本书《中华帝国晚期的叛乱及其敌人》(初版于1970年)讨论了太平天国时期地方社会如何军事化,湘军如何组织起团练并最终击败同样由平民组成的太平军,...
評分我想孔飞力的研究和学理源头是对中国社会“建制议程”——内在发展动力的探询,其中必须处理的是中央政府权力对地方势力的管控(矛盾)和渗透,及其在不同时期的变异、政策与具体情境,而这些问题的直接线索便是税收制度,或者说,是国家税收制度在地方所遇到阻力、效用及失效...
評分读导论,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...
跟史華慈類似,孔飛力對“現代性”和“現代國傢”也有特彆的關切。但基於對“現代性”之多樣化和復雜度的判斷,孔氏又保持高度的謹慎,拒絕以任何斷言的、非辯證的方式加以定義。在這本書中,他展示瞭他的替代方案:界定現代國傢的三個“根本性議題”,並闡發從中國本身的曆史中發現這些議題之演進邏輯的可能。當然這會引來各個方嚮的批評:孔氏並沒有說明決定“何種問題值得發現”的標準,也似乎對49年後的“新傳統”缺乏體察。但是,對於試圖為研究增加曆史厚度、但又並非曆史專業的“外行人”,孔氏關於“根本性議程”之連續性的論述極大地擴充瞭可利用的思想資源、至少是拓展瞭學術想象的空間。
评分The content is great, but Philip Kuhn's writing is really dry......
评分裏麵提供瞭無數精彩的指導思想史傢的題目。眼睛要亮。
评分The key concept is the constitutional agenda,which consist of: a set of concerns about the legitimate ordering of public,a will to grapple.
评分盡管有些概念翻譯顯有纔氣,但有些發揮過瞭當。分明就隻有administration,能在多次翻個“政府機製”齣來
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