Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China 在线电子书 图书标签: 法律史 社会史 清史 海外中国研究 苏成捷 明清史 婚姻 历史
发表于2024-11-22
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野心过大和重复自我,开头主张对话高彦颐等重检性别秩序和女性主体力,最终又玩成拿手法律研究,两主题融合不如前作自然。一以贯之地关注底层生活逻辑(作为底层贫民社会秩序之一部,卖妻、一妻多夫、妻子出卖性劳力作为维持生活和家庭完整性之延展逻辑),国家—社会互动中律例的展开(依据律例卖妻多夫均非法,但家族社群维护此种做法及允许妻子兄终弟及延续血脉之矛盾,买卖双方躲避衙门法律麻烦的交易和博弈策略,地方官府在成文法与社会范式间平衡,中枢依然强调正统道德重要性),性别秩序的建构(妻子方的微弱能动性,主动要求出卖、招夫养夫、要求入赘、兼职流莺和卖身妓院,利用贫困男性无经济力、缺家族撑腰、不愿打扰官府的考虑争取较大经济利益),档案材料运用中注意对比和侧写方法(总结数据和文本勾画买卖妻和多夫制中典型个人面貌)
评分不說了,延續Sommer清代姦淫法律前作,前作法律改革和國家管制視角,此作則從社會史角度通過清代刑法檔案重建農村貧民的生活實況。裡面好些case讀起來都特別魔幻現實主義,令人無奈又唏噓,Sommer:我們知道這些人故事的唯一原因是他們犯了罪。農業內捲性造成的貧窮與父權等級體制壓迫之下,光棍與農婦都以不一樣的方式受著剝削。Sommer兩本書,真的在閱讀歷史檔案方面教會了我很多,受益匪淺……
评分大致翻了一遍,这书原本可以更短些。在“内卷化”以及性别比严重失调的前提下,讲到3%-3.5%的极端贫穷的农民如何采取非常极端的家庭“策略”,来尽可能的消解生存压力。在这个意义上,社区的道德、基层的法律都成为了“合谋者”。借由这一“同谋”,Sommer进一步证实了“大清药丸”,指出国家治理在基层的触角已经完全失控。这一点与他的师弟白德瑞写巴县衙役一样。人口史比较关注trend, normative behavior, 在统计的时候,5%粗略的说都可以不算了。而且八旗本身就是土地相对充足,社会相对封闭的community。在euro-asia的三大本里也强调,我们不是在进行国家间的比较,而是社区的间的。总之,已经晕。越来越不太了解大家在吵啥。
评分大致翻了一遍,这书原本可以更短些。在“内卷化”以及性别比严重失调的前提下,讲到3%-3.5%的极端贫穷的农民如何采取非常极端的家庭“策略”,来尽可能的消解生存压力。在这个意义上,社区的道德、基层的法律都成为了“合谋者”。借由这一“同谋”,Sommer进一步证实了“大清药丸”,指出国家治理在基层的触角已经完全失控。这一点与他的师弟白德瑞写巴县衙役一样。人口史比较关注trend, normative behavior, 在统计的时候,5%粗略的说都可以不算了。而且八旗本身就是土地相对充足,社会相对封闭的community。在euro-asia的三大本里也强调,我们不是在进行国家间的比较,而是社区的间的。总之,已经晕。越来越不太了解大家在吵啥。
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Matthew H. Sommer teaches Chinese history at Stanford University. He is the author of Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China.
This book is a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912). By analyzing over 1200 legal cases from local and central court archives, Matthew Sommer explores the functions played by marriage, sex, and reproduction in the survival strategies of the rural poor under conditions of overpopulation, worsening sex ratios, and shrinking farm sizes. Polyandry and wife-selling represented opposite ends of a spectrum of strategies. At one end, polyandry was a means to keep the family together by expanding it. A woman would bring in a second husband in exchange for his help supporting her family. In contrast, wife sale was a means to survive by breaking up a family: a husband would secure an emergency infusion of cash while his wife would escape poverty and secure a fresh start with another man.
Even though Qing law prohibited both practices under the rubric “illicit sexual relations,” Sommer shows how magistrates charged with propagating and enforcing a fundamentalist Confucian vision of female chastity tried to cope with their social reality in the face of daunting poverty. This contradiction illuminates both the pragmatism of routine adjudication and the increasingly dysfunctional nature of the dynastic state in the face of mounting social crisis. By casting a spotlight on the rural poor and the experiences of both men and women, Sommer provides an alternative to the standard paradigms of women’s history that have long dominated scholarship on gender and sexuality in late imperial China.
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Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China 在线电子书 pdf 下载 txt下载 epub 下载 mobi 下载 2024