Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 法律史 社會史 清史 海外中國研究 蘇成捷 明清史 婚姻 曆史
發表於2025-02-02
Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China 在線電子書 pdf 下載 txt下載 epub 下載 mobi 下載 2025
學術史:1. Female agency; 2. 經典社會經濟史對於農民生活狀況和社會危機的研究; 3. 法律史。論點最後歸根於清帝國地方控製的失效。感覺不如第一本。
評分大緻翻瞭一遍,這書原本可以更短些。在“內捲化”以及性彆比嚴重失調的前提下,講到3%-3.5%的極端貧窮的農民如何采取非常極端的傢庭“策略”,來盡可能的消解生存壓力。在這個意義上,社區的道德、基層的法律都成為瞭“閤謀者”。藉由這一“同謀”,Sommer進一步證實瞭“大清藥丸”,指齣國傢治理在基層的觸角已經完全失控。這一點與他的師弟白德瑞寫巴縣衙役一樣。人口史比較關注trend, normative behavior, 在統計的時候,5%粗略的說都可以不算瞭。而且八旗本身就是土地相對充足,社會相對封閉的community。在euro-asia的三大本裏也強調,我們不是在進行國傢間的比較,而是社區的間的。總之,已經暈。越來越不太瞭解大傢在吵啥。
評分可與《共産黨宣言》關於婚姻的論述閤看
評分銳氣已減半,功力不如前
評分寫得非常好的書,既是性彆研究也是法律和社會史,就是太長瞭……
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 在線電子書 pdf 下載 txt下載 epub 下載 mobi 下載 2025