Johanna S. Ransmeier is Assistant Professor of History and the College at the University of Chicago.
A robust trade in human lives thrived throughout North China during the late Qing and Republican periods. Whether to acquire servants, slaves, concubines, or children—or dispose of unwanted household members—families at all levels of society addressed various domestic needs by participating in this market. Sold People brings into focus the complicit dynamic of human trafficking, including the social and legal networks that sustained it. Johanna Ransmeier reveals the extent to which the structure of the Chinese family not only influenced but encouraged the buying and selling of men, women, and children.
For centuries, human trafficking had an ambiguous status in Chinese society. Prohibited in principle during the Qing period, it was nevertheless widely accepted as part of family life, despite the frequent involvement of criminals. In 1910, Qing reformers, hoping to usher China into the community of modern nations, officially abolished the trade. But police and other judicial officials found the new law extremely difficult to enforce. Industrialization, urbanization, and the development of modern transportation systems created a breeding ground for continued commerce in people. The Republican government that came to power after the 1911 revolution similarly struggled to root out the entrenched practice.
Ransmeier draws from untapped archival sources to recreate the lived experience of human trafficking in turn-of-the-century North China. Not always a measure of last resort reserved for times of extreme hardship, the sale of people was a commonplace transaction that built and restructured families as often as it broke them apart.
原载于:《中國文化研究所學報》Journal of Chinese Studies No. 67 - July 2018 Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China. By Johanna S. Ransmeier. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 395. $49.95/£35.95. ...
评分原载于:《中國文化研究所學報》Journal of Chinese Studies No. 67 - July 2018 Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China. By Johanna S. Ransmeier. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 395. $49.95/£35.95. ...
评分原载于:《中國文化研究所學報》Journal of Chinese Studies No. 67 - July 2018 Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China. By Johanna S. Ransmeier. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 395. $49.95/£35.95. ...
评分原载于:《中國文化研究所學報》Journal of Chinese Studies No. 67 - July 2018 Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China. By Johanna S. Ransmeier. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 395. $49.95/£35.95. ...
评分原载于:《中國文化研究所學報》Journal of Chinese Studies No. 67 - July 2018 Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China. By Johanna S. Ransmeier. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 395. $49.95/£35.95. ...
在读ing。因为不好的人啃英文原著真的很悲伤,查词的时间远超看内容的时间。但能咋地,还不得看嘛。看完再说感想。
评分文笔超级好,就是8章读起来实在是辛苦。从买卖人口切入中国北方的家庭关系,全篇围绕transactional family而讨论,非常新颖,比起Sommer的卖老婆,视角更多元,但又有异曲同工的妙处。今年读过的里面很棒的一本~更加感谢导师课上的引导
评分transactional family、community network for trafficking; 法律、环境、交通、性别等视角交汇
评分文笔超级好,就是8章读起来实在是辛苦。从买卖人口切入中国北方的家庭关系,全篇围绕transactional family而讨论,非常新颖,比起Sommer的卖老婆,视角更多元,但又有异曲同工的妙处。今年读过的里面很棒的一本~更加感谢导师课上的引导
评分参见书评 China Review International: Vol. 23, No. 2, 2016
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