海外中国研究
中国思想传统的现代诠释 豆瓣
作者:
余英时
江苏人民出版社
1989
- 6
本书是继《士与中国文化》之后,经著名华裔学者余英时教授同意,编选而成的他的又一部学术论文集。这些论文,不仅反映出著者作为一位对中西方文化都有广泛深入了解研究的深刻的社会思想史专家,力图通过对若干具有普遍性和客观性的问题的分析,来把握中国文化的价值系统,从而达到对于中国文化性质的一种整体了解的学术风格,而且也反映出著者对于中国社会现代化问题的深层关注和严肃冷静的思考。
文化、权力与国家 豆瓣
8.4 (16 个评分)
作者:
[美国] 杜赞奇
译者:
王福明
江苏人民出版社
2003
- 8
《文化、权力与国家》是以乡村的文化网络为基本结构并考察其功能,这一点和作者第二本书《从国族中拯救历史》(中译本即出)的结构形态似乎相差不少,但他所关注的主题却在继续延伸:现代国家如何构造新的文化,以及民间团体如何“抵抗”从上面来的“攻击”,是第二本书所讨论的一个主要问题。
最重要的一点是,作者在他的著述里贯穿了一种方法论:在考虑话语—主体—制度这三者对历史的建构时应该加入许多外来事物和偶然因素,因为参与主体和主体性构成的不仅有话语,还有外来事物;而由主体构建的制度还应包括制度本身的逻辑和偶然性。因此,所谓“拯救历史”其实是一个方法的问题,而不是一个带有实体的目的。作者认为当民族国家成为现代性之下的历史主体时,其它历史就没有了,因为写历史的不同方法带有不同的目的性——以民族国家为对象的历史自然会排除掉其他可能的历史。所以,他从民族国家中要拯救的不是某种实体,而是一种方法,这种方法表明,我们本来就应该有许多种历史,它们是交织在一起的。对杜赞奇这样的研究者来讲,他最关注的就是在民族国家之外的历史是如何被压下去的,乡村仍然是他的立场。
最重要的一点是,作者在他的著述里贯穿了一种方法论:在考虑话语—主体—制度这三者对历史的建构时应该加入许多外来事物和偶然因素,因为参与主体和主体性构成的不仅有话语,还有外来事物;而由主体构建的制度还应包括制度本身的逻辑和偶然性。因此,所谓“拯救历史”其实是一个方法的问题,而不是一个带有实体的目的。作者认为当民族国家成为现代性之下的历史主体时,其它历史就没有了,因为写历史的不同方法带有不同的目的性——以民族国家为对象的历史自然会排除掉其他可能的历史。所以,他从民族国家中要拯救的不是某种实体,而是一种方法,这种方法表明,我们本来就应该有许多种历史,它们是交织在一起的。对杜赞奇这样的研究者来讲,他最关注的就是在民族国家之外的历史是如何被压下去的,乡村仍然是他的立场。
Origins of the Modern Chinese State 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者:
Philip A. Kuhn
Stanford University Press
2003
- 8
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.
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.