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Lädt ... Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (1988)von Prasenjit Duara
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In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society. This book is an ambitious attempt to offer both a method and a framework for analyzing Chinese social history in the state-making era.The author constructs a prismatic view of village-level society that shows how marketing, kinship, water control, temple patronage, and other structures of human interaction overlapped to form what he calls the cultural nexus of power in local society. The author's concept of the cultural nexus and his tracing of how it was altered enables us for the first time to grapple with change at the village level in all its complexity.The author asserts that the growth of the state transformed and delegitimized the traditional cultural nexus during the Republican era, particularly in the realm of village leadership and finances. Thus, the expansion of state power was ultimately and paradoxically responsible for the revolution in China as it eroded the foundations of village life, leaving nothing in its place.The problems of state-making in China were different from those of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe; the Chinese experience heralds the process that would become increasingly common in the emergent states of the developing world under the very different circumstances of the twentieth century. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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This is a social/cultural history, taken from primarily Japanese sources (including a survey from a Manchurian railway company), which seeks to analyze the relationship between the Chinese state (in various forms), and the people through examinations of interactions between the state and villagers in North China.
Before the Qing reforms, village power was circled around religious, cultural, or ancestral means. The Qing attempted to introduce a democracy in its later years based a limited electorate and a conservative (but reformist) gentry. As this fragile republican government collapsed shortly after the accession of the Xuantong Emperor, warlords and 'bullies' seized control, and corruption was endemic. Only later, under Chiang Kai-Shek's nationalists, did they attempt to re-establish a central, organized relationship with the rural citizens, but this, too had its flaws, and was disrupted by the mass slaughter and war committed by the Japanese.
A very interesting book (for specialists), and a little microcosm of Chinese society in the early 20th Century. ( )