章节目录
Illustrations xi
Dramatis Familiae xiii
Introduction A Father Loses Three Sons to the Army: Everyday Politics in Ming China 1
PART I IN THE VILLAGE
1 A Younger Brother Inherits a Windfall: Conscription, Military Service, and Family Strategies 25
2 A Family Reunion Silences a Bully: New Social Relations between Soldiers and Their Kin 64
PART II IN THE GUARD 3 An Officer in Cahoots with Pirates: Coastal Garrisons and Maritime Smuggling 83
4 An Officer Founds a School: New Social Relations in the Guards 109
PART III IN THE MILITARY COLONY
5 A Soldier Curses a Clerk: Regulatory Arbitrage Strategies in the Military Colonies 131
6 A Temple with Two Gods: Managing Social Relations between Soldier-Farmers and Local Civilians 159
PART IV AFTER THE MING
7 A God Becomes an Ancestor: Post-Ming Legacies of the Military System 191
Conclusion 215
Acknowledgments 239
Glossary 241
Notes 245
Bibliography 269
Illustration Sources 291
Index 293
内容简介
How did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi explores the myriad ways that families fulfilled their obligations to provide a soldier to the army. The complex strategies they developed to manage their responsibilities suggest a new interpretation of an important period in China's history as well as a broader theory of politics.
Using previously untapped sources, including lineage genealogies and internal family documents, Szonyi examines how soldiers and their families living on China's southeast coast minimized the costs and maximized the benefits of meeting government demands for manpower. Families that had to provide a soldier for the army set up elaborate rules to ensure their obligation was fulfilled, and to provide incentives for the soldier not to desert his post. People in the system found ways to gain advantages for themselves and their families. For example, naval officers used the military's protection to engage in the very piracy and smuggling they were supposed to suppress. Szonyi demonstrates through firsthand accounts how subjects of the Ming state operated in a space between defiance and compliance, and how paying attention to this middle ground can help us better understand not only Ming China but also other periods and places.
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虚一而静的评论献给的三位老师说明了学术渊源：卜正民，科大卫，郑振满。讲得一手好故事，虽然读完时不少细节都记不清了。micro-history, bottom-up, social and cultural. 结论思绪飞扬，有格局有情怀。
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murmur的评论学术也是arbitrage的艺术……
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优游卒岁的评论从如此小且冷门的角度切入明史，所探讨的问题却是明朝根本的军事制度问题，且讨论了平民与国家之间互动，并利用这种互动，让自己的利益最大化。老百姓虽是被统治的对象，却在互动中并非被动的一方，其中可操作可主导的空间很大。作者还进一步论证了民间应对策略的问题，这些策略直至今天仍在中国民间与国家的关系中起着作用。
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江流的评论Even after the Ming dynasty collapsed, people still manage to maintain prerogatives to serve their interests in the Qing dynasty. Interestingly, local magistrate was choosing to apply an outdated regulatory regime because he saw no alternative. Seems like learning how to benefit from regulatory arbitrage has embedded in Chinese’s’ NDA.
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shichalo的评论非常好，尤其是书写策略。
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dow的评论理论一团糟，但是有重要的介入
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Chopin J.F.YU的评论1）英文本剛出版的時候就買了，但一直放在書架上沒打開來過。現在中譯本也已經出了，還是老老實實拿來讀一遍吧；2）本書在學術上的貢獻，中譯本條目下薩博·羅薩博士（Dr. Sub Rosa XD...）的短評已經寫得很清楚了。我相信，對明清史，尤其是明清社會經濟史和法制史，以及華南研究有了解的朋友，應該是很能夠進入本書的脈絡的。其實Szonyi講的東西並不難，但值得注意的是，他用了怎樣的理論架構以及敘述脈絡，串起一些既有的研究，然後把故事講得清楚，說得精彩；3）關於「套利」，可以讀一讀宮崎廣和（Hirokazu Miyazaki）的Arbitraging Japan；4）突然發現宋怡明的三本書我都讀過，講金門的依稀還有印象，第一本Practicing Kinship已經完全不知道講的是啥了。。。
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Nussknacker的评论我磕磕绊绊读完然后战战兢兢打个四星。虽然很多anecdote很通俗接地气，但行文毕竟非常学术，偶尔觉得dry. 中国人民与天斗与官斗的智慧并不会surprise我，但作者的格局更高，只恨我没有社会学或者历史研究的理论基础，没法dive deep了。母上大人不知道看了矮大紧哪个节目后给我强烈推荐这本书，我觉得她自己不一定能读进去...
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SHT.6733.c的评论the description of basic facts and institutions may be not surprising, or even superficial in terms of the scholarship of institutional history, but such an endeavor to incorporate institutional history into social history, which the author have long been trained and familiar with, and the excellent art of storytelling are the most intriguing parts
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地中海胖叔的评论有点意思
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Gillian的评论理论受影响于福柯的governmentality, James Scott的<The Art of Not Being Governed>还有再地化。其实一直觉得everyday politics本身就是一个用来挑战福柯非常好用的概念。
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哈利的评论以小见大的又一范本。从军户在不同circumstances的生存智慧出发，结合“everyday politics”的概念，对明朝历史的一些既有理解提出挑战或做出修正（contract，lineage，withdrawal of the state，commercial revolution）。Conclusion显示野心，尝试归纳一般意义上premodern state中state-society relations的特点（regulatory arbitrage)，最后对Mitchell “state effect”的概念进行升华，提出“premodern state effect"的概念，即the presence of state是地方统治的必要资源和一些社会现象的源头。
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oo的评论"State interventions and the responses of people affected by those interventions generated transformations in the architecture of social space."
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sektu的评论I apologize for what I said before reading the book. conclusion部分升华全书，有情怀有慈悲. 献上全部彩虹屁！
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中世纪之王的评论非常善于讲故事
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筱纹的评论The conversation with James Scott is interesting. Not sure if I like the engagement with Foucault.
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罗冈丹的评论简直就是历史写作的典范！ 越来越觉得历史呀，就是关于时间的民族志。
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Emon王冠落地的评论终于读完了！我本人对第3章更感兴趣，但还是有点值得商榷的地方，另外抓到注释里引用文献的typo啦。第5、6章实在是太累了就摸鱼了，不过有时候用英文看对家谱文本本身的描述很容易找不到北，可能是我英文太菜了吧。anyway非常值得一看。P.S.大陆版一定会被censor这个跑不了。
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一碗饭的评论the second time of english reading session the author told a good.story about the military institution in the Ming dynasty. the art of not being governed by Scott，what's the difference? being away from government or wielding the legal world weapons focus on the important content ！
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唱游的评论明朝福建东南沿海的平民与军户注册制度的互动：最优化策略optimization(宗族内轮流提供兵丁、宗族的某支长期提供兵丁，其他分支给予其补偿、雇佣外人代替服役)、接近性策略proximity(利用在军事制度中的特殊地位逐利<军人勾结海盗走私>)、监管套利regulatory arbitrage(利用不同管理体制的重叠和间隙<军田与民田>)、先例策略precedent(在清代军户寻求延续其在明朝体制下的特权)。东南沿海的宗族亲属结构不只是文化和历史的产物，还是政治选择，是作为其与国家之间的中介的非正式制度。平民利用国家的语言、主动被国家看见，并将其转化为政治资源。明朝东南沿海的商品化早于商业化，在前现代中国，合同发挥的作用与其在西方政治经济生活中不同，是平民最优化与国家互动的一种工具。