Prasenjit Duara
Auteur de Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China
A propos de l'auteur
Educated in India and the United States, Prasenjit Duara is currently professor of history and East Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942, which won the American Historical Association's John afficher plus K. Fairbank Prize for 1989 and the Association for Asian Studies' Joseph R. Levenson Prize for 1990 afficher moins
Œuvres de Prasenjit Duara
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Duara, Prasenjit
- Date de naissance
- 1950
- Sexe
- male
- Études
- Harvard University (PhD|1983)
- Professions
- Professor of East Asian Studies
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Membres
- 149
- Popularité
- #139,413
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 34
- Langues
- 1
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.… (plus d'informations)