Publication Date
2017
Description
Review essay on five books:
- Cunshe chuantong yu Ming Qing shishen: Shanxi Zezhou xiangtu shehui de zhidu bianqian 村社傳 統與明清士紳：山西澤州鄉土社會的制度變遷(Village Worship Associations and the Gentry in Ming and Qing Times: Institutional Transformations in the Local Society of Zezhou, Shanxi). By DU ZHENGZHEN 杜正貞. Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe, 2007. 348 pp. CNY 30.00 (paper).
- The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy. By NICOLAS TACKETT. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. xiv + 281 pp. $49.95 (cloth), $25.00 (paper).
- Kin Gen jidai no kahoku shakai to kakyo seido: Mōhitotsu no “shijin sō” 金元時代の華北社会と 科挙制度―もう一つの「士人層」(Society and the Examination System in North China during the Jin-Yuan Period: Another “Literati Stratum”). By IIYAMA TOMOYASU 飯山知保. Tokyo: Waseda daigaku shuppanbu, 2011. xi + 464 pp. JPY 8,900 (cloth).
- The Making of a New Rural Order in South China: I. Village, Land, and Lineage in Huizhou, 900–1600. By JOSEPH P. MCDERMOTT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xvi + 466 pp. $102.00, £67.00 (cloth), $34.99, £22.99 (paper), $28.00, £21.60 (ebook).
- Negotiated Power: The State, Elites, and Local Governance in Twelfth- to Fourteenth-Century China. By SUKHEE LEE. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. xiii + 347 pp. $49.95, £39.95 (cloth).
Journal
Journal of Chinese History
Volume
1
Issue
1
Last Page
141
Department
East Asian Studies
Link to Published Version
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-chinese-history/article/state-the-gentry-and-local-institutions-the-song-dynasty-and-longterm-trends-from-tang-to-qing/98FF05D23838EA992380D13B122A4598/share/b50b18e3db8df0674d08d063fde1c513d4c89677
DOI
10.1017/jch.2016.30
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Recommended Citation
Song Chen 陳松, “The State, the Gentry, and Local Institutions: the Song Dynasty from a Longue Durée Perspective,” multi-book review article. Journal of Chinese History, 1:1 (2017): 141–82. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jch.2016.30 (Free access link).