HIST5507 Special Topics in Public History: Regional History of Jiangnan: From Tradition to Modernity

This course explores the regional history of China, with focus on Jiangnan. After defining the macro framework of Jiangnan, the course will be divided into two parts, with 1949 as the watershed.

The first part (Ming to 1949) examines the various political systems Jiangnan experienced: Ming-Qing dynastic rule, late Qing constitutional polity, and republican model. These macro political reforms left their imprints on the social structure through the subcounty-level administrative and educational systems. As the nation-state is expanding, what impacts (or the lack of them) are brought forth to the regional society? How do the new intellectuals, trained by modern education system, perceive the regional society? In villages, where the state cannot penetrate, how are things run? I will answer these questions in terms of local culture.

The second part explores Jiangnan after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Starting with the land reform, the state fundamentally transformed the old social order and penetrated into the regional society to an unprecedented level. What impacts were brought forth to the village-level society? How does the state organize the local society? Since the reform in 1978, as the orthodox policies of the state are on the wane, the folk culture of Jiangnan experiences “restoration”. Since the 21st century, some of these folk culture activities are even defined as UNESCO “non-material cultural heritage”. How should these phenomenon be perceived? I will answer these questions in terms of historical studies.

By the end of the course, students will:
(1) have acquired the crucial concept and methodology of regional social history;
(2) have enhanced their understanding and reflection of the study of regional social history;
(3) have appreciated the values of ethnography and anthropology on the study of regional social history;
(4) have enhanced their understanding of contemporary China in the context of long-term historical changes.

Week 01 Introduction: the Significance of Regional History Research
Week 02 History of the development of Jiangnan: the Society of Jiangnan as a Littoral Society
Week 03　The Folk Beliefs in Jiangnan
Week 04 The Local Elite’s Sense of Hometown and its “Marginalization”
Week 05 Jiangnan Society as a Field for Research
Week 06 “Narrative” and Oral History in the Rural Villages of Jiangnan

Tutorial and Classroom Participation：30%
Semester Paper：70%
*Topic：To be announced
*Minimum Word Length：To be announced

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Week 1
趙世瑜，《小歴史与大歴史：區域社會史的理念、方法与實踐》(北京：三聯，2006)。
劉志偉、孫歌，《在歷史中尋找中國：關於區域史研究認識的對話》(上海：東方出版中心，2016)。
G. William Skinner ed., The City in late imperial China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977).
Lloyd E Eastman, Family, fields, and ancestors: constancy and change in China’s social and economic history, 1550-1949 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988).
森正夫，《森正夫明清史論集第3巻：地域社会·研究方法》(東京：汲古書院，2006)。
岸本美緒，《地域社會論再考：明清史論集〈2〉》(東京：研文出版，2012)。

Week 2
樊樹志，《明清江南市鎮探微》(上海：復旦大学出版社，1990)。
范毅軍，《傳統市鎮與區域發展：明清太湖以東地區為例（1551-1861）》(臺北：中央研究院·聯經出版事業公司，2005)。
吴滔，《清代江南市鎮與農村關係的空間透視：以蘇州地區為中心》(上海：上海古籍出版社，2010)。
斯波義信，《中國都市史》(北京：北京大学出版社，2013)。
謝湜，《高郷與低郷：11-16世紀江南區域歴史地理研究》(北京：三聯，2015)。
王建革，《江南環境史研究》(北京：科学出版社，2016)。
徐斌，《制度、経済與社會――明清両湖漁業、漁民與水域社會》，北京：科學出版社，2018年。
劉詩古，《資源、産権與秩序――明清鄱陽湖區的漁課制度與水域社會》， 北京：社會科學文獻出版社，2018年。
森正夫编，《江南三角洲市镇研究》(南京：江蘇人民出版社，2018)。
渡部忠世、桜井由躬雄編，《中国江南の稲作文化：その学際的研究》(東京：日本放送出版協会，1984)。
高村雅彦，《中国江南の都市とくらし：水のまちの環境形成》(東京：山川出版社，2000)。

Week 3
費孝通，《郷土中国》〔重版〕(北京：生活·読書·新知三聯書店，1985)。
濱島敦俊，《總管信仰：明清江南農村社會與民間信仰》(廈門：廈門大學出版社，2008)。
趙世瑜，《猛将還郷：洞庭東山的新江南史》（北京：社会科学文献出版社，2022）。
David Johnson, Andrew J. Nathan, Evelyn S. Rawski eds., Popular Culture in Late Imperial China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).
福武直，《中国農村社会の構造》（福武直著作集第9巻，東京：東京大学出版會，1976）。
佐藤仁史、太田出、稲田清一、呉滔編，《中国農村の信仰と生活――太湖流域社会史口述記録集》(東京：汲古書院，2008)。
佐藤仁史、太田出、藤野真子、緒方賢一、朱火生編，《中国農村の民間藝能――太湖流域社会史口述記録集２》(東京：汲古書院，2011)。

Week 4
朱小田，《江南郷鎮社会的近代轉型》(北京：中国商業出版社，1997)。
森正夫，《森正夫明清史論集第3巻：地域社会·研究方法》(東京：汲古書院，2006)。
山田賢，《移民的秩序：清代四川地域社会史研究》(北京：中央編譯出版社，2011)。
岸本美緒，《地域社會論再考：明清史論集〈2〉》(東京：研文出版，2012)。
佐藤仁史，《近代中国的郷土意識――清末民初江南的地方精英与地域社会》(北京：北京師範大学出版社，2017)。
王汎森，《執拗的低音：一些歷史思考方式的反思》(北京：三聯，2020)。

Week 5
科大衛，《明清社會和禮儀》(北京：北京師範大學出版社，2016)。
趙世瑜，《猛将還郷：洞庭東山的新江南史》(北京：社会科学文献出版社，2022)。
Prasenjit Duara, Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1988).
Sato Yoshifumi, “Oral History and the Study of Local Social History in China: The Case of Rural Society in the Taihu Lake Basin Area”, Cahiers d’Extreme-Asie 31(2023).
旗田巍,《中国村落と共同体理論》(東京：岩波書店，1973)。
佐藤仁史、太田出、稲田清一、呉滔編，《中国農村の信仰と生活――太湖流域社会史口述記録集》(東京：汲古書院，2008)。
佐藤仁史、太田出、藤野真子、緒方賢一、朱火生編，《中国農村の民間藝能――太湖流域社会史口述記録集２》(東京：汲古書院，2011)。

Week 6
魏宏運、三谷孝、張思，《20世纪華北農村調查記錄》(北京：社会科学文献出版社, 2012)，4卷。
許雪姬編，《臺灣口述歷史的理論實務與案例》(臺北：臺灣口述歷史學會，2014)。
佐藤仁史, 〈被切斷的記憶：從一位「富農」的敘述看近代江南的農村社會〉，《東呉歴史学報》，第36期(2016)，頁7-37。
Thomas David DuBois, and Jan Kiely, eds., Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History: A Research Guide (London: Routledge, 2019).
岩本通弥編，《方法としての<語り>》(京都：ミネルヴァ書房、2020)

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