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China perspectives, 2014
Review(s) of: Health and hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and publics in the long twentieth... more Review(s) of: Health and hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and publics in the long twentieth century, by Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth (eds), Durham, London, Duke University Press, 2010, 338 pp.
The China Quarterly, Dec 1, 2007
... Lara Ruffolo provided assistance in the final stage of manuscript preparation,Catherine Stuer ... more ... Lara Ruffolo provided assistance in the final stage of manuscript preparation,Catherine Stuer prepared the index, and Keyang Tang created the graphic design represent-ing ''the Chinese case'' that adorns our cover. Pinyin ...
Handbooks and Anthologies for Officials in Imperial China (2 vols), 2020
Zhongxin chuban jituan, 2018
Zhongxin chubanshe., 2018
Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2019
Gabbiani Luca. Joseph R. Dennis, Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial Ch... more Gabbiani Luca. Joseph R. Dennis, Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China, 1100–1700, Cambridge (MA)–Londres, Harvard University Asia Center, 2015.. In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 105, 2019. pp. 405-409
L'Atelier du CRH, 2020
Tout OpenEdition 1 The two workshops were made possible by funds provided by the Marie Skłodowska... more Tout OpenEdition 1 The two workshops were made possible by funds provided by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship awarded to Alessandro Buono (Call: H2020-MSCA-IF-2014; project: yet the strategies devised for the establishment of such institutions as "ancestral property" or "lineage property" cannot but bring to the fore some of the aspects elaborated in the previous case studies. While, even in the Chinese scenario, the imperial authorities did eventually make a few claims on the property of extinct households, this process cannot be simply equated to the progressive replacement of the "private-family" sphere with the "public-state" sphere. Sun and Gabbiani's essay focuses on the specific case of the "incapacitation" of women, who were excluded from inheritance in many different ways and who were considered, depending on the circumstances, as a danger for the household or as a subject in danger and, as such, in need of protection by local and supra-local authorities as well as by lineages. In turn, the Chinese context leads to a subject, which, though no less central to the Christian and Islamic worlds, seems even more blatant in the East Asian sphere. The role of "ritual succession" and of the "ritual heir", the guarantee of the ancestral cult and the safeguarding of the associated property take center stage in Martina Deuchler's and Marie Seong-Hak Kim's articles, the first on Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) and the second on the period of Japanese colonial rule in that same country (1910-1945). In her description of the mechanisms set up for the management of economic and ritual inheritance from the times of the Koryŏ dynasty (932-1392) until the adoption of Neo-Confucian social norms in the early decades of the Chosŏn dynasty, Deuchler points out that Korea's social structure, largely based on corporate households and singlesurname villages, tended to turn the problems of abeyance and of vacant estates into an ancillary question. By means of entities such as the munjung, which grouped all agnates of the lineage or lineage segments, moments of crisis (such as the inadequacy or lack of a suitable individual able to take on the duties of the "ritual heir", i.e. the ancestral cult and the management of the family's properties) were largely handled within the group, with the state authorities having little or no say in these matters. While in pre-modern Korea, the language of rites and its rationale spelled out times of discontinuity and helped rebuild continuity beyond the hiatus of succession, Kim's essay-about the "Western" legal logic brought in by the Japanese colonial ruler-gives pride of place to a comparative analysis between the "traditional" ritual approaches, as understood and standardized by the Japanese colonial courts, and the "modern" legal approaches that such courts tried to spread. In this instance, the problem of succession, far from losing its centrality, appears as a veritable battlefield in a colonial context in which the boundaries between the economic and the ritual, the public and the private, the family and the state, were redefined. Accueil L'Atelier du CRH 22 The King Heir. Claiming Vacant Es... L'Atelier du Centre de recherches historiques Revue électronique du CRH 22 | 2020 : Sous tutelle. Biens sans maître et successions vacantes dans une perspective comparative, XIIIe-XXe siècles The King Heir. Claiming Vacant Estate Succession in Europe and in the Spanish World (13th-18th Centuries) Le roi héritier. Les revendications sur la succession vacante en Europe et dans le Monde espagnol XIIIe-XVIIIe siècles ALESSANDRO BUONO
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 2011
lectale de leur identité et de leur activité économique. Wang Ju livre une contribution d’histoir... more lectale de leur identité et de leur activité économique. Wang Ju livre une contribution d’histoire économique consacrée au troisième âge d’or de l’industrie cotonnière shanghaienne (1946-1947), montrant l’exceptionnelle capacité des entrepreneurs à survivre et à prospérer dans un environnement politique pourtant bien peu favorable. Lucien Bianco, à propos de l’agitation paysanne dans la région de Shanghai durant la première moitié du XXe siècle, et Alain Roux, à propos des ouvriers shanghaiens en 1948-1949, montrent que la paysannerie comme le monde ouvrier sont protestataires mais faiblement révolutionnaires – une société dynamique mais un échec politique. D’autres contributions mettent au jour des pans jusque-là ignorés de l’histoire shanghaienne. Bryna Goodman enquête sur la façon dont est perçue la spéculation boursière effrénée des années 1920-1922. Robert Bickers montre comme les résidents chinois de la Concession internationale participent de facto (sans droite de vote) à la vie locale et contribuent à faire de cet espace « une véritable communauté transnationale » (p. 232). Frederic Wakeman revient sur la composition et le comportement de la police chinoise, ainsi que sur son infiltration par les communistes durant la période 1942-1952. L’ouvrage s’achève par une enquête sociologique d’Isabelle Thireau et Hua Linshan sur la population migrante dans les années 2000 et l’évolution du système d’enregistrement (le hukou) : les auteurs montrent l’effacement du critère de la résidence, qui en constituait la base, au profit de l’appartenance à la ville ; la question de la citoyenneté prend donc aujourd’hui le pas sur celle de la résidence, sans que la signification de la première soit pourtant éclaircie. Comme on l’aura compris, ce volume conduit un bilan raisonné d’une œuvre majeure et de ses prolongements, en même temps qu’il donne accès à des travaux innovants d’une riche épaisseur historique. Le lecteur sinophone regrettera néanmoins que la bibliographie finale soit essentiellement en langues occidentales et ne fasse pas assez de place aux publications chinoises de plus en plus nombreuses.
International Journal of Asian Studies, 2013
This article provides an in-depth analysis of the reasons for which insane individuals who had co... more This article provides an in-depth analysis of the reasons for which insane individuals who had committed patricide were systematically sentenced to dismemberment (lingchi 凌遲) under the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), the most severe form of capital punishment that could be called for in the state's administrative and penal Code. This extreme harshness ran contrary to several “theoretical” foundations of Chinese traditional law, first and foremost the principle of criminal intent. Through the study of such criminal cases, and others legally affiliated to patricide, spanning the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, it underlines the importance of the relationship between a parent and his child, which was prominent in China's moral and cultural context at the time. It also stresses the role of political issues related to the legitimacy of the imperial state and to the upholding of the legality of its judicial process. Even though legal tools existed in the Qing Code, which wou...
L'Atelier du CRH, 2020
Over its evolution, imperial China’s legal tradition has produced as series of laws and regulatio... more Over its evolution, imperial China’s legal tradition has produced as series of laws and regulations on the issue of vacant successions, which were supplemented by a host of local practices or “customs”. This body of legal and customary rules had a profound impact on the rights of women to ownership, in a context in which there existed a profound cultural bias in favor of men. Even though social status and the role played in the family circle did account for some differentiation, fundamentally, it was all but impossible for women to be treated on an equal footing with men, especially with regard to assets’ inheritance. In fact, in the eyes of male family members, widows, daughters and daughters-in-law were often considered as threats to the integrity of a household’s properties. As numerous Qing dynasty judicial cases show, these “dangerous women” –especially widows– were regularly confronted to all sorts of pressures from the families to which they belonged, which could end up jeopardizing their material and physical well-being. Confronted with this category of “endangered women”, in time state authorities devised legal tools and highly symbolic gestures in order to provide some form of protection for them.
China perspectives, 2014
Page 1. HEALTH AND HYGIENE IN CHINESE EAST ASIA Page 2. Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia P... more Page 1. HEALTH AND HYGIENE IN CHINESE EAST ASIA Page 2. Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia Page 3. Page 4. Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century Edited ...
China perspectives, 2014
Review(s) of: Health and hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and publics in the long twentieth... more Review(s) of: Health and hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and publics in the long twentieth century, by Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth (eds), Durham, London, Duke University Press, 2010, 338 pp.
The China Quarterly, Dec 1, 2007
... Lara Ruffolo provided assistance in the final stage of manuscript preparation,Catherine Stuer ... more ... Lara Ruffolo provided assistance in the final stage of manuscript preparation,Catherine Stuer prepared the index, and Keyang Tang created the graphic design represent-ing ''the Chinese case'' that adorns our cover. Pinyin ...
Handbooks and Anthologies for Officials in Imperial China (2 vols), 2020
Zhongxin chuban jituan, 2018
Zhongxin chubanshe., 2018
Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2019
Gabbiani Luca. Joseph R. Dennis, Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial Ch... more Gabbiani Luca. Joseph R. Dennis, Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China, 1100–1700, Cambridge (MA)–Londres, Harvard University Asia Center, 2015.. In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 105, 2019. pp. 405-409
L'Atelier du CRH, 2020
Tout OpenEdition 1 The two workshops were made possible by funds provided by the Marie Skłodowska... more Tout OpenEdition 1 The two workshops were made possible by funds provided by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship awarded to Alessandro Buono (Call: H2020-MSCA-IF-2014; project: yet the strategies devised for the establishment of such institutions as "ancestral property" or "lineage property" cannot but bring to the fore some of the aspects elaborated in the previous case studies. While, even in the Chinese scenario, the imperial authorities did eventually make a few claims on the property of extinct households, this process cannot be simply equated to the progressive replacement of the "private-family" sphere with the "public-state" sphere. Sun and Gabbiani's essay focuses on the specific case of the "incapacitation" of women, who were excluded from inheritance in many different ways and who were considered, depending on the circumstances, as a danger for the household or as a subject in danger and, as such, in need of protection by local and supra-local authorities as well as by lineages. In turn, the Chinese context leads to a subject, which, though no less central to the Christian and Islamic worlds, seems even more blatant in the East Asian sphere. The role of "ritual succession" and of the "ritual heir", the guarantee of the ancestral cult and the safeguarding of the associated property take center stage in Martina Deuchler's and Marie Seong-Hak Kim's articles, the first on Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) and the second on the period of Japanese colonial rule in that same country (1910-1945). In her description of the mechanisms set up for the management of economic and ritual inheritance from the times of the Koryŏ dynasty (932-1392) until the adoption of Neo-Confucian social norms in the early decades of the Chosŏn dynasty, Deuchler points out that Korea's social structure, largely based on corporate households and singlesurname villages, tended to turn the problems of abeyance and of vacant estates into an ancillary question. By means of entities such as the munjung, which grouped all agnates of the lineage or lineage segments, moments of crisis (such as the inadequacy or lack of a suitable individual able to take on the duties of the "ritual heir", i.e. the ancestral cult and the management of the family's properties) were largely handled within the group, with the state authorities having little or no say in these matters. While in pre-modern Korea, the language of rites and its rationale spelled out times of discontinuity and helped rebuild continuity beyond the hiatus of succession, Kim's essay-about the "Western" legal logic brought in by the Japanese colonial ruler-gives pride of place to a comparative analysis between the "traditional" ritual approaches, as understood and standardized by the Japanese colonial courts, and the "modern" legal approaches that such courts tried to spread. In this instance, the problem of succession, far from losing its centrality, appears as a veritable battlefield in a colonial context in which the boundaries between the economic and the ritual, the public and the private, the family and the state, were redefined. Accueil L'Atelier du CRH 22 The King Heir. Claiming Vacant Es... L'Atelier du Centre de recherches historiques Revue électronique du CRH 22 | 2020 : Sous tutelle. Biens sans maître et successions vacantes dans une perspective comparative, XIIIe-XXe siècles The King Heir. Claiming Vacant Estate Succession in Europe and in the Spanish World (13th-18th Centuries) Le roi héritier. Les revendications sur la succession vacante en Europe et dans le Monde espagnol XIIIe-XVIIIe siècles ALESSANDRO BUONO
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 2011
lectale de leur identité et de leur activité économique. Wang Ju livre une contribution d’histoir... more lectale de leur identité et de leur activité économique. Wang Ju livre une contribution d’histoire économique consacrée au troisième âge d’or de l’industrie cotonnière shanghaienne (1946-1947), montrant l’exceptionnelle capacité des entrepreneurs à survivre et à prospérer dans un environnement politique pourtant bien peu favorable. Lucien Bianco, à propos de l’agitation paysanne dans la région de Shanghai durant la première moitié du XXe siècle, et Alain Roux, à propos des ouvriers shanghaiens en 1948-1949, montrent que la paysannerie comme le monde ouvrier sont protestataires mais faiblement révolutionnaires – une société dynamique mais un échec politique. D’autres contributions mettent au jour des pans jusque-là ignorés de l’histoire shanghaienne. Bryna Goodman enquête sur la façon dont est perçue la spéculation boursière effrénée des années 1920-1922. Robert Bickers montre comme les résidents chinois de la Concession internationale participent de facto (sans droite de vote) à la vie locale et contribuent à faire de cet espace « une véritable communauté transnationale » (p. 232). Frederic Wakeman revient sur la composition et le comportement de la police chinoise, ainsi que sur son infiltration par les communistes durant la période 1942-1952. L’ouvrage s’achève par une enquête sociologique d’Isabelle Thireau et Hua Linshan sur la population migrante dans les années 2000 et l’évolution du système d’enregistrement (le hukou) : les auteurs montrent l’effacement du critère de la résidence, qui en constituait la base, au profit de l’appartenance à la ville ; la question de la citoyenneté prend donc aujourd’hui le pas sur celle de la résidence, sans que la signification de la première soit pourtant éclaircie. Comme on l’aura compris, ce volume conduit un bilan raisonné d’une œuvre majeure et de ses prolongements, en même temps qu’il donne accès à des travaux innovants d’une riche épaisseur historique. Le lecteur sinophone regrettera néanmoins que la bibliographie finale soit essentiellement en langues occidentales et ne fasse pas assez de place aux publications chinoises de plus en plus nombreuses.
International Journal of Asian Studies, 2013
This article provides an in-depth analysis of the reasons for which insane individuals who had co... more This article provides an in-depth analysis of the reasons for which insane individuals who had committed patricide were systematically sentenced to dismemberment (lingchi 凌遲) under the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), the most severe form of capital punishment that could be called for in the state's administrative and penal Code. This extreme harshness ran contrary to several “theoretical” foundations of Chinese traditional law, first and foremost the principle of criminal intent. Through the study of such criminal cases, and others legally affiliated to patricide, spanning the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, it underlines the importance of the relationship between a parent and his child, which was prominent in China's moral and cultural context at the time. It also stresses the role of political issues related to the legitimacy of the imperial state and to the upholding of the legality of its judicial process. Even though legal tools existed in the Qing Code, which wou...
L'Atelier du CRH, 2020
Over its evolution, imperial China’s legal tradition has produced as series of laws and regulatio... more Over its evolution, imperial China’s legal tradition has produced as series of laws and regulations on the issue of vacant successions, which were supplemented by a host of local practices or “customs”. This body of legal and customary rules had a profound impact on the rights of women to ownership, in a context in which there existed a profound cultural bias in favor of men. Even though social status and the role played in the family circle did account for some differentiation, fundamentally, it was all but impossible for women to be treated on an equal footing with men, especially with regard to assets’ inheritance. In fact, in the eyes of male family members, widows, daughters and daughters-in-law were often considered as threats to the integrity of a household’s properties. As numerous Qing dynasty judicial cases show, these “dangerous women” –especially widows– were regularly confronted to all sorts of pressures from the families to which they belonged, which could end up jeopardizing their material and physical well-being. Confronted with this category of “endangered women”, in time state authorities devised legal tools and highly symbolic gestures in order to provide some form of protection for them.
China perspectives, 2014
Page 1. HEALTH AND HYGIENE IN CHINESE EAST ASIA Page 2. Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia P... more Page 1. HEALTH AND HYGIENE IN CHINESE EAST ASIA Page 2. Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia Page 3. Page 4. Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century Edited ...