书名：After the Prosperous Age: State and Elites in Early Nineteenth-Century Suzhou / 盛世之后：十九世纪早期的苏州与士大夫
定价：380.0
ISBN：9780674737174
作者：Seunghyun Han
版次：1
出版时间：2016-01

内容提要：
书名：After the Prosperous Age: State and Elites in Early Nineteenth-Century Suzhou / 盛世之后：十九世纪初苏州的国家与精英
作者：Seunghyun Han (韩承贤)
出版社：Harvard University Asia Center (Distributed by Harvard University Press)，2016年
装帧：精装，286页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 15.2*22.9 cm（6 x 9 英寸）

ISBN：978-0-6747-3717-4

简介
学者们通常将十八世纪的中国描述为“国家能动性”的时代，而将十九世纪中叶的太平天国运动与战后重建视为精英能动性的起源。本书通过对苏州这一富庶且地方意识强烈的城市中权力与精英之间社会与文化互动的深入分析，揭示了精英能动性的崛起可追溯至十九世纪初的嘉庆与道光两朝，而太平天国运动则仅是进一步推动了这一进程。

Drawing upon a wide array of sources, including previously untapped Qing government documents, After the Prosperous Age argues that the ascendance of elite activism can be traced to the Jiaqing and Daoguang reigns in the early nineteenth century, and that the Taiping Rebellion served as a second catalyst for the expansion of elite public roles rather than initiating such an expansion. By analyzing the social and cultural interplay between state power and local elites of Suzhou, a city renowned for its economic prosperity and strong sense of local pride, from the eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, Seunghyun Han illuminates the significance of this period in terms of the reformulation of state-elite relations marked by the unfolding of elite public activism and the dissolution of a centralized cultural order.