Sold People

书名：Sold PeopleTraffickersandFamilyLifeinNorthChina
作者：JohannaS.Ransmeier/任思梅
译者：
ISBN：9780674971974
出版社：HarvardUniversityPress
出版时间：2017-3-20
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：408
豆瓣评分： 9.0

书籍简介：

A robust trade in human lives thrived throughout North China during the late Qing and Republican periods. Whether to acquire servants, slaves, concubines, or children—or dispose of unwanted household members—families at all levels of society addressed various domestic needs by participating in this market. Sold People brings into focus the complicit dynamic of human trafficking, including the social and legal networks that sustained it. Johanna Ransmeier reveals the extent to which the structure of the Chinese family not only influenced but encouraged the buying and selling of men, women, and children. For centuries, human trafficking had an ambiguous status in Chinese society. Prohibited in principle during the Qing period, it was nevertheless widely accepted as part of family life, despite the frequent involvement of criminals. In 1910, Qing reformers, hoping to usher China into the community of modern nations, officially abolished the trade. But police and other judicial officials found the new law extremely difficult to enforce. Industrialization, urbanization, and the development of modern transportation systems created a breeding ground for continued commerce in people. The Republican government that came to power after the 1911 revolution similarly struggled to root out the entrenched practice. Ransmeier draws from untapped archival sources to recreate the lived experience of human trafficking in turn-of-the-century North China. Not always a measure of last resort reserved for times of extreme hardship, the sale of people was a commonplace transaction that built and restructured families as often as it broke them apart.

作者简介：

Johanna S. Ransmeier is Assistant Professor of History and the College at the University of Chicago.

书友短评：

@ KKMARINE 研究清末民初华北地区的人口贩卖。主要观点是人口贩卖并非所谓非常时期没有办法的办法，相反是系统化的、普遍的、长期的现象，而且买卖双方都有相当理性的经济计算和谋划。作者称人口贩卖有制度性的基础：中国的家庭制度是 transactional family，除生育外任何人口的增减（嫁娶、纳妾、添仆人等）都涉及财产与人的交换。同时也描绘了现代化（尤其是法制）造成了家庭从paternalistic到contractual的变化，以及利益相关方行为模式的改变。但微观史学者真的需要压抑一下自己的写作欲望。不过天津警长一章太传奇了，可拍成犯罪片。 @ KKMARINE 文笔丝毫没有因为著作的学术性而逊色，有一种被带回一百年前的中国跟着笔者一起做田野的感觉 @ Simplicio 清末民初华北人口拐卖的社会与法律史，通过一个个鲜活的买卖妇女儿童事例揭露了中国家庭的交易属性，虽然叙事和资料征引不错，但叙述多议论少，章与章之间主题不够连贯，显得缺乏条理，也削弱了说服力。 @ Niki 第一章有好好看 每个人供词很有趣 当时评论了好看 后面大致翻阅了 因为有点想回避这种吃人情节 。后面有介绍当时清朝法律 官员任职其他影响 。让我想起 2022年徐州铁链女事件 在200年前的中国很普遍 现在却仍有很多和徐州女一样遭遇的女性 欺骗谎言强奸虐待不断转手…… 只不过她们接受了命运 与 无力为自己申诉或者孩子纠葛等 。本书还是理性客观分析清朝一个吃人社会现象 我觉得苦 封面让我觉得难受😣

Conventions
Introduction
1. A Young Woman as Portable Property
2. The Flow of Trafficking in the Late Qing
3. New Laws and Emerging Language
4. Fictive Families and Children in the Marketplace
5. Moving Beyond the Reach of the Law
6. The Warlord’s Widow and the Chief of Police
7. Domestic Bonds
8. Talking with Traffickers
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Chinese Terms
Acknowledgments
Index
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