A Local Identity Breakdown: Locality and the State in Huizhou’s Tax Controversy of 1577

IF 1.1 0 ASIAN STUDIES Ming Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI:10.1080/0147037X.2020.1741906
Yongtao Du
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The geographical scale of locality has never been clearly defined in the recent “localist turn” scholarship on late imperial China: “the local” there could refer to a county, a prefecture, and occasionally a region that contains more than one prefecture. One cause of this scalar inexactitude can be found in the intellectual trajectory of the local history orientation in Chinese studies. Another, probably more important cause is that historical actors themselves in the late imperial period kept the scale of locality fluid in their performances of local identity and their practices of local activism. Behind this fluidity may hide some crucial yet unexplored issues of both locality and localism in late imperial China. This article takes as an example the controversy over the “head tax on silk” (rending sijuan, 人丁絲捐) that broke out in the Huizhou (徽州) Prefecture in 1577 to illuminate the flexibility of scale in local identity formation, as well as the poverty of locality as a source of political loyalty.
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地方认同的消解:1577年徽州税收之争中的地方与国家
在最近关于帝国晚期中国的“地方主义转向”研究中,地方的地理规模从未得到明确定义:那里的“地方”可以指一个县、一个府,偶尔也可以指包含多个府的地区。造成这种数量上的不精确性的一个原因可以从中国研究中地方史取向的智力轨迹中找到。另一个可能更重要的原因是,帝国后期的历史行动者自己在表现地方身份和实践地方激进主义时,保持了地方的流动性。在这种流动性的背后,可能隐藏着帝国晚期中国的一些关键但尚未探索的地方主义和地方主义问题。本文以“丝绸人头税”之争为例(任定思娟,人丁絲捐) 发生在惠州(徽州) 1577年,郡县阐明了地方身份形成的规模灵活性,以及作为政治忠诚来源的地方贫困。
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