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中國 근현대 국가-사회 관계의 함수State-Society Functional Relationship in Modern and Contemporary China

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State-Society Functional Relationship in Modern and Contemporary China
Authors
박상수
Issue Date
2018
Publisher
동양사학회
Keywords
国家-社会关系; 两分法; 共生叙事; 中国; 西方; 范式; 方法; State-Society Relationship; Dichotomy; Symbiosis Narratives; China; The West; Paradigm; Approaches; 국가-사회 관계; 이분법; 공생의 서사; 중국; 서양; 패러다임; 접근법
Citation
동양사학연구, no.145, pp.137 - 169
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KCI
Journal Title
동양사학연구
Number
145
Start Page
137
End Page
169
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/131877
DOI
10.17856/jahs.2018.12.145.137
ISSN
1226-1270
Abstract
Examining existing narratives of oppositive dichotomy and co-operative symbiosis on state-society relationship in modern and contemporary history of China, this article contemplates several problems embedded in ‘state-society paradigm’. The first one is simplification problem. Almost all of the studies consider ‘state’ and ‘society’ respectively as a monolithic entity and thereby ignoring complexity of both state’s and societal way of being. Oversimplification of the frame ‘state-society’ tends to conceal different ways of life and action in a society. Secondly, teleological problem. When the dichotomy between state and society originating from the Western experiences is introduced to Chinese historical studies, we are likely to assume a certain destination of historical evolution. This implicit assumption leads us to consider all the non-official activities as ‘the social’, thereby undervaluing the role of the state intervention into extra-bureaucratic realms. Thirdly, problem of China particularization. While the oppositive state-society dichotomy intends to apply the Western historical experiences to the Chinese history, the narratives of state-society symbiotic relationship tend to consider this relationship as particular only in Chinese history. But it would be undeniable that various cases of state-society co-operation could be found in all of human histories. Despite above mentioned problems, this article finally evokes the scholarly usefulness of the ‘state-society relationship’ frame not as a normative paradigm, but as one of diverse approaches and methodologies for Chinese historical studies.
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