太平天国研究阶级分析论范式批判

A Criticism of the Class-based Analytical Paradigm in Studies of Taiping Revolution

太平天国研究中居于主流地位的阶级分析论范式普遍存在三种方法论误区:首先,这一范式习惯用《天朝田亩制度》作为衡量起义者实际施政的尺度;其次,阶级分析论者一般都理所当然地认为,作为农民起义的太平天国起义者所建立的政权,必然是一个代表农民阶级利益的革命政权;最后,阶级分析论者们对太平天国人物的评价习惯于根据该人物对太平天国政权的政治忠诚来定夺。因此,突破阶级分析论贫困的研究框架,便成为扭转太平天国研究整体式微的关键。

There are three methodological defects in the class-based analytical paradigm prevalent in stud- ies of the Taiping Revolution ： First, the paradigm is used to the Tian Chao Tian Mu Zhi Du （ Farmland Code of the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace, 1853 ） as the yardstick of the rebels＇ actual administration ; secondly, the pro-class analysts take it for granted that the Taiping Regime, established as a result of the peasant uprising, is naturally a revolutionary one in the interest of the class of peasants; and thirdly, these analysts are used to evaluating figures therein according to their political loyalty to the Regime. The prospect of the research in this field depends, therefore, solely on the demolishment of the poor framework of class-based analytics