Histoire, lignage et révolution dans la société rurale du Gannan 贛南 du XVIIe au XXe siècle. Exemple du village de Changxi 長溪 dans le district de Shicheng 石城 (province du Jiangxi 江西)

Abstract

This article consists of an in-depth investigation into the Lai 賴 clan from the seventeenth to the twentieth century in the region of Gannan 贛南, south Jiangxi Province. Throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1911), we can see the increase in the economic and political power of the Lai clan at the local level. With the Chinese Revolution of 1911 and the establishment of the Republic of China (1911–49), members of this clan acquired a national dimension by providing many high-ranking officers in the national army. It was only with the advent of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 that this momentum was broken, and the clan gradually lost its power.