Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern county of T'an-ch'eng emerges here as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy wife act out a poignant drama at whose climax the wife, having run away from her husband, returns to him, only to die at his hands. Magnificently evoking the China of long ago, The Death of Woman Wang also deepens our understanding of the China we know today.
Jonathan D. Spence was born in Surrey, England, in 1936. He was educated at Winchester College and at Cambridge University and received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1965. He is George Burton Adams Professor of HIstory at Yale, where he is also chairman of the Council on East Asian Studies and director of the Division of the Humanities.
美国的中国近现代史研究,在费正清那一辈人之后,最富盛名的几位历史大家当属三个人:孔飞力、魏斐德和史景迁。这几位学者的治学路数并不一样。看过《叫魂》一书,我知道孔飞力著述理论深刻、剖析精细;看过《讲述中国历史》的人知道魏斐德的特点是大气磅礴、宏观洞察;至于史...
评分看了这本书,总觉得该写点什么。书不能白看,所以我要来一篇读后感才行。史景迁同学,是位美国的历史学家,他极其景仰司马迁,因此取名“景迁”。我觉得这本书并不是严格意义上的史学著作,因为它没有按照“提出问题——分析问题——解决问题”的模式来写。一到豆瓣才...
评分X发现宁夏中卫有黄河。那里的黄河还是清流,静静躲在贺兰山的余脉影子里头,迤俪向东北而去。从她的讲述看,我相信中卫的黄河与上游其它地方并无二致。 X从行李包里倒出一小包石头来,大如鸡蛋,小似蚕豆,圆圆的腰身,与雨花石光彩的外表不同,它的面容是灰朴朴的。X...
评分事情发生于三百多年之前(1668-1672),在山东郯城有一个妇人王氏,抛弃了她的丈夫任某和情夫出逃。逃亡途中,王氏被情夫抛弃,只能一个人孤零零地回到距郯城县城西南八英里左右的家乡。由于在当时私通及私奔都是不小的罪名,她不能回家,寄居在离家不远的一个道观里,却被以...
评分美国的中国近现代史研究,在费正清那一辈人之后,最富盛名的几位历史大家当属三个人:孔飞力、魏斐德和史景迁。这几位学者的治学路数并不一样。看过《叫魂》一书,我知道孔飞力著述理论深刻、剖析精细;看过《讲述中国历史》的人知道魏斐德的特点是大气磅礴、宏观洞察;至于史...
对平凡个体生命的专注描写,使得历史变的性格富有和伟大起来。
评分故事集看完的最大感想是中国古代底层百姓过好苦,虽然他们好像也掌握着一些让人哭笑不得的才智。最后一篇里的王氏之梦是史学家奇妙的文学创作,还是被惊了一小下。
评分故事集看完的最大感想是中国古代底层百姓过好苦,虽然他们好像也掌握着一些让人哭笑不得的才智。最后一篇里的王氏之梦是史学家奇妙的文学创作,还是被惊了一小下。
评分本科的时候囫囵读过。那时还是个沉浸于实验的理科生,每天的烦恼无外乎“又沾了一身大白鼠的血腥气,楼猫甜橙怕是又不要理我了”。读来全做娱乐。这一次读,从“They would have been cold, for the mean temperature in Shantung during January was in the twenties, and the houses of the poor were frail...”便开始鼻子发酸。Different people have different standards to measure what is a good historian. To me, this is. 对人类跨越时代的同理心。
评分史景迁作品。非要是放到了整个历史学科的大背景下才能发现他的好。
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