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发表于2024-11-21
The Early Chinese Empires pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
In 221 B.C., the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia. The Qin and Han constitute the "classical period" of Chinese history - a role played by the Greeks and Romans in the West. Mark Edward Lewis highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity of peoples. He traces the drastic measures taken to transcend, without eliminating, these regional differences: the invention of the emperor as the divine embodiment of the state; the establishment of a common script for communication and a state-sponsored canon for the propagation of Confucian ideals; the flourishing of the great families, whose domination of local society rested on wealth, landholding, and elaborate kinship structures; the demilitarization of the interior; and the impact of non-Chinese warrior-nomads in setting the boundaries of an emerging Chinese identity. The first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, "The Early Chinese Empires" illuminates many formative events in China's long history of imperialism - events whose residual influence can still be discerned today.
Mark Edward Lewis is Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture at Stanford University.
西人写秦汉可避免国人头脑中明清帝国样本,但隔靴搔痒不是没有
评分作为一部篇幅有限的通史,鲁威仪没有拘泥于历史进程为纲的写法,除了首三章分别介绍秦汉地理、秦国体制和汉代扬弃,最后一章侧重东汉的失控外,其余部分关注多是秦汉社会结构和思想文化。作者将秦汉视为中国的"classical era",在导论里就开章明义地表述了所谓古典时代的五个特征。一方面,秦汉首次初步建立起全国的秩序,作者努力体现出帝国维持国家统一的持之以恒努力,无论是地方的去军事化,边境对异族的打击与羁縻,还是对思想学说的统一。然而,东汉最终亡于对边境乱局的疲于应对和国内社会控制的削弱。另一方面,作者强调秦汉早期色彩,包括未成形的宗教观,法律的宗教残余,和国家建设中对囚徒的剥削。本书避开了一般通史写作路数,但也使全书无法反应秦汉四百年的动态变化,不少结论绝对化。可参考《新史学》23卷2期书评。
评分西人写秦汉可避免国人头脑中明清帝国样本,但隔靴搔痒不是没有
评分作为一部篇幅有限的通史,鲁威仪没有拘泥于历史进程为纲的写法,除了首三章分别介绍秦汉地理、秦国体制和汉代扬弃,最后一章侧重东汉的失控外,其余部分关注多是秦汉社会结构和思想文化。作者将秦汉视为中国的"classical era",在导论里就开章明义地表述了所谓古典时代的五个特征。一方面,秦汉首次初步建立起全国的秩序,作者努力体现出帝国维持国家统一的持之以恒努力,无论是地方的去军事化,边境对异族的打击与羁縻,还是对思想学说的统一。然而,东汉最终亡于对边境乱局的疲于应对和国内社会控制的削弱。另一方面,作者强调秦汉早期色彩,包括未成形的宗教观,法律的宗教残余,和国家建设中对囚徒的剥削。本书避开了一般通史写作路数,但也使全书无法反应秦汉四百年的动态变化,不少结论绝对化。可参考《新史学》23卷2期书评。
评分西人写秦汉可避免国人头脑中明清帝国样本,但隔靴搔痒不是没有
文/吴情 这篇评论文章的题目略有些歧义,容易让人误以为是留学机构的招生广告,以名校为噱头,实际上,它涉及的是两套海外中国研究著作:剑桥中国史(Cambridge History of China)和哈佛帝制中国史(History of Imperial China)。前者由美国著名“中国通”费正清教授主编、...
评分 评分I came across Mark Edward Lewis' new book, The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (Cambridge, 2007) last week and read it over the break. This book is the first in a new series on the history of imperial China. As the first in the series and a general s...
评分历史书籍以征伐戡乱为经,以典章经制为纬。上下五千年和明朝那些事就是征伐戡乱的代表,按时间轴叙述重大历史事件和传奇人物,这样故事式地阅读很容易形成以今度古的倾向,索性有这样典章经制式的历史书籍,帮助我们理解历史是如何早就了今日。 本书的特点不仅仅是外籍学者对中...
评分The Early Chinese Empires pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024