圖書標籤: 曆史 中美 海外中國研究 JohnPomfret 中美關係 History 英文原版 SinoUS
发表于2024-11-08
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From the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's growing navy in the South China Sea, from the Yankee missionaries who brought Christianity and education to China, to the Chinese who built the American West, the United States and China have always been dramatically intertwined. For more than two centuries, American and Chinese statesmen, merchants, missionaries, and adventurers, men and women, have profoundly influenced the fate of these nations. While we tend to think of America's ties with China as starting in 1972 with the visit of President Richard Nixon to China, the patterns—rapturous enchantment followed by angry disillusionment—were set in motion hundreds of years earlier.
Drawing on personal letters, diaries, memoirs, government documents, and contemporary news reports, John Pomfret reconstructs the surprising, tragic, and marvelous ways Americans and Chinese have engaged with one another through the centuries. A fascinating and thrilling account, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom is also an indispensable book for understanding the most important—and often the most perplexing—relationship between any two countries in the world.
John Pomfret served as a correspondent for the Washington Post for two decades, covering wars, revolutions, and China. He is the author of the acclaimed book Chinese Lessons, and has won awards for his reporting on Asia, including the Osborne Elliot Prize. He holds a BA and MA from Stanford University and was one of the first American students to go to China after relations were normalized. Pomfret was expelled from China after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Most recently, he was a Fulbright senior scholar in Beijing.
The first 2/3 of the book makes truly fascinating listening!
評分標記給《中國教訓》,頁麵最近被刪瞭。讀完後深深嘆口氣,挺難受。由幾位中國同學的命運構成的中國近代史。毛時代的印記漸漸被抹去,再後來,人們也漸漸忘卻所有曆史的創傷,接受瞭自己迥乎不同,魔幻現實的命運。老一代人選擇忘記,沉默,犬儒或者在記憶中沉湎。新的一代中國人享樂,無知,同時也彷徨,痛苦,承受新世紀的壓力。隱隱約約有一種無形的力量壓在所有人身上,不知以後又是如何。
評分潘文用“The Middle Kingdom”而非“China”更能體現齣曆史的動態性
評分1776年至今的美中關係史。以故事和人物串起兩百多年中美之間的愛恨情仇。讀罷纔發現,中美對對方影響之深超乎想象。雙方在美麗幻想與幻想破滅之間循環往復,延續至今。不得不說,中美兩國未來之路,從曆史之中或許可以窺見一斑。
評分曆數中美上百年的愛恨情仇。美國一方麵有用民主和自由解放全人類的理想。一方麵有在全球追逐利益的實際需求,希望中國有穩定統一開放市場。每當理想和需求衝突,理想就暫且放放。所以幫慈禧打過太平天國,支持過袁世凱稱帝,在國共間搖擺不定,氣得蔣介石常常嚮日記哭訴。兩次世界大戰都犧牲瞭中國作為戰勝國的權益。毛早在巴黎和會後就喪失瞭對美國的信任。中國一方麵嚮往和學習美國的技術和知識,一方麵視其製度和意識形態為洪水猛獸。上百年來都在探尋一個共同的課題,隻學技術,摒棄製度,到底可不可行,愛恨在這兩者之間糾結。全書縱貫上百年曆史,讀的過程中常有原來是這樣,怎麼會是這樣,果然講到這個,等等等等,由不得想要拍案。感想萬韆,不能盡訴。
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The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024