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Stephen R. Platt

Knopf

2018-5-15

592

USD 35.00

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9780307961730

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As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country's last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.

"This thoroughly researched and delightful work is essential for anyone interested in Chinese or British imperial history." --Library Journal (Starred Review)

When Britain launched its first war on China in 1839, pushed into hostilities by profiteering drug merchants and free-trade interests, it sealed the fate of what had long been seen as the most prosperous and powerful empire in Asia, if not the world. But internal problems of corruption, popular unrest, and dwindling finances had weakened China far more than was commonly understood, and the war would help set in motion the eventual fall of the Qing dynasty--which, in turn, would lead to the rise of nationalism and communism in the twentieth century. As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it.

In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to "open" China--traveling mostly in secret beyond Canton, the single port where they were allowed--even as China's imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country's decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China's advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable--and mostly peaceful--meeting of civilizations at Canton over the long term that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American individuals, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today's uncertain and ever-changing political climate.

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著者简介

STEPHEN R. PLATT is a professor of Chinese history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His last book, Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War, was a Washington Post Notable Book, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and won the Cundill History Prize. Platt lives with his wife and children in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Such a good read! The personal accounts are invaluable! It also makes one questions whether the so called textbook history is just a social construct, and all inevitabilities we see now are mere coincidences back then. 感觉看现在的新闻真有种历史重演的错觉

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主要运用英文史料，整体历史氛围勾勒得非常好，细节极其丰满。议院、东印度公司、传教士、汉学家、英国散商，网络错综。看到全书结尾，一直劝诫英国尊重清朝主权、年近60的斯当东在下议院发言支持对华开战，真有一种历史的悲怆浮上心头。

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从马戛尔尼使华，到鸦片战争的爆发，美国学者裴士锋（Stephen R. Platt，也是《天国之秋》的作者）依据史料，详述了偏居广州一隅的中英贸易是如何一步步演变，最终走向战争的。其中诸多偶然因素（包括语言、国情、外部认知、人性和当事人的局限等）的叠加，使得鸦片战争成为历史的必然。全书结构清晰，细节丰富，可谓历史叙事的佳作。