图书标签: 鸦片战争 历史 裴士锋 中国近代史 中国 近代史 清 非虚构
发表于2024-11-05
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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.
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.
论一个好翻译的重要性。。。
评分历史进程中那些许多的非必然
评分论一个好翻译的重要性。。。
评分从马戛尔尼使华,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。
评分配合天朝的崩溃服用有奇效。
Imperial Twilight pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024