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发表于2024-12-22
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In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West.
The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance with the conquered Ming gentry, though many of their social edicts—especially the requirement that ethnic Han men wear queues—were fiercely resisted. As advocates of a “universal” empire, Qing rulers also achieved an enormous expansion of the Chinese realm over the course of three centuries, including the conquest and incorporation of Turkic and Tibetan peoples in the west, vast migration into the southwest, and the colonization of Taiwan.
Despite this geographic range and the accompanying social and economic complexity, the Qing ideal of “small government” worked well when outside threats were minimal. But the nineteenth-century Opium Wars forced China to become a player in a predatory international contest involving Western powers, while the devastating uprisings of the Taiping and Boxer rebellions signaled an urgent need for internal reform. Comprehensive state-mandated changes during the early twentieth century were not enough to hold back the nationalist tide of 1911, but they provided a new foundation for the Republican and Communist states that would follow.
This original, thought-provoking history of China’s last empire is a must-read for understanding the challenges facing China today.
William T. Rowe is John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History at Johns Hopkins University
準備資格考時讀的。算是這個系列裡面編寫得比較有誠意的一本。談到了美國清史研究的三個轉向。
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评分整套书读下来最喜欢这一本,因为作者把知识性和理论性做了非常好的平衡。作为相对严肃的通史类读物,这套书基本完成了知识普及的任务,但各本之间差异不小。陆威仪那三本专题性强,并不适合对中国历史一无所知的人。库恩那本侧重描述和复原历史,问题意识不明显。卜正民那本独出机杼,作为通史的组成部分其实是不合格的(当然,人家也没说是通史)。到了罗威廉这一本,我只能用“标准”这个词来形容!从introduction就看得出来,前5本真的就是概括或者简介而已,但这一本是专业的survey!章节设置既涵盖了有清一代的重要事件和重要问题,又不像教材那样死板。在具体讲述中作者还会穿插介绍学界就某一问题的主要看法,在增强学术色彩的同时,也能看出作者力求不偏不倚。
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话说夏天就拿这套哈佛中国史作为毕业礼物送学生,但直到春节期间才读了这套书的最后一本——不是读完了这套书,而是越过前面五本只读了这一本(家里的历史学专业人士说这一本还可以看看)。 (一) 我一直不喜欢中国近代史(原因对每一个中国人都不言自明),但此书关于中国近...
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评分话说夏天就拿这套哈佛中国史作为毕业礼物送学生,但直到春节期间才读了这套书的最后一本——不是读完了这套书,而是越过前面五本只读了这一本(家里的历史学专业人士说这一本还可以看看)。 (一) 我一直不喜欢中国近代史(原因对每一个中国人都不言自明),但此书关于中国近...
评分最近几年,读书越发不求甚解了。花了几天功夫,这本书也只读了一半,越往后,读得越粗粗不堪。 作为一本通史下的朝代史,本书的写法确实有独到之处,与国内的政治史模式差异颇大。怎么看,都觉得是社会史融入了政治史,对清朝整个社会能有一个更加清晰的认识。然而其行文、其翻...
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China's Last Empire pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024