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发表于2024-05-11
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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
很有興趣想把這本書的前言翻譯出來。。。不過,就怕又是浪費時間。。。就像當年翻譯衛周安的那篇《新清史》一樣,自以為是,結果忙了好半個月,發現早有人翻譯發表了。。。
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评分绝好复习书⋯⋯historiography more than history.
评分Fast-paced and highly readable, especially its introduction, although catered towards an American readership of course.
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评分大清的历史被各种小说、宫廷剧毁的不像样,即时我们翻看国内主流的正规清史书籍,也多是帝王将相,名人功臣,尤其是晚清历史,随便找一个事件就可写成很多本书,如何通过一本书了解真正的清朝历史缩影,一直是一个难点。 忽略王侯将相,让历史回归社会 最近刚刚出版的《哈佛中...
评分清朝是距离现代中国最近的一个帝制王朝,也是我们对于中国历史了解最多的一个朝代,清史因其与近现代中国史的承继性而得到越来越多人的关注与研究。而对于这段历史的研究也对于现代中国发展的思路不无裨益。 在《最后的中华帝国:大清》中,作者罗威廉依然选取了政治制...
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...
China's Last Empire pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024