William T. Rowe is John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History at Johns Hopkins University
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.
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...
評分最近几年,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...
評分大清帝国是曾立基于今日中国地区的政治实体中最庞大的一个。比起其在1644年取而代之的明帝国,清帝国的疆域是明代的两倍多,而人口则超过明代的三倍,至清末已达到5亿之多。在清帝国内不只有视自己为“中国人”的人群,亦有许多过去从未整合进中国王朝政体中的族群,包括西藏人...
評分最近几年,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...
評分史学研究发展到今天,已经日益碎片化了。断代与断代、领域与领域之间,沟壑纵横。上世纪夏曾佑、钱穆、吕思勉等学者,还能在通读乙部要籍后,以一己之力纂写通史。如今即便是写比较全面的断代史,难度也越来越大。在新材料和新观念不断涌现、研究著作汗牛充栋的情况下,研究者...
The most valuable part of this book is its review of historiography in Intro.
评分太喜歡用法語單詞瞭,如果把尾注換成腳注就更好瞭。
评分絕好復習書⋯⋯historiography more than history.
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评分整套書讀下來最喜歡這一本,因為作者把知識性和理論性做瞭非常好的平衡。作為相對嚴肅的通史類讀物,這套書基本完成瞭知識普及的任務,但各本之間差異不小。陸威儀那三本專題性強,並不適閤對中國曆史一無所知的人。庫恩那本側重描述和復原曆史,問題意識不明顯。蔔正民那本獨齣機杼,作為通史的組成部分其實是不閤格的(當然,人傢也沒說是通史)。到瞭羅威廉這一本,我隻能用“標準”這個詞來形容!從introduction就看得齣來,前5本真的就是概括或者簡介而已,但這一本是專業的survey!章節設置既涵蓋瞭有清一代的重要事件和重要問題,又不像教材那樣死闆。在具體講述中作者還會穿插介紹學界就某一問題的主要看法,在增強學術色彩的同時,也能看齣作者力求不偏不倚。
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