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Stephen R. Platt received his Ph.D. in Chinese history from Yale University, where his dissertation was awarded the Theron Rockwell Field Prize. He is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is also the author of Provincial Patriots: The Hunanese and Modern China. An undergraduate English major, he spent two years after college as a teacher in the Yale-China program in Hunan province. His research has been supported by the Fulbright program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation. He lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter.
- 太平天国
- 历史
- 近代史
- 海外中国研究
- 裴士锋
- 中国近代史
- 中国
- 英文原著
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.
The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels drew their power from the poor and the disenfranchised, unleashing the ethnic rage of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers. This homegrown movement seemed all but unstoppable until Britain and the United States stepped in and threw their support behind the Manchus: after years of massive carnage, all opposition to Qing rule was effectively snuffed out for generations. Stephen R. Platt recounts these events in spellbinding detail, building his story on two fascinating characters with opposing visions for China’s future: the conservative Confucian scholar Zeng Guofan, an accidental general who emerged as the most influential military strategist in China’s modern history; and Hong Rengan, a brilliant Taiping leader whose grand vision of building a modern, industrial, and pro-Western Chinese state ended in tragic failure.
This is an essential and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the movement that, a century and a half ago, might have launched China on an entirely different path into the modern world.
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与太平天国相关的书，堪称汗牛充栋，多一本少一本，似乎已不再重要，在这个熟题材上想写出新意来，几乎不可能。 但，裴士锋告诉我们，其实还有完全不同的新视角，那就是从国际政治来看太平天国：太平天国与美国南北战争有什么关系？洪仁玕为什么要写不大可能执行的《资政新篇...
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本书比较通俗的介绍了太平天国从发展到衰亡的过程，作者作为一个外国汉学着，着重点在于太平天国叛乱期间西方势力特别是英国、法国、美国的影响，作者力图说明以英国为首的西方势力采取的是中立的政策，但是民间则有支持太平天国和清政府两种立场，特别是传教士以及华尔、戈登的洋枪队、常胜军则是其中的典型代表。
评分是写给凡事大惊小怪的美国普通读者的，不必期待过高。不过写的还是不错，尤其是第11章。
评分这感觉已经不对
评分外国人眼中的太平天国和洪仁玕，太平运动中的英国外交。值得一读。
评分nice history for american readers. still, How to define the term "civil war".
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