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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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评分«天国之秋»以西方人的行动为时间线，以西方人的观察为视角，以西方人的观点作为评判，描述了西方人在天平天国运动中的作用，完成了一部另类的太平天国史。此外，作者同时运用了全球视角，将美国南北战争对于英国政府对中国政策予以考虑，不失为本书的一大亮点。 将洪仁玕...
评分徐瑾 唯有在对比之中，历史才充满了探索的可能性。 在清宫戏的流行中，大家惊讶于乾隆是华盛顿的同时代人，对于太平天国其实和美国南北战争几乎同时也感到陌生。的确，这场爆发于十九世纪中叶的运动，距离现在不过150年时间。 百年之后回首，伴随着众多新材料被挖掘，对太平天...
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评分nice history for american readers. still, How to define the term "civil war".
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评分很精彩的历史书。
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