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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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一百五十页的尾注的确是一个槽点，但也说明了作者的严谨。另外尾注也确实降低了对读者的干扰。整部书在较完整的时间顺序下摆出很多国人所不知的细节，例如英军烧毁圆明园也不是毫无缘故，而英国议会也是有相当一部分人是反对干预 的，另外英国政府对于清廷的支持也改写了传统教...
评分我只从“对于普通中国人来说这书有什么看点”来说一下。 作者在前言就已经说明了：写作本书的最初目的是要纠正欧美知识分子关于“太平天国叛乱能够平定主要是因为西方干涉”的观念。对大多数中国读者来说，这第一句就把他们吓到了。我操，平定太平天国不是文正公搞的吗？顶多...
评分（1）-历1-甲骨文系列1-《天国之秋》豆瓣8.2 咋说呢，这本书可以说开了我的一种全球史观，能把太平天国和美国内战联系到一起真的是很厉害了 可是他塑造的全球史观一方面有利于了解各方在一个历史事件中的客观影响，不像明朝那些事一样局限在中国大地上 但另一方面他塑造的全球...
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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。
评分三年来读的第一本英文书，耗时长达4个月。
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12/03/2015 裴士锋最好展现了一流外交家和不明所以的学者在判断形势与洞察人心上的巨大差距。Frederick Bruce决定防守上海以及对太平军的判断显然是正确的；大英在北方教训僧格林沁和在南方保境安民并不矛盾，裴对这两者都缺乏理解力。我在这本书里看到了天真的外国传教士、作为门面的“体制内开明力量”、以及极其高超的统战技巧与宣传。这类戏码还会在100年后不断上演，所不同者在于美国人代替了老谋深算的大英帝国的位置，被洪天王的精神子嗣们玩弄于股掌之间。
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