Peter C. Perdue is Professor of History at Yale University. He has taught courses on East Asian history and civilization, Chinese social and economic history, the Silk Road, and historical methodology. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His first book, Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850 A.D. (Harvard University Press,1987), examined long-term agricultural change in one Chinese province. His second book, China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press, 2005), discusses environmental change, ethnicity, long-term economic change and military conquest in an integrated account of the Chinese, Mongolian, and Russian contention over Siberia and Central Eurasia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is a coeditor of two books on empires: Imperial Formations, (SAR Press, 2007) and Shared Histories of Modernity, (Routledge, 2008), and a co-author of Global Connections, a world history textbook forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, and Asia Inside Out, three volumes on inter-Asian connections forthcoming from Harvard University Press. His current research focuses on Chinese frontiers, Chinese environmental history, and the history of tea.
From about 1600 to 1800, the Qing empire of China expanded to unprecedented size. Through astute diplomacy, economic investment, and a series of ambitious military campaigns into the heart of Central Eurasia, the Manchu rulers defeated the Zunghar Mongols, and brought all of modern Xinjiang and Mongolia under their control, while gaining dominant influence in Tibet. The China we know is a product of these vast conquests.
Peter C. Perdue chronicles this little-known story of China’s expansion into the northwestern frontier. Unlike previous Chinese dynasties, the Qing achieved lasting domination over the eastern half of the Eurasian continent. Rulers used forcible repression when faced with resistance, but also aimed to win over subject peoples by peaceful means. They invested heavily in the economic and administrative development of the frontier, promoted trade networks, and adapted ceremonies to the distinct regional cultures.
Perdue thus illuminates how China came to rule Central Eurasia and how it justifies that control, what holds the Chinese nation together, and how its relations with the Islamic world and Mongolia developed. He offers valuable comparisons to other colonial empires and discusses the legacy left by China’s frontier expansion. The Beijing government today faces unrest on its frontiers from peoples who reject its autocratic rule. At the same time, China has launched an ambitious development program in its interior that in many ways echoes the old Qing policies.
China Marches West is a tour de force that will fundamentally alter the way we understand Central Eurasia.
《中國西征:清朝對歐亞大陸腹地的征服》是濮德培(Peter C.Perdue)今年四月出版的關於明清中國西北邊疆發展史的一部力作。與既往研究不同的是,作者反對從民族國家本位主義出發來看待清王朝、俄國、蒙古在歐亞大陸中部地區的三方角力。他將清王朝、俄國、蒙古置於平等的位置...
评分《中國西征:清朝對歐亞大陸腹地的征服》是濮德培(Peter C.Perdue)今年四月出版的關於明清中國西北邊疆發展史的一部力作。與既往研究不同的是,作者反對從民族國家本位主義出發來看待清王朝、俄國、蒙古在歐亞大陸中部地區的三方角力。他將清王朝、俄國、蒙古置於平等的位置...
评分《中國西征:清朝對歐亞大陸腹地的征服》是濮德培(Peter C.Perdue)今年四月出版的關於明清中國西北邊疆發展史的一部力作。與既往研究不同的是,作者反對從民族國家本位主義出發來看待清王朝、俄國、蒙古在歐亞大陸中部地區的三方角力。他將清王朝、俄國、蒙古置於平等的位置...
评分Prof. Perdue’s work addresses the clash between empires. He introduces three “theoretical perspectives” of this work: frontier environments, state building, and the construction of national and ethnic identities through historical representation(15). The...
评分读的第一本新清史。
评分这个学期一定要把这本书的书评写出来。
评分#一个大写的“服”字# 非常棒的早期近代内陆亚洲东端历史变迁的教材。把“世界体系中的中亚”这个议题,通过一个具体但又很宽广的案例落了地;主要场所在中国及其周边,但又通过和多处其他经典边疆地带场景的对比,回归到世界史叙事中去。所谓多语言史料云云并无刻意为之之感,Chinese概念有些含混也还说得过去。环境因素穿插其中,恰到好处,不让人觉得在刻意写环境史。总之,好,好,好。
评分军政版的《大分流》,到底还是Charles Tilly大法好
评分读的第一本新清史。
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