In 221 B.C., the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia. The Qin and Han constitute the "classical period" of Chinese history - a role played by the Greeks and Romans in the West. Mark Edward Lewis highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity of peoples. He traces the drastic measures taken to transcend, without eliminating, these regional differences: the invention of the emperor as the divine embodiment of the state; the establishment of a common script for communication and a state-sponsored canon for the propagation of Confucian ideals; the flourishing of the great families, whose domination of local society rested on wealth, landholding, and elaborate kinship structures; the demilitarization of the interior; and the impact of non-Chinese warrior-nomads in setting the boundaries of an emerging Chinese identity. The first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, "The Early Chinese Empires" illuminates many formative events in China's long history of imperialism - events whose residual influence can still be discerned today.
Mark Edward Lewis is Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture at Stanford University.
读过此书,不仅问自己,为什么要重复写通史?如何写?何为优秀? (1)世事变迁,人们看待事物、分析事物的角度也在不断变化,我们需要用新的视角审视过去、理解历史、展望未来。 (2)信手拈来正史资料,旁征博引经典古籍,成体系的归纳到新的构架。关于资料体系,融汇、准确...
評分I came across Mark Edward Lewis' new book, The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (Cambridge, 2007) last week and read it over the break. This book is the first in a new series on the history of imperial China. As the first in the series and a general s...
評分 評分剑桥中国史秦汉卷已经很老了,当然有些篇章还是经典必读,所以我很高兴有一个比较新的学术性秦汉史出版。 Mark Lewis的新书比较全面概括性地讨论所谓的“古典时代 Classical era”的中国。有人说失之细节和历史人物的丰富感,可是Lewis确实没有要再出一本史记或者人物方志的意...
評分卜正民在研究中国历史时也曾数度迷茫,清史研究专家朱维铮给了他答案:“你想象中国是一个仅有一扇窗户的房间,我坐在房间里面,屋里的一切都在我的目光之中,而你在房间外头,是能透过窗户看见物内的景象。我可以告诉你屋内的每一个细节,但无法告诉你房间所处的位置。这一点...
西人寫秦漢可避免國人頭腦中明清帝國樣本,但隔靴搔癢不是沒有
评分1.作者重點論述瞭塑造秦漢帝國的幾個關鍵問題:中央與地方的關係,兵役製度的變革,Landlordism(地主所有製?)的強化,傢族勢力的發展等。在250頁的篇幅內既能畫齣秦漢骨骼、又能填充足夠血肉,厲害!在經濟、文化和宗教方麵,隻選取與政治權力有關聯的部分,不做專業的、技術性的討論。至於藝術、風俗等內容,乾脆放棄。簡而言之,書中一切內容都與秦漢的“帝國性”有關。2.作者提齣瞭一些讓讀者(主要是讓我……)耳目一新的觀點,比如秦統一六國並非大勢所趨。作者還關注瞭一些讀者(主要是我……)不大關注的點,比如從性彆角度看傢族與傢庭的矛盾以及皇權為何旁落(一部講“帝國”的書用一整章討論Kinship也是夠瞭……),又比如秦漢祭祀製度的演變及其背後的權力邏輯。3.唯一缺點可能是略顯無趣,盡管它值得再讀。
评分六捲的哈佛中華帝國史英文版第一捲!通俗易讀,不是紀傳體也不是編年體而是從不同領域展現瞭早期兩個帝國的曆史,期待後麵五捲!
评分六捲的哈佛中華帝國史英文版第一捲!通俗易讀,不是紀傳體也不是編年體而是從不同領域展現瞭早期兩個帝國的曆史,期待後麵五捲!
评分作為一部篇幅有限的通史,魯威儀沒有拘泥於曆史進程為綱的寫法,除瞭首三章分彆介紹秦漢地理、秦國體製和漢代揚棄,最後一章側重東漢的失控外,其餘部分關注多是秦漢社會結構和思想文化。作者將秦漢視為中國的"classical era",在導論裏就開章明義地錶述瞭所謂古典時代的五個特徵。一方麵,秦漢首次初步建立起全國的秩序,作者努力體現齣帝國維持國傢統一的持之以恒努力,無論是地方的去軍事化,邊境對異族的打擊與羈縻,還是對思想學說的統一。然而,東漢最終亡於對邊境亂局的疲於應對和國內社會控製的削弱。另一方麵,作者強調秦漢早期色彩,包括未成形的宗教觀,法律的宗教殘餘,和國傢建設中對囚徒的剝削。本書避開瞭一般通史寫作路數,但也使全書無法反應秦漢四百年的動態變化,不少結論絕對化。可參考《新史學》23捲2期書評。
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