The Opium War of 1839-42, the first military conflict to take place between China and the West, is a subject of enduring interest. Mao Haijian, one of the most distinguished and well-known historians working in China, presents the culmination of more than ten years of research in a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists. Mao examines the Qing participants in terms of the moral standards and intellectual norms of their own time, demonstrating that actions which have struck later observers as ridiculous can be understood as reasonable within these individuals' own context. This English-language translation of Mao's work offers a comprehensive response to the question of why the Qing Empire was so badly defeated by the British in the first Opium War - an answer that is distinctive and original within both Chinese and Western historiography, and supported by a wealth of hitherto unknown detail.
Mao Haijian is a professor of history at the University of Macau and East China Normal University. He studied at Sun Yat-sen University and East China Normal University. He has previously held appointments at the Institute of Military Science, the Institute of Modern History at the Chinese Academy of Social Science, and Peking University. His books and essays have won numerous prizes, and include several monographs on the Hundred Days' Reform of 1898, a further monograph on the Opium Wars, and a biography of the Xianfeng emperor.
大清的问题究竟在哪里,其实茅海建基本上没有做分析,虽然他最后一章属于总结性的。这一点上茅海建当然是远不如黄仁宇这类历史学家的,不过这种事也不能苛责,茅海建是那种传统做考据特别牛的人,叙事能力也很强,为了写这本书茅海建算是穷尽了档案资料。这种考据相当耗时耗...
评分林则徐并未高明到哪,琦善、耆英、牛鉴等一干大臣并无卖国之实,三元里不过是个神话,《虎门条约》《望厦条约》《黄埔条约》很大程度上是清朝主动奉上等等,这些都不是给我触动最深的。我所不能平静的是,我们这个民族是如此骄傲的民族,是如此拒绝失败的民族。这直接的后果就...
评分道德的批判最是无情。而批判一旦升至道德的层面,事情的细节便失去了原有的意义,至于细节之中所包含的各种信息、教训更是成了毫无用处的废物。 ——《天朝的崩溃》 道德史观的崩溃 以每天一章的速度,在高度的阅读快感中,我用一周的时间读完了茅海建先生的《天朝的崩溃》一书...
评分把《天朝的崩溃》看完了。非常佩服茅海建的史料功夫和他史笔,只是文章的大致内容好像从哪本书里看到过的。 猛然想起,易中天的《帝国的惆怅里》里不是有一篇叫做《鸦片的战争与战争的鸦片》吗?于是赶紧找来翻。很快,半个小时,看完了。让我有些失望——易中天基本上把茅海...
评分很多书会相遇很多次,但没有缘分,象这本《天朝的崩溃》,不记得多少次在书店里拿起这本书,翻翻又放下。偶然间得到这本书,读完之后毫不犹豫给了5颗星,有点恨不早相逢的感觉。 近代史的书看似洋洋洒洒一大篇,很多其实都是“戏说”。这本书只是切了个历史断面,作者十年磨一...
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