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.
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...
評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...
評分最近读完茅海建先生的《天朝的崩溃》,是上学期一位老师推荐的,读完回味良久,全书与其说是在解读天朝的崩溃,不如说是凸现了道德史观的崩溃,一扫以往历史撰述模式,使人眼前一亮,相见恨晚之感特强,在这找了篇罗志田先生的书评,如若有兴趣而没有时间去读原著,这篇书评已...
評分天朝的崩溃,自1840年始。也许无数人心痛于老大帝国的毁灭,也有无数人心痛于慈禧这个老妖婆把这个国家弄死了,也许还有无数人yy如果穿越到了那个时代,又会如何如何。 但是,历史不是过家家的游戏,茅海建的这本书说的就是这么一个道理。清王朝的衰落,原因有很多很多,其实...
評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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