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发表于2024-10-03
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In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West.
The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance with the conquered Ming gentry, though many of their social edicts—especially the requirement that ethnic Han men wear queues—were fiercely resisted. As advocates of a “universal” empire, Qing rulers also achieved an enormous expansion of the Chinese realm over the course of three centuries, including the conquest and incorporation of Turkic and Tibetan peoples in the west, vast migration into the southwest, and the colonization of Taiwan.
Despite this geographic range and the accompanying social and economic complexity, the Qing ideal of “small government” worked well when outside threats were minimal. But the nineteenth-century Opium Wars forced China to become a player in a predatory international contest involving Western powers, while the devastating uprisings of the Taiping and Boxer rebellions signaled an urgent need for internal reform. Comprehensive state-mandated changes during the early twentieth century were not enough to hold back the nationalist tide of 1911, but they provided a new foundation for the Republican and Communist states that would follow.
This original, thought-provoking history of China’s last empire is a must-read for understanding the challenges facing China today.
William T. Rowe is John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History at Johns Hopkins University
Fast-paced and highly readable, especially its introduction, although catered towards an American readership of course.
评分清史入门第一本!非常好的总结。这就是利用史学家的研究,写出自己关于清史的narrative的模板。如果用来做lecture也非常适合,既有历史发展脉络,又融合了各派见解,并整合为一个叙事整体。
评分準備資格考時讀的。算是這個系列裡面編寫得比較有誠意的一本。談到了美國清史研究的三個轉向。
评分準備資格考時讀的。算是這個系列裡面編寫得比較有誠意的一本。談到了美國清史研究的三個轉向。
评分太喜欢用法语单词了,如果把尾注换成脚注就更好了。
第一本看过的西方汉学家撰述的中国史,感觉是典型的学院派专著。虽然有点不想承认,清朝确实作为一个帝国存在于东亚,并深刻影响了周边的国家。或许由于现代史学经常强调中国近代所遭受的耻辱的缘故。 中国朝庭与其接邻之政体间维持着正式的外交接触,但存在着彻底的不对等与霸...
评分第一本看过的西方汉学家撰述的中国史,感觉是典型的学院派专著。虽然有点不想承认,清朝确实作为一个帝国存在于东亚,并深刻影响了周边的国家。或许由于现代史学经常强调中国近代所遭受的耻辱的缘故。 中国朝庭与其接邻之政体间维持着正式的外交接触,但存在着彻底的不对等与霸...
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