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发表于2024-12-22
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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
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。
评分整套书读下来最喜欢这一本,因为作者把知识性和理论性做了非常好的平衡。作为相对严肃的通史类读物,这套书基本完成了知识普及的任务,但各本之间差异不小。陆威仪那三本专题性强,并不适合对中国历史一无所知的人。库恩那本侧重描述和复原历史,问题意识不明显。卜正民那本独出机杼,作为通史的组成部分其实是不合格的(当然,人家也没说是通史)。到了罗威廉这一本,我只能用“标准”这个词来形容!从introduction就看得出来,前5本真的就是概括或者简介而已,但这一本是专业的survey!章节设置既涵盖了有清一代的重要事件和重要问题,又不像教材那样死板。在具体讲述中作者还会穿插介绍学界就某一问题的主要看法,在增强学术色彩的同时,也能看出作者力求不偏不倚。
评分Fast-paced and highly readable, especially its introduction, although catered towards an American readership of course.
评分很好的教材
评分鸿篇巨制
理解不深,暂将纷乱的思绪记录在这里。 因先读过钱穆《国史大纲》《中国历代政治得失》,再读《哈佛中国史06:最后的中华帝国》一书,所以难免有将两书进行比较的思想。 钱穆对清朝统治的评价观点鲜明:清朝和元朝及历史上的少数民族政权一样,是狭义的部族政权对汉族的统治,其...
评分清朝是距离现代中国最近的一个帝制王朝,也是我们对于中国历史了解最多的一个朝代,清史因其与近现代中国史的承继性而得到越来越多人的关注与研究。而对于这段历史的研究也对于现代中国发展的思路不无裨益。 在《最后的中华帝国:大清》中,作者罗威廉依然选取了政治制...
评分理解不深,暂将纷乱的思绪记录在这里。 因先读过钱穆《国史大纲》《中国历代政治得失》,再读《哈佛中国史06:最后的中华帝国》一书,所以难免有将两书进行比较的思想。 钱穆对清朝统治的评价观点鲜明:清朝和元朝及历史上的少数民族政权一样,是狭义的部族政权对汉族的统治,其...
评分哈佛中国史的最后一部,终于看完了,给自己个赞,第一次看这样的的历史大部头,非常有意思。 大清的建立非常的巧合,满族的崛起,明朝的没落,明末代皇帝的错误,恶劣的气候,李自成突袭都城,吴三桂的反叛,种种历史事件的“合作”,使得中国再次被异族统治。中国在元和清分别...
评分开门见山,我发现了几个很有意思的点。 首先是“清朝自己也参与了帝国主义竞赛,而且至少在18世纪末前非常成功。在西方,历史学者已不再将中国描写成受害者或者一个特例,而是众多在大致上相同时期之亚欧大陆兴起的数个近代早期帝国之一”。毋庸置疑的,清朝奠定了近现代中国的...
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