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发表于2024-11-24
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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
好的復習書
評分Fast-paced and highly readable, especially its introduction, although catered towards an American readership of course.
評分準備資格考時讀的。算是這個係列裡麵編寫得比較有誠意的一本。談到瞭美國清史研究的三個轉嚮。
評分整套書讀下來最喜歡這一本,因為作者把知識性和理論性做瞭非常好的平衡。作為相對嚴肅的通史類讀物,這套書基本完成瞭知識普及的任務,但各本之間差異不小。陸威儀那三本專題性強,並不適閤對中國曆史一無所知的人。庫恩那本側重描述和復原曆史,問題意識不明顯。蔔正民那本獨齣機杼,作為通史的組成部分其實是不閤格的(當然,人傢也沒說是通史)。到瞭羅威廉這一本,我隻能用“標準”這個詞來形容!從introduction就看得齣來,前5本真的就是概括或者簡介而已,但這一本是專業的survey!章節設置既涵蓋瞭有清一代的重要事件和重要問題,又不像教材那樣死闆。在具體講述中作者還會穿插介紹學界就某一問題的主要看法,在增強學術色彩的同時,也能看齣作者力求不偏不倚。
評分很好的教材
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評分理解不深,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...
評分 評分话说夏天就拿这套哈佛中国史作为毕业礼物送学生,但直到春节期间才读了这套书的最后一本——不是读完了这套书,而是越过前面五本只读了这一本(家里的历史学专业人士说这一本还可以看看)。 (一) 我一直不喜欢中国近代史(原因对每一个中国人都不言自明),但此书关于中国近...
評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...
China's Last Empire pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024