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Stephen R. Platt received his Ph.D. in Chinese history from Yale University, where his dissertation was awarded the Theron Rockwell Field Prize. He is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is also the author of Provincial Patriots: The Hunanese and Modern China. An undergraduate English major, he spent two years after college as a teacher in the Yale-China program in Hunan province. His research has been supported by the Fulbright program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation. He lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter.
- 太平天国
- 历史
- 近代史
- 海外中国研究
- 裴士锋
- 中国近代史
- 中国
- 英文原著
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.
The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels drew their power from the poor and the disenfranchised, unleashing the ethnic rage of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers. This homegrown movement seemed all but unstoppable until Britain and the United States stepped in and threw their support behind the Manchus: after years of massive carnage, all opposition to Qing rule was effectively snuffed out for generations. Stephen R. Platt recounts these events in spellbinding detail, building his story on two fascinating characters with opposing visions for China’s future: the conservative Confucian scholar Zeng Guofan, an accidental general who emerged as the most influential military strategist in China’s modern history; and Hong Rengan, a brilliant Taiping leader whose grand vision of building a modern, industrial, and pro-Western Chinese state ended in tragic failure.
This is an essential and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the movement that, a century and a half ago, might have launched China on an entirely different path into the modern world.
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在天国之秋这个角度，讨厌曾国藩，因为最近总有人拿他标榜自己，好像读了两本曾国藩家书就成了正确了，现在人说信儒家有点可笑，其实连理学都没搞清楚。读到围安庆时，屠夫的性格也暴露出来了，告诉他弟不能有慈悲之中，一定要多杀俘虏，一定要屠城。 曾国藩是不是汉奸？腐烂的...
评分在中国，对于太平天国的这段历史，已经被官方有导向性的教育和民间野史演绎得太多，难辨真假。洪秀全从历史课本上的民族英雄到丧心病狂的神经病患者，让人觉得可笑而可悲。 刚开始读时，很喜欢作者流畅的文字，对于史料研究的详实，切入点的独特，尤其是观点的客观。然而越往后...
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翻过。
评分这感觉已经不对
评分"'Sooner or later,' Heng said,...'one has to take sides---if one is to remain human.'" (Graham Greene, The Quiet American) “各人自扫门前雪，休管他人瓦上霜。”作者是想说这个吗？？
评分and when we congratulate ourselves on seeing through the darkened window that separates us from another civilization, heartened to discover the familiar forms that lie hidden among the shadows on the other side, sometimes we do without ever realizing that we are only gazing at our own reflection.
评分略翻一过。似乎并没太大意思。
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