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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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作者的主要逻辑是： 英国为了维持对华贸易的优势，在战争前期精心维护着清政府和南方叛军之间的均势平衡，谁都有机会。但美洲大陆的另一场类似性质的内战打破了英帝国的全球贸易体系，急需选择一个看起来能继续合作的对手打破亚洲大陆上的僵局。 此时洪仁轩温和但没有实力支撑...
评分1863年9月，受朋友引荐，容闳在湘军大营里见到了两江总督曾国藩。这位美国海归阅历丰富：耶鲁毕业后，他先在美国公使馆和上海海关工作，后来自己开航运公司，在战区倒卖过茶叶。三年前，容闳曾考虑过为太平军效力，在南京与洪仁轩的会面中，他态度高傲，坚持对方要满足自己的各...
评分 评分很喜欢作者的叙事风格，宏大、人物命运相互交错，但结语一章写的真不怎么样。我并不认为作者在用美国的内战与中国的内战作比较，而是在说明，如果没有爆发美国南北战争，淮军可能不会降临上海，戈登可能不会帮李鸿章攻下苏州，英国如果能一直保持中立，那太平天国一方可能不会...
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洋人的一厢情愿。
评分很精彩的历史书。
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评分很精彩的历史书。
评分是写给凡事大惊小怪的美国普通读者的，不必期待过高。不过写的还是不错，尤其是第11章。
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