1587, A Year of No Significance

Ray Huang (Chinese: 黃仁宇; 25 June 1918 – 8 January 2000) was a Chinese historian and philosopher. He was an officer in the Nationalist army and fought in the Burma campaigns. He earned a Ph.D in history from the University of Michigan, worked with Joseph Needham and is a contributor of Needham's Science and Civilisation in China. Huang taught in the U.S., and is best known in his later years for the idea of macro-history.

出版者:Yale University Press

作者:Ray Huang

页数:280

出版时间:1982-9-10

价格:USD 27.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780300028843

图书标签:黄仁宇历史明史中国历史万历十五年原版RayHuangHistory

1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (Chinese: 萬曆十五年; pinyin: Wanli Shiwunian) is Chinese historian Ray Huang's most famous work. First published by Yale University Press in 1981,[1] it examines how a number of seemingly insignificant events[which?] in 1587 might have caused the downfall of the Ming dynasty. The Chinese title, meaning "the fifteenth year of the Wanli era", is how the year 1587 was expressed in the Chinese calendar: the era name of the reigning Chinese emperor at the time, followed by which year of his reign it was. Major figures discussed in the book besides the emperor are Grand Secretaries Zhang Juzheng and Shen Shixing, official Hai Rui, general Qi Jiguang and philosopher Li Zhi. Although Huang had completed the manuscript by 1976, no publisher would accept it at first, as it was not serious enough for an academic work, but was too serious for popular non-fiction. The work has been translated into a number of different languages: Chinese, Japanese, German and French.

读后感

如果有人要我推荐读史启蒙读物，这本《万历十五年》当为首选。该书以1587这个年份为切入点，以六个典型人物为章节分析了晚明衰败之原由。这本薄薄的小书自1982年经廖沫沙推荐在大陆出版以来，销量达百万册，读者对它的热情二十年方兴未艾。 该书作者美籍华裔学者黄仁宇以其首先...

有可能是黄仁宇这本书的写作方式，也有可能这就是中国历朝历代历史人物的悲哀，看过这本书两天以后，再去回想，带给我的最大感触还是那些一心想要为国家进步，体制完善，穷尽一生的努力却最终泯灭在历史的长河中变成尘埃的这些人。 他们的遗憾痛苦，挣扎与宁死不屈，坚持与正...  

《万历十五年》是一本畅销二十余年的经典之作。 　　　　 　　黄仁宇的叙述恣肆雍容，很多人读这本书，就会陷进去，因而产生神龙不见首尾的感觉。 　　　　 　　在看这本书的同时，其实可以先看黄的另外一本书：《十六世纪明代中国之财政与税收》。 　　　　 　　这本书...  

读完了《万历十五年》，这本书给我的感觉是意料之外，我以为这是一本关于“巧合”的书，我以为作者想要用这一年中发生的众多看似无关的事情，来共同描绘出同一个未来，那就是明朝——这最后一个汉人王朝的衰落。可是看完这本书，我发现这是一本关于“必然”的书，或者说这...  

以前对《万历十五年》这本书，印象最深的是关于中国缺乏数字化管理的论述。当黄仁宇描述着一场杂乱无章的古代战争时，难以置信的统计和控制之劣，近乎荒谬，远远偏离了我对智勇双全的先民的恭敬想象。黄把中国形容成一个庞大的以礼仪统治的国家，由天子和官僚作道德楷模，指引...  

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英文版读起来更觉得语言生动，也可以想见当时的轰动性。

<万历十五年>英文版

my life is sucked out. almost blinded and exhausted to death.

去年此时在HK读的英文版……

By analyzing the internal logic of the society from view of macro history, Huang analyzes the multiple characters of several representatives. That further reveals the influence of the system on the society.