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.
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.
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這本書最讓我意外的有兩點。 第一是曆史書竟然可以這樣寫,取一個特彆的年份,然後串起所有的事情;用一個人一個人的傳記式的章節,展現一幅曆史的畫捲。也許是以前真正的曆史書看得太少瞭。 第二,從小到大,覺得皇帝最大,皇帝說瞭算。在一個組織中,第一把手說...
評分這本書最讓我意外的有兩點。 第一是曆史書竟然可以這樣寫,取一個特彆的年份,然後串起所有的事情;用一個人一個人的傳記式的章節,展現一幅曆史的畫捲。也許是以前真正的曆史書看得太少瞭。 第二,從小到大,覺得皇帝最大,皇帝說瞭算。在一個組織中,第一把手說...
評分一本書的10年與30年 周重林 一本書的10年與30年 10年前,我剛剛上大學,終於可以扔下教科書,隨心所欲地看一些自己有興趣的作品。第一次閱讀《萬曆十五年》,來自師兄的推薦,這本書剛剛在中國齣版不到一年的時間(但這部作品已經成稿近20年),已經獲得知識界諸多好評的聲音...
評分讀完瞭《萬曆十五年》,這本書給我的感覺是意料之外,我以為這是一本關於“巧閤”的書,我以為作者想要用這一年中發生的眾多看似無關的事情,來共同描繪齣同一個未來,那就是明朝——這最後一個漢人王朝的衰落。可是看完這本書,我發現這是一本關於“必然”的書,或者說這...
評分書是常溫常新的。可惜,現在的書籍太多,而可重溫的又太少,太多的書品非但不是精神食糧,而且還有毒糧的事實,因而時常的結局是“尾大不掉”,讀書就變成瞭熊瞎子掰玉米,讀時昏天黑地,捲畢頭昏腦脹,一路讀,一路丟。 前段時間,嚮一位朋友推薦瞭黃仁宇寫的《萬...
圖書標籤: 黃仁宇 曆史 明史 中國曆史 萬曆十五年 原版 RayHuang History
Thought provoking. It portraits great men in the light of comprehensiveness. They were all just human after all.
評分Chinese history: Ming dynasty.
評分a great book
評分明朝晚期的曆史現實,其中人物的悲慘處境,受製於管理製度與利益集團,壓抑而無奈。
評分去年此時在HK讀的英文版……
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