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.
發表於2025-02-27
1587, A Year of No Significance 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
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...
評分如果有人要我推薦讀史啓濛讀物,這本《萬曆十五年》當為首選。該書以1587這個年份為切入點,以六個典型人物為章節分析瞭晚明衰敗之原由。這本薄薄的小書自1982年經廖沫沙推薦在大陸齣版以來,銷量達百萬冊,讀者對它的熱情二十年方興未艾。 該書作者美籍華裔學者黃仁宇以其首先...
評分這是一部奇書。 沒想過曆史可以這樣寫。習慣瞭編年體的我們認為曆史隻有那麼一種固定寫法,突然麵對這樣以點帶麵,用某一年事件點破朝代命運的寫法時,開始竟然會不習慣。粗綫條描述曆史並不難,能從小事著手講述曆史並引申齣高人一等的論點則屬難得。 老實說,讀著《萬曆十五...
圖書標籤: 黃仁宇 曆史 明史 中國曆史 萬曆十五年 原版 RayHuang History
my life is sucked out. almost blinded and exhausted to death.
評分Every chapter is a thread, each with a bead of person, e.g. Li Zhi the bead on the thread of mindset and Qi Jiguang - military system. Those threads were intertwined with each other and became an unsolvable Chinese Gordian knot that strangled their throat.
評分<萬曆十五年>英文版
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Chinese history: Ming dynasty.
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