Mark Edward Lewis is Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture at Stanford University.
发表于2024-12-22
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卜正民在研究中国历史时也曾数度迷茫,清史研究专家朱维铮给了他答案:“你想象中国是一个仅有一扇窗户的房间,我坐在房间里面,屋里的一切都在我的目光之中,而你在房间外头,是能透过窗户看见物内的景象。我可以告诉你屋内的每一个细节,但无法告诉你房间所处的位置。这一点...
评分喜爱阅读历史书籍的人总是乐于看到不同历史书不同作者的看法与观点,从中找到能带给自己启发的角度与启发,就如《哈佛中国史》的主编卜正民在序言中所提到的:身处房间的人永远看清房间所处的位置与环境。而外国学者编著的中国史恰好填补了这一块空白。 这一套《哈佛中...
评分I came across Mark Edward Lewis' new book, The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (Cambridge, 2007) last week and read it over the break. This book is the first in a new series on the history of imperial China. As the first in the series and a general s...
评分 评分喜爱阅读历史书籍的人总是乐于看到不同历史书不同作者的看法与观点,从中找到能带给自己启发的角度与启发,就如《哈佛中国史》的主编卜正民在序言中所提到的:身处房间的人永远看清房间所处的位置与环境。而外国学者编著的中国史恰好填补了这一块空白。 这一套《哈佛中...
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In 221 B.C., the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia. The Qin and Han constitute the "classical period" of Chinese history - a role played by the Greeks and Romans in the West. Mark Edward Lewis highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity of peoples. He traces the drastic measures taken to transcend, without eliminating, these regional differences: the invention of the emperor as the divine embodiment of the state; the establishment of a common script for communication and a state-sponsored canon for the propagation of Confucian ideals; the flourishing of the great families, whose domination of local society rested on wealth, landholding, and elaborate kinship structures; the demilitarization of the interior; and the impact of non-Chinese warrior-nomads in setting the boundaries of an emerging Chinese identity. The first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, "The Early Chinese Empires" illuminates many formative events in China's long history of imperialism - events whose residual influence can still be discerned today.
1.作者重点论述了塑造秦汉帝国的几个关键问题:中央与地方的关系,兵役制度的变革,Landlordism(地主所有制?)的强化,家族势力的发展等。在250页的篇幅内既能画出秦汉骨骼、又能填充足够血肉,厉害!在经济、文化和宗教方面,只选取与政治权力有关联的部分,不做专业的、技术性的讨论。至于艺术、风俗等内容,干脆放弃。简而言之,书中一切内容都与秦汉的“帝国性”有关。2.作者提出了一些让读者(主要是让我……)耳目一新的观点,比如秦统一六国并非大势所趋。作者还关注了一些读者(主要是我……)不大关注的点,比如从性别角度看家族与家庭的矛盾以及皇权为何旁落(一部讲“帝国”的书用一整章讨论Kinship也是够了……),又比如秦汉祭祀制度的演变及其背后的权力逻辑。3.唯一缺点可能是略显无趣,尽管它值得再读。
评分以主题的方式通贯性地论述秦汉帝国之主要性质,纲举目张,深探历史表面之下的潜流,很优秀的论著。
评分每天坐地铁时打发时间读的书,写的不错
评分作为一部篇幅有限的通史,鲁威仪没有拘泥于历史进程为纲的写法,除了首三章分别介绍秦汉地理、秦国体制和汉代扬弃,最后一章侧重东汉的失控外,其余部分关注多是秦汉社会结构和思想文化。作者将秦汉视为中国的"classical era",在导论里就开章明义地表述了所谓古典时代的五个特征。一方面,秦汉首次初步建立起全国的秩序,作者努力体现出帝国维持国家统一的持之以恒努力,无论是地方的去军事化,边境对异族的打击与羁縻,还是对思想学说的统一。然而,东汉最终亡于对边境乱局的疲于应对和国内社会控制的削弱。另一方面,作者强调秦汉早期色彩,包括未成形的宗教观,法律的宗教残余,和国家建设中对囚徒的剥削。本书避开了一般通史写作路数,但也使全书无法反应秦汉四百年的动态变化,不少结论绝对化。可参考《新史学》23卷2期书评。
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The Early Chinese Empires 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书