Imperial Twilight

STEPHEN R. PLATT is a professor of Chinese history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His last book, Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War, was a Washington Post Notable Book, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and won the Cundill History Prize. Platt lives with his wife and children in Northampton, Massachusetts.

出版者:Knopf

作者:Stephen R. Platt

页数:592

出版时间:2018-5-15

价格:USD 35.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780307961730

图书标签:鸦片战争历史裴士锋中国近代史中国近代史清非虚构

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As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country's last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.

"This thoroughly researched and delightful work is essential for anyone interested in Chinese or British imperial history." --Library Journal (Starred Review)

When Britain launched its first war on China in 1839, pushed into hostilities by profiteering drug merchants and free-trade interests, it sealed the fate of what had long been seen as the most prosperous and powerful empire in Asia, if not the world. But internal problems of corruption, popular unrest, and dwindling finances had weakened China far more than was commonly understood, and the war would help set in motion the eventual fall of the Qing dynasty--which, in turn, would lead to the rise of nationalism and communism in the twentieth century. As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it.

In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to "open" China--traveling mostly in secret beyond Canton, the single port where they were allowed--even as China's imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country's decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China's advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable--and mostly peaceful--meeting of civilizations at Canton over the long term that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American individuals, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today's uncertain and ever-changing political climate.

读后感

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历史不会掩盖真相，感知却会影响判断 ——读《帝国暮色》有感 裴士锋的《帝国暮色》的确是难得的佳作。晚晴的历史我读了很多支离破碎的故事，史学家也对当时发生的一些事情都做了定性。比如：鸦片战争是近代中国屈辱史的开端、林则徐是禁毒英雄、和珅是大贪官、道光吸食鸦片、...

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用户评价

论一个好翻译的重要性。。。

今天去黄大仙拜拜，回来的路上听完了最后一章。根据这本书的观点，鸦片战争是一场偶然。那么今天传统与现代交织的香港也就是偶然的存在了。

配合天朝的崩溃服用有奇效。

论一个好翻译的重要性。。。

材料上没什么太大创新，很多元素包括中英商人在广州的友好相处之前学者也已经涉及（看看William Hunter的广州番鬼就行），关于偶然性和必然性的争论只能作为分析工具而不是论点本身，最大亮点还是其可读性。不过作为本科生读物，太长太繁琐