William T. Rowe is John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History at Johns Hopkins University.
In the first half of the nineteenth century the Qing Empire faced a crisis. It was broadly perceived both inside and outside of government that the “prosperous age” of the eighteenth century was over. Bureaucratic corruption and malaise, population pressure and food shortages, ecological and infrastructural decay, domestic and frontier rebellion, adverse balances of trade, and, eventually, a previously inconceivable foreign threat from the West seemed to present hopelessly daunting challenges.
This study uses the literati reformer Bao Shichen as a prism to understand contemporary perceptions of and proposed solutions to this general crisis. Though Bao only briefly and inconsequentially served in office himself, he was widely recognized as an expert on each of these matters, and his advice was regularly sought by reform-minded administrators. From examination of his thought on bureaucratic and fiscal restructuring, agricultural improvement, the grain tribute administration, the salt monopoly, monetary policy, and foreign relations, Bao emerges as a consistent advocate of the hard-nosed pursuit of material “profit,” in the interests not only of the rural populace but also of the Chinese state and nation, anticipating the arguments of “self-strengthening” reformers later in the century.
發表於2024-05-16
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在北美漢學界,人物傳記大概是近些年比較少見的題材。受人類學、社會學影響,學者更傾嚮於透過微觀考察,從普通人的視角探尋曆史的幽暗微光。相比之下,羅威廉(William T. Rowe)的《言利:包世臣與19世紀的改革》顯得更加矚目。羅的研究以城市史與社會史著稱,他關於漢口與麻...
評分從嘉慶中興到道光危機,乾隆晚年弊端橫生,嘉慶帝廣開言路,內務府等官製改革,開京控,對社會群體事件實行寬鬆政策。延續瞭清朝統治。但道光危機重現,軍事失控,上從下剝奪大量資源,富人奢侈,窮人毫無齣路指望。各級政府巨額赤字,大小官吏敲詐勒索 何其類似 從嘉慶中興到...
評分 評分【講座提要】包世臣(1775-1855)在軍事、外交、鹽的專賣、糧食進貢等方麵提齣瞭一係列的重大改革措施,其思想在19世紀産生過深遠影響,他還在農村生活和農業改革方麵提齣瞭非常有見地的看法,這是本次學術講座的重點。他與同時代的洪亮吉形成鮮明對比,洪認為帝國麵臨人口和資...
評分在北美漢學界,人物傳記大概是近些年比較少見的題材。受人類學、社會學影響,學者更傾嚮於透過微觀考察,從普通人的視角探尋曆史的幽暗微光。相比之下,羅威廉(William T. Rowe)的《言利:包世臣與19世紀的改革》顯得更加矚目。羅的研究以城市史與社會史著稱,他關於漢口與麻...
圖書標籤: 羅威廉 包世臣 清史 海外中國研究 曆史 經世 晚清 明清史
《救世》的姐妹篇。以包世臣為視角探討19世紀中國的農、漕、鹽、貨幣問題,羅明確反對包世臣是自由主義者這樣的說法,認為在他身上體現得更多的是功利主義色彩,如對生産效率的追求,減輕農民負擔,消除“中飽”階層和尋求國傢財政的增加。在關於包世臣材料有限的情況下,羅盡量結閤嘉道時期的社會背景進行討論,並將包世臣置於尋求富強的曆史脈絡上對其曆史角色予以重新衡量,不過對於經世同理學經學的討論比較欠缺,整體上還是缺乏新意。楊念群在《文史哲》上發錶的文章倒值得一讀。
評分Collection of revised articles, solid intro. for those uninformed about the period. Written by someone who's in the happy position of not having to justify the point of writing.
評分感覺作者也陷入瞭如包世臣般考證的怪圈。有時候讀起來怪糾結的。。。不過好就好在也客觀反應瞭那個時期有抱負心的statist/literati們對時代、王朝的糾結,看完心態蠻落空的…
評分Collection of revised articles, solid intro. for those uninformed about the period. Written by someone who's in the happy position of not having to justify the point of writing.
評分羅威廉新書
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