William T. Rowe is John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History at Johns Hopkins University
发表于2024-11-05
China's Last Empire 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
开门见山,我发现了几个很有意思的点。 首先是“清朝自己也参与了帝国主义竞赛,而且至少在18世纪末前非常成功。在西方,历史学者已不再将中国描写成受害者或者一个特例,而是众多在大致上相同时期之亚欧大陆兴起的数个近代早期帝国之一”。毋庸置疑的,清朝奠定了近现代中国的...
评分史学研究发展到今天,已经日益碎片化了。断代与断代、领域与领域之间,沟壑纵横。上世纪夏曾佑、钱穆、吕思勉等学者,还能在通读乙部要籍后,以一己之力纂写通史。如今即便是写比较全面的断代史,难度也越来越大。在新材料和新观念不断涌现、研究著作汗牛充栋的情况下,研究者...
评分话说夏天就拿这套哈佛中国史作为毕业礼物送学生,但直到春节期间才读了这套书的最后一本——不是读完了这套书,而是越过前面五本只读了这一本(家里的历史学专业人士说这一本还可以看看)。 (一) 我一直不喜欢中国近代史(原因对每一个中国人都不言自明),但此书关于中国近...
评分理解不深,暂将纷乱的思绪记录在这里。 因先读过钱穆《国史大纲》《中国历代政治得失》,再读《哈佛中国史06:最后的中华帝国》一书,所以难免有将两书进行比较的思想。 钱穆对清朝统治的评价观点鲜明:清朝和元朝及历史上的少数民族政权一样,是狭义的部族政权对汉族的统治,其...
评分大清的历史被各种小说、宫廷剧毁的不像样,即时我们翻看国内主流的正规清史书籍,也多是帝王将相,名人功臣,尤其是晚清历史,随便找一个事件就可写成很多本书,如何通过一本书了解真正的清朝历史缩影,一直是一个难点。 忽略王侯将相,让历史回归社会 最近刚刚出版的《哈佛中...
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In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West.
The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance with the conquered Ming gentry, though many of their social edicts—especially the requirement that ethnic Han men wear queues—were fiercely resisted. As advocates of a “universal” empire, Qing rulers also achieved an enormous expansion of the Chinese realm over the course of three centuries, including the conquest and incorporation of Turkic and Tibetan peoples in the west, vast migration into the southwest, and the colonization of Taiwan.
Despite this geographic range and the accompanying social and economic complexity, the Qing ideal of “small government” worked well when outside threats were minimal. But the nineteenth-century Opium Wars forced China to become a player in a predatory international contest involving Western powers, while the devastating uprisings of the Taiping and Boxer rebellions signaled an urgent need for internal reform. Comprehensive state-mandated changes during the early twentieth century were not enough to hold back the nationalist tide of 1911, but they provided a new foundation for the Republican and Communist states that would follow.
This original, thought-provoking history of China’s last empire is a must-read for understanding the challenges facing China today.
Fast-paced and highly readable, especially its introduction, although catered towards an American readership of course.
评分很好的教材
评分準備資格考時讀的。算是這個系列裡面編寫得比較有誠意的一本。談到了美國清史研究的三個轉向。
评分Fast-paced and highly readable, especially its introduction, although catered towards an American readership of course.
评分绝好复习书⋯⋯historiography more than history.
China's Last Empire 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书