William T. Rowe is John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History at Johns Hopkins University
发表于2025-02-24
China's Last Empire 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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...
评分不要被书名吓到,其实是并不长的一本书。大概是文化传统差异,中国人写历史喜欢饱含情感的以人物和事件为线索一条条写下来。外国人写中国历史或许因为其理性思维,或许是因为旁观者的立场,更像是手术刀式的解剖,俯瞰,注重功能和细节。举几个有意思的点: 其一,作者认为17.18...
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 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...
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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.
清史入门第一本!非常好的总结。这就是利用史学家的研究,写出自己关于清史的narrative的模板。如果用来做lecture也非常适合,既有历史发展脉络,又融合了各派见解,并整合为一个叙事整体。
评分Fast-paced and highly readable, especially its introduction, although catered towards an American readership of course.
评分新清史handbook
评分The most valuable part of this book is its review of historiography in Intro.
评分绝好复习书⋯⋯historiography more than history.
China's Last Empire 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书