William T. Rowe is John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History at Johns Hopkins University
发表于2024-05-03
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...
评分第一本看过的西方汉学家撰述的中国史,感觉是典型的学院派专著。虽然有点不想承认,清朝确实作为一个帝国存在于东亚,并深刻影响了周边的国家。或许由于现代史学经常强调中国近代所遭受的耻辱的缘故。 中国朝庭与其接邻之政体间维持着正式的外交接触,但存在着彻底的不对等与霸...
评分最近几年,读书越发不求甚解了。花了几天功夫,这本书也只读了一半,越往后,读得越粗粗不堪。 作为一本通史下的朝代史,本书的写法确实有独到之处,与国内的政治史模式差异颇大。怎么看,都觉得是社会史融入了政治史,对清朝整个社会能有一个更加清晰的认识。然而其行文、其翻...
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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.
很有興趣想把這本書的前言翻譯出來。。。不過,就怕又是浪費時間。。。就像當年翻譯衛周安的那篇《新清史》一樣,自以為是,結果忙了好半個月,發現早有人翻譯發表了。。。
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评分Fast-paced and highly readable, especially its introduction, although catered towards an American readership of course.
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。
China's Last Empire 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书