William T. Rowe is John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History at Johns Hopkins University
发表于2024-11-24
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 评分断断续续看了很久,昨天刚读完。罗威廉的清史最大的特点就是精要二字。 “精”当然说是简要。清朝近三百年的历史,全部浓缩在三百页不到的篇幅,而且它是将清朝当作一个整体来解读,而没有按通常1840年为界进行划分,描述了清朝由盛转衰的连续性。 “要”则说的是罗威廉选取...
评分 评分清朝成为中国封建制度的最后一个帝国。从1644年清军入关到1911年清朝灭亡,满洲人统治天下268年,也是少数民族入住中原时间最长的一个。《哈佛中国史06•最后的中华帝国:大清》以全面的视角看一个帝国从封建制度逐渐打开国门,与世界接近。 作者罗威廉,当代美国最有影响的...
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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.
把二十年來美國清史研究做了絕佳的整理
评分整套书读下来最喜欢这一本,因为作者把知识性和理论性做了非常好的平衡。作为相对严肃的通史类读物,这套书基本完成了知识普及的任务,但各本之间差异不小。陆威仪那三本专题性强,并不适合对中国历史一无所知的人。库恩那本侧重描述和复原历史,问题意识不明显。卜正民那本独出机杼,作为通史的组成部分其实是不合格的(当然,人家也没说是通史)。到了罗威廉这一本,我只能用“标准”这个词来形容!从introduction就看得出来,前5本真的就是概括或者简介而已,但这一本是专业的survey!章节设置既涵盖了有清一代的重要事件和重要问题,又不像教材那样死板。在具体讲述中作者还会穿插介绍学界就某一问题的主要看法,在增强学术色彩的同时,也能看出作者力求不偏不倚。
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评分清史入门第一本!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。
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China's Last Empire 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书