William T. Rowe is John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History at Johns Hopkins University
发表于2025-04-05
China's Last Empire 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
在目前中国所有的历史课本上,划分古代史与近代史的界限是1840年的鸦片战争,包括很多研究机构的划分与安排也是遵从这个分界线的。这个分界线的来历是哈佛费正清教授的观点,被近代中国历史研究者认可,由于这种划分具备上佳的政治效果,因此很快就成为政治上正确的分界。一旦...
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...
评分整体上是一本海外汉学家关于清朝的综述,对于熟稔清史的人来说可能没有新意,但是对我收获很多。 写作视角上弱化政治军事,侧重从社会生活入手。其中还不乏和现在传统史观相比“颠覆”的观点,从经济,官僚选任角度分析清朝治理偏向“小政府”,中央在治理地方的时候下放一部分...
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...
评分在目前中国所有的历史课本上,划分古代史与近代史的界限是1840年的鸦片战争,包括很多研究机构的划分与安排也是遵从这个分界线的。这个分界线的来历是哈佛费正清教授的观点,被近代中国历史研究者认可,由于这种划分具备上佳的政治效果,因此很快就成为政治上正确的分界。一旦...
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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.
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。
评分鸿篇巨制
评分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。。。
评分绝好复习书⋯⋯historiography more than history.
评分Fast-paced and highly readable, especially its introduction, although catered towards an American readership of course.
China's Last Empire 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书