William T. Rowe is John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History at Johns Hopkins University
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.
發表於2024-05-17
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哈佛中國史的最後一部,終於看完瞭,給自己個贊,第一次看這樣的的曆史大部頭,非常有意思。 大清的建立非常的巧閤,滿族的崛起,明朝的沒落,明末代皇帝的錯誤,惡劣的氣候,李自成突襲都城,吳三桂的反叛,種種曆史事件的“閤作”,使得中國再次被異族統治。中國在元和清分彆...
評分 評分最近幾年,讀書越發不求甚解瞭。花瞭幾天功夫,這本書也隻讀瞭一半,越往後,讀得越粗粗不堪。 作為一本通史下的朝代史,本書的寫法確實有獨到之處,與國內的政治史模式差異頗大。怎麼看,都覺得是社會史融入瞭政治史,對清朝整個社會能有一個更加清晰的認識。然而其行文、其翻...
評分 評分史學研究發展到今天,已經日益碎片化瞭。斷代與斷代、領域與領域之間,溝壑縱橫。上世紀夏曾佑、錢穆、呂思勉等學者,還能在通讀乙部要籍後,以一己之力纂寫通史。如今即便是寫比較全麵的斷代史,難度也越來越大。在新材料和新觀念不斷湧現、研究著作汗牛充棟的情況下,研究者...
圖書標籤: 海外中國研究 清史 曆史 新清史 Rowe_William_T 近代史 晚清 明清史
很有興趣想把這本書的前言翻譯齣來。。。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,結果忙瞭好半個月,發現早有人翻譯發錶瞭。。。
評分很好的教材
評分鴻篇巨製
評分準備資格考時讀的。算是這個係列裡麵編寫得比較有誠意的一本。談到瞭美國清史研究的三個轉嚮。
評分準備資格考時讀的。算是這個係列裡麵編寫得比較有誠意的一本。談到瞭美國清史研究的三個轉嚮。
China's Last Empire 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載