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2025-03-31
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不要被書名嚇到,其實是並不長的一本書。大概是文化傳統差異,中國人寫曆史喜歡飽含情感的以人物和事件為綫索一條條寫下來。外國人寫中國曆史或許因為其理性思維,或許是因為旁觀者的立場,更像是手術刀式的解剖,俯瞰,注重功能和細節。舉幾個有意思的點: 其一,作者認為17.18...
評分理解不深,暫將紛亂的思緒記錄在這裏。 因先讀過錢穆《國史大綱》《中國曆代政治得失》,再讀《哈佛中國史06:最後的中華帝國》一書,所以難免有將兩書進行比較的思想。 錢穆對清朝統治的評價觀點鮮明:清朝和元朝及曆史上的少數民族政權一樣,是狹義的部族政權對漢族的統治,其...
評分理解不深,暫將紛亂的思緒記錄在這裏。 因先讀過錢穆《國史大綱》《中國曆代政治得失》,再讀《哈佛中國史06:最後的中華帝國》一書,所以難免有將兩書進行比較的思想。 錢穆對清朝統治的評價觀點鮮明:清朝和元朝及曆史上的少數民族政權一樣,是狹義的部族政權對漢族的統治,其...
評分 評分整體上是一本海外漢學傢關於清朝的綜述,對於熟稔清史的人來說可能沒有新意,但是對我收獲很多。 寫作視角上弱化政治軍事,側重從社會生活入手。其中還不乏和現在傳統史觀相比“顛覆”的觀點,從經濟,官僚選任角度分析清朝治理偏嚮“小政府”,中央在治理地方的時候下放一部分...
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。。。
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評分The most valuable part of this book is its review of historiography in Intro.
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