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2025-04-14
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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...
評分斷斷續續看瞭很久,昨天剛讀完。羅威廉的清史最大的特點就是精要二字。 “精”當然說是簡要。清朝近三百年的曆史,全部濃縮在三百頁不到的篇幅,而且它是將清朝當作一個整體來解讀,而沒有按通常1840年為界進行劃分,描述瞭清朝由盛轉衰的連續性。 “要”則說的是羅威廉選取...
評分清朝成為中國封建製度的最後一個帝國。從1644年清軍入關到1911年清朝滅亡,滿洲人統治天下268年,也是少數民族入住中原時間最長的一個。《哈佛中國史06•最後的中華帝國:大清》以全麵的視角看一個帝國從封建製度逐漸打開國門,與世界接近。 作者羅威廉,當代美國最有影響的...
評分第一本看過的西方漢學傢撰述的中國史,感覺是典型的學院派專著。雖然有點不想承認,清朝確實作為一個帝國存在於東亞,並深刻影響瞭周邊的國傢。或許由於現代史學經常強調中國近代所遭受的恥辱的緣故。 中國朝庭與其接鄰之政體間維持著正式的外交接觸,但存在著徹底的不對等與霸...
評分話說夏天就拿這套哈佛中國史作為畢業禮物送學生,但直到春節期間纔讀瞭這套書的最後一本——不是讀完瞭這套書,而是越過前麵五本隻讀瞭這一本(傢裏的曆史學專業人士說這一本還可以看看)。 (一) 我一直不喜歡中國近代史(原因對每一個中國人都不言自明),但此書關於中國近...
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
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。
評分The most valuable part of this book is its review of historiography in Intro.
評分把二十年來美國清史研究做瞭絕佳的整理
評分The most valuable part of this book is its review of historiography in Intro.
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