Opium War

Julia Lovell has worked at Birkbeck since 2007. Before then, she was Junior Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge. She completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; she also studied for a year at the Hopkins-Nanjing Centre for Chinese Studies. She has translated many works, as well as writing insightful works into the history of China.She has written articles in the Guardian, the London Times and the Economist on China.

出版者:Picador

作者:Julia Lovell

页数:352

出版时间:2011-7-1

价格:USD 34.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780330537858

图书标签:历史鸦片战争中国藍詩玲中国近代史英国鴉片戰爭開卷八分鐘

‘On the outside, [the foreigners] seem intractable, but inside they are cowardly. . . Although there have been a few ups-and-downs, the situation as a whole is under control.’

In October 1839, a few months after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner, Lin Zexu, dispatched these confident words to his emperor, a cabinet meeting in Windsor voted to fight Britain’s first Opium War (1839-42) with China. The conflict turned out to be rich in tragicomedy: in bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over the past 170 years, this strange tale of misunderstanding, incompetence and compromise has become the founding myth of modern Chinese nationalism: the start of China’s heroic struggle against a Western conspiracy to destroy the country with opium and gunboat diplomacy.

Beginning with the dramas of the war itself, Julia Lovell explores its causes and consequences and, through this larger narrative, interweaves the curious stories of opium’s promoters and attackers. The Opium War is both the story of modern China – starting from this first conflict with the West – and an analysis of the country’s contemporary self-image. It explores how China’s national myths mould its interactions with the outside world, how public memory is spun to serve the present; and how delusion and prejudice have bedevilled its relationship with the modern West.

It explores how China's national myths mould its interactions with the outside world, how public memory is spun to serve the present; and how delusion and prejudice have bedevilled its relationship with the modern West.

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该书堪称茅海建《天朝的崩溃》的姊妹篇。从英国的角度看鸦片战争，给了不同的视角，更完全区别于教科书中的描述，对于全面认识鸦片战争非常有帮助。 1.本书引用的史料非常丰富，当然，部分错误亦由译者进行了标注。对于《天朝的崩溃》也多有引用。 2.在鸦片战争之前，鸦片作为...  

﹣能在2017年12月31日晚上讀完這書，很是高興。能在年前完成一本不錯的書，怎麼說也是一種運氣。 ﹣上週去逛樂文時看到這書，剛巧之前讀了談英國殖民政府中譯者相關的書，有提到諸如郭實臘（本書則叫郭士立）等人在鴉片戰爭中的狀況，不如就買這書來一讀。之前應該在一些網站...  

作为对鸦片战争细节的了解，还是不错的一本书，承继了西方学者对于历史的描述写法，文章的可读性较强，而这正是中国学者较为缺乏的。看外国人写中国历史，更有味，更能进入，或者说界面更友好。 全文较多引用了茅海建的书，所以更想看看茅海建的书。 天下大势，浩浩汤汤，顺之...  

﹣能在2017年12月31日晚上讀完這書，很是高興。能在年前完成一本不錯的書，怎麼說也是一種運氣。 ﹣上週去逛樂文時看到這書，剛巧之前讀了談英國殖民政府中譯者相關的書，有提到諸如郭實臘（本書則叫郭士立）等人在鴉片戰爭中的狀況，不如就買這書來一讀。之前應該在一些網站...  

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真是不知道为啥豆瓣上评分这么高。。。

写得很文绉绉的, 挺好看的. 特别是讲yellow peril那章和后面的讲向西方学习的那章特别好看. 不过全书结尾又转移到tg希望靠灌输中国受西方侵略的历史观来维护统治(虽然民众不买账)这种调调上来了(虽然确实有这么个回事,比如tg的中学教材从来不讲英国国内的抵制鸦片贸易运动)

写得很文绉绉的, 挺好看的. 特别是讲yellow peril那章和后面的讲向西方学习的那章特别好看. 不过全书结尾又转移到tg希望靠灌输中国受西方侵略的历史观来维护统治(虽然民众不买账)这种调调上来了(虽然确实有这么个回事,比如tg的中学教材从来不讲英国国内的抵制鸦片贸易运动)

so called truth