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.
发表于2024-05-13
Opium War 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
由于中英贸易逆差,英国向输入鸦片,以换回白银、茶叶、生丝,清政府的禁烟运动极大损害了英国的利益,导致了鸦片战争的爆发,由于清政府的腐败无能,以及技术的落后,中国在战争中一败涂地,最终签订了中国近代史上第一个不平等条约《南京条约》,从此中国进入半殖民地半封建...
评分英国人能写出这样的作品,值得点赞。 可以和茅海建的那本《天朝的崩溃:鸦片战争再研究》对照着看。 两本书各有优缺点。这本书对那本书有不少的引用。这本书的作者是英国人,对英文资料的引用当然更驾轻就熟。而茅的那本对中文资料的引用就更加丰富了,尤其是对一些极其冷门的...
评分 评分对比中才知何为好书,好研究。 一部远低于期待值的鸦片战争史。 作者作为英国人视角,能够做出较为客观陈述已经较为难得,但是本书中对于,鸦片不应为白银外流负责任,英国政府的对外决策其实是由当地官员决定等内容论述都感觉不够充分,给人欲辩解而还休的感觉。 比较有价...
评分英国人能写出这样的作品,值得点赞。 可以和茅海建的那本《天朝的崩溃:鸦片战争再研究》对照着看。 两本书各有优缺点。这本书对那本书有不少的引用。这本书的作者是英国人,对英文资料的引用当然更驾轻就熟。而茅的那本对中文资料的引用就更加丰富了,尤其是对一些极其冷门的...
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.
Another good discussion yesterday. Mostly on nationalism (and the education thereof) and cultural history. News come into attention the next day morning, of drug smuggling in Mexico, S. Korea's urge of Japanese compensation for comfort women, and the lowered US flag in Iraq. Main takeaway: the inventiveness of the late 200 yr Chinese history.
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评分发现kindle里还存着这本,对历史不同的诠释。想想虽然现身处“和平年代”,19世纪鸦片战争、20世纪的二战及文革,都对现在的中国意识文化形态产生了极大的影响,只是我们乐得不自知。
评分发现kindle里还存着这本,对历史不同的诠释。想想虽然现身处“和平年代”,19世纪鸦片战争、20世纪的二战及文革,都对现在的中国意识文化形态产生了极大的影响,只是我们乐得不自知。
Opium War 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书