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.
‘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.
發表於2024-11-06
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1840年英國遠洋艦隊進攻廣東珠江口,標誌著鴉片戰爭的爆發,這一事件被後世曆史學傢評價為具有重大意義的近代中國的轉摺點。中國人眼中的鴉片戰爭是一部充滿屈辱和剝削的血淚史,是西方列強貪婪、自私、殘忍、蠻橫所導緻。而西方世界把這件事評價為中國人狹隘、驕橫、愚昧、自...
評分#深夜讀書筆記#1、兩本書幾乎相差20年,茅的第一版95年,英國人藍詩玲的漢文版15年。茅的這本天朝的崩潰算是其成名作。絕大部分是前清檔案或時人筆記,外文的引用資料較少。而藍的鴉片戰爭除瞭廣引用中方資料外,還有當時英國國會或政府檔案以及軍方人士迴憶錄。2、茅的筆調決...
評分1840年英國遠洋艦隊進攻廣東珠江口,標誌著鴉片戰爭的爆發,這一事件被後世曆史學傢評價為具有重大意義的近代中國的轉摺點。中國人眼中的鴉片戰爭是一部充滿屈辱和剝削的血淚史,是西方列強貪婪、自私、殘忍、蠻橫所導緻。而西方世界把這件事評價為中國人狹隘、驕橫、愚昧、自...
評分(注:本文的censored version已於2015年10月1日刊發於《南方周末》) 2010年11月9日,當時剛剛成為英國首相的戴維•卡梅倫攜同4位內閣大臣以及約50位英國工商界精英、領導來到北京,準備開展為期兩天的對話訪問。卡梅倫此行至少有兩個目的。一方麵,此次中國之行顯然是中英...
評分﹣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,剛巧之前讀瞭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...
圖書標籤: 曆史 鴉片戰爭 中國 藍詩玲 中國近代史 英國 鴉片戰爭 開捲八分鐘
發現kindle裏還存著這本,對曆史不同的詮釋。想想雖然現身處“和平年代”,19世紀鴉片戰爭、20世紀的二戰及文革,都對現在的中國意識文化形態産生瞭極大的影響,隻是我們樂得不自知。
評分發現kindle裏還存著這本,對曆史不同的詮釋。想想雖然現身處“和平年代”,19世紀鴉片戰爭、20世紀的二戰及文革,都對現在的中國意識文化形態産生瞭極大的影響,隻是我們樂得不自知。
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評分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.
評分written with such sneering cynicism
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