Empress Dowager Cixi 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 清史 曆史 張戎 慈禧 中國 海外漢學 百年中國 傳記
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很耐讀,感覺好像和上學時候書本裏講的完全不一樣,真是太傳奇瞭!(看瞭作者參考的文獻應該還算靠譜吧)
評分過去的事情真假對錯難辨,不過這本書挺有說服力!
評分mark 鴻:三代中國女人
評分R4 read by Pik-Sen Lim//姑妄聽之
評分語言很好,但觀點不敢苟同。頗有粉飾慈禧之嫌。
Jung Chang (simplified Chinese: 張戎; traditional Chinese: 張戎; pinyin: Zhāng Róng; Wade-Giles: Chang Jung, born March 25, 1952 in Yibin, Sichuan) is a Chinese-born British writer now living in London, best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, selling over 10 million copies worldwide but banned in mainland China
Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.
At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor’s numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once launched a palace coup against the regents appointed by her husband and made herself the real ruler of China—behind the throne, literally, with a silk screen separating her from her officials who were all male.
In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Cixi fought against monumental obstacles to change China. Under her the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state: industries, railways, electricity, the telegraph and an army and navy with up-to-date weaponry. It was she who abolished gruesome punishments like “death by a thousand cuts” and put an end to foot-binding. She inaugurated women’s liberation and embarked on the path to introduce parliamentary elections to China. Chang comprehensively overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a diehard conservative and cruel despot.
Cixi reigned during extraordinary times and had to deal with a host of major national crises: the Taiping and Boxer rebellions, wars with France and Japan—and an invasion by eight allied powers including Britain, Germany, Russia and the United States. Jung Chang not only records the Empress Dowager’s conduct of domestic and foreign affairs, but also takes the reader into the depths of her splendid Summer Palace and the harem of Beijing’s Forbidden City, where she lived surrounded by eunuchs—one of whom she fell in love, with tragic consequences. The world Chang describes here, in fascinating detail, seems almost unbelievable in its extraordinary mixture of the very old and the very new.
Based on newly available, mostly Chinese, historical documents such as court records, official and private correspondence, diaries and eyewitness accounts, this biography will revolutionize historical thinking about a crucial period in China’s—and the world’s—history. Packed with drama, fast paced and gripping, it is both a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern China and an intimate portrait of a woman: as the concubine to a monarch, as the absolute ruler of a third of the world’s population, and as a unique stateswoman.
继续读《慈禧》,此时同治已崩,同治的堂弟光绪也已十六岁大婚,到了亲政的年纪。 3岁起登基,慈禧垂帘听政13年后,光绪的亲政并非课本给我的印象“万民欢呼,恭迎少年天子”云云,反而诸重臣李鸿章为首忧心忡忡,连光绪的父亲醇亲王都知道自己的儿子不是块料...... 要知道...
評分这本书我没有看过,本篇评论是基于Jonathan Mirsky 在2013年12月5日纽约书评上的文章 The Surprising Empress 而来。 该文章是站在外国人的立场上研究中国历史,但据作者所写,在外国人眼中,慈禧历来也是个反面历史人物。这本书是在给慈禧平反,是换个角度看历史。这一立论的...
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