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.
整体上是一本海外汉学家关于清朝的综述,对于熟稔清史的人来说可能没有新意,但是对我收获很多。 写作视角上弱化政治军事,侧重从社会生活入手。其中还不乏和现在传统史观相比“颠覆”的观点,从经济,官僚选任角度分析清朝治理偏向“小政府”,中央在治理地方的时候下放一部分...
評分大清帝国是曾立基于今日中国地区的政治实体中最庞大的一个。比起其在1644年取而代之的明帝国,清帝国的疆域是明代的两倍多,而人口则超过明代的三倍,至清末已达到5亿之多。在清帝国内不只有视自己为“中国人”的人群,亦有许多过去从未整合进中国王朝政体中的族群,包括西藏人...
評分 評分第一本看过的西方汉学家撰述的中国史,感觉是典型的学院派专著。虽然有点不想承认,清朝确实作为一个帝国存在于东亚,并深刻影响了周边的国家。或许由于现代史学经常强调中国近代所遭受的耻辱的缘故。 中国朝庭与其接邻之政体间维持着正式的外交接触,但存在着彻底的不对等与霸...
很有興趣想把這本書的前言翻譯齣來。。。不過,就怕又是浪費時間。。。就像當年翻譯衛周安的那篇《新清史》一樣,自以為是,結果忙瞭好半個月,發現早有人翻譯發錶瞭。。。
评分鴻篇巨製
评分整套書讀下來最喜歡這一本,因為作者把知識性和理論性做瞭非常好的平衡。作為相對嚴肅的通史類讀物,這套書基本完成瞭知識普及的任務,但各本之間差異不小。陸威儀那三本專題性強,並不適閤對中國曆史一無所知的人。庫恩那本側重描述和復原曆史,問題意識不明顯。蔔正民那本獨齣機杼,作為通史的組成部分其實是不閤格的(當然,人傢也沒說是通史)。到瞭羅威廉這一本,我隻能用“標準”這個詞來形容!從introduction就看得齣來,前5本真的就是概括或者簡介而已,但這一本是專業的survey!章節設置既涵蓋瞭有清一代的重要事件和重要問題,又不像教材那樣死闆。在具體講述中作者還會穿插介紹學界就某一問題的主要看法,在增強學術色彩的同時,也能看齣作者力求不偏不倚。
评分好的復習書
评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。
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