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Stephen R. Platt received his Ph.D. in Chinese history from Yale University, where his dissertation was awarded the Theron Rockwell Field Prize. He is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is also the author of Provincial Patriots: The Hunanese and Modern China. An undergraduate English major, he spent two years after college as a teacher in the Yale-China program in Hunan province. His research has been supported by the Fulbright program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation. He lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter.
- 太平天国
- 历史
- 近代史
- 海外中国研究
- 裴士锋
- 中国近代史
- 中国
- 英文原著
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.
The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels drew their power from the poor and the disenfranchised, unleashing the ethnic rage of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers. This homegrown movement seemed all but unstoppable until Britain and the United States stepped in and threw their support behind the Manchus: after years of massive carnage, all opposition to Qing rule was effectively snuffed out for generations. Stephen R. Platt recounts these events in spellbinding detail, building his story on two fascinating characters with opposing visions for China’s future: the conservative Confucian scholar Zeng Guofan, an accidental general who emerged as the most influential military strategist in China’s modern history; and Hong Rengan, a brilliant Taiping leader whose grand vision of building a modern, industrial, and pro-Western Chinese state ended in tragic failure.
This is an essential and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the movement that, a century and a half ago, might have launched China on an entirely different path into the modern world.
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生存的意义：一场权力的游戏 ——读《天国之秋》有感 天国，谁的天国？ 世界的天国，洋人眼中的天国。在十八世纪四十年代，中国的人口数量已经占据了世界的1/3，中国的GDP也占据了世界1/3，中国的丝绸和茶叶更是成为欧洲很多居民的心头爱，中国的神秘更是吸引着需求欧洲探险家...
评分1863年9月，受朋友引荐，容闳在湘军大营里见到了两江总督曾国藩。这位美国海归阅历丰富：耶鲁毕业后，他先在美国公使馆和上海海关工作，后来自己开航运公司，在战区倒卖过茶叶。三年前，容闳曾考虑过为太平军效力，在南京与洪仁轩的会面中，他态度高傲，坚持对方要满足自己的各...
评分 评分在中国，对于太平天国的这段历史，已经被官方有导向性的教育和民间野史演绎得太多，难辨真假。洪秀全从历史课本上的民族英雄到丧心病狂的神经病患者，让人觉得可笑而可悲。 刚开始读时，很喜欢作者流畅的文字，对于史料研究的详实，切入点的独特，尤其是观点的客观。然而越往后...
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翻过。
评分很精彩的历史书。
评分三年来读的第一本英文书，耗时长达4个月。
评分三年来读的第一本英文书，耗时长达4个月。
评分是写给凡事大惊小怪的美国普通读者的，不必期待过高。不过写的还是不错，尤其是第11章。
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