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.
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.
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...
评分«天国之秋»以西方人的行动为时间线,以西方人的观察为视角,以西方人的观点作为评判,描述了西方人在天平天国运动中的作用,完成了一部另类的太平天国史。此外,作者同时运用了全球视角,将美国南北战争对于英国政府对中国政策予以考虑,不失为本书的一大亮点。 将洪仁玕...
评分(1)-历1-甲骨文系列1-《天国之秋》豆瓣8.2 咋说呢,这本书可以说开了我的一种全球史观,能把太平天国和美国内战联系到一起真的是很厉害了 可是他塑造的全球史观一方面有利于了解各方在一个历史事件中的客观影响,不像明朝那些事一样局限在中国大地上 但另一方面他塑造的全球...
评分作者的主要逻辑是: 英国为了维持对华贸易的优势,在战争前期精心维护着清政府和南方叛军之间的均势平衡,谁都有机会。但美洲大陆的另一场类似性质的内战打破了英帝国的全球贸易体系,急需选择一个看起来能继续合作的对手打破亚洲大陆上的僵局。 此时洪仁轩温和但没有实力支撑...
评分(1)-历1-甲骨文系列1-《天国之秋》豆瓣8.2 咋说呢,这本书可以说开了我的一种全球史观,能把太平天国和美国内战联系到一起真的是很厉害了 可是他塑造的全球史观一方面有利于了解各方在一个历史事件中的客观影响,不像明朝那些事一样局限在中国大地上 但另一方面他塑造的全球...
这感觉已经不对
评分感觉没有太多启发
评分非凡的叙事功力和活灵活现的文笔读来一气呵成,拿起很难放下。内容方面最独到的还是对英国当时的决策如何影响了太平天国的走势,从而也决定了中国之后的命运。触及的人物众多,作者寥寥数笔就能让人物跃然纸上,且每个人物都挖掘到一定深度,不得不佩服其写作功力。
评分读原版还是太吃力了,读了15%换译本了。
评分读原版还是太吃力了,读了15%换译本了。
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