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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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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...
评分用仿佛小说的笔法，从好几个角度讲述了太平天国的历史，有血有肉，丰满的细节，清晰的脉落，读得开心，真心推荐。以西方视角为主的多视角观察，对洪仁玕的评价很高，当时中西两方的沟通是此书重点之一，从全球角度分析英国态度的变化是其亮点。凭借详实的档案、日记、报道等资...
评分 评分用仿佛小说的笔法，从好几个角度讲述了太平天国的历史，有血有肉，丰满的细节，清晰的脉落，读得开心，真心推荐。以西方视角为主的多视角观察，对洪仁玕的评价很高，当时中西两方的沟通是此书重点之一，从全球角度分析英国态度的变化是其亮点。凭借详实的档案、日记、报道等资...
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基督教不足亲近西方却足以使儒家士大夫痛恨欲除之而后快
评分洋人的一厢情愿。
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。
评分略翻一过。似乎并没太大意思。
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