Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

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出版者:Knopf
作者:Stephen R. Platt
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页数:512
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出版时间:2012-2-7
价格:USD 30.00
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780307271730
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图书标签:
  • 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
  • 历史
  • 文化
  • 宗教
  • 中国
  • 19世纪
  • 太平天国
  • 西方传教士
  • 社会变革
  • 战争
  • 文学
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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.

作者简介

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.

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and when we congratulate ourselves on seeing through the darkened window that separates us from another civilization, heartened to discover the familiar forms that lie hidden among the shadows on the other side, sometimes we do without ever realizing that we are only gazing at our own reflection.

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12/03/2015 裴士锋最好展现了一流外交家和不明所以的学者在判断形势与洞察人心上的巨大差距。Frederick Bruce决定防守上海以及对太平军的判断显然是正确的;大英在北方教训僧格林沁和在南方保境安民并不矛盾,裴对这两者都缺乏理解力。我在这本书里看到了天真的外国传教士、作为门面的“体制内开明力量”、以及极其高超的统战技巧与宣传。这类戏码还会在100年后不断上演,所不同者在于美国人代替了老谋深算的大英帝国的位置,被洪天王的精神子嗣们玩弄于股掌之间。

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本书比较通俗的介绍了太平天国从发展到衰亡的过程,作者作为一个外国汉学着,着重点在于太平天国叛乱期间西方势力特别是英国、法国、美国的影响,作者力图说明以英国为首的西方势力采取的是中立的政策,但是民间则有支持太平天国和清政府两种立场,特别是传教士以及华尔、戈登的洋枪队、常胜军则是其中的典型代表。

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这是我读过的唯一一部翻译要比原版来得准的著作

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外国人眼中的太平天国和洪仁玕,太平运动中的英国外交。值得一读。

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