Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 太平天國 曆史 近代史 海外中國研究 裴士鋒 中國近代史 中國 英文原著
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是寫給凡事大驚小怪的美國普通讀者的,不必期待過高。不過寫的還是不錯,尤其是第11章。
評分12/03/2015 裴士鋒最好展現瞭一流外交傢和不明所以的學者在判斷形勢與洞察人心上的巨大差距。Frederick Bruce決定防守上海以及對太平軍的判斷顯然是正確的;大英在北方教訓僧格林沁和在南方保境安民並不矛盾,裴對這兩者都缺乏理解力。我在這本書裏看到瞭天真的外國傳教士、作為門麵的“體製內開明力量”、以及極其高超的統戰技巧與宣傳。這類戲碼還會在100年後不斷上演,所不同者在於美國人代替瞭老謀深算的大英帝國的位置,被洪天王的精神子嗣們玩弄於股掌之間。
評分12/03/2015 裴士鋒最好展現瞭一流外交傢和不明所以的學者在判斷形勢與洞察人心上的巨大差距。Frederick Bruce決定防守上海以及對太平軍的判斷顯然是正確的;大英在北方教訓僧格林沁和在南方保境安民並不矛盾,裴對這兩者都缺乏理解力。我在這本書裏看到瞭天真的外國傳教士、作為門麵的“體製內開明力量”、以及極其高超的統戰技巧與宣傳。這類戲碼還會在100年後不斷上演,所不同者在於美國人代替瞭老謀深算的大英帝國的位置,被洪天王的精神子嗣們玩弄於股掌之間。
評分感覺沒有太多啓發
評分非凡的敘事功力和活靈活現的文筆讀來一氣嗬成,拿起很難放下。內容方麵最獨到的還是對英國當時的決策如何影響瞭太平天國的走勢,從而也決定瞭中國之後的命運。觸及的人物眾多,作者寥寥數筆就能讓人物躍然紙上,且每個人物都挖掘到一定深度,不得不佩服其寫作功力。
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.
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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評分一百五十页的尾注的确是一个槽点,但也说明了作者的严谨。另外尾注也确实降低了对读者的干扰。整部书在较完整的时间顺序下摆出很多国人所不知的细节,例如英军烧毁圆明园也不是毫无缘故,而英国议会也是有相当一部分人是反对干预 的,另外英国政府对于清廷的支持也改写了传统教...
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