China's Last Empire: The Great Qing pdf

ويليام رووي مؤرخًا اجتماعيًا للصين الحديثة ، بمفهومي "الاجتماعي" و "الحديث" على نطاق واسع جدًا ، تمركزت أعماله في التاريخ الثقافي والفكري والاقتصادي والسياسي أيضًا. تناول أول كتابين له تاريخ القرن التاسع عشر لمدينة تجارية صينية داخلية رئيسية ؛ حصل الثاني على جائزة رائعة من جمعية التاريخ الحضري ، وجعله يشترك في الجدل حول مسائل "المجتمع المدني" و "المجال العام". كتب أيضًا كتبًا عن وعي النخبة الحاكمة لأسرة تشينغ في القرن الثامن عشر المزدهر نسبيًا ، وعن أنماط العنف الزراعي في مقاطعة صينية مزقتها الحروب بشكل اعتيادي على مدى سبعة قرون. مؤخرًا كتب تاريخًا تفسيريًا عامًا لأسرة تشينغ ، بعنوان الإمبراطورية الأخيرة للصين.

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In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance with the conquered Ming gentry, though many of their social edicts—especially the requirement that ethnic Han men wear queues—were fiercely resisted. As advocates of a “universal” empire, Qing rulers also achieved an enormous expansion of the Chinese realm over the course of three centuries, including the conquest and incorporation of Turkic and Tibetan peoples in the west, vast migration into the southwest, and the colonization of Taiwan. Despite this geographic range and the accompanying social and economic complexity, the Qing ideal of “small government” worked well when outside threats were minimal. But the nineteenth-century Opium Wars forced China to become a player in a predatory international contest involving Western powers, while the devastating uprisings of the Taiping and Boxer rebellions signaled an urgent need for internal reform. Comprehensive state-mandated changes during the early twentieth century were not enough to hold back the nationalist tide of 1911, but they provided a new foundation for the Republican and Communist states that would follow. This original, thought-provoking history of China’s last empire is a must-read for understanding the challenges facing China today.