中国古代简史：从史前文明到末代皇帝_迈克尔迪伦（Michael Dillon）_9787500150701

《中国简史：从史前文明到末代皇帝》（HistoryofChina:FromEarliestTimestotheLastEmperor）是一部直接面向海外读者概览性地介绍中华民族五千年历史的优秀图书。它是国内首部由国内外学者合作编著的介绍中国历史的图书，其内容在保持中国叙述视角的同时，兼顾国外读者的阅读习惯，是一本普及中国历史的优秀读物。

　　本书以历史年代为序，再现了中华文明从远古文明到清朝结束的发展历程，全面回顾了自原始社会以来各个不同时期的中国历史画卷，涵盖了中国历史的主要内容，集中讲述了历史的变迁过程，较为系统地介绍了中国历史的发展脉络。是一部快速了解中国历史及社会变迁的图书。

Introduction

The history of China is the story of the people who live between the coasts and the mountains and steppes of Inner Asia. Principally it is a history of settled agricultural communities, distinguished from and often in conflict with, the pastoral nomadic societies of the northern and western regions. The civilization that today we call Chinese originated in the north-central region of the mainland, around the Yellow River. It extends southwards to the Yangzi(or Yangtze), a formidable natural barrier, across which the state gradually asserted its authority. Ancient Chinese society emerged as a multiplicity of city states which were incorporated into the great empires of the Shang and Zhou. The authority of the Zhou Dynasty was exhausted in the fifth Century BCE and by then a network of independent statelets had emerged, in the era that became known as Spring and Autumn. Conflict between these statelets for dominance was reflected in the name for the following historical period the Warring States. When one of these statelets, the Qin, grew in size and authority and emerged as the victor in 221 BCE, its leader declared himself Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor of Qin, and is regarded as the first of the long series of emperors who ruled China until the disintegration of the empire in 1911.

This period set the pattern for the whole of the empire; the conflict between centralization and centrifugal political forces and between the settled and the pastoral lands. Since then, by and large, China has had powerful single rulers, emperors whose reign names mark successive periods of history. It would however be a mistake to assume that all of these emperors controlled the whole of the present-day territory of China or that they were Chinese in the commonly accepted modern sense. The great Tang Dynasty (618907) was extraordinarily inclusive and open-minded and is admired for its poetry and sculpted ceramics. Tang emperors governed most of the country but their family backgrounds included the Turkic-speaking aristocracy.

The fate of the Song Dynasty (9601279) illustrates well the conflict between the tribes of the steppe and the settled Chinese which marked the remainder of the empire. The Song (Northern Song) began as a successor to the Tang, controlling much of the same territory, but it was faced with serious military challenges on its frontiers and lost much of its northern territory to nomadic tribes, principally the Khitan Liao and the Tangut Xixia, whose regimes in the lands that they conquered are known by Chinese dynastic names. The Song emperors were forced to retreat south and their reign, the Southern Songnotable above all for its fine paintinglasted until the Mongols from the steppes, having defeated the other northern tribes including the Khitan and the Tanguts, finally conquered the whole of China and declared themselves to be the Yuan Dynasty (12711368). The emperors of the Yuan all had Chinese reign titles but their language and culture was Mongolian and they were part of the great Mongolian empire that spanned the whole of Asia during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This regime was resented by many Chinese as an alien occupationalthough many Chinese officials worked for itand when the Mongols were driven back to the steppes in the middle of the fourteenth century, the Ming Dynasty that was established in Nanjing by Zhu Yuanzhang was welcomed as a return to Chinese rule.

The Ming lasted until 1644 when another northern people, the Manchus, produced a military apparatus that was able to overthrow the Chinese regime that had been weakened by corruption and internal power struggles. The Manchus took control of China, but, in order to rule it, had to cooperate with Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan officials. Their dynasty, the Qing, was the last of the Chinese empire, although, ironically, it was not in the strict sense of the word a Chinese dynasty. As happened during the Yuan Dynasty, there was great opposition to Manchu control and a nationalist movement that emerged during the nineteenth century was strengthened by the inability of the government to resist commercial and military pressures from the maritime empires of Britain and the other Western powers. When the Manchu Qing regime was finally overthrown in 1911, the driving forces were the traditional ones of Chinese opposition to alien rule and the secession of provinces from the central government. However to this must be added a completely new element, the threat of Western encroachment which was to dominate the history of China in the early twentieth century.

History is not, of course, confined to the past. It continues as we live and it informs the thinking not only of historians and the readers of history but those in power. Chinese thinkers, writers and rulers are acutely conscious of the history of their country: it is constantly referred to in the contemporary political discourse of the country, although not everyone draws the same conclusions about the lessons to be learned from it. Nevertheless, without an appreciation of the multicultural and multiethnic historical background, with its conflicts and compromises and the successes and failures of its successive rulers, it is impossible to understand China as it rises to world prominence during the twenty-first century.

Contents

ListofIllustrationsxii

NameandDateConventionsUsedintheContextxxxvii

Introductionxxxix

Chapter1

AncientCivilizations:RuleandPolitics

(c.8500256BCE)

THEORIGINSOFCIVILIZATIONAncientManinChinaTheEraofClanSocietiesTheDawnoftheChineseNationThreeBenevolentRulers:Yao,ShunandYuTHEEARLIESTDYNASTIESOFCHINARuleoftheXiaDynastyTheRiseandFalloftheShangDynastyTheFlourishingoftheWesternZhouDynastyDeclineoftheWesternZhouDynastyTHESPRINGANDAUTUMNPERIODDeclineoftheRoyalFamilyDukeHuanofQiandDukeWenofJinThreeSuccessiveHegemoniesWuandYuePushforPowerTHESEVENPOWERSOFTHEWARRINGSTATESPERIODSevenPowersLockedinRivalryReformMovementsintheSevenStatesAllianceandUnification

Chapter2

AnEmergingState:SocietyandCulture

OracleBonesinShangLifeTheBronzeAgeTheDevelopmentofAgricultureCraftsTheDujiangyanWeirsTheRiseoftheCityLiterature:BookofSongsandElegiesoftheSouthMusic:BellsandDrumsAstronomyMedicine

Chapter3

TheFoundationsofPhilosophyandSchoolsofThought

THECONTENTIONOFAHUNDREDSCHOOLSOFTHOUGHTConfucius:TeacherforAllAgesTheLegacyandDevelopmentofConfucianismDaoism:LetThingsRunTheirCourseTheMohistSchool:EarthlyAsceticsLegalism:FavoredbyRulersMilitaryStrategists:MastersoftheLawofWarTHECLASHOFSCHOOLSOFTHOUGHT

Chapter4

UnificationundertheQinEmpire

(221206BCE)

RULEOFTHEQINEMPIREQinShiHuangsUnificationoftheCountryCentralizationoftheQinEmpireAReignofTyrannyTHEWONDERSOFTHEQINDYNASTYTheGreatWallQinShiHuangMausoleumTerracottaWarriorsandHorsesTHEFALLOFTHEQINDYNASTYThePeasantUprisingConflictbetweentheStatesofChuandHan

Chapter5

TheRiseandFalloftheHanDynasty

(220BCE280CE)

THERISEOFTHEHANRebuildingbytheEarlyHanDynastyEmperorsWenandJingEmperorWuofHanDECLINEOFTHEWESTERNHANDYNASTYCorruptionintheMidandLateWesternHanTheBriefReignofWangMangREVIVALOFTHEHANCOURTTheFoundingoftheEasternHanDynastyPowerStruggles:CourtWomenandEunuchsTheFalloftheEasternHanDynastyFOREIGNRELATIONSDURINGTHEHANDYNASTYMarriageBringsPeaceBeyondtheGreatWallZhangQiansJourneystotheWesternRegionsTheSilkRoad

Chapter6

Scientific,CulturalandPhilosophicalDevelopmentsundertheHan

SCIENCEANDTECHNOLOGYOFTHEHANDYNASTYTheInventionofPaperTraditionalChineseMedicineAstronomyandMathematicsTHESTATUSOFIDEASINTHEHANDYNASTYTheRiseofDaoismTheSpreadofBuddhisminChinaEvolutionoftheScholarlyClassCULTUREOFTHEHANDYNASTYFirstMajorHistoricalWorksLiteratureandArt

Chapter7

DisturbanceandStability:FromtheThreeKingdomstoaHundredYearsofJinRule

(220420CE)

THETHREEKINGDOMSTheBattleofGuanduTheBattleofRedCliffsEmergenceoftheThreeKingdomsWESTERNANDEASTERNJINBriefUnificationduringtheJinDynastyRebellionoftheEightPrincesTheHundred-YearRuleoftheEasternJin

Chapter8

ThePoliticsandCultureoftheSouthernandNorthernDynasties

(420589)

THESOUTHERNDYNASTIESContentionoftheSixteenKingdomsRuleoftheSong,Qi,Liang,andChenTHENORTHERNWEIDYNASTYRapidRiseoftheNorthernWeiDynastyTheReformsofEmperorXiaowenCrumblingoftheNorthernWeiTheCrushingofBuddhismCULTURALDEVELOPMENTSDURINGTHESIXDYNASTIESLiteratureandArtTheStudyofHistoryandGeographyTheNaturalSciencesNEWPHILOSOPHICALEXPLORATIONSDarkLearningandtheSevenSagesoftheBambooGroveTheFlourishingofBuddhismTheDevelopmentofDaoism

Chapter9

TheSuiDynasty

(581618)

TheFoundingoftheSuiDynastyTheRuleofEmperorWenTheFalloftheSuiDynastyTheGrandCanal

Chapter10

TheGoldenEraoftheTangDynasty

THEFOUNDINGANDGOVERNMENTOFTHETANGDYNASTYTheRiseoftheTangFamilyTheGoldenYearsofZhenguanTheUsurpingEmpressTheGoldenEraofKaiyuanTHETANGEMPIRELIFEINTHETANGWORLDAgricultureTradeandCommerceKeyInventions:WoodblockPrintingandGunpowderMedicineAstronomyTANGCULTUREANDCRAFTSPoetryNovelsCalligraphyPaintingMusicandDanceCrafts

Chapter11

Decline,SeparationandTurbulence:

TheDeclineoftheTangandRuleoftheSong

THEDECLINEOFTHETANGDYNASTYTheAnLushanRebellionEffortstoRevivetheTangEmpireTurbulenceandDeclineASplinteredAge:FiveDynasties,TenKingdomsTheRiseoftheKhitanTHENORTHERNANDSOUTHERNSONGDYNASTIESTheFoundingoftheNorthernSongDynastyReformandStrifeintheMidtoLateNorthernSongTheCollapseoftheSouthernSongDynasty

Chapter12

Co-existingRegimes:TheSong,Liao,Xia,andJin

ConfrontationbetweenSongandLiaoTheRiseandFalloftheWesternXiaDynastyTheRiseoftheJinEmpireConfrontationbetweenSouthernSongandJin

Chapter13

TheEnrichingLegacyoftheTangandSongDynasties

AThrivingEconomyScience,Technology,andCulture

Chapter14

TerritorialExpansionandCulturalFlowerings:

TheYuanDynasty

(12061368)

THEFOUNDINGOFTHEYUANTerritorialExpansionoftheMongolEmpireUnificationWarTheYuanSystemofGovernmentYUANCULTUREANDECONOMYTheCapital,DaduEthnicIntegrationTheEconomyLiteratureandArtofSongandYuan

Chapter15

CentralizedMonarchyoftheMingDynasty

(13681644)

THEFOUNDINGOFTHEMINGTheFalloftheYuanDynastyTheAbsoluteMonarchyoftheMingDynastyTurmoilwithintheMingCourtTHEMINGDYNASTYECONOMYANDFOREIGNPOLICYThrivingEconomyandAdministrationofItsLandMingsForeignPolicyChinasRelationshipwithItsNeighborsMerchantGuildsandBanking

Chapter16

Piracy,WarandRebellion:theDeclineoftheMingandRiseoftheQing

TURBULENCEANDDECLINEOFTHEMINGMingCostalDefenseEarlyColonialAggressionTheTumuCrisisRevivalEortsinLateMingThreeNotoriousAairsofCourtEunuchAbuseofPowerandtheDonglinMovementENDOFTHEMINGDYNASTYWaningMilitaryPowerRebellionoftheDashingKingTheDoomedSouthernMingCourtTheRiseoftheJurchensNurhaci:KhanofHeavensMandateHongTaijiFoundstheQingEmpire

Chapter17

TheQing:FeudalismsFinalBow

(16441911)

CONSOLIDATIONOFTHEQINGEMPIREAnti-QingResistanceZhengChenggongsRecoveryofTaiwanSuppressionoftheThreeFeudatoriesbytheKangxiEmperorTheRecoveryofTaiwanBorderDefenseagainstTsaristRussiaSuppressionoftheDzungarRebellionandTorghutIntegrationSuppressionoftheUyghurRebellionandWarsagainstForeignIntrudersTheDalaiLamaandPanchenLamaTHEFINALFLOWERINGOFCHINESEFEUDALSOCIETYTheGrowingStrengthoftheMonarchyundertheQingDynastyProsperityoftheKangxi,Yongzheng,andQianlongReignsTheRulingCrisisoftheMidtoLateQingDynasty

Chapter18

Learning,PhilosophicalThoughtandCultureundertheMingandQing

TECHNOLOGYANDTHOUGHTSTheReconstructionofBeijingScience,Technology,andtheIntroductionofWesternLearningNeo-ConfucianismANewStageinConfucianismLITERATUREANDARTINTHEMINGDYNASTYVernacularFictionMass-MarketNovelsMingOperaCalligraphyandPaintingQINGCULTUREClassicalGardensGovernmentCulturalProjectsADreamofRedMansionsTheRisingPopularityofNovelsBreakthroughsinCalligraphyandPaintingBeijingOpera

Chapter19

WarsandRebellion:TheOpiumWars,BoxerRebellionandForeignPowers

THEOPIUMWARSChinaandtheWestbeforetheFirstOpiumWarTheDestructionofOpiuminHumenTheFirstOpiumWarTheSecondOpiumWarEmpressDowagerCixisRisetoPowerTheTaipingRebellionTheEndoftheTaipingHeavenlyKingdomWARINTHELATEQINGDYNASTYZuoZongtangsRecoveryofXinjiangTheSino-FrenchWarTheSino-JapaneseWarTheBoxerRebellionandtheAlliedForcesInvasionofChina

Chapter20

WesternInfluences,ReformandDeathoftheQing

TheChallengeofWesternCultureTheSelf-StrengtheningMovementTheRiseofCapitalismIdeasofReformTheHundredDaysReformTheQingCourtsDyingThroesTheRiseoftheRepublicConclusion

Index448

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