2013年2月4日 星期一

China: A New History/ "China Bound: A Fifty-year Memoir"by John Fairbank. 費正清對華回憶錄




《費正清論中國.中國新史》台北: 正中書局出版
副标题: 中國新史
原作名: China: A New History
作者: 費正清 / 戈德曼
译者: 薛絢
出版社: 正中書局
出版年: 200?
Cover: China in PAPERBACK

China

A New History

Second Enlarged Edition




640 pages
6-3/8 x 9-1/4 inches
60 halftones, 25 maps, 6 tables


Manages to tell its sprawling, turbulent, 4,000-year story in a single volume without either losing clarity or oversimplifying its subject...Rich and fascinating.—Arnold R. Isaacs, San Francisco Chronicle
Will serve for decades to come as a standard reference and textbook.—Robert L. Worden, Washington Post Book World

 John King Fairbank was the West’s doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. It remains a masterwork without parallel. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date, covering reforms in the post-Mao period through the early years of the twenty-first century, including the leadership of Hu Jintao. She also provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come.


費正清對華回憶錄
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作者: 費正清
譯者: 陸惠勒/ 陳祖懷/ 陳維益/ 宋瑜
出版社: 知識出版社·上海
出版年: 1991年5月
頁數: 561頁
定價: 16.00元
ISBN: 9787501554621


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《想一個人生活的小螞蟻(美繪本)》為世界幼兒經典故事集5歲卷——想一個人生活的小螞蟻。故事包括:不願當狐狸的小狐狸、布娃娃、聰明的男孩和愚蠢的妖怪、關在籠子裡的小星星、國王和點金術、快樂的拉斯摩爾、捧著空花盆的孩子、三色魚、收集智慧的烏龜、兔皮帽子、王子長了雙驢耳朵、想一個人生活的小螞蟻等。
作者簡介 · · · · · ·
費正清是哈佛大學終身教授,著名歷史學家,美國最負盛名的中國問題觀察家,美國中國近現代史研究領域的泰斗,“頭號中國通”,哈佛東亞研究中心創始人。生前歷任美國遠東協會副主席、亞洲協會主席、歷史學會主席、東亞研究理事會主席等重要職務,還曾是美國政府僱員、社會活動家、政策顧問。
費正清致力於中國問題研究長達50年,從他進入牛津直到他1991年去世,他的著作絕大部分都是論述中國問題的。在半個多世紀裡,費正清以自己獨特的視角審視、考察中國,他的研究、著作和主要觀點代表了美國主流社會的看法,不僅影響了幾代美國漢學家和西方的中國學界,而且直接或間接地影響了美國政界和公眾對中國的態度、看法以及美國對華政策的製定,當今美國諸多有影響的中國問題專家皆出自其門下。


"China Bound: A Fifty-year Memoir"

by John Fairbank.

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The Book Speaks for Itself: "For twenty years I also had tried to meet and know everyone on all sides of the China field. It was like virtuously accumulating kerosene and kindling against the winter cold only to find they could be used by arsonists."
A Little about the Book: Long the leading western expert on China, the "Old China Hand of Old China Hands," Fairbank published this memoir in 1982. The book deals not only with his experience with China, but with his experience with the United States of America -- specifically in the form of "the McCarthy Period."
Fairbank was from South Dakota, Sioux Falls, and proud of it. He went there to high school for two years before transferring to prep school in the East. Two years at University of Wisconsin, two at Harvard, then two plus at Oxford for a D. Phil. It was at Oxford, pursuing a thesis about the British empire's China operation, he learned that Qing dynasty archives were being opened on his period of interest, so he went to Beijing where he studied at Tsinghua University under Tsiang Tingfu, a prominent historian. He returned to take up a teaching position at Harvard one year before Japanese militarists invaded China and five years before they attacked Pearl Harbor.
His war service with the OSS and the Office of War Information brought him back to China and Chongqing, where, like most foreigners, he sensed that Guomindang corruption was insurmountable and that Chiang Kai-shek would lose. After the war, as "the McCarthy Period" gained steam, he was briefly accused of being "soft" on Communism, particularly in connection with hearings before a committee headed by Senator Pat McCarran, a Nevadan trying to outdo McCarthy. As he shows in this memoir, he weathered this storm with the help of Harvard University.
He founded a center there which was later named in his honor. He also launched, with Denis Twitchett of Cambridge University, the monumental Cambridge History of China, now about 15 volumes. He also published this memoir, which is still worth reading for any westerner with an interest in China.
A unique figure, is he not?

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