The Decline of the Chinese Empire

Name: The Decline of the Chinese Empire
Author: Wakefield

中华帝国的衰落

by Wakefield (魏斐德)

Status: Completed
Length: 175k Words
Genre: Historical
Audience: Male
Updated: 5y ago
Source: Fanqie

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437Reads

9.1Score

152Shelves

15Chapters

87Listens

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Synopsis

"The Decline of the Chinese Empire" is a modern Chinese history textbook adopted by many universities in the United States. The text is concise and smooth; the content is easy to understand. The manuscript is different from the chronological narrative of traditional general history, and starts from the three groups of farmers, gentry, and merchants that constitute the main structure of traditional society; it analyzes in detail how the Chinese empire established order step by step and became strong; it fell into trouble and established order again. In terms of the historical periodization of modern Chinese history, Wei Feide adopts the views of North American Sinology circles. The narrative content not only includes the history after the Opium War, but also goes back to the late Ming Dynasty, making the work very "family talk".

Reader comments

Modern history is told from a Western perspective, and much of it is the same, with the Taipings being Christians and the shocking phenomenon of hallucinations. Regarding the Westernization Movement, the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894, and the scrawled battles of the Beiyang Navy, I felt that the warships I bought would not be used.
15 likes1y ago
The information is detailed and the analysis is in place.
6 likes2y ago
History is created by the people
6 likes2y ago
Yossi, I learned a lot
4 likes5y ago
Looking at our own history from an outsider's perspective provides a different way of looking at history.
3 likes1y ago
Good-looking, good-looking, good-looking
2 likes1y ago
Five-star praise, a different perspective
2 likes2y ago
It's well written, especially the description of destiny at the end.
1 like1y ago
See the fall of the dynasty
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