A renowned historian captures a critical moment in Chinese history
Zhang Dai is recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of China??s Ming dynasty. When he was born into a wealthy family in 1597, the Ming dynasty had been in place for 229 years. Zhang??s early life was marked by the expansive sense of progress that permeated Ming culture: the flouris...
A renowned historian captures a critical moment in Chinese history
Zhang Dai is recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of China??s Ming dynasty. When he was born into a wealthy family in 1597, the Ming dynasty had been in place for 229 years. Zhang??s early life was marked by the expansive sense of progress that permeated Ming culture: the flourishing of reformist schools of Buddhism; wide-scale philanthropy; the education of women; a celebration of the visual arts, writing, and music; intellectual pursuit of medicine and science??this was truly a time of cultural creativity and renaissance in China.
When the Ming dynasty was overthrown in the Manchu invasion of 1644, Zhang Dai??s family lost their fortune and their way of life. Zhang Dai fled to the countryside, where, as a writer of tremendous skill, acuity, and passion, he spent his final forty years recounting his previous life as a way of leaving a legacy to his children and rebuilding a spirit shattered by the violent upheaval he had witnessed.
Celebrated China scholar Jonathan Spence has pored over Zhang Dai??s extraordinary documents and vividly brings to life seventeenth-century China. This absorbing book illuminates a culture??s transformation and reveals how China??s history affects its place in the world today.
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史景迁 作者
Marcel·不廢弦歌
台灣時報出版有限公司2009版
白悦悦婆婆
广西师范大学出版社2010版
0 有用 蓝桥春雪 2011-03-13 10:41:13
只当本自传看看。
2 有用 七星瓢虫 2017-02-18 11:38:28
张岱生平，家世，作品的翻译和简单内容归类，各种鸡毛蒜皮而谈不上史识。作者另一本书treason by the book 也有类似特点。搜集材料很广，翻译之后综合成故事的能力很强，而通篇只见史实和段子，不记得有何洞见。
2 有用 陆佳 2019-03-12 21:57:46
英文文字一流。
0 有用 容杏红 2021-02-09 15:54:18
有點散亂 嚼碎虛空辨渣滓 // 徬徨了就來讀一讀古人的徬徨與寄託
1 有用 PiuPiu 2015-09-16 21:22:25
歪果仁的学术style 视角独特
0 有用 有方騅馬 2023-11-15 19:12:41 浙江
假装读过
0 有用 郭九村 2022-02-23 01:34:11
张岱写庙会看灯笼那段看哭了。我回忆里中国总是灰黄色的，充满焦虑和苦难的，不会也不在意真正的民众文化的。想起多年前在埃菲尔铁塔脚下过法国国庆节，烟花、舞蹈、亲吻、大笑，我呆呆的看着这些个人的快乐。我想起吞噬我的宏大叙事，那些被按着头逼出来的骄傲和感恩，整个人死掉了一半。我记得那天妈妈一直说我，不要扫兴，不要扫兴，你看大家都那么开心…
0 有用 容杏红 2021-02-09 15:54:18
有點散亂 嚼碎虛空辨渣滓 // 徬徨了就來讀一讀古人的徬徨與寄託
0 有用 齐冠雄 2020-10-25 13:39:36
繁杂之极 毫无意义 不伦不类 真心不如brook
2 有用 陆佳 2019-03-12 21:57:46
英文文字一流。