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发帖数: 23 | 1 黄仁宇一九一八年生于湖南长沙。天津南开大学肄业(一九三六～一九三八).
1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline. New Haven &
London: Yale UniversityPress, 1981. 278 pp. ISBN 0-300-02518-1 《万历十
五年》《万历十五年》，北京：中华书局，1982.5，250页；台北：食货，1985.6（食
货出版，联经总经销，1994），289 页
这是对当代中国人来说具有重要意义的一部经典之作。它的重要在于，这本书提供了一
种对当时的中国人来说，具有颠覆意义的叙述历史的新方式。在此之前，国人的历史写
作，是意识形态的一部分，是政治宣传的一部分。几乎所有的历史书都是一种模式，一
种口吻，一种角度，只提供了一种画面。黄仁宇的这本书，简直是给我们开放了另一个
世界，每一位阅读这本书的大陆人都会震惊，原来历史可以这样写，原来历史是如此的
有趣、复杂、丰富，原来历史人物并不像我们的教科书上讲的那样单调、格式化。从某
种意义上说，这本书就像一道匕首，撕开 |
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发帖数: 23 | 2 Did Mr. Huang visit Nankai in the 1980s or 1990s? |
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发帖数: 152 | 4 haha, i thought so too when saw the title on the top list.
【在 l****g 的大作中提到】
: 黑老子一跳，还以为又曝光了一个WSN呢。
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发帖数: 23 | 7 Even though he was a great scholar, Ray Huang had a hard time in the US.
There were not many students studying history, even few studying Chinese
history. Near the end of 1970s, his contract was terminated by the
university he taught at.
It is fun to read RH's books. Chao Kang has a book on Land and population
in China (Stanford U. Press 1986) was much less fun. In addition to "1587"
and "China A macro history", I also have a book of RH on Ming's taxation.
RH was a recognized scholar of the |
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发帖数: 23 | 8 Huang's books helped to solve some puzzles for me. For the Reform of Wang
Anshi, Huang argues that Wang tried to implement a planned economy in the
Song Dynasty such as having the government rather than the private sector to
provide loans for peasants. No wonder Wang failed.
However, some other puzzles remain. There were various reforms during the
same period as the Reform of Shang Yang, why was Shang Yang successful while
not others? |
