近代史家杨国强教授最新力作。他以隽永的文笔带领读者走入20世纪初年的历史场景,重现晚清末期至民国初年这一过渡时代的思想、政治与社会:数千年来的历史中国在层层分解中走向支离破碎;时人以变应变、各自恢张的新法和西法在现实中国却一败涂地。这期间,科举停置、变法立宪、辛亥鼎革及新文化运动等重大议题次第登场,以前所未有的广泛程度造就了一种“速成的现代化”。作者透过这一段历史的矛盾、错杂、人物之多变和世事的纷乱,寻究这种激变、剧变挟前所未有的烈度和深度造成断裂、脱节、摧折乃至四分五裂的由来、内涵和结果。
作者简介
上海华东师范大学思勉人文高等研究院教授。主要研究领域为中国近代史,尤其侧重于晚清知识分子与中国近现代社会变迁史的研究。
代表作品有《晚清的士人与世相》《义理与事功之间的徊徨》《脉延的人文》《衰世与西法:晚清中国的旧邦新命和社会脱榫》等。
Modern historian Professor Yang Guoqiang's latest masterpiece. With meaningful prose, he leads the reader into the historical scene of the early 20th century, reproducing the ideology, politics and society of the transitional era from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China: the history of China for thousands of years is fragmented in layers of decomposition; The new law and the Western law, which are adapted to the changes of The Times, have failed in reality in China. During this period, major issues such as the suspension of imperial examinations, constitutional reform, the Revolution of 1911 and the New Culture Movement appeared one after another, creating a "rapid modernization" to an unprecedented extent. The author explores the origin, connotation and result of the unprecedented intensity and depth of this kind of radical change and upheaval, which caused rupture, disconnection, destruction and even fragmentation through the contradictions, miscellaneous, changing characters and chaos of the world.
About the author
Professor, Simian Institute for Advanced Humanities, East China Normal University, Shanghai. His main research field is modern Chinese history, with particular emphasis on the intellectuals of the late Qing Dynasty and the history of modern Chinese social change.
His representative works include "Scholars and the World in Late Qing Dynasty", "Wandering between Righteousness and Deeds", "Culture with Extended pulse", "Declining World and Western Law: The Old State's New Destiny and the Social Disunity in Late Qing China" and so on.