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1813年的八卦教起义是由信奉千年末世思想的白莲教不断发动的起义中的一次。《海外中国研究丛书•千年末世之乱：1813年八卦教起义》详细探讨了白莲教的信仰、其内部组织和教派活动。作者描绘了这些通常只是关注日常宗教事务的孤立小教派是如何转变为一场宣称千年王国到来的反叛运动的，以及他们如何竭力挑战现存的政府，宣布一个“无穷富贵”时代的降临，而最终归于失败。
韩书瑞之所以能对这次起义一幕幕地再现，靠的是她利用了四百多被俘反叛者的供词。这些材料以难得的详尽揭示了具体人的个性、宗教信仰以及清朝时期的日常生活。此外，靠这些材料才能首次从参加者的视角描绘出一次中国的反叛。作者使用了新的材料以及精湛的叙事技巧给了我们一个社会史的优秀成果，还第一次全面研究了尚有影响的中国传统的千年末世思想。
在这第一本以明清时期欲文化为研究重点的学术书中，作者认为只有全面探索那个时期有关欲望的种种新观念的情况下，才能就明清小说作为一个特殊叙事文体作出深入地探讨。《千年末世之乱：1813年八卦教起义》将这一重要文体的成熟和发展与那一时期有关欲望日益复杂的话语紧密联系在一起加以研究。书的前三章是有关欲望这一社会文化现象的背景性历史和理论的勾略。后七章则是一系列明清小说具体作品的细读，试图描绘出“欲”到“情”这一在明清小说中极其复杂的发展轨迹。
作者简介
韩书瑞(Susan Naquin)，美国普林斯顿大学东亚系主任、历史系教授。在清史研究方面的成就卓著，她的著作《山东叛乱：1774年的王伦起义》、《北京：庙宇与城市生活》、《千禧年之乱：1813年八卦教起义》等在学术界均有着广泛的影响。
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The Bagua Uprising of 1813 was one of the successive uprisings launched by the White Lotus Sect, which believed in the idea of the end of the millennium. The Overseas China Studies Series - The End of the Millennium: The Bagua Rebellion of 1813 explores in detail the beliefs of the White Lotus religion, its internal organization, and its denominational activities. The author describes how these small, isolated sects, usually concerned with everyday religious matters, transformed into a rebel movement that proclaimed the arrival of a thousand-year kingdom, and how they tried, and failed, to challenge the existing government and proclaim the advent of an era of "infinite wealth."
Han was able to recreate the uprising scene by scene by drawing on the confessions of more than 400 captured rebels. These materials reveal in rare detail individual personalities, religious beliefs and daily life during the Qing Dynasty. In addition, these materials are the first to portray a Chinese rebellion from the perspective of the participants. The author uses new materials and masterful narrative techniques to give us an excellent social history and, for the first time, a comprehensive study of the still influential Chinese tradition of the end times.
In this first academic book focusing on the culture of desire in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the author believes that only by comprehensively exploring the new ideas about desire in that period, can the Ming and Qing novels as a special narrative style be deeply discussed. The End of the Millennium Rebellion: The Baguajiao Uprising of 1813 closely links the maturity and development of this important style to the increasingly complex discourse about desire of the period. The first three chapters of the book are a historical and theoretical overview of the background of desire as a social and cultural phenomenon. The last seven chapters are a series of detailed reading of specific works of Ming and Qing novels, trying to depict the extremely complex development track of "desire" to "emotion" in Ming and Qing novels.
About the author
Susan Naquin is chair of the East Asian Department and professor of History at Princeton University. Her books Shandong Rebellion: Wang Lun's Rebellion of 1774, Beijing: Temples and City Life, and The Millennium Rebellion: The Baguajiao Rebellion of 1813 have been widely influential in academic circles.
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