The Dragon and the Foreign Devils: China and the World, 1100 BC to the Present (Hardcover)
by Harry G. Gelber (Author)
# Hardcover: 512 pages
# Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (19 Mar 2007)
# Language English
# ISBN-10: 0747577951
# ISBN-13: 978-0747577959
# Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.8 inches
£25.00
$34.95
有关书评
The Dragon and the Foreign Devils is an informed and extremely readable introduction to 3,000 years of Chinese history with an emphasis on China's slowly evolving relations with the outside world.
Separated from India and the Middle East by fortress mountain chains, China took wing as a self-contained empire that, while periodically failing to defend itself against predatory northern hordes, engineered an elaborate tribute system to bring more immediately surrounding peoples within its civilised pale.
Not until the expansion of a strong Russian state in the 17th century were the Chinese forced to concede equal status to another nation. Yet despite the erosion of Chinese sovereignty by Western powers in the 19th century, the basic tenor of China's foreign policy remains intact: diplomacy, not war, is the preferred means of dealing with "barbarian" others.
As a superpower, Gelber suggests, China is more likely to strive for harmony than aggressive dominance. He might have added that a thousand years ago the Song dynasty achieved a thriving market economy that left the natural environment substantially unscathed.
哈里·盖尔伯（Ｈａｒｒｙ Ｇ Ｇｅｌｂｅｒ）的《龙与洋鬼子》（Ｔｈｅ Ｄｒａｇｏｎ ａｎｄ ｔｈｅ Ｆｏｒｅｉｇｎ Ｄｅｖｉｌｓ），这本书对中国历史进行了可读性较强的介绍，它分析了中国与外部世界的缓慢演化的关系：直到俄国在１７世纪开始扩张，“天朝上国”才被迫承认他国的对等地位。然而，尽管中国的主权在１９世纪遭受西方势力的侵蚀，中国外交政策的基本主旨仍保持不变：外交，而不是战争，才是同“蛮夷”打交道的首选方式。
盖尔伯指出，作为一个超级大国，中国更可能争取和谐共处，而不是咄咄逼人的统治地位。他还补充说明，１０００年前宋朝的成功，实现了繁荣的市场经济，但并未对自然环境造成任何破坏。
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The Dragon and the Foreign Devils: China and the World, 1100 BC to the Present (Hardcover)
by Harry G. Gelber (Author)
# Hardcover: 512 pages
# Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (19 Mar 2007)
# Language English
# ISBN-10: 0747577951
# ISBN-13: 978-0747577959
# Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.8 inches
£25.00
$34.95
有关书评
The Dragon and the Foreign Devils is an informed and extremely readable introduction to 3,000 years of Chinese history with an emphasis on China's slowly evolving relations with the outside world.
Separated from India and the Middle East by fortress mountain chains, China took wing as a self-contained empire that, while periodically failing to defend itself against predatory northern hordes, engineered an elaborate tribute system to bring more immediately surrounding peoples within its civilised pale.
Not until the expansion of a strong Russian state in the 17th century were the Chinese forced to concede equal status to another nation. Yet despite the erosion of Chinese sovereignty by Western powers in the 19th century, the basic tenor of China's foreign policy remains intact: diplomacy, not war, is the preferred means of dealing with "barbarian" others.
As a superpower, Gelber suggests, China is more likely to strive for harmony than aggressive dominance. He might have added that a thousand years ago the Song dynasty achieved a thriving market economy that left the natural environment substantially unscathed.
哈里·盖尔伯（Ｈａｒｒｙ Ｇ Ｇｅｌｂｅｒ）的《龙与洋鬼子》（Ｔｈｅ Ｄｒａｇｏｎ ａｎｄ ｔｈｅ Ｆｏｒｅｉｇｎ Ｄｅｖｉｌｓ），这本书对中国历史进行了可读性较强的介绍，它分析了中国与外部世界的缓慢演化的关系：直到俄国在１７世纪开始扩张，“天朝上国”才被迫承认他国的对等地位。然而，尽管中国的主权在１９世纪遭受西方势力的侵蚀，中国外交政策的基本主旨仍保持不变：外交，而不是战争，才是同“蛮夷”打交道的首选方式。
盖尔伯指出，作为一个超级大国，中国更可能争取和谐共处，而不是咄咄逼人的统治地位。他还补充说明，１０００年前宋朝的成功，实现了繁荣的市场经济，但并未对自然环境造成任何破坏。
关于中国过去现在未来的三本书http://www.loongfoong.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=209
or
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article2442680.ece
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