內容簡介
內容簡介 深入近代中國,掌握當今中國樣貌的九項關鍵概念《南海》作者比爾.海頓最新力作常見中國網民言:「此生不悔入華夏,來生願在種花家。」……這是什麼意思?▌本書特色☆ 習慣成自然的中國神話概念,打破它!☆ 近代中國的9項關鍵面向:歷史、語言、打造國族與政治技術☆ 平易近人的歷史書寫:今日中共其實與清末保皇派康有為、梁啟超抱持同一個夢想?☆ 大鳴大放的清末民國:重新發掘、解讀「中國」歷史☆ 大受好評!從今日真實場景出發,返回關鍵人物的歷史尋找解答【五個必須】★必須叩問中國如何將自己打造成為「中國」的歷史。★必須知道有人因「辱華」被質問「你是不是中國人?」時,「中國」指的到底是什麼?★必須探尋特定概念如何被歷代中國知識份子「改編」和「鞏固」。★必須了解習近平的「中國夢」對世界有什麼影響。★必須嘗試理解:當一個中國人,究竟背負著什麼樣的「歷史使命」。中國人容易嗎?【兩個全面】★全面瞭解近代中國的創造,才能理解中國領導人的重要講話與中共當局出台的各項政策。★全面從國家、主權、種族、歷史、民族、語言、領土、海權與政治計畫等概念形塑的過程,檢視進行中的「中華民族復興大業」。▌內容介紹資深記者比爾.海頓分析「中國人」所背負的意識形態與歷史遺產,討論各種有關「中國」的概念是如何被發明,並被當今的中國政治所沿用、挪用、演繹並再創造。書中提到許多近代中國重要人物,包括白眉初、李準、康有為、黃遵憲、章炳麟等,這些曾引領風騷的人物,影響並捏塑出近代中國的面貌。這九項關鍵概念,不僅是作者的學術探索旅程,在現實意義上,更關乎到台灣、西藏、新疆、香港等,以及最終──所有被製造出來的「中國人」該如何看待自身、該如何思索國族社會,並盡可能創造自身的命運。當今中國充滿著口號、教條主義、脅迫與焦慮不安,中共領導人習近平生怕無法在自己任內「一統天下」,他的種種政治作為,都透露出亟欲建立自己的獨特歷史定位。然而中華民族的拉鍊隨時都有可能被扯下,神話內部的斷裂,其實正在進行中。本中文書介出自《製造中國: 近代中國如何煉成的九個關鍵詞》麥田出版社出版 "A smart take on modern Chinese nationalism " (Foreign Policy), this provocative account shows that “China”—and its 5,000 years of unified history—is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this dayChina’s current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but “China” as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far more recently by a small group of intellectuals. In this compelling account, Hayton shows how China’s present-day geopolitical problems—the fates of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea—were born in the struggle to create a modern nation-state. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reformers and revolutionaries adopted foreign ideas to “invent’ a new vision of China. By asserting a particular, politicized version of the past the government bolstered its claim to a vast territory stretching from the Pacific to Central Asia. Ranging across history, nationhood, language, and territory, Hayton shows how the Republic’s reworking of its past not only helped it to justify its right to rule a century ago—but continues to motivate and direct policy today."
作者介紹
作者介紹 Bill HaytonBill Hayton is an associate fellow with the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House and a journalist with BBC World News. He is the author of The South China Sea and Vietnam. He lives in Colchester, England.