
Klaus Mühlhahn is Professor of Modern China Studies and President of Zeppelin University. His Criminal Justice in China won the John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History.
by Klaus Mühlhahn
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A panoramic survey of China’s rise and resilience through war and rebellion, disease and famine, that rewrites China’s history for a new generation.It is tempting to attribute China’s recent ascendance to changes in political leadership and economic policy. Making China Modern teaches otherwise. Moving beyond the standard framework of Cold War competition and national resurgence, Klaus Mühlhahn situates twenty-first-century China in the nation’s long history of creative adaptation.In the mid-eighteenth century, when the Qing Empire reached the height of its power, China dominated a third of the world’s population and managed its largest economy. But as the Opium Wars threatened the nation’s sovereignty from without and the Taiping Rebellion ripped apart its social fabric from within, China found itself verging on free fall. A network of family relations, economic interdependence, institutional innovation, and structures of governance allowed citizens to regain their footing in a convulsing world. In China’s drive to reclaim regional centrality, its leaders looked outward as well as inward, at industrial developments and international markets offering new ways to thrive.This dynamic legacy of overcoming adversity and weakness is apparent today in China’s triumphs—but also in its most worrisome trends. Telling a story of crisis and recovery, Making China Modern explores the versatility and resourcefulness that matters most to China’s survival, and to its future possibilities.
In a groundbreaking work, Klaus MUhlhahn offers a comprehensive examination of the criminal justice system in modern China, an institution deeply rooted in politics, society, and culture.In late imperial China, flogging, tattooing, torture, and servitude were routine punishments. Sentences, including executions, were generally carried out in public. After 1905, in a drive to build a strong state and curtail pressure from the West, Chinese officials initiated major legal reforms. Physical punishments were replaced by fines and imprisonment. Capital punishment, though removed from the public sphere, remained in force for the worst crimes. Trials no longer relied on confessions obtained through torture but were instead held in open court and based on evidence. Prison reform became the centerpiece of an ambitious social-improvement program.After 1949, the Chinese communists developed their own definitions of criminality and new forms of punishment. People's tribunals were convened before large crowds, which often participated in the proceedings. At the center of the socialist system was "reform through labor," and thousands of camps administered prison sentences. Eventually, the communist leadership used the camps to detain anyone who offended against the new society, and the "crime" of counterrevolution was born.MUhlhahn reveals the broad contours of criminal justice from late imperial China to the Deng reform era and details the underlying values, successes and failures, and ultimate human costs of the system. Based on unprecedented research in Chinese archives and incorporating prisoner testimonies, witness reports, and interviews, this book is essential reading for understanding modern China.
by Klaus Mühlhahn
Die 1897 vom Deutschen Reich in einem Handstreich besetzte Kolonie Kiautschou in China entwickelte sich zu einem Ort des Kontaktes, des Zusammenstoßes und des erzwungenen Zusammenlebens zwischen sozialen Gruppen zweier verschiedener Gesellschaften. Die komplexen Interaktionen zwischen verschiedenen deutschen und chinesischen sozialen Gruppen in Kiautschou sind Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit. Das vorliegende Buch ist die erste systematische Studie zur Kolonie Kiautschou in deutscher Sprache.
In einzigartiger Weise bewegt sich die Geschichte der Volksrepublik China in einem Spannungsfeld zwischen Kommunismus, Kapitalismus und Tradition. Dabei hat das Land einen rasanten Aufstieg vom kommunistischen Entwicklungsland zur einer der gr��ten globalen Wirtschaftsm�chte durchlaufen. Das Lehrbuch bietet einen anschaulichen, leicht verst�ndlichen �berblick �ber die wechselhafte Geschichte Chinas von 1949 bis zur Gegenwart, f�hrt in die Forschungsdebatten zur Innen- und Au�enpolitik sowie zur Entwicklung von Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Kultur ein und enth�lt eine ausf�hrliche Bibliographie.
by Klaus Mühlhahn
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by Klaus Mühlhahn
「這本富涵思想性、鞭辟入裡的著作,是費正清、史景遷所撰歷史名著當之無愧的後繼者,未來,凡是攻讀中國現代史的學生和鑽研中國現代史的學者,必定會讀這本書。」──柯偉林(William C. Kirby),美國哈佛大學費正清中國研究中心前所長「當今之世,我們都必須接受中國的巨大影響力存在於眾多領域這個事實。我們得學著和現在這個樣子的中國並存,而非和我們所希望的中國並存。因此,中國之外的每個人都需要研究中國,需要投注精力在相關的專業知識和學術知識上。我認為,無可替代的上佳之策仍是盡可能與中國協力前行,同時努力增進我們對中國內部動態、情況的理解。在全球化的世界裡,彼此的命運緊繫相連,密不可分。我相信,對於隔著窄窄的臺灣海峽與中國大陸相望的臺灣來說,更是如此。」──余凱思(Klaus Mühlhahn),本書作者本書是一部中國近現代通史,主軸在追索中國現代化之路,從清帝國入主中原的一六四四年開始講起,一路談到習近平上臺執政後的二〇一七年,時間跨度將近四百年。被譽為是繼徐中約《中國近代史》、史景遷《追尋現代中國》,睽違多年之後的又一部重量級中國近現代通史。二十一世紀最引人矚目的現象級現象,或許莫過於「中國崛起」。該如何理解中國崛起(威脅)這個迫切的當代議題?本書提供了一個全面且即時的歷史視角。今日許多人將中國崛起看成是這四十年的事,始於一九七八年鄧小平掌權,但歷史學家很清楚,中國崛起所花的時間遠超過四十年。本書作者余凱思為專治中國近現代史的漢學家,他跳脫中共民族復興敘事和中華民國史觀,以局外人的客觀眼光,對中國崛起進行長時段的考察。從清帝國到習近平這段中國歷史,是一個龐然大物,內容複雜。為免讀者迷失在改革與革命、民亂與內戰、帝國侵略與軍閥割據的細微末節裡,作者馭繁為簡,聚焦於數百年來各政權在制度方面的缺失和重建,嘗試回答中國近現代史的一個核心問題:即,中國是如何轉型成為一個現代化的民族國家;亦即,如何從崩潰的帝國(滿清)、效能不彰的共和國(民國時期)、停滯又瘋狂的毛主義中國,變成現在的經濟巨人和超級強權。作者特別留意經濟制度,著墨與洞見頗多,為其他中國通史類著作所少見;並盡可能將中國的發展置於國際和全球脈絡裡觀察,視野相對開闊,為本書另一特色。全書結構井然,分成四部,每一部三章。各部開頭均有一篇全景式綜論,勾勒一個時代整體的輪廓。上冊包含第一部、第二部(從清帝國到中華民國在中國的統治結束),下冊包含第三部、第四部(從中共建國到習近平上臺)。
by Klaus Mühlhahn
「這本富涵思想性、鞭辟入裡的著作,是費正清、史景遷所撰歷史名著當之無愧的後繼者,未來,凡是攻讀中國現代史的學生和鑽研中國現代史的學者,必定會讀這本書。」──柯偉林(William C. Kirby),美國哈佛大學費正清中國研究中心前所長「當今之世,我們都必須接受中國的巨大影響力存在於眾多領域這個事實。我們得學著和現在這個樣子的中國並存,而非和我們所希望的中國並存。因此,中國之外的每個人都需要研究中國,需要投注精力在相關的專業知識和學術知識上。我認為,無可替代的上佳之策仍是盡可能與中國協力前行,同時努力增進我們對中國內部動態、情況的理解。在全球化的世界裡,彼此的命運緊繫相連,密不可分。我相信,對於隔著窄窄的臺灣海峽與中國大陸相望的臺灣來說,更是如此。」──余凱思(Klaus Mühlhahn),本書作者本書是一部中國近現代通史,主軸在追索中國現代化之路,從清帝國入主中原的一六四四年開始講起,一路談到習近平上臺執政後的二〇一七年,時間跨度將近四百年。被譽為是繼徐中約《中國近代史》、史景遷《追尋現代中國》,睽違多年之後的又一部重量級中國近現代通史。二十一世紀最引人矚目的現象級現象,或許莫過於「中國崛起」。該如何理解中國崛起(威脅)這個迫切的當代議題?本書提供了一個全面且即時的歷史視角。今日許多人將中國崛起看成是這四十年的事,始於一九七八年鄧小平掌權,但歷史學家很清楚,中國崛起所花的時間遠超過四十年。本書作者余凱思為專治中國近現代史的漢學家,他跳脫中共民族復興敘事和中華民國史觀,以局外人的客觀眼光,對中國崛起進行長時段的考察。從清帝國到習近平這段中國歷史,是一個龐然大物,內容複雜。為免讀者迷失在改革與革命、民亂與內戰、帝國侵略與軍閥割據的細微末節裡,作者馭繁為簡,聚焦於數百年來各政權在制度方面的缺失和重建,嘗試回答中國近現代史的一個核心問題:即,中國是如何轉型成為一個現代化的民族國家;亦即,如何從崩潰的帝國(滿清)、效能不彰的共和國(民國時期)、停滯又瘋狂的毛主義中國,變成現在的經濟巨人和超級強權。作者特別留意經濟制度,著墨與洞見頗多,為其他中國通史類著作所少見;並盡可能將中國的發展置於國際和全球脈絡裡觀察,視野相對開闊,為本書另一特色。全書結構井然,分成四部,每一部三章。各部開頭均有一篇全景式綜論,勾勒一個時代整體的輪廓。上冊包含第一部、第二部(從清帝國到中華民國在中國的統治結束),下冊包含第三部、第四部(從中共建國到習近平上臺)。