追寻现代中国

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中文版序原文 I am truly delighted that The Search for Modern China, my attempt to write a broad synthesis of Chinese history across the last four hundred years, is being published in Chinese translation in Taiwan. It was to Taiwan that I first came in autumn 1963, to study some of the Chinese sources on the K'anghsi reign for my Yale University dissertation onTs'ao Yin. In those days, the Ch'ing archives were being held under careful watch in the hills of Wu-feng, not far from T'ai-chung; the Ch'ing a…