现行教科书及各种读物中关于19世纪中国的介绍,大约集中于所谓的"三大高潮""八大事件"模式,或强调19世纪中国的苦难,进行爱国主义的励志教育.这些内容固然重要,但某种程度上却遮蔽了19世纪真实的历史状况.而传统史料出于政治、情感等方面因素,同样回避了很多重要内容.在此情况下,借助他者的眼睛,即异域史料,我们可以看到很多在教科书以及传统中文史料中所看不到的内容."圆明园劫难记忆译丛"就给我们提供了这样一个可以看清自己的"他者的眼睛".通过这套丛书,我们可以看到19世纪中国在知识上的欠缺、观念上的陈旧、国家能力的衰弱、社会经济的落后等方方面面.由此,我们可以更加深入理解为什么中华民族会遭受那么多的劫难,中国与国际接轨、接受新观念新事物是多么重要.%Most current textbooks and readings about the 19thcentury China either follow the pat-tern of the so-called"three climaxes"and"eight big events"or emphasize the suffering of the19th century China to inspire patriotism. All of those topics are important, but they have obscured the true historical conditions of the 19th century. Out of political and emotional considerations, traditional his-torical materials also avoided many important topics. Given the circumstances, we can find, through the eyes of others or foreign historical materials, a lot of things that do not exist in our textbooks and traditional Chinese historical materials."Memories of Yuanmingyuan (Old Summer Palace) Catastrophe Translation Series"is just such a set of books that can offer us the"eyes of others"to help us see our real ourselves. Through the books, we can find out what China was like in the 19th century in almost every aspect: deficient knowledge, outdated concepts, weakening national power, backward social economy, etc. These discoveries can help us better understand why China went through so much suffering and how important it is for China to connect with the world and be open to new ideas.
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