从鸦片战争到军阀混战

　　本书以独特的视角，将取自世界各地的大量珍贵历史图片（其中三分之一为第一次披露），编辑成册，全面呈现从鸦片战争到军阀混战动荡巨变的中国百年近代史，期望能帮助历史学家、读者直观地认识、思考这段历史，回顾反思其间的辛亥革命这一开创性事件。1911年的武昌起义是加速清王朝覆灭的关键，促成了亚洲第一个共和国的建立，这一历史事件是如何发生的？是必然，还是偶然？慈禧太后、康有为等保皇派，梁启超等立宪派，孙中山为代表的革命者，袁世凯这类军阀，严复、蔡元培等教育家……对这些历史人物的功过如何认识？这些问题不断在海内外学者中引发激烈的辩论。各地学者对辛亥革命遗产也有不尽相同的解释。抛开派别的分歧，所有中国人都将那段动荡岁月视为“百年忧虑”或“百年屈辱”，其中蕴含的情感至今萦绕在人们心头。作者通过历时一年对全球范围内公共展馆和私人藏品的梳理汇编，用真实的影像重现近一个世纪的“集体记忆”，这些历史的印记可以帮助认识现代的中国。曾协助美国前总统理查德·尼克松为中美关系铺平道路的亨利·基辛格写道，即使最具开放思想的中国国际主义者都认为，中国过去遭受的不公正对待决定了中国如何参与世界事务、如何界定在其中所要扮演的角色。本书通过所收集的影像，为今天与未来的读者塑造1850—1928年间中国日常生活、历史事件与社会巨变的视觉叙事。它提供了一个历史背景，在这里，人们可以反思过去，展望未来。

　　刘香成 is a former foreign correspondent and photojournalist whose postings took him from Beijing to Uos Angeles， New Delhi to Seoul， and to Moscow for the Associated Press. During that time he photographed major world events fromtlic Soviet military occupation of A fghanistan toeivil war in Sri Lanka and China's）urgeoningeconomic reforms.He was also on hand to capture the fall of the USSR： in 1992，IJiu shared a Pulitzer Prize for Spot News and an Overseas Press Club A ward for his covcrage of the Soviet Union's collapse. In1989，Liu was honored with the award of Pictureof the Ycar by the School of Journalism at the Unit-rsity of Missouri in the same year， Liu wasnamed Best Photographer by the Associated Press Mannaging Editors.Liu is the author of the widely acclaimed Photographic documentation China After Mao and Soviet Union： Collapse of an Empire. He is the editor of China. Portrait of a Country， which has been published in six languages The book was selected by Britain's Sunday rimes as the Best Pic-turc Book 2008.In 2010，liu co-authored with Karen Smith Shanghai： A Uistory in Photographs， 1842-Today. In 2004. Paris Photo named Liu as one of thehundrcd most influential people in contemporarypho to graphy.Liu graduatcd from Ilunter College， City Lniversity of Neu Vork in 1975.He lives and Works in Beijing.