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祖籍中国湖南长沙，后入美国国籍，著名历史学家。
生平
黄仁宇一九一八年生于湖南长沙。天津南开大学肄业(一九三六～一九三八)，抗战期间及战后，曾担任国军下级军官十年；自成都中央军官校毕业后(一九四零)，任陆军第十四师排长及代理连长。一九四三年加入驻印军，任新一军上尉参谋。一九四四年五月曾在缅甸密支那负伤，受颁陆海空军一等奖章。抗战结束，任第三方面及东北保安司令长官司令部少校参谋。一九四六年参加全国考试后，获保送入美国陆军参谋大学；毕业(一九四七)后曾任国防部参谋。一九五零年以中国驻日代表团少校团员的身份退伍。再度赴美国，于密歇根大学攻读历史，获博士学位（一九六四）。曾在南伊利诺大学任教，一九六八～一九八零年任纽约州立大学NewPaltz分校教授，又曾任哥伦比亚大学访问副教授及哈佛大学东亚研究所研究员。2000年1月8日病逝于纽约上州的医院中，享年82岁。
学术
黄仁宇先生是史学界的异数，致学于哈佛学派和剑桥学派之间。他的“将宏观及放宽视野这一观念导引到中国历史研究里去”从而高瞻远瞩地考察中国历史的“大历史” 观，在史学界影响深远。他的作品在不失史家谨严之基本原则下，同时又能让大众愿意去接受，使得了解历史不再被识为畏途、不再是几个历史学家斋中之物。按现代大史家钱穆先生之不知一国之史则不配作一国之国民以观之，则黄仁宇先生之欲树国民历史性格功不可没。从历史观点和著作风格来看，他继承了钱穆先生的特点：作一个真正的平民学者。
主要著作
《十六世纪明代之财政与税收》(英文版1974/中文版三联2001)
《万历十五年》(英文版1981/中文版中华书局1982/三联1997)
《放宽历史的视界》(1988/三联书店2001)
《中国大历史》(英文1988/中文版三联1997)
《赫逊河畔谈中国历史》(1989/中文版三联1992)
《地北天南叙古今》(1991/三联2001)
《资本主义与二十一世纪》(1991/三联1997)
《从大历史的角度读蒋介石日记》(1993)
《近代中国的历程》(1994)
《关系千万重》(1998/三联2001)
《黄河青山：黄仁宇回忆录》(台湾联经出版公司2001)
曾参与《明代名人传》及《剑桥中国史》的编写。
黄先生的《万历十五年》一书受到广泛好评。《赫逊河畔谈中国历史》中《孔子与孟子》一文入选高中语文课本。
评价
黄仁宇（1918年——2000年）似乎注定了是一个充满传奇色彩的人：他自十四、五岁起就开始向当地报纸投稿，写作热忱自此从未间断，当时的《湖南日报》副刊，连续登载他写的世界名人传记，每篇都有他自己手描的人物画像；18岁考上天津南开大学；抗战开始，他投笔从戎；战后负笈美国，以34岁的“高龄 ”从大学三年级读起，先念新闻系，后转至历史系，1954年大学毕业，其后又在该校继续上研究所，分别于1957年和1964年获得硕士和博士学位；因多年没有新著问世，在62岁时被纽约州立大学纽普兹分校从正教授的职位上解聘。具有戏剧性效果的是，在他被解聘后的第二年，他的屡屡碰壁的《万历十五年》由耶鲁大学出版社印行，并由当时美国名作家厄卜代克（John Updike）在New Yorker杂志撰写书评推荐，1982和1983年该书获得美国国家书卷奖（American BookAwards）历史类好书两次提名。翌年《万历十五年》中文版在北京出版……从此黄仁宇的著作一部接一部地出版，几乎每本都受到热烈追捧，作品普遍受到注目，从早期的英文论著，到后期的中文论著，都有不少学者撰写书评评介，以致一时"黄书走红"，有人开始筹办"黄学研究会"，并申请创办《黄学研究》学术丛刊。难怪有人感叹在二十世纪最后十余年间，一名华裔历史学家、美国的退休教授，竟成为史学界在中国大陆影响最大、名声最著的一人，也真算是一个"异数"。
而黄仁宇的死，也同样具有传奇色彩——2000年1月8日他在看电影时心脏病发辞世，而在去电影院的路上，他和夫人谈话的主题就是身后事。黄仁宇含笑对夫人格尔说：“老年人身上有这么多的病痛，最好是抛弃躯壳，离开尘世。”
众所周知，黄仁宇的读者群几乎涵盖各类职业，尤以受过高等教育的非历史专业者为主。然而有趣的是，有人也不买他的账，甚至说黄仁宇“是历史学界的琼瑶 ””正如耿立群先生在《黄仁宇研究资料目录》一文指出的：黄仁宇在学术界却是毁誉参半，褒贬互见，未能获得一致的肯定，历史学者或汉学家常质疑其半路出家，学术著作不够严谨；骤然处理数百年、上千年的大历史架构，总让历史学者觉得过于冒险，将历史解释简单化。
在此，编者将海峡两岸学界内外评论黄仁宇先生的一些言论整理出来，让读者能多侧面、多层次地去了解他。
今日在世的历史学家，大概没有一个人在进入学院大墙前积累有那样深厚的底层经历，也没有一个人能援引这些经历为资源，在大墙内别开生面，创获那样多而且独特的学术成果。
他（指黄仁宇）是在中国出了名的历史学家当中，唯一一个进大学以前有过漫长的，非学院生涯、底层生涯的人士。而在进了大学以后，他没有把进大学以前的记忆作为包袱，而是作为财富，点石成金，他的《我的大历史观》，他的《中国主要问题如何实现在数字化上的管理》等等，和他抗战的时候做过步兵参谋，在云南那种瘴气密布的丛林里作战，亲眼见中国的西部是如何的荒僻，如何的落后，和北京、上海这些沿海孤岛的现代化据点差距有多大的这些经历都有关系。后来他把这些经历带到了他的剑桥生涯、耶鲁生涯、哈佛生涯、点石成金，他才能写出《万历十五年》、《赫逊河畔谈历史》、《我的大历史观》以及这本刚刚出版的《黄河青山》。
——朱学勤
那部被人很称赞，至今在亚马逊网上书店还列为普通读者评定为"五星级"的黄仁宇《万历十五年》，其实英文名字就叫"1587A Year of No Significance"，意思是"1587年，一个没有重要意义的年头"，尽管我对这部书另有看法，但是这个名称中寄寓的一种历史观念，我却很赞成。
——葛兆光《续思想史的写法》
在史学家们喋喋不休争议这算不算学术著作的时候，读者却作了自己的选择，而且不是文化层次低的，是作家。如果对历史有兴趣的文化精英都不垂青国内的史学著作，那这些著作又给谁看?
“黄仁宇现象”实际上是对史学界的警示，学术研究应该走出狭小天地，从面向上层和少数精英到面向非专业化的读者，实现为社会服务功能的转化。
——刘志琴《黄仁宇现象》
"大历史"观的提出者、前不久刚刚去世的黄仁宇先生开创了一种新型的历史随笔，用清新俊朗的文字把谨严的学识和博通的史观熔于一炉，遂使学术著作顿成大众的精神美食。黄先生开篇说："万历十五年实为平平淡淡的一年。"惟其如此，才不是业余爱好者专注于"大事"的猎奇眼光，方能透过看似平静的历史海面，探询传统文化的大陆架如何突降为海床，辨析历史劫波如何起于青萍之末。
——庄周《齐人物论》
正因为有这种积极的态度，所以，尽管作者的思索冷峻，叙述残酷的历史事件也不动声色，但他的基本观点是乐观的。不过，他的乐观，是历史学家的乐观，不是文人的乐观。文人看历史，往往滑入渔樵闲话：“古今多少事，都入笑谈中。”今日的文艺娱乐作品，以“笑谈”历史为尚，正是文人的历史观与消费时代的嫁接。黄仁宇先生写历史用文学笔墨，但他仍是严肃的谈历史。
最值得深思的，是作者纯粹以“私人学者”的身份鸟瞰历史，不是在为某个团体“做项目”。他当然有时代的眼光，有所为而发；他也不写通史，只用显微镜分析历史的剖面，有机地融合了正史和野史，读黄先生的书，我再次确信：在学术领域，个人的声音并不微弱！
——卫建民 《读〈关系千万重〉》
常言道：“他山之石，可以攻玉”，黄氏在美国历史学界一直郁郁不得志，其代表作《万历十五年》出版时还颇费周折，以至他在晚年的《回忆录》中还对此事愤愤不平，可谁曾想到，正是这本书在祖国大陆烧起了一片“野火”。
很显然，黄氏作品之所以能迅速风靡大陆读书界，而且二十几年来长盛不衰，究其原因，与其文笔风格有密切关系。……他开创了一种新型的历史随笔，用清新俊朗的文字把谨严的学识和博通的史观熔于一炉，遂使学术著作顿成大众的精神美食。有人说，黄仁宇的文笔有一种“卡夫卡式的魔力”，这种魔力表现为叙事时特有的冷静、克制和精确。
——邝海炎 《史学的“下里巴人曲线”——从黄仁宇到易中天》
黄先生的著述，以《万历十五年》成就最大。该书打破了学术与通俗的分界，以生动之笔演绎深刻之理，字里行间充满了微言大义，以超然独到的眼光，典雅晓畅的手笔，由小见大，为中国历史的研究和写作开辟了一块新天地。……黄先生的史学成就，不在于对具体史实的考订，也不在于他所倡导的“大历史观”有多大的效力，而在于他对中国史实、甚至是司空见惯的史实所做的深刻、新颖的剖析和解释。黄先生是当代中国学者中，罕见的具有见微知著、融会贯通的驾驭史料能力的 “通史”之才。他对中国的历史进程所做的独到思考，已经影响了并将继续影响许多中国学人。
——方舟子 《悼念黄仁宇先生》
（黄仁宇的）书的好处之一是给人一种“历史切身感”。这该是史书独具的魅力吧，如果抽掉具体的、感性的东西，历史将变成可疑的概念和符号，而人们之所以读史，可不是为了听一堆教条。
——贺兆田（社科院文学所）
考察黄仁宇的治史方法，不难发现，“从技术的角度看历史，而不是从道德的角度检讨历史”，这一点迥异于以儒家传统为中心的正史观。而重归纳、重综合、试图从长时段看历史的研究风格也不同于美国汉学界主流的“显微镜”眼光，倒是深得法国年鉴学派的营养。
事实上，黄仁宇的读者群几乎涵盖各类职业，尤以受过高等教育的非历史专业者为主。如果不从职业而由心性划分的话，我们不妨借用北大历史系教授阎步克博士闲谈间的一种说法：无非两种。一种是本来就爱好历史的人，就象有人爱好武侠、有人爱好杂文；另一种是智者型的人，他们分布在社会的各个层面。
——吴思、甘琦《 “黄仁宇旋风”风起何处？》
《万历十五年》在青年学人和相关学界所受欢迎程度，要远比在历史学界高得多，这说明历史学界与相关学科及社会有很大的隔膜。……黄先生的成就在于，他确使人们注意到通常说法的另一面。
——赵世瑜《无可替代的黄仁宇》
黄仁宇的书并不是一般的历史著作，也不只是给学者专家写的，而是写给大多数中国人看的，时代感特别强，因而能引起人们的共鸣，在中国的知识分子和改革者中，也拥有最多的读者。
黄仁宇的经验不但有中国的，也有西方的（如他对借贷经营金融资本一套之了解，在大陆史学界无人可及）；在学术上也是如此。换了别人，年青时拿枪杆子或握锄把子的经历，又与他以后的专业何干？黄仁字却几乎一点一滴都没有“浪费”，所以他的著作读来，让人不禁心向往之可以说，黄仁宇是时代的产物，他通过自己的专业和历史知识，把个体的人生发挥到了极致，同时为我们留下一大笔精神财富。今后我们只有不断地回味他的教诲，并对他追忆。
——高王凌《黄仁宇放宽史学的视界》
黄仁宇把中国历史从1587年即万历十五年横切了一刀，这不仅使他获得了全新的观察角度，也使他获得了全新的文字感觉。
——李方《给普通话写作点穴》
李敖、汪荣祖合作出了一本评价蒋介石的书，书中有一句关于黄先生的书的介绍，大意是前国民党下级军官黄仁宇写了一本关于蒋介石的书，为蒋介石辩护。淡淡一句话，就将黄先生的公正至于不可信的境地。这种绍兴师爷的笔法虽然很毒，不值得提倡，但却点出了问题的实质。
——刘伟《历史需要蒋介石吗？》
年轻的黄仁宇在抗日前线恐怕还没有想过将来要研究历史，但他作为史家的潜质在这些战地通讯中已流露出来，他的业余写作当时被第一流的大报《大公报》看中，不是没有原因的。他不仅有细致的观察力，而且有丰富的语言表达能力，即使在万分紧张当中也能宕开一笔、从容着墨。
——傅国涌《黄仁宇在场的历史记录》
在我的片断印象中，黄仁宇是一个保留着旧军人不良习气的性情中人———尽管他在史学上有不少建树……黄仁宇对蒋介石的研究和评价，却有失一个历史学家所应具有的力求客观、以事实说话的基本立场。……本文无意在此声讨蒋介石的罪过，旨在说明在对待蒋介石问题上，黄仁宇的确失之偏颇，有失一个历史学家的基本风格。
历史进退，黄仁宇自有心得；黄仁宇的得失，也自有后人评说。
——王春瑜《琐忆黄仁宇》
就是在这样的大毁大誉中，黄先生的学术春天灿烂登临。一个简单的逻辑是：毁誉越大，书的销路越好。
一般说来，学者通常不大会成为公众人物，除非他们有别样的机缘。比如别开生面，比如别具一格，比如别出心裁，比如别树一帜。而黄仁宇的公众化，便正在于他同时扣住了文化与市场的脉搏并借了毁誉参半的出场方式而“搞掂”。相对较深厚的文化底蕴、相对较扎实而符合市场标准的亮相方式、相对强大的传播机制、相对来说在公众层面上喜闻乐见而在票友和专家层面上充满争议的话语门径，这四个条件同时具备下的某种机缘，可能成为文化人进入公众视野的模版。次第牵连至今天的余秋雨、易中天、于丹们，莫不如是。
黄先生对中国历史的学术贡献可能不足于让其成为学界普遍认可的大师，可他的性格和创作状态则足以使其在外国读者、非专业读者、迷恋于可读性和新奇性的读者中产生远胜于专家们的震撼力、影响力和布道效果。在史学同行中他更象一个作家，在追求故事和史评的读者群中他则更象一个思想者。无论是专业人士还是历史爱好者都可以清楚地感受到他的一些似乎严重不成熟的观念，可同样是这群人又不得不惊异于他的巨大市场。一个让专家们羡慕有宠大的读者群、让读者们钦佩有足够见识的人物，难怪会在漫天的毁誉中成为一个新学科的研究对象：那个新学科叫作“黄学”，而那个学科的书被戏称为“黄书”。
略嫌浮躁的信息时代的到来呼唤着一种既有“板凳坐得十年冷，文章不写半句空”的饱学之气又能迎合读者、以足够“好看”的供给创造读者需要的人。读者们期待新奇、新知和新颖的知识的各项要求，往往不是从那些极专业、极高深的专家们身上获得的——他们的创新有时只适合在一个很小的圈子内流通在则不适合广大的散漫读友。于是，一些学术能力并不是超前但却具有超强的归纳能力、综合能力、学术成果通俗化本领、超强的文字亲和力的“作家”，便成为中下层、非专业、爱好型读者们的首选。黄仁宇就是这样的人。
虽然免不去“不伦不类”的印象，黄仁宇依旧是一个不可多得的文化人物。
——笔公 《黄仁宇：一个“不伦不类”的历史学家》
《万历十五年》的走红还有深层的原因，那就是黄仁宇所谓的“大历史观”在发挥作用。它实在是一个纯粹的学术问题，数十年间在史学界掀起阵阵波澜；但是它能在当下掀起大众阅读的狂潮，那就不得不佩服黄先生的才智与胆识了。读他的书，在“浅阅读”的层面上，我也常常激动不已。我好说黄先生是“三反分子”，其一是“反道德”，他认为中国失败与落后的结症正是“道德治国”；尤其是用道德代替技术与法律，那是很危险的事情。他认为，应当最大程度地将道德排除出历史讨论的范畴，在看待历史时，应当考虑当事人能怎么做，而不是应该怎么做，道德评判并非史家的责任。其二是“反性善”，黄仁宇借万历皇帝的“嘴”指出，人都一样，一身而兼阴、阳两重性。既有道德伦理的“阳”，就有私心贪“阴”，这种“阴”也绝非人世间的力量所能加以消灭。其三是“反历史”，黄仁宇既然有了 “大历史观”的武器，就要评判以往的“小历史”。他提倡在历史的棋局上，应当从纵深去看问题，一匹马被车吃掉，直接原因，或许是因为它被别住了腿；然而马之所以被车吃掉，乃是从棋局开始双方对弈之综合结果。你不觉得这种“把一切事件的发生，均纳入历史的潮流”的作法，似乎带着一些历史决定论的痕迹吗？
——俞晓群《黄仁宇：让游子的孤魂，牵着亲人的衣襟归来》
黄仁宇的史观实为胜者为王的史观，完全以近代的“大结局”作为判断过去历史正确与否的根据：在近代成功的文明，就证明其古代历史是合理的、正确的；在近代失败的文明，就证明其古代历史是荒谬的、错误的。
《十六世纪明代中国之财政与税收》自有专业价值，《万历十五年》的写法创新也不容抹杀，但其他著作所论对象虽异，却几乎都是大历史观注脚，局部或有所见，大体仍属不经，真正的史学价值甚微。黄著最大的意义，我以为在于给读史者（尤其是初学者）提供一种异乎寻常的历史感，其历史比较出入古今、打通中外，并融入个人的历史经验，实足以引人入胜，从此角度而言，可以说他是历史学的余秋雨。不过余氏只是散文作家，其错误多属局部的史实方面，而黄氏却以史学家的身份出台，其错误又属总体的史观方面，因此才不能以文学家标准将他轻轻放过。
从纯学术的角度，他对历史学及相关社会科学的知识准备仍较欠缺，对历史的体认往往先入为主，其史学实有严重欠缺，他不为美国主流学界接纳亦可以说事出有因。据说台湾史界对他也并不认同，大陆对他浮泛的颂扬虽多，但似多出自一般读书界而非专业史学界（据我所见，只有徐友渔、朱学勤先生写过较深入的批评文字）。我有一点怀疑，黄氏著作的流行，是不是也因为他的历史目的论提供了一种填补历史决定论（历史唯物主义）空缺的学术替代品？大家是多么需要一种凡事都可解释的华丽历史观啊。
——胡文辉（胡一刀）《局部或有所见，大体仍属不经——黄仁宇大历史观批判》
他以叙事史学的手法，在学院的历史书写主流之外，为我们铺陈了一条探究历史的可能道路，而这也是当前中文历史书写里最为欠缺的。
这部著作的主要特色之一在于，通过书中这类维妙维肖的勾勒，黄氏为读者创造了一个虚拟的“历史现场”，让读者好似直接目击事情发生的过程，且又得以窥见这些历史人物的内心世界；这种乐趣通常是阅读小说时才会获得的。英文版《万历十五年》的两则封底书评，颇值玩味。一是 David Lattimore 的看法，他认为该书“不凡而又富有思想。……怀着诗人或小说家的喜悦，将寻常的末端小节转变为揭示其意义闪现的观点喜悦，将寻常的末端小节转变为揭示其意义闪现的观点。”另一则是美国著名小说家 John Updike 的评论，他指出：”尽管深富历史学识，然而《万历十五年》却也具备着卡夫卡（Kafka）的优美而又令人顿挫之故事《中国万里长城筑成之时》（The Great Wall of China）的超现实的虚构特质。”
黄氏是把分析的工作放在一个叙事的架构里，而且在个人见解与文字表述、叙事与分析之间，并没有任何的断裂。遗憾的是，在大部分的职业史家的作品里（中文世界尤然），这类断裂的现象极其明显，因为多数的历史学者已不再“说故事”了。
——（台湾）江政宽《历史、虚构与叙事论述：论黄仁宇的<万历十五年>》
黄仁宇先生自辟了一套名之曰“大历史”（Macro-History）的史观派史学，在八○年代后半期的台湾史学界投下一块巨石，激荡出阵阵回响。
或许，称呼先生为创作家，要允当得多。他不在乎理论体系是否周密，不在乎遣词用字是否为同侪所认可，他真正致力的，是理念与想法的普及传布。在生命经验的参佐下，允许读者以最浅白直接的影像，去掌握资本主义最精淬的内涵，然后回到二十世纪前半叶的中国史中，证成包含作者本人在内的集体记忆。谁说先生不是一名严谨的史学家﹖对先生来说，走出象牙塔，进入人群，将半生的思考与同他一起走过那个时代的人共享，才是他最终心愿。他何必在乎学术界对他的评价﹖作为一名广义的创作者，他在世纪末的台湾有过的影响力，远远超出许多严谨史学家们的想象之外。
——（台湾）李福钟《黄仁宇和他的大历史》
细绎本段文字的脉络，黄先生所谓的“真知卓见”，并不只限于他倡议的“大历史观”与“数目字管理”概念，而是对所有史学研究者的一种高度期许。然而，这段文字最令我印象深刻的，仍是黄先生赋予史学“经世致用”的关怀与忧心：“我们若再犹疑，则以后所著书，恐怕全没有人看了”。
检讨这段历史，黄先生多次强调，要跳脱人物臧否与评价的“道德”层面，而“从技术上的角度看历史”。至此，“数目字管理”与“大历史观”也就成为黄先生史学精华的一体之两面。
——（台湾）邱澎生 《审视明清中国市场与政府关系的演变》
黄仁宇大历史的角度观照下，历史上非事件性的因素受到重视。相形之下，历史上的人，均不免变成了某种程度的常人。
甚至我们可以说，在李尉昂的小说里，背景才是主角。
——（台湾）张惠菁《当小说成了清明上河图──历史学家黄仁宇与小说家李尉昂》
黄仁宇的故事讲得越精采，历史的讽刺味就越浓。反之，传统组织越是致命，黄仁宇就获得越多的空间，越能精细刻画这些人物的特质与长处；而读者也越能领略中国社会的集体悲剧经验。努力、道德、天才都被命运，也就是现代化社会的缺席所嘲弄。在中国传统社会里，吃人的不是鲁迅所说的礼教，而是管理能力。
清末的中体西用说是为“西化”论起了个张本，而黄仁宇的西体中用说，则是现代化论与历史目的论下的调和之说。
——（台湾）陈正国《当东方遇见西方：黄仁宇的现代化论述与西方历史》
对于黄仁宇而言，“大历史”式的探讨，最后甚至已经接近了神学的领域：“大凡将人类历史从长时间远视界的立场检讨，不期而然会在思量想象之中接近神学的领域”
——（台湾）刘季伦《 “大历史”下的个人》
先生的“善意”读评则称其“有时未免作了太过印象化的概括，读来竟像是一个外国人在描写中国，不过，这种写法也使得黄先生的文学和叙述有一种异于传统通史教科书的新鲜感”。与读者们经常感觉到的“大历史”那样，王先生说黄书“以问题为纲领切取中国历史”
——（台湾）王烦森
“我读黄先生书，辄为其缺乏中国思想、文学、艺术等之常识所惊”，“黄先生的史学和史识是根本不能涉入任何关于哲学与文学领域中的”，“技仅止此，便欲纵论上下古今，可乎？”
——（台湾）龚鹏程教授
Life
Huang was born in 1918 in Changsha, Hunan. Graduated from Nankai University in Tianjin (1936 ~ 1938), War and the post-war period, junior officers have worried Ren Guojun years; from Chengdu Central Military Academy graduate (1940), Marshall became the 14th platoon leader and deputy division commander. In 1943 joined the army stationed in India to the new captain of a military staff. May 1944 Myitkyina in Myanmar, was wounded by the first prize award of the Armed Forces Chapter. End of the war, the security of any third side and the commander of the Northeast Command, Major General Staff. In 1946 to participate in the national examination, be sent into the U.S. Army and General Staff College; graduate (1947) Ministry of Defence after the former chief of staff. In 1950 the Chinese Mission to the Chinese members of the identity of ex-Major. Again to the United States, studying history at the University of Michigan, Ph.D. (1964). Southern Illinois University, has taught, 1968 ~ 1980 appointed professor of New York State University NewPaltz campus, but also served as Visiting Associate Professor at Columbia University and Harvard University researcher at the Institute of East Asia. January 8, 2000 died at a hospital in upstate New York in the age of 82.
Academic
Major work
"Sixteenth-century Ming Dynasty on the financial and taxation" (1974 English / Chinese triple 2001)
"Wanli 15 years" (English 1981 / Chinese Zhonghua 1982 / triple 1997)
"Relax the horizon of history" (1988 / Joint Publishing 2001)
"China History" (1988, English / Chinese triple 1997)
"Hudson River on the history of China" (1989 / Chinese triple 1992)
"Syria south to north-day Ancient and Modern" (1991 / triple 2001)
"Capitalism and the twenty-first century" (1991 / triple 1997)
"From the perspective of great historical reading of Chiang Kai-shek Diaries" (1993)
"Modern Chinese History" (1994)
"Relations must re" (1998 / triple 2001)
"The Yellow River, Castle Peak: Huang Memoirs" (Taiwan, Linking Publishing Company 2001)
Participated in "nominee Biography" and "Cambridge History of China" in preparation.
Mr Wong's "Wanli 15 years," a book widely praised. "Hudson River of Chinese history", "Confucius and Mencius," the article selected for high school language textbooks.
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Huang (1918 - 2000) seemed destined to be a legendary: he from the 14, the age of five began contributor to the local newspaper, write passion never stopped since then, "Hunan Daily" supplement continuously published in the world he has written celebrity biographies, each has his own hand-drawn character portraits; 18-year-old was admitted to Nankai University in Tianjin; war began, he Pen for the Sword; war stay in the United States, 34-year-old "old age" from third year of Reading, the first to study journalism department, later transferred to the Department of History, graduated in 1954, and later in the school to continue to graduate, respectively, in 1957 and received master's and doctoral degrees in 1964; for many years no new the advent of the age of 62 by New York State University, Professor Niu Puzi campus positions from being fired. Dramatic effect, in the second after he was dismissed, his repeated failures, "Wanli fifteen years" by Yale University Press published by when the U.S. writer Ebo Dyke (John Updike) at New Yorker magazine to write book reviews recommendation, in 1982 and 1983 the book received the National Book Award (American BookAwards) twice nominated for History books. The following year, "Wanli 15 years" published in Beijing, the Chinese version of Huang's work...... from a pick one to publish, are subject to almost every hot pursuit of this, work in general by the attention, from the early English treatise, to the Chinese of the late, many scholars have written book reviews Review, which temporarily "yellow book became popular," people began to organize the "yellow Research Society", and for founding the "yellow Studies" Academic Series. No wonder some people lamented in the last ten years of the twentieth century, a Chinese American historian and retired professor of the United States, historians have become the greatest influence in China, most famous one-man reputation, but also really be a "different number."
And Huang's death, also has the legendary Color - January 8, 2000 when he suffered a heart attack in the movies died on the way in to the cinema, he and his wife, the topic of conversation is the funeral. Huang smile on Mrs. Younger said: "The older people have so many ailments, it is best discarded body, left the earth."
As we all know, Huang readers covering almost all kinds of occupations, especially highly educated professionals, most of whom are not historical. Interestingly, however, is that some people do not buy his account, even said Huang, "is the Historians Qiong Yao" "As Mr. Geng Liqun," Huang of data directory "points out that: the Huang has been mixed in the academic community, Opinion has, certainly not be the same, historians or scholar often questioned their mid-life switch is not stringent enough academic work; suddenly dealing with hundreds, thousands of great history, architecture, history scholars think it is too general to take risks, to simplify interpretation of history.
In this, the cross-strait academic editors will comment on Mr. Huang Renyu external sort out some of the comments, so readers can have more side, multi-level to get to know him.
Today, living historians, was probably not a person to enter college in the accumulation of a large wall as the bottom of a deep experience, and no one could invoke these experiences as a resource, a large wall in the new to be as much innovation and unique academic achievements.
- Zhu Xueqin
That department was very much praised, so far as the Amazon online bookstore also assessed the average reader as a "five star" Ray Huang, "Wanli 15 years", in fact, English is called "1587A Year of No Significance", meaning " In 1587, a year of no significance ", though I have a different view on this book, but the name Jiyu's a historical concept, I really agree.
- Leaving "continued the drafting history of ideas"
Historians have endlessly controversial regarded academic works this time, readers have made their choice, and not a low cultural level, a writer. If you are interested in the cultural history of the elite is not favored domestic historical works, then who gave these books to see?
"Ray Huang phenomenon" is actually a history of academic warning, academic research should be out of the narrow world, from the upper face and a few elite-oriented non-specialized readers to realize the transformation of social services.
- Liu Zhiqin "Huang phenomenon"
"Great history" concept author, shortly before the death of Mr. Huang Renyu just created a new historical essay, with fresh handsome words to precisely in Broadcom's history knowledge and melt in the furnace of tension, the academic work becomes a the public spirit of the cuisine. Huang opening said: "The Wanli 15 years actually nothing exciting year." Influenced by this, not the amateur to focus on "big issue" Searching for a vision, can only through the history of the sea appears calm, inquiring culture the continental shelf to plunge to the seabed, analysis how historical calamities, the end of play on the Qingping.
- Zhuang "Let's figure of"
Because there is such a positive attitude, so, despite the author's thought cold and cruel historical events described are quietly, but his basic view is optimistic. However, his optimism, is a historian's optimism, not the author's optimism. Scholars look at history, often slip into fishing Qiao gossip: "How many things past and present, are into jokes." Literary entertainment today works to "joke" of history as yet, is the author's history of graft and consumption times. Mr. Huang Renyu literature ink used to write history, but he remains a serious talk about history.
Most worthy of careful consideration, is the author of a purely "private scholar" status bird's eye view of history, not as a group "to do the project." He certainly has the eyes of the times, there is the hair; he did not write general history, with only microscopic analysis of the history section, organic blend of official history and unofficial history, reading Mr. Huang's book, I was reassured: the academic, personal the voice is not weak!
- Wei Jian-Min "Reading" relationship must re> "
As the saying goes: "Stones from other hills may serve to polish jade," Huang scholars in American history has been dismal unsuccessful, his masterpiece, "Wanli 15 years" published Shihai struggle to find, even in his old age "memoirs" are also indignant on the matter, but who would have thought that this book is the one on the mainland Shaoqi, "Wild Fire."
Clearly, Wong is able to work quickly swept the continent to study circles, and the enduring twenty years, The reason is closely related to their writing style....... He created a new historical essay, handsome with a fresh text to careful and precise knowledge and Broadcom's history are melted in a furnace of tension, the academic work becomes a public spirit of the cuisine. It is said that Huang's pen has a "Kafka-like magic," when this magic show is unique narrative calm, restraint and precision.
- Mr Kwong Hoi-yan, "History of the" low class curve "- from Huang to Yi Zhongtian"
- Fang "mourn Mr. Huang Renyu"
(Huang's) One of the advantages of giving the book a "vital sense of history." This is the history books of the unique charm of it, if deprived of the concrete, sensuous things, history will become suspicious of the concepts and symbols, and why people read history, not in order to listen to a bunch of dogma.
- He Zhaotian (by the Academy of Social Sciences Literature)
Huang's method of study of History, not difficult to find, "from a technical point of view of history, not from a moral point of view the review history," This is quite different from the Confucian tradition as the center of the history. The re-induction, re-integrated, long time trying to look at the history of style is also different from the mainstream of American Sinology, "microscope" view, it touches won the French Annales school of nutrition.
In fact, Huang's readers, covering almost all kinds of occupations, especially highly educated professionals, most of whom are not historical. If not from the occupation by the cardiac division, we might borrow a history professor at Peking University Yan step Sadik, a chat room saying: no more than two. One is already history-loving people, just as it was martial arts-loving, people loving essay; the other is the wise man type of people who found in all levels of society.
- Richard Wu, Qi Gan, "" Ray Huang Cyclone, "the wind from where? "
"Wanli 15 years" in the youth school and the popularity of the scholars related to much higher than in the history of academia, which shows the history and related disciplines and the academic community has a great divide....... Huang's achievement is that he really draws attention to the other side often say.
- The studies of "irreplaceable Ray Huang"
Huang's book is not an ordinary in the history books, not just to scholars and experts to write, but for writers, most Chinese people read, the sense of the times particularly strong, was able resonates, and the reformers in China's Zhishifenzi, also has the largest number of readers.
Huang's experience in not only China, but also the West (such as lending his understanding of operating a financial capital, no one in China and historians); in academic as well. For the others, young, holding the gun or grip hoe handle the experience, but also with his future professional ware? Huang did not bit by bit almost word "waste", so reading his book, people can not help but yearn for can be said that Huang is a product of the times through his professional and historical knowledge, the individual's life to play extreme, and also left us with a lot of spiritual wealth. We have to keep pondering the future of his teachings, and his recall.
- High-Ling Wang, "Huang relax History Vision"
His Contribution to the history of China from 1587 that cross-section of the knife Wanli 15 years, which not only made him get a new observation point, also made him get a new sense of the text.
- Li Fang "to the Mandarin writing acupuncture"
Li Ao, Wang Rongzu cooperation out an evaluation of Chiang Kai-shek's book, the book has an introduction to the book on Mr. Huang, a junior officer to the effect that former KMT Huang wrote a book on the Chiang Kai-shek, in order to defend Chiang Kai-shek. Light sentence, it will be Wong's fair As credible position. Successful Association of strokes that are poisonous though, not to be encouraged, but the real point of the problem.
- Liu Wei "History you need to Chiang Kai-shek? "
Huang young anti-Japanese front in the future, probably have not thought to study history, but historians of his potential as a communication in the field have been showing these years, his writing was then a first-class amateur newspaper "Ta Kung Pao," fancy, not without reasons. He not only careful observation, and is rich in language ability, even in the extreme tension which can open a dawdle, calmly dwell.
- Fu Kuo-Chung "Huang presence of history"
In my piece the impression that Huang was a soldier to retain the old bad habits of Xingqingzhongren --- despite his many achievements in historiography...... Huang's research and evaluation of the Chiang Kai-shek, but concede a historian should have sought an objective, fact-speaking basic position....... This article do not wish to denounce the sins Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek to explain the issue in the treatment, Huang indeed biased disgrace to the basic style of a historian.
History of advance and retreat, Huang's own experience; Huang gains and losses, but also their own criticisms of later generations.
- Wang Chunyu "Huang Memories"
Is in such a great reputation in the big crash, Mr. Huang brilliant academic spring boarding. A simple logic is: the greater the praise or blame, the better the book sales.
Although not free, "nondescript" impression, Huang is still a rare cultural figures.
- Document the public, "Ray Huang: a" nondescript "historian"
"Wanli 15 years" there is deep popular reason is that Huang called "big history" in the role. It is a purely academic question, few decades historians ripples; but it can set off the current wave of public reading, it would have to admire the intelligence and courage of Mr. Huang. Reading his book, the "light reading" level, I am often excited. I am easy to say Mr. Huang is a "three-anti-elements", one is "anti-moral," he says failed and backward China is the crux of the "moral rule"; in particular, instead of using technical and legal ethics, it is a very dangerous thing. He Ren Wei, should be to maximize possible moral excluded from the scope of the Discussion of History, in the view history, should consider how parties can do, not how to do it should be, moral evaluation Bingfei historian's responsibility. The second is the "anti-good nature," and Huang Wanli emperor by the "mouth" that people are the same, a while and Yin and Yang duality. Both moral ethics, "Yang", there selfish greed "Yin" and that the "Yin" is also the power on earth can not be eliminated. The third is "anti-history" and Huang as have a "big history" of the weapons, we must judge the past, "small history." He advocated the chess game in history, and should be depth look at the problem from a horse eaten by a car, direct, perhaps because it is another to live in the leg; However, the reason why horses eaten by a car, but starting from the chess game both the consolidated results of games. Do not you think this "to all events are included in the tide of history" approach, it seems that a number of historical determinism with traces of it?
- Yu Xiao group "Huang: Let wandering of souls, holding back the skirt of their loved ones"
Huang's view of history, real history for the winner-takes, completely modern "ending" as the right to judge whether or not the basis of past history: in the success of modern civilization, its ancient history to prove that it is reasonable and correct; failure in modern civilization, to prove that ancient history is absurd, wrong.
- Hu Wenhui (Hu Yidao) "partial or see, is still largely without - great history Huang Critical"
His narrative history approach, in the College outside the mainstream of historical writing, as we lay out a road exploring the possibility of history, which is currently written in Chinese history, the most lacking.
Huang is working on the analysis of the structure of a narrative, the text and in personal opinion and expression, between narrative and analysis, and there is no fracture. Unfortunately, most of the works of professional historians (in Chinese natural world in particular), this type of fracture is extremely significant, because most historians are no longer "story" of the.
- (Taiwan) Jiang, Masahiro "History, fiction and narrative discourse: On Huang's"
Mr. Huang Renyu from the provision of a name, called "Big History" (Macro-History) The history school history, in eight ○ half of Taiwan's historians to cast a stone, the stimulation bursts of feedback.
- (Taiwan) Alan Li Zhong, "Huang and his great history"
Interpretation of this paragraph of fine thread, Mr. Huang so-called "insights" are not confined to his initiative a "great history" and "the figure of management" concept, but a researcher of all history high hopes. However, this text I was most impressed, and still is to give Wong history "Practical" care and concern: "if we give the hesitation, the future's writings, I am afraid there are not many people saw it."
Review of this history, Mr. Huang repeatedly stressed the need to escape characters characterize and evaluate the "moral" level, while "From a technical point of view of history." At this point, "the figure of Management" and "big history" has become the essence of one of history Huang sides.
- (Taiwan) Peng Qiu students "examine the relationship between the Ming and Qing China and the Government of evolution"
Huang great historical perspective, the historical event of the factors of non-attention. In contrast, the history of the people, are inevitably a degree of ordinary people into.
Even we can say that Wei Ang Lee's novel, the background is the main character.
- (Taiwan) Chang Hui-ching "when the book has become the Qingming Festival ─ ─ historian and novelist, Huang Wei-Ang Lee"
Huang's story speaks more exciting, more concentrated flavor irony of history. On the contrary, the more deadly the traditional organization, Huang to get more space, the more precise characterization of these characters traits and strengths; and the more readers can enjoy the experience of Chinese society, the collective tragedy. Effort, ethics, have been the fate of genius, which is ridiculed by the absence of modern society. In traditional Chinese society, eating is not the propriety of Lu Xun said, but management capabilities.
Qing Dynasty Chinese and the West but is a "Westernized" one sheets from the present, but Huang said the Western system in China, is a modern and historical teleology of harmonic under the said.
- (Taiwan) Chen Zhengguo "When East Meets West: Huang discussed the modernization of Western History"
For Huang, the "big history" style of, and even close to the areas of theology: "Generally the far horizon of human history from the time the position of the review, however unexpected imagination would consider close to the field of theology "
- (Taiwan) Chi-Lun Liu, "" great history "under the individual"
President of the "good" reading assessment claimed that its "sometimes a bit too much made of the general impression, reading feverish description of China as a foreigner, however, such an approach makes Wong's literature and narrative have a different History textbooks in the traditional fresh. " And readers have often felt "great history", as Mr. Wang said the Yellow Book "to the problem of Chinese history was cut for the program"
- (Taiwan) Wang trouble Sen
"I read the book Mr. Huang, Zhe for their lack of Chinese thought, literature and art of the knowledge of the shock," "Mr. Huang's history and the history of knowledge is simply not involved in any area of philosophy and literature," and "technology only only this, Bian Yu Toward lower, old, I am? "
- (Taiwan) Professor Gong Pengcheng