安禄山叛乱的背景

by Edwin G. Pulleyblank, 蒲立本, 丁俊 (Translator)

《安禄山叛乱的背景》是西方学界对安禄山叛乱的背景进行系统梳理的经典著作。分序言、第一章引言，第二章讨论安禄山的出身及早年经历，第三、四、五章分别讨论安禄山叛乱的经济、政治、军事背景，第六章为河北的特殊形式，第七章讲述李林甫专政时期的安禄山。并附附录五篇，及参考目录、行政机构及职官词汇表、人名索引。并附有《内蒙古的粟特聚落》一文。

Genres: History, China

Kindle Edition

First published July 28, 1982

Reviews

[Carlos Wang · Rating 4 out of 5]

出版超過大半個世紀的老書了，但仍有一定的價值。
全書1/3本文，1/3注釋，1/3附錄。
盛唐到了中期，也避免不了歷史定然出現的瓶頸期，開國時的制度因為時空背景不同開始出現毛病。本來開始遂行改革的李隆基確實是有一番作為，財政上集權，地方邊軍取代府兵，努力的平衡世族跟新進官僚的派系鬥爭，問題還是在於皇帝自己的怠惰，終於把這輛車給開翻了。但話說回來，除非玄宗真的有辦法徹底改革掉那些痼疾，不然早晚都是要出事，不是他兒子就是孫子的差別...有沒有安祿山倒也只是歷史的偶然。
作者有一點比較讓我感興趣的是，他說有唐一代，河北人都跟中央離心離德。這倒讓我想起，唐初開國時，李淵父子處理竇建德確實是失策了，他們饒了小人王世充，卻斬了頗有人望的老竇，又沒妥善照顧其舊部，以至於劉黑闥又起來反了一次。這段記憶或許深刻的印在了河北人心中，光看安史之亂結束後，那幾個藩鎮還是遵奉他們兩人為「二聖」可以略知一二。
蒲立本書中說他會再寫第二部主講安史之亂，現在看來是沒機會了。
可惜。

[Patricia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume, volume 1 of a planned set of 2 of which the second volume was never written/published, deals with the events that prepared the way for the rebellion of the frontier general An Lu-Shan, which weakened the Tang dynasty (712-756 A.D.) so that it gradually collapsed into a number of independent states that came to be known as the 'Five Dynasties'.

This introductory volume consists of 7 chapters--an introduction; the 'Origins of An Lu-Shan' (which conclude that he was born on 10 February 703 to a Sogdian warrior father named An Yen-yen and a Turkic mother); three chapters on the Economic, Political and Military Background of the times; a short chapter on the 'Situation in Ho-Pei [Hebei]' which had once been the capital of the E. Wei/N. Qi Dynasties before being subdued by the founder of the Sui Dynasty, Sui Wendi, and finally, a chapter 'An Lu-Shan under the Dictatorship of Li Lin-Fu', a member of the imperial clan under whom An Lu-Shan served. It was Li's death that triggered the power struggle between Li's successor and An Lu-Shan that eventually led to the December 755 rebellion.

One hundred pages of the above text is then followed by 100 pages of scholarly notes, followed by a glossary and Chinese Index, but not by Volume II. Alas....

An interesting and useful resource book on the Tang Dynasty and especially the period under the Emperor Xuanzong, but if you are looking for information about the actual rebellion, the role of Yang Guifei, and the results, you'll have to look elsewhere.

[Bryn Hammond · Rating 4 out of 5]

Watch out, it's a cliffhanger. This is volume one and ends three years before the rebellion; he never wrote volume two. From 1955 but still constantly referred to whenever An Lushan is the subject. His two aims are to explain the historical background of the rebellion and to retrieve An Lushan from the "lineaments of the legendary monster." Very well-written though I am left up in the air.

100 pages of text, 150 pages of notes etc.