Changing Conceptions of the Opium War as History and Experience

鸦片战争的学术、流行的报道在焦点，看法，和范围通过了将近二世纪变化。我的学习由通过我们向在研究把政府档案与象自传，个人通讯，和私人杂志那样的个人记录相结合在之中看见了以中国为中心的途径的上升和一个新趋势的开始的各种各样的阶段跟踪我们战争的理解的发展探查这广泛的历史编纂学。基于观察，我将显示尽管有他们的不能否认的成就，大多数存在奖学金几乎没在其生活被战争深深地影响的中国对平常的人给予注意。是高时间我们对中国人民的人的经验给予更多的注意以便理解它帮助了塑造的不仅战争本身而且历史。

Academic and popular accounts of the Opium War have gone through nearly two centuries of change in focus, view, and scope. My study probes this extensive historiography by tracing the evolvement of our understanding of the war through various phases among which we saw the rise of the ＂China-centered approach＂ and the beginning of a new trend towards combining government archives with personal records such as memoirs, personal correspondence, and private journals in research. Based on the observation, I will indicate, despite their undeniable achievements, most of the existing scholarships have paid little attention to the ordinary people in China whose lives were deeply affected by the war. It is high time that we pay more attention to human experience of the Chinese people in order to understand not only the war itself but also the history it helped shape.