从17世纪80年代到18世纪末期,康(熙)雍(正)乾(隆)三朝前后相继,开出了清代中国的百年盛世。在这一个多世纪里累积起来的人口、物力和事功已经迈过汉唐规模,为周秦以来的历史再造了一个高峰。与之相伴的是一种在古老中绵延的辉煌。18世纪来华的英国人曾比较中西,目测心算,推断当 From the 1780s to the 18th century, Kang (Hee) Yong (正) Gan (Long) three dynasties successively one after another, which opened the century-long prosperity of China in the Qing Dynasty. The population, material resources and meritorious deeds accumulated in this century and a century have already crossed the scale of Han and Tang Dynasties and recreated a peak for the history since the Zhou and Qin Dynasties. Accompanied by a kind of glory in the ancient stretches. In the eighteenth century, the British in China had compared the Chinese and the Western ones and made eyewitness calculations and deductions