Discovering History in China

Discovering History in China

Author: Paul A. Cohen

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780231058117

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A critical reassessment of the reception of China's history in American historical writing.


Discovering History in China

Discovering History in China

Author: Paul A. Cohen

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0231151926

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Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.


China Unbound

China Unbound

Author: Paul A. Cohen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1134428375

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This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of such key events in the recent history of China as the boxer rebellion, Mao's ascension to power in 1949, and the process of political and economic reform in the post-Mao era. This is a strong collection which will be of enormous interest to scholars of East Asian history.


Speaking to History

Speaking to History

Author: Paul A. Cohen

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2010-05-11

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0520265831

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The ancient story of King Goujian, a psychologically complex 5th-century BCE monarch, spoke powerfully to the Chinese during the 20th century, but remains little known in the West. This book explores the story's connections to the major traumas of the 20th century, and also considers why such stories remain unknown to outsiders.


A History of Chinese Civilization

A History of Chinese Civilization

Author: Jacques Gernet

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-05-31

Total Pages: 836

ISBN-13: 9780521497817

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When published in 1982, this translation of Professor Jacques Gernet's masterly survey of the history and culture of China was immediately welcomed by critics and readers. This revised and updated edition makes it more useful for students and for the general reader concerned with the broad sweep of China's past.


Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History

Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History

Author: Thomas David DuBois

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-11-19

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1000734684

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This book explores how fieldwork has been used to research Chinese history in the past and new ways that others might use in it the future. It introduces the previous generations of scholars who ventured out of the archive to conduct local investigations in Chinese cities, villages, farms and temples. It goes on to present the techniques of historical fieldwork, providing guidance on how to integrate oral history into research plans and archival research, conduct interviews, and locate sources in the field. Chapters by established researchers relate these techniques to specific types of fieldwork, including religion, the imperial past, natural environments and agriculture. Combining the past and the future of the craft, the book provides a rich resource for scholars coming new to fieldwork in the history of China.


A Path Twice Traveled

A Path Twice Traveled

Author: Paul A. Cohen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-02-01

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1684176409

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In this memoir, Paul A. Cohen, one of the West’s preeminent historians of China, traces the development of his work from its inception in the early 1960s to the present, offering fresh perspectives that consistently challenge us to think more deeply about China and the historical craft in general. A memoir, of course, is itself a form of history. But for a historian, writing a memoir on one’s career is quite different from the creation of that career in the first place. This is what Cohen alludes to in the title A Path Twice Traveled. The title highlights the important disparity between the past as originally experienced and the past as later reconstructed, by which point both the historian and the world have undergone extensive change. This distinction, which conveys nicely the double meaning of the word history, is very much on Cohen’s mind throughout the book. He returns to it explicitly in the memoir’s final chapter, appropriately titled “Then and Now: The Two Histories.”


History in Three Keys

History in Three Keys

Author: Paul A. Cohen

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780231106504

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Part Two explores the thought, feelings, and behavior of the direct participants in the Boxer experience, individuals who, without a preconceived idea of the entire event, understood what was happening to them in a manner fundamentally different from historians.


World History and National Identity in China

World History and National Identity in China

Author: Xin Fan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-02-25

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1108905307

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Nationalism is pervasive in China today. Yet nationalism is not entrenched in China's intellectual tradition. Over the course of the twentieth century, the combined forces of cultural, social, and political transformations nourished its development, but resistance to it has persisted. Xin Fan examines the ways in which historians working on the world beyond China from within China have attempted to construct narratives that challenge nationalist readings of the Chinese past and the influence that these historians have had on the formation of Chinese identity. He traces the ways in which generations of historians, from the late Qing through the Republican period, through the Mao period to the relative moment of 'opening' in the 1980s, have attempted to break cross-cultural boundaries in writing an alternative to the national narrative.