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Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Paul A Cohen
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Description for Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Paperback. A critical reassessment of the reception of China's history in American historical writing. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 243 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Serious study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Chinese history did not really get under way in the United States until after World War II. Since then, scholarly publication has proliferated and a genuine professional field-by far the largest and most active in the West-has taken shape. Now, for the first time, we have a critical, book-length analysis of this development, written by an insider and structured around the leading conceptual approaches that have informed American scholarship in the postwar decades. In Paul A. Cohen's view, the supreme problem for American students of Chinese history, particularly in its post-Western impact phase, ... Read more
Serious study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Chinese history did not really get under way in the United States until after World War II. Since then, scholarly publication has proliferated and a genuine professional field-by far the largest and most active in the West-has taken shape. Now, for the first time, we have a critical, book-length analysis of this development, written by an insider and structured around the leading conceptual approaches that have informed American scholarship in the postwar decades. In Paul A. Cohen's view, the supreme problem for American students of Chinese history, particularly in its post-Western impact phase, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
Series
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231058117
SKU
V9780231058117
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About Paul A Cohen
Paul A. Cohen is Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies and History at Wellesley College and an associate at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University.
Reviews for Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Every historian of China should read this book. For what Paul A. Cohen has done here is lay bare the hidden assumptions that have informed and skewed much American research on 19th- and 20th-century China. He shows that the questions most American historians have asked about the China past, and consequently the kind of histories they have written, have been ... Read more