Author: Paul A. CohenPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231058117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A critical reassessment of the reception of China's history in American historical writing.
Discovering History in China
Author: Paul A. CohenPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231151926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.
Discovering History in China
Author: Paul A. CohenPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231058117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A critical reassessment of the reception of China's history in American historical writing.
Speaking to History
Author: Paul A. CohenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520265831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
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.
China Unbound
Author: Paul A. CohenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134428375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
The Search for Modern China
Author: Jonathan D. SpencePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393307801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history.
Discovering Ancient China
Author: Jeanne NaglePublisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN: 1622758188
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
In this comprehensive volume dedicated to ancient Chinese civilization, upper elementarylevel readers will learn the different dynasties of ancient China, the memorable leaders that spearheaded them, and the lasting influences each period had on civilizations to follow. Readers will learn about the oldest examples of Chinese writing, which ruler was responsible for completing the Great Wall, and the cultural context in which Confucius became a prominent philosopher, among other fascinating details. These ancient Chinese contributionsall still well known todayconstitute only a few of the aspects of ancient China waiting to be discovered.
China's Response to the West
Author: Ssu-yü TengPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674120259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Contains primary source material.
History in Three Keys
Author: Paul A. CohenPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231106504
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
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.
A Path Twice Traveled
Author: Paul A. CohenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684176409
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
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.”
A History of Chinese Civilization
Author: Jacques GernetPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521497817
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
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.