A path twice traveled : my journey as a historian of China /

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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 gener...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cohen, Paul A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge (Massachusetts) ; London : Published by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, 2019.
Temas:
Cohen, Paul A.
Historians > United States > Biography.
Historiens > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
Historians
Historiography
China > Historiography.
China
United States
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Beginnings
  • Wang Tao: the problem of change in the Late Qing
  • The next step: discovering history in China
  • Discovering history in China: the back story
  • Limits of the China-centered approach
  • A multiplicity of pasts: history in three keys
  • History in three keys: research, writing, and publishing history
  • From boxers to King Goujian: surprise developments
  • The problem of insideness vs. outsideness: speaking to history
  • The power of story: history and popular memory
  • Then and now: the two histories.

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