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China unbound : evolving perspectives on the Chinese past / Paul A. Cohen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Paul A.
- Series:
- Critical Asian scholarship.
- Critical Asian scholarship
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--History.
- China.
- China--History--19th century.
- China--History--20th century.
- China--History--19th century--Historiography.
- China--History--20th century--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By one of the leading experts on modern Chinese history and historiography, this volume argues for fresh ways of approaching the Chinese past, spotlighting Western historians, Chinese historians, and the history itself.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: China unbound; Wang Tao in a changing world; Moving beyond ~Tradition and Modernity~; New perspectives on the Boxers: the view from anthropology; Boxers, Christians, and the gods: the Boxer conflict of 1900 as a religious war; Ambiguities of a watershed date: the 1949 divide in Chinese history; Remembering and forgetting national humiliation in twentieth-century China; Revisiting Discovering History in China; Three ways of knowing the past; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-42836-7
- 0-203-41200-1
- 1-280-07286-5
- 0-203-40329-0
- 1-134-42837-5
- 9780203403297
- OCLC:
- 54751821
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