Discovering history in China :: American historical writing on the recent Chinese past /

Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History in China has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has become essential to the study of China from the early nineteenth century to today. Cohen critiques th...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Paul A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.
Edition:2nd pbk. ed.
Series:Studies of the East Asian Institute.
Subjects:
Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History in China has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has become essential to the study of China from the early nineteenth century to today. Cohen critiques the work of leading postwar scholars and is especially adamant about not reading China through the lens of Western history. To this end, he uncovers the strong ethnocentric bias pervading the three major conceptual frameworks of American scholarship of the 1950s and 1960s: the impact-
Physical Description:1 online resource (lxv, 245 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:023152546X
9780231525466

There is no print copy available.

Get full text