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Discovering History in China

- American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Af: Paul Cohen Engelsk Hardback

Discovering History in China

- American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Af: Paul Cohen Engelsk Hardback
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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-response, modernization, and imperialism approaches. In place of these, Cohen favors a "China-centered" approach in which historians understand Chinese history on its own terms, paying close attention to Chinese historical trajectories and Chinese perceptions of their problems, rather than a set of expectations derived from Western history. In an important new introduction, Cohen reflects on his fifty-year career as a historian of China and discusses major recent trends in the field. Although some of these developments challenge a narrowly conceived China-centered approach, insofar as they enable more balanced comparisons between China and the West and recast the Chinese and their history in more human, less exotic terms, they powerfully affirm the central thrust of Cohen's work.
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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-response, modernization, and imperialism approaches. In place of these, Cohen favors a "China-centered" approach in which historians understand Chinese history on its own terms, paying close attention to Chinese historical trajectories and Chinese perceptions of their problems, rather than a set of expectations derived from Western history. In an important new introduction, Cohen reflects on his fifty-year career as a historian of China and discusses major recent trends in the field. Although some of these developments challenge a narrowly conceived China-centered approach, insofar as they enable more balanced comparisons between China and the West and recast the Chinese and their history in more human, less exotic terms, they powerfully affirm the central thrust of Cohen's work.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 296
ISBN-13: 9780231151924
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0231151926
Kategori: Asiatisk historie
Udg. Dato: 29 apr 2010
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: Columbia University Press
Oplagsdato: 29 apr 2010
Forfatter(e): Paul Cohen
Forfatter(e) Paul Cohen

Kategori Asiatisk historie

ISBN-13 9780231151924

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 296

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 29 apr 2010

Oplagsdato 29 apr 2010

Forlag Columbia University Press