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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783607003321

Autore

Cohen Paul A.

Titolo

China unbound : evolving perspectives on the Chinese past / / Paul A. Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-42836-7

0-203-41200-1

1-280-07286-5

0-203-40329-0

1-134-42837-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Collana

Critical Asian scholarship

Disciplina

951.033

Soggetti

China History

China History 19th century

China History 20th century

China History 19th century Historiography

China History 20th century Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.