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发表于2025-01-31
Discovering History in China pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025
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.
Paul A. Cohen is Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies and History Emeritus at Wellesley College and an associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. His most recent book is Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China.
classic historiography of Chinese history in American scholarship
评分与东南亚历史研究中的autonomous history很像
评分读起来会觉得理所当然,贯彻到实践中却非常难
评分这个话题的书竟然是97年出版的,不禁让人感叹我们现在所处的年代已经远不是21世纪初了。回忆回忆2000年人们在想什么也是挺有意思的。
评分读起来会觉得理所当然,贯彻到实践中却非常难
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评分 评分“他们无法表述自己;他们必须被别人表述。”作为一个中国人读了一个美国历史学家写得《在中国发现历史——中国中心观在美国的兴起》,上面那句话最先蹦入我的脑海中。这句话出自马克思的《路易波拿巴的雾月十八》,萨义德将其引用,放在自己《东方学》一书的开头。马克思似乎...
Discovering History in China pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025