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.
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.
柯文的《在中国发现历史》一书,在中国近代史研究领域中刮起了范式革命的旋风,柯文在其书中批判了在美国学界研究中国近代史比较流行的几种范式,其中主要的有:冲击——回应模式、传统——现代模式以及帝国主义模式,这几种模式的主要缺陷在于容易使中国近代史的研究陷入西方...
評分 評分 評分the first English book I read.
评分文筆真好
评分Awesome! A histographical research, not history per se.
评分終於讀英文本瞭,雖然現在不贊同他的觀點,但是發現柯文的文筆極佳,簡直可以當做REVIEW ARTICLE的範本。
评分China-centered approach...
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