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“不是历史学家的人有时以为历史就是过去的事实。可是历史学家应该知道并非如此。当然事实俱在。但它们数量无穷,照例沉默不语,即使一旦开口又往往互相矛盾,甚至无法理解……选择什么事实,赋予这些事实以什么含义,在很大程度上取决于我们提出的是什么问题,和我们进行研究...
評分“不是历史学家的人有时以为历史就是过去的事实。可是历史学家应该知道并非如此。当然事实俱在。但它们数量无穷,照例沉默不语,即使一旦开口又往往互相矛盾,甚至无法理解……选择什么事实,赋予这些事实以什么含义,在很大程度上取决于我们提出的是什么问题,和我们进行研究...
評分 評分美國的漢學研究起步很早。哥倫比亞大學東亞圖書館的第一套藏書來自於老佛爺慈禧的饋贈,這從側面表現出美國對於中國的研究熱情萌芽極早。至此書出版的一九九七年時,美國的漢學研究早經開枝散葉,無論是研究深度還是研究廣度都已經執世界漢學研究的牛耳了。在先秦與趙宋以後這...
作者自己也承認完全批判西方視角太過偏激。實際上我覺得他自我批判得還不夠,西方視角哪僅僅是“另一視角,”所謂的中國本土視角有嗎?除瞭馬剋思那一套西方的,本土是沒有所謂史觀的,大多都在堆砌材料。中國傳統的史學,無非帝王將相,品評人物,嘆嘆興亡。以今天本土史傢的刻苦程度和視野範圍,追趕西方學者還來不及,哪裏輪的上真正形成中國自己的史學流派。
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评分I am not authorized to comment on this "favorite of nervous doctoral candidates on the eve of their oral exams" anyway...
评分作者自己也承認完全批判西方視角太過偏激。實際上我覺得他自我批判得還不夠,西方視角哪僅僅是“另一視角,”所謂的中國本土視角有嗎?除瞭馬剋思那一套西方的,本土是沒有所謂史觀的,大多都在堆砌材料。中國傳統的史學,無非帝王將相,品評人物,嘆嘆興亡。以今天本土史傢的刻苦程度和視野範圍,追趕西方學者還來不及,哪裏輪的上真正形成中國自己的史學流派。
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