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Author : Paul A. Cohen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231151924
Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.
Author : Paul A. Cohen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 023105811X
A critical reassessment of the reception of China's history in American historical writing.
Author : Paul A. Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134428373
This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of such key events in the recent history of China as the boxer rebellion, Mao's ascension to power in 1949, and the process of political and economic reform in the post-Mao era. This is a strong collection which will be of enormous interest to scholars of East Asian history.
Author : Paul A. Cohen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520265837
The ancient story of King Goujian, a psychologically complex 5th-century BCE monarch, spoke powerfully to the Chinese during the 20th century, but remains little known in the West. This book explores the story's connections to the major traumas of the 20th century, and also considers why such stories remain unknown to outsiders.
Author : Ssu-yü Teng,John King Fairbank
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 0674120256
Contains primary source material.
Author : Jeanne Nagle
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781622758180
In this comprehensive volume dedicated to ancient Chinese civilization, upper elementarylevel readers will learn the different dynasties of ancient China, the memorable leaders that spearheaded them, and the lasting influences each period had on civilizations to follow. Readers will learn about the oldest examples of Chinese writing, which ruler was responsible for completing the Great Wall, and the cultural context in which Confucius became a prominent philosopher, among other fascinating details. These ancient Chinese contributionsall still well known todayconstitute only a few of the aspects of ancient China waiting to be discovered.
Author : Xin Fan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108842600
Focuses on individual lived experiences to trace the development of world-historical studies in China's long twentieth century.
Author : Paul A. Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684176403
In this memoir, Paul A. Cohen, one of the West’s preeminent historians of China, traces the development of his work from its inception in the early 1960s to the present, offering fresh perspectives that consistently challenge us to think more deeply about China and the historical craft in general. A memoir, of course, is itself a form of history. But for a historian, writing a memoir on one’s career is quite different from the creation of that career in the first place. This is what Cohen alludes to in the title A Path Twice Traveled. The title highlights the important disparity between the past as originally experienced and the past as later reconstructed, by which point both the historian and the world have undergone extensive change. This distinction, which conveys nicely the double meaning of the word history, is very much on Cohen’s mind throughout the book. He returns to it explicitly in the memoir’s final chapter, appropriately titled “Then and Now: The Two Histories.”
Author : Ann Hui
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771622233
In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small-town Chinese restaurants and the families who run them. It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included—her parents had run their own Chinese restaurant, The Legion Cafe, before she was born. This discovery, and the realization that there was so much of her own history she didn’t yet know, set her on a time-sensitive mission: to understand how, after generations living in a poverty-stricken area of Guangdong, China, her family had somehow wound up in Canada. Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurantsweaves together Hui’s own family history—from her grandfather’s decision to leave behind a wife and newborn son for a new life, to her father’s path from cooking in rural China to running some of the largest “Western” kitchens in Vancouver, to the unravelling of a closely guarded family secret—with the stories of dozens of Chinese restaurant owners from coast to coast. Along her trip, she meets a Chinese-restaurant owner/small-town mayor, the owner of a Chinese restaurant in a Thunder Bay curling rink, and the woman who runs a restaurant alone, 365 days a year, on the very remote Fogo Island. Hui also explores the fascinating history behind “chop suey” cuisine, detailing the invention of classics like “ginger beef” and “Newfoundland chow mein,” and other uniquely Canadian fare like the “Chinese pierogies” of Alberta. Hui, who grew up in authenticity-obsessed Vancouver, begins her journey with a somewhat disparaging view of small-town “fake Chinese” food. But by the end, she comes to appreciate the essentially Chinese values that drive these restaurants—perseverance, entrepreneurialism and deep love for family. Using her own family’s story as a touchstone, she explores the importance of these restaurants in the country’s history and makes the case for why chop suey cuisine should be recognized as quintessentially Canadian.
Author : Paul A. Cohen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0231106505
Part Two explores the thought, feelings, and behavior of the direct participants in the Boxer experience, individuals who, without a preconceived idea of the entire event, understood what was happening to them in a manner fundamentally different from historians.
Author : Yang Jisheng
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374716912
Yang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail. As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong’s ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union’s "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This ten-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation’s economy. Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Tombstone, Yang Jisheng here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today. The World Turned Upside Down puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and Mao-style cult of personality.
Author : Arthur Cotterell
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : China
ISBN : 0756613914
Illus. with full-color photos. From the earliest dynasty to the last emperor, watch 3,000 years of splendor come alive in this colorful chronicle of the civilization that's given us everything from gunpowder to dim sum.
Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250202581
A single volume history of China, offering a look into the past of the global superpower and its significance today. Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world’s oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years. After a century and a half of foreign invasion, civil war, and revolution, China has once again returned to center stage as a global superpower and the world’s second largest economy. But how did it become so dominant? Wood argues that in order to comprehend the great significance of China today, we must begin with its history. The Story of China takes a fresh look at the Middle Kingdom in the light of the recent massive changes inside the country. Taking into account exciting new archeological discoveries, the book begins with China’s prehistory—the early dynasties, the origins of the Chinese state, and the roots of Chinese culture in the age of Confucius. Wood looks at particular periods and themes that are now being reevaluated by historians, such as the renaissance of the Song with its brilliant scientific discoveries. He paints a vibrant picture of the Qing Empire in the 18th century, just before the European impact, a time when China’s rich and diverse culture was at its height. Then, Wood explores the encounter with the West, the Opium Wars, the clashes with the British, and the extraordinarily rich debates in the late 19th century that pushed China along the path to modernity. Finally, he provides a clear up-to-date account of post-1949 China, including revelations about the 1989 crisis based on newly leaked inside documents, and fresh insights into the new order of President Xi Jinping. All woven together with landscape history and the author’s own travel journals, The Story of China is the indispensable book about the most intriguing and powerful country on the world stage today.
Author : Jacques Gernet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521497817
When published in 1982, this translation of Professor Jacques Gernet's masterly survey of the history and culture of China was immediately welcomed by critics and readers. This revised and updated edition makes it more useful for students and for the general reader concerned with the broad sweep of China's past.
Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 052166991X
A look at the over eight thousand year history and civilization of China.