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New. 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…
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Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past Hardcover - 2010
by Paul Cohen
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- Title Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
- Author Paul Cohen
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date 2010-04
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780231151924 / 0231151926
- Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Library of Congress subjects Historiography - United States, China - History - 19th century -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009040271
- Dewey Decimal Code 951.007
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