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.
这本书的封面有一张插图,让我印象深刻。那是一个世界地图的东半球平面图,中国赫然在图画的中间(大约),而图画四周是几个电脑制成的大箭头、小箭头、粗箭头和细箭头,它们的尖端都指向了中国的腹地(确切的讲,我觉得它们指向的是东南亚海域,但是作图者的原本的想法肯定是...
评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...
评分 评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...
the first English book I read.
评分Awesome! A histographical research, not history per se.
评分与东南亚历史研究中的autonomous history很像
评分China-centered approach...
评分与东南亚历史研究中的autonomous history很像
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