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Product Description: When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering. During World War II, the French took comfort in the story of Joan of Arc and her heroic efforts to rid France of foreign occupation...read more
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9780231166362 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 29, 2014, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering.
Product Description: 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...read more
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9780231151924, titled "Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past" | Columbia Univ Pr, April 15, 2010, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Since its first publication, Paul A.
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9780231151931, titled "Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past" | Columbia Univ Pr, April 15, 2010, cover price $32.00
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.
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9780415298223 | Routledge, August 1, 2003, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject.
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9780415298230 | Routledge, June 1, 2003, cover price $68.95
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9780203403297 | Routledge, June 18, 2004, cover price $59.95
History in Three Keys juxtaposes the accounts of historians with those of participants and witnesses and sets these perspectives against the range of popular myths that were fashioned about the Boxers. The first part of the book tells the story of the Boxer uprising as reconstructed by historians. 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. Finally, in Part Three, Cohen examines the myths surrounding the uprising in twentieth-century China - and, to a lesser extent, the West - as symbolic representations designed less to elucidate the Boxer past than to draw energy from it in the present.
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9780231106504 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: History in Three Keys juxtaposes the accounts of historians with those of participants and witnesses and sets these perspectives against the range of popular myths that were fashioned about the Boxers.
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9780231106511 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $35.00
Product Description: Benjamin Schwartz taught at Harvard from 1950 until his retirement in 1987. Through his teaching and writing, he became a major force in the field of Chinese studies, setting standardsâabove all in the area of intellectual historyâthat have been a source of inspiration to students and scholars worldwide...read more
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9780674442252 | Harvard Univ Council on East Asian, August 20, 1990, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Benjamin Schwartz taught at Harvard from 1950 until his retirement in 1987.
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9780674068766 | Harvard Univ Council on East Asian, January 1, 1988, cover price $21.00
Product Description: Serious study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Chinese history did not really get under way in the United States until after World War II. Since then, scholarly publication has proliferated and a genuine professional fieldâby far the largest and most active in the Westâhas taken shape...read more
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9780231058100 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 1984, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Since its first publication, Paul A.
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9780231058117 | 2 edition (Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 1985), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Serious study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Chinese history did not really get under way in the United States until after World War II.
China and Christianity; The Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism, 1860-1870.
Product Description: In February 1967, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, the American Society of International Law organized a study panel of legal scholars, social scientists, lawyers, and government officials to consider problems relating to "China and International Order...read more
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9780674117013 | Univ Microfilms Inc, June 1, 1963, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In February 1967, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, the American Society of International Law organized a study panel of legal scholars, social scientists, lawyers, and government officials to consider problems relating to "China and International Order.
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