Title: China and the vocation of history in the twentieth century : a personal memoir /
Authors: Mote, Frederick W., 1922-
Publisher: East Asian Library Journal In association with Princeton University Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Mote, Frederick W., Travel China.; Mote, Frederick W., Travel China.; Sinologists United States Biography.; China History Historiography.; China Intellectual life
Abstract: Here, Frederick Mote, one of the 20th century's most prominent Sinologists, has written a historian's memoir that uses observation and personal experiences to understand the intellectual and social transformation of China.
Contents: Preface / Michael Gasster -- Foreword: the nature of Chinese history -- Getting there -- The university environment in Nanjing, 1947-1948 -- Intellectual tumult, 1890s to 1940s -- The field of historical studies at Midcentury : the broad spectrum on intellectual orientations -- Appendix 1: Systematic destruction of a large Catholic center by the Communists at Hsienhsien, Hopei Province, China -- Appendix 2: Gu Jiegang and Liu Yizheng -- Appendix 3: Translation of the Introduction to Gu Jiegang's Chinese history studies in our time -- Addendum 1: Cosmogonic myths of early China and among its border peoples in later times -- keys to the origins of culture -- Addendum 2: Random recollections of the Junior Sinologues Meeting, Leiden, mid-September, 1995 -- Addendum 3: China in 1950 and China in 1974 : some superficial observations on the changes of a quarter century -- Addendum 4: East Asian studies at Princeton -- view from the beginnings.