Speaking to history
Subtitle: the story of King Goujian in twentieth-century China
By: Paul A. Cohen ; with a foreword by John R. Gillis.
Series: Asia--local studies/global themes -- 16
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780520255791
Subjects: Goujian, -- d. 465 B.C; China -- History -- 20th century
Other titles: Story of King Goujian in twentieth-century China
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Goujian story in antiquity; title: The burden of national humiliation: late Qing and republican years; title: The plight of Chiang Kai-shek's Taiwan; title: Crisis and response: the Woxin changdan fever of the early 1960s; title: Political allegory in the 1980s: Xiao Jun and Bai Hua; title: The Goujian story in a privatizing China; title: Conclusion: cross-cultural perspectives.