China and the vocation of history in the twentieth century
Subtitle: a personal memoir
By: Frederick W. Mote
Publisher: East Asian Library Journal In association with Princeton University Press; Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780691144634
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Michael Gasster; title: Forward: the nature of Chinese history; title: Getting there; title: The university environment in Nanjing, 1947-1948; title: Intellectual tumult, 1890s to 1940s; title: The field of historical studies at Midcentury: the broad spectrum on intellectual orientations; title: Appendix 1: Systematic destruction of a large Catholic center by the Communists at Hsienhsein, Hopei Province, China; title: Appendix 2: Gu Jiegang and Liu Yizheng; title: Appendix 3: Translation of the Introduction to Gu Jiegang's Chinese History Studies in Our Time; title: Addendum 1: Cosmogonic myths of early China and among its border peoples in later times - Keys to the origins of culture; title: Addendum 2: Random recollections of the Junior Sinologues Meeting, Leiden, Mid-September, 1995; title: Addendum 3: China in 1950 and China in 1974: some superficial observations on the changes of a quarter Century; title: Addendum 4: East Asian studies at Princeton - View from the beginnings.