China Unbound
Subtitle: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past
Series: Critical Asian scholarship; Critical Asian scholarship
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780203403297
Subjects: China; History
Description: By one of the leading experts on modern Chinese history and historiography, this volume argues for fresh ways of approaching the Chinese past, spotlighting Western historians, Chinese historians, and the history itself.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: China unbound; Wang Tao in a changing world; Moving beyond ~Tradition and Modernity~; New perspectives on the Boxers: the view from anthropology; Boxers, Christians, and the gods: the Boxer conflict of 1900 as a religious war; Ambiguities of a watershed date: the 1949 divide in Chinese history; Remembering and forgetting national humiliation in twentieth-century China; Revisiting Discovering History in China; Three ways of knowing the past; Index.