Telling Chinese history
Subtitle: a selection of essays
By: Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. ; edited by Lea H. Wakeman.
Contributors: Wakeman, Lea H.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9780520256057; 9780520256064
Subjects: China -- History
Notes: Includes list of author's publications and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Lea Wakeman; title: Frederic Wakeman's oeuvre in the framework of world and comparative history / S. N. Eisenstadt; title: Navigating history: voyages; title: Part One: China in the context of world history; title: China and the seventeenth-century world crisis / The Chinese mirror: universal values and particular societies; title: Part Two: The Ming-Qing period; title: The Shun interregnum of 1644; title: Romantics, stoics, and martyrs in seventeenth-century China; title: The price of autonomy: intellectuals in Ming and Qing politics; title: Localism and loyalism during the Qing conquest of Jiangnan: the tragedy of Jiangyin; title: Part Three: Shanghai in the Republic period; title: Licensing leisure: the Chinese Nationalists' attempt to regulate Shanghai, 1927-1949; title: Shanghai smuggling; title: Part Four: Historiography of Chinese history; title: The use and abuse of ideology in the study of China; title: Chinese archives and American scholarship on modern Chinese history; title: Part Five: Modernity and state; title: Civil society in late imperial and modern China; title: Drury's occupation of Macao and China's response to early modern imperialism; title: Models of historical change: the Chinese state and; title: Society, 1938-1989; title: Reflection: telling Chinese history.