Paul A. Cohen is Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies and History Emeritus at Wellesley College and an associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. His most recent book is Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China.
发表于2025-03-17
Discovering History in China 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
几点说明: 1,中国中心观属动态观点,强调历史发展中对立事物之间相互作用/相互渗透的现象。 2,历史描绘的精细化使得“区分”的重要性得到彰显,而“综合”却被低估。 3,中国中心观在美国崛起事实上采用了“内部取向”的研究策略。 研究中国近代史时一改之前将西方作为主体...
评分 评分 评分在读这本书之前,多次尝试读汉学家的著作,但是都没有一本是能读到其一半的。往往是书的名字和它的选题很吸引,但是我的思维有点转不过来,还有文字味如嚼蜡,实在是很难坚持。读这本书是因为一位老师的推荐,而且老师还亲自把书借给我,我当然要认认真真的读啦! 这本书我觉得...
评分这本书的封面有一张插图,让我印象深刻。那是一个世界地图的东半球平面图,中国赫然在图画的中间(大约),而图画四周是几个电脑制成的大箭头、小箭头、粗箭头和细箭头,它们的尖端都指向了中国的腹地(确切的讲,我觉得它们指向的是东南亚海域,但是作图者的原本的想法肯定是...
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Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History in China has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has become essential to the study of China from the early nineteenth century to today.
Cohen critiques the work of leading postwar scholars and is especially adamant about not reading China through the lens of Western history. To this end, he uncovers the strong ethnocentric bias pervading the three major conceptual frameworks of American scholarship of the 1950s and 1960s: the impact-response, modernization, and imperialism approaches. In place of these, Cohen favors a "China-centered" approach in which historians understand Chinese history on its own terms, paying close attention to Chinese historical trajectories and Chinese perceptions of their problems, rather than a set of expectations derived from Western history. In an important new introduction, Cohen reflects on his fifty-year career as a historian of China and discusses major recent trends in the field. Although some of these developments challenge a narrowly conceived China-centered approach, insofar as they enable more balanced comparisons between China and the West and recast the Chinese and their history in more human, less exotic terms, they powerfully affirm the central thrust of Cohen's work.
以观光心态读过中文版后这次细读英文版。文笔甚好,想来中文本有不少翻译错漏。书名应为“在中国如何发现/发现了什么近代史的意义”,聚焦于从道光到中共建政前的历史。美国学者强调此段历史中重大变革外来势力真正穿透整个中国地域,加上中国史家所言千古未有之变局,所有研究者都是外部者,甚至可以说对不少研究者来说中国历史是自此启动(得先把此时段中国推入雷达侦测再扩大搜索范围),内部视角、中国中心、长时段视角都不能自外于这些焦点。加之美国学界对明清前中国/中原王朝史研究的薄弱,三大范式、内外分野、中国中心视角的特色等,不仅像柯文所言要结合美国特定时段社会政治状况和学者心态来看,也要结合美国一系列知识社群风向潮流转变和研究议程如何设定来理解“发现”,甚至有时发现和发明的界限很微妙,长时段中各时段也是不均衡的。
评分a good review of Chinese historiography in the U.S.
评分与东南亚历史研究中的autonomous history很像
评分以观光心态读过中文版后这次细读英文版。文笔甚好,想来中文本有不少翻译错漏。书名应为“在中国如何发现/发现了什么近代史的意义”,聚焦于从道光到中共建政前的历史。美国学者强调此段历史中重大变革外来势力真正穿透整个中国地域,加上中国史家所言千古未有之变局,所有研究者都是外部者,甚至可以说对不少研究者来说中国历史是自此启动(得先把此时段中国推入雷达侦测再扩大搜索范围),内部视角、中国中心、长时段视角都不能自外于这些焦点。加之美国学界对明清前中国/中原王朝史研究的薄弱,三大范式、内外分野、中国中心视角的特色等,不仅像柯文所言要结合美国特定时段社会政治状况和学者心态来看,也要结合美国一系列知识社群风向潮流转变和研究议程如何设定来理解“发现”,甚至有时发现和发明的界限很微妙,长时段中各时段也是不均衡的。
评分the first English book I read.
Discovering History in China 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书