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.
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.
發表於2024-11-21
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「五十年代和六十年代美國史傢解釋鴉片戰爭(1839-1842)到義和團起義(1899-1900)這段曆史時,在很大程度上藉助瞭‘西方衝擊’與‘中國迴應’這兩個概念。這一理論框架所依據的前提假設是:就19世紀的大部分情況而言,左右中國曆史的最重要影響是與西方的對抗。這種提法又意...
評分幾點說明: 1,中國中心觀屬動態觀點,強調曆史發展中對立事物之間相互作用/相互滲透的現象。 2,曆史描繪的精細化使得“區分”的重要性得到彰顯,而“綜閤”卻被低估。 3,中國中心觀在美國崛起事實上采用瞭“內部取嚮”的研究策略。 研究中國近代史時一改之前將西方作為主體...
評分一本係統反思美國的中國史研究特彆是中國近代史研究的書,作者在批評瞭衝擊—迴應模式、現代化模式和帝國主義模式之後,提齣應該改變這三種模式所共有的缺陷,就是西方中心觀的中國史研究,而應該采取中國中心觀。換言之,從“局外人”的視角嚮“局內人”轉變。 先放下中國中心...
評分在讀這本書之前,多次嘗試讀漢學傢的著作,但是都沒有一本是能讀到其一半的。往往是書的名字和它的選題很吸引,但是我的思維有點轉不過來,還有文字味如嚼蠟,實在是很難堅持。讀這本書是因為一位老師的推薦,而且老師還親自把書藉給我,我當然要認認真真的讀啦! 這本書我覺得...
評分圖書標籤: 海外中國研究 曆史 柯文 Cohen History 中國近代史 中國中心觀 中國
終於讀英文本瞭,雖然現在不贊同他的觀點,但是發現柯文的文筆極佳,簡直可以當做REVIEW ARTICLE的範本。
評分為看待Chinese modernity提供新的視角
評分Awesome! A histographical research, not history per se.
評分與東南亞曆史研究中的autonomous history很像
評分這個話題的書竟然是97年齣版的,不禁讓人感嘆我們現在所處的年代已經遠不是21世紀初瞭。迴憶迴憶2000年人們在想什麼也是挺有意思的。
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