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2024-05-23
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“不是曆史學傢的人有時以為曆史就是過去的事實。可是曆史學傢應該知道並非如此。當然事實俱在。但它們數量無窮,照例沉默不語,即使一旦開口又往往互相矛盾,甚至無法理解……選擇什麼事實,賦予這些事實以什麼含義,在很大程度上取決於我們提齣的是什麼問題,和我們進行研究...
評分沒有中心的中國中心觀 ——關於近代史研究立場、模式與方式的思考 上世紀八十年代,柯文著作《在中國發現曆史——中國中心觀在美國的興起》在美國齣版,此書在全麵批判戰後美國中國近現代史研究模式的基礎上,係統闡述瞭他所倡導的“中國中心觀”。他指齣戰後美國學者的著作“...
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
為看待Chinese modernity提供新的視角
評分a good review of Chinese historiography in the U.S.
評分以觀光心態讀過中文版後這次細讀英文版。文筆甚好,想來中文本有不少翻譯錯漏。書名應為“在中國如何發現/發現瞭什麼近代史的意義”,聚焦於從道光到中共建政前的曆史。美國學者強調此段曆史中重大變革外來勢力真正穿透整個中國地域,加上中國史傢所言韆古未有之變局,所有研究者都是外部者,甚至可以說對不少研究者來說中國曆史是自此啓動(得先把此時段中國推入雷達偵測再擴大搜索範圍),內部視角、中國中心、長時段視角都不能自外於這些焦點。加之美國學界對明清前中國/中原王朝史研究的薄弱,三大範式、內外分野、中國中心視角的特色等,不僅像柯文所言要結閤美國特定時段社會政治狀況和學者心態來看,也要結閤美國一係列知識社群風嚮潮流轉變和研究議程如何設定來理解“發現”,甚至有時發現和發明的界限很微妙,長時段中各時段也是不均衡的。
評分classic historiography of Chinese history in American scholarship
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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