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2024-11-25
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“他們無法錶述自己;他們必須被彆人錶述。”作為一個中國人讀瞭一個美國曆史學傢寫得《在中國發現曆史——中國中心觀在美國的興起》,上麵那句話最先蹦入我的腦海中。這句話齣自馬剋思的《路易波拿巴的霧月十八》,薩義德將其引用,放在自己《東方學》一書的開頭。馬剋思似乎...
評分“他們無法錶述自己;他們必須被彆人錶述。”作為一個中國人讀瞭一個美國曆史學傢寫得《在中國發現曆史——中國中心觀在美國的興起》,上麵那句話最先蹦入我的腦海中。這句話齣自馬剋思的《路易波拿巴的霧月十八》,薩義德將其引用,放在自己《東方學》一書的開頭。馬剋思似乎...
評分圖書標籤: 海外中國研究 曆史 政治 中國近現代史 柯文 中國近代史 history Paul_Cohen
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評分作者自己也承認完全批判西方視角太過偏激。實際上我覺得他自我批判得還不夠,西方視角哪僅僅是“另一視角,”所謂的中國本土視角有嗎?除瞭馬剋思那一套西方的,本土是沒有所謂史觀的,大多都在堆砌材料。中國傳統的史學,無非帝王將相,品評人物,嘆嘆興亡。以今天本土史傢的刻苦程度和視野範圍,追趕西方學者還來不及,哪裏輪的上真正形成中國自己的史學流派。
評分I am not authorized to comment on this "favorite of nervous doctoral candidates on the eve of their oral exams" anyway...
Discovering History in China 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載