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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Cohen, Paul A. (1934-....)
Titre(s) : A Path twice traveled [Texte imprimé] : my journey as a historian of China / Paul A. Cohen
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University,
copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-303 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"In this memoir, Paul A. Cohen, one of the West's preeminent historians of China,
traces the development of his work from its inception in the early 1960s to the present,
offering fresh perspectives that consistently challenge us to think more deeply about
China and the historical craft in general. A memoir, of course, is itself a form of
history. But for a historian, writing a memoir on one's career is quite different
from the creation of that career in the first place. This is what Cohen alludes to
in the title A Path Twice Traveled. The title highlights the important disparity between
the past as originally experienced and the past as later reconstructed, by which point
both the historian and the world have undergone extensive change. This distinction,
which conveys nicely the double meaning of the word history, is very much on Cohen's
mind throughout the book. He returns to it explicitly in the memoir's final chapter,
appropriately titled 'Then and Now: The Two Histories.'" -- Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Historiographie -- Chine -- 1945-....
Historiens -- États-Unis -- 1945-....
Genre ou forme : Autobiographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
951.007 202 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Chine - Historiens et historiographes
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674237292. - ISBN 0674237293 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45792581x
Notice n° :
FRBNF45792581
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Table des matières : Beginnings ; Wang Tao: the problem of change in the Late Qing ; The next step:
discovering history in China ; Discovering history in China: the back story ; Limits
of the China-centered approach ; A multiplicity of pasts: history in three keys
; History in three keys: research, writing, and publishing history ; From boxers
to King Goujian: surprise developments ; The problem of insideness vs. outsideness:
speaking to history ; The power of story: history and popular memory ; Then and
now: the two histories.
