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Telling Chinese history : a selection of essays / Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. ; selected and edited by Lea H. Wakeman

Author
Wakeman, Frederic E.
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
xix, 453 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Creators
Liang, He.

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Contents
Preface / Lea H. Wakeman -- Frederic Wakeman's oeuvre in the framework of world and comparative history / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Navigating history: voyages -- China in the context of world history -- China and the seventeenth-century world crisis -- The Chinese mirror : universal values and particular societies -- The Ming-Qing period -- The Shun interregnum of 1644 -- Romantics, stoics, and martyrs in seventeenth-century China -- The price of autonomy : intellectuals in Ming and Qing politics -- Localism and loyalism during the Qing conquest of Jiangnan : the tragedy of Jiangyin -- Shanghai in the Republic period -- Licensing leisure : the Chinese Nationalists' attempt to regulate Shanghai, 1927-1949 -- Shanghai smuggling -- The historiography of Chinese history -- The use and abuse of ideology in the study of contemporary China -- Chinese archives and American scholarship on modern Chinese history -- Modernity and state -- Civil society in late imperial and modern China -- Drury's occupation of Macao and China's response to early modern imperialism -- Models of historical change : the Chinese state and society, 1938-1989 -- Reflection : telling Chinese history.
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9780520256057 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520256050 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520256064 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520256069 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Note
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Prelim. p.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Books by Frederic E. Wakeman Jr.": page 431.
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