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Telling Chinese History

A Selection of Essays
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2009

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This superb collection of essays on late imperial and modern Chinese history spans the brilliant forty-year career of the late Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Appearing for the first time in one volume, the essays offer richly textured narratives of critical historical events as well as sweeping analyses of China's place in world history. They take us from the late Ming dynasty to the People's Republic—delving into complex issues of Confucianism and intellectual history, the nitty-gritty details of Jiangyin localism, wartime Shanghai, and more. Always there is engagement with the larger concerns of history and the social sciences: the public sphere, rebellion and revolution, the world crisis of the seventeenth century, and the influence of imperialism.

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Wakeman Frederic :

Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. (1937-2006) was Professor of Chinese History and Haas Professor of Asian Studies in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his many books is The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China (UC Press).

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Preface

    xi
    Lea H. Wakeman
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    Frederic Wakeman’s Oeuvre in the Framework of World and Comparative History

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    S. N. Eisenstadt
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    Navigating History: Voyages

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  • Part One. China in the Context of World History
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    1. China and the Seventeenth-Century World Crisis

    27
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    2. The Chinese Mirror: Universal Values and Particular Societies

    44
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  • Part Two. The Ming-Qing Period
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    3. The Shun Interregnum of 1644

    59
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    4. Romantics, Stoics, and Martyrs in Seventeenth- Century China

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    5. The Price of Autonomy: Intellectuals in Ming and Qing Politics

    135
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    6. Localism and Loyalism during the Qing Conquest of Jiangnan: The Tragedy of Jiangyin

    174
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  • Part Three. Shanghai in the Republic Period
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    7. Licensing Leisure: The Chinese Nationalists’ Attempt to Regulate Shanghai, 1927–1949

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    8. Shanghai Smuggling

    248
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  • Part Four. The Historiography of Chinese History
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    9. The Use and Abuse of Ideology in the Study of Contemporary China

    285
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    10. Chinese Archives and American Scholarship on Modern Chinese History

    315
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  • Part Five. Modernity and State
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    11. Civil Society in Late Imperial and Modern China

    333
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    12. Drury’s Occupation of Macao and China’s Response to Early Modern Imperialism

    359
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    13. Models of Historical Change: The Chinese State and Society, 1839–1989

    370
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    14. Reflection: Telling Chinese History

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    Appendix: Books by Frederic E. Wakeman Jr.

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    Acknowledgments

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    Index

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9780520943513
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https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520943513
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Keywords for this book
imperial china; modern china; chinese history; china; ming dynasty; peoples republic; confucianism; jiangyin localism; shanghai; war; occupation; imperialism; emperor; nonfiction; rebellion; revolution; manchu; imperial court; social history; nationalism; resistance; politics; mao; communism; capitalism; peasants; race; ethnicity; asian history; east asia; asia; history
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