32 research outputs found
Coming to Terms with War: Traumas, Identities, and the Power of Words
No full textIt is a fitting and revealing approach to categorize the phenomenon of war as a historical event, an existential experience, and a base for redemptive mythmaking (as envisioned by Paul Cohen in his History in Three Keys). In their works, historians Tobie Meyer-Fong and Aaron William Moore focus on experience and mythmaking in the Taiping Civil War and the Pacific Theater in World War II, respectively. This review essay highlights these two authors’ treatment of experience, with a brief look at mythmaking..
Population and Marketing Settlements in Ch'ing China. By Gilbert Rozman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. ix, 154 pp. Maps, Tables, Figures, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $34.50.
No full textGoverning China: From Revolution through Reform. By Kenneth Lieberthal. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1995. xix, 498 pages. $30.00.
No full textSchoolhouse Politicians: Locality and State During the Chinese Republic. By Helen R. Chauncey. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992. xi, 300 pp. $38.00.
No full textChinese Democracy. By John H. Fincher. [Canberra: Australian National University Press; London: Croom Helm. 1981. 276 pp. £17·95.]
No full textThe Chinese People at War: Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937–1945. By Diana Lary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiv, 231 pp. 29.95 (cloth).
No full textNative Place, City, and Nation: Regional Networks and Identities in Shanghai, 1853–1937. By Bryna Goodman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 367. $48.00.
No full textShaohsing. By James H. Cole. [Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1986. 315 pp. $21.00.]
No full textTurbulent Decade: A History of the Cultural Revolution. By Yan Jiaqi and Gao Gao. Translated and edited by D. W. Y. Kwok. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996. xxv, 659 pp. $48.00.
No full textNative Place, City, and Nation: Regional Networks and Identities in Shanghai, 1853–1937. By Bryna Goodman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 367. $48.00.
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