TELLING CHINESE HISTORY A SELECTION OF ESSAYS by FREDERIC E.WAKEMAN, Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr., edited by Lea H. Wakeman, Wakeman Jr., Frederic ISBN 9780520256064, 9780520256057, 0520256050, 0520256069 instant download

TELLING CHINESE HISTORY A SELECTION OF ESSAYS by FREDERIC E.WAKEMAN, Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr., edited by Lea H. Wakeman, Wakeman Jr., Frederic ISBN 9780520256064, 9780520256057, 0520256050, 0520256069 instant download

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. Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. ; Selected And Edited By Lea H. Wakeman. A Philip E. Lilienthal Book--prelim. P. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Books By Frederic E. Wakeman Jr.: P. 431. 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…