Format:
1 Online-Ressource (478 pages)
ISBN:
9781118624579
Series Statement:
Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History Series
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One Introduction -- Conventions -- Part I States of the Field -- Chapter Two How Do We Know What We Know about Chinese History? -- Introduction -- I. Paleontology and archaeology -- II. The writing of history -- III. Transmitted texts -- IV. New sources -- V. Digitization -- VI. The Republic of China (to 1949) -- VII. Post-1978 Chinese historical writing -- Suggestions for further reading -- Archaeology -- Historical sources -- Chapter Three Chinese History in China: The State of the Field (1980s-2010s) -- Introduction -- Social history: Grand narratives versus trivialization -- Regional approach: More than the sum -- Historical anthropology: Till now a happy marriage -- Problematizing "China" -- More "new": New institutional history and new political history -- Generation Y and e-research -- Not yet a conclusion: the "Second Revolution" -- Notes -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Four Chinese History in Japan: The State of the Field -- Written and unwritten laws -- Social and economic history -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Five Chinese History in Europe: The State of the Field -- Highlights of published Chinese historical studies by European authors since 1995 -- Problems and prospects of Chinese historical studies in Europe -- Notes -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Six Chinese History in the Era of the China Dream -- Note -- Suggestions for further reading -- Chapter Seven Chinese History in World History -- What is world history? -- China and world history in the west, World War I to 1978 -- Rethinking China in the PRC's early reform era -- The "new world history" and some alternatives -- A shift of focus in political-economic history: China approaches center stage.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781118624609
Additional Edition:
Print version Szonyi, Michael A Companion to Chinese History Somerset : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2016 ISBN 9781118624609
Language:
English
