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L-G-0008437360-0017429191.Pdf Heilongjiang Inner Mongolia Jilin Xinjiang Liaoning Dunhuang Gansu Beijing Hebei Tianjin Shanxi Ningxia Shandong Qinghai Xi’an (Chang’an) Henan Shaanxi Jiangsu Anhui Tibet Sichuan Wuhan Shanghai Chongqing Jinhua Hunan Jiangxi Guizhou Fujian Taibei Yunnan Guangzhou Taiwan Hong Kong 0 500 1000 1500 2000 Km Hainan Modern China. Map by Lex Berman. A Companion to Chinese History WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO HISTORY This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of the scholarship that has shaped our current understanding of the past. Defined by theme, period and/or region, each volume comprises between twenty-five and forty concise essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. The aim of each contribution is to synthesize the current state of scholarship from a variety of historical perspectives and to provide a statement on where the field is heading. 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Po-chia Hsia A Companion to Chinese History A Companion to Europe Since 1945 Edited by Michael Szonyi Edited by Klaus Larres A Companion TO CHINESE History Edited by Michael Szonyi This edition first published 2017 © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Registered Office John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK Editorial Offices 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148‐5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services, and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at www.wiley.com/wiley‐blackwell. The right of Michael Szonyi to be identified as the author of the editorial material in this work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. 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Identifiers: LCCN 2016025375 (print) | LCCN 2016025451 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118624609 (cloth) | ISBN 9781118624548 (pdf) | ISBN 9781118624579 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: China–History. | China–Historiography. Classification: LCC DS735 .C575 2016 (print) | LCC DS735 (ebook) | DDC 951–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016025375 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Cover image: China: ‘Qingming Shang Tu’or ‘Along the River During the Qingming Festival’ (detail), Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145) original scroll painting dating from the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) / Pictures from History / Bridgeman Images Set in 10/12pt Galliard by SPi Global, Pondicherry, India 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xv 1 Introduction 1 Michael Szonyi PART I STATES OF THE FIELD 9 2 How Do We Know What We Know about Chinese History? 11 Endymion Wilkinson 3 Chinese History in China: The State of the Field (1980s–2010s) 28 May‐bo Ching 4 Chinese History in Japan: The State of the Field 44 Shiba Yoshinobu 5 Chinese History in Europe: The State of the Field 53 Harriet Zurndorfer 6 Chinese History in the Era of the China Dream 64 Geremie R. Barmé and Michael Szonyi 7 Chinese History in World History 71 Gregory Blue PART II CHRONOLOGIES 87 8 Early China in Eurasian History 89 Michael Puett 9 Was Medieval China Medieval? (Post‐Han to Mid‐Tang) 106 Charles Holcombe viii CONTENTS 10 A Tang–Song Turning Point 118 Nicolas Tackett 11 Periods of Non-Han Rule 129 Michal Biran 12 Song to Qing: Late Imperial or Early Modern? 143 R. Kent Guy 13 Nineteenth‐Century China: The Evolution of American Historical Approaches 154 Paul A. Cohen 14 Republican History 168 Janet Y. Chen 15 Rethinking the History of Maoist China 179 S.A. Smith 16 The Reform Era as History 191 Timothy Cheek PART III THEMES AND APPROACHES 205 17 Women, Gender, the Family, and Sexuality 207 Weijing Lu 18 History of Premodern Chinese Literature 221 Graham Sanders 19 Modern Chinese Literature 235 David Der‐wei Wang 20 The Environmental History of China: Past, Present, and Future 252 Peter C. Perdue 21 Science, Technology, and Medicine 265 Carla Nappi 22 Legal History 277 William P. Alford and Eric T. Schluessel 23 Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Identity in the Study of Modern China 290 Thomas S. Mullaney 24 The Religious Core of Local Social Organization 304 Barend J. ter Haar 25 Beyond the Great Divergence: Current Scholarship on the Economic History of Premodern China 315 Richard von Glahn 26 Taiwan: Margin, Center, Node 327 Shelley Rigger CONTENTS ix 27 Chinese Migrations 343 Henry S.N. Yu 28 China in the World: Beyond the Tribute System 360 John E. Wills, Jr. Glossary of Selected Terms 372 References 378 Index 437 Notes on Contributors William P. Alford is the Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies, and Director of the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. He is the author of To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization (1995), editor of Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal Profession in East Asia (2007), and co‐editor of A Study of Legal Mechanisms to Protect Persons with Disabilities (2008, in Chinese) and Prospects for the Professions in China (2011). He also chairs the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and has been an honorary faculty member of several Chinese universities. Geremie R. Barmé is an independent historian, cultural critic, filmmaker, translator and web‐journal editor who has worked on Chinese cultural and intellectual history from the early modern period (1600s) to the present. He founded the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW)
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