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History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth
A comprehensive look at the Boxer Rebellion of 1898-1900, a bloody uprising in north China against native Christians and foreign missionaries.
Paul A. Cohen is Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies and History at Wellesley College and an associate at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University. His publications include the award-winning Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past (Columbia).
Book Details
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publish Date: Mar 11st, 1998
- Pages: 450
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.94in - 5.95in - 1.12in - 1.40lb
- EAN: 9780231106511
- Categories: • History• Asia - China
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About the Author
Paul A. Cohen is Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies and History at Wellesley College and an associate at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University. His publications include the award-winning Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past (Columbia).
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The most adventurous writing on modern Chinese history currently available.-- "History"
An extraordinary book. It is breathtaking, bold in concept, innovative in methodology, provocative at times, and eminently readable.--Edmund S. K. Fung "Asian Studies Review"
Cohen offers excellent insight into the idiosyncratics of the Boxer movement, including its ideas, origins, rituals, and development.... Highly recommended.-- "Library Journal"