History in Three Keys
The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth
Will be published approx. on 11. March 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
428 pages
978-0-231-10651-1 (ISBN)
Description
A comprehensive look at the Boxer Rebellion of 1898-1900, a bloody uprising in north China against native Christians and foreign missionaries.
Reviews / Votes
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 JournalMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
36 photos
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
610 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-10651-1 (9780231106511)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
01/1997
Columbia University Press
€123.80
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Person
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).
Content
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Part I. The Boxers as Event Prologue: The Historically Reconstructed Past 1. The Boxer Uprising: A Narrative History Part 2: The Boxers as Experience Prologue: The Experience Past 2. Drought and the Foreign Presence 3. Mass Spirit Possession 4. Magic and Female Pollution 5. Rumor and Rumor Panic 6. Death Part 3: The Boxers as Myth Prologue: The Mythologized Past 7. The New Culture Movement and the Boxers 8. Anti-Imperialism and the Recasting of the Boxer Myth 9. The Cultural Revolution and the Boxers Conclusion Abbreciations Notes Glossary Bibliography Index