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Zusatztext "[Cohen] has not disappointed." Informationen zum Autor Paul A. Cohen is Professor of History Emeritus at Wellesley College and Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies! Harvard University. His books include Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past and History in Three Keys: The Boxers as event! Experience and Myth. Klappentext "Paul Cohen shows us again how a master historian works."-Timothy Brook! Professor of History! University of Oxford "An important work for understanding modern China's desire to shake off its 'century of shame.' It takes us to a deeper level of understanding China's sometimes fragile national psyche."-Ian Johnson! The Wall Street Journal "Like all of Cohen's work! this is a stunningly insightful analysis. It is! without exaggeration! a tour de force! opening up a new world for understanding Chinese political culture. The book is extraordinarily important."-Keith Schoppa! author of Blood Road: The Mystery of Shen Dingyi in Revolutionary China Zusammenfassung The ancient story of King Goujian, a psychologically complex fifth-century BCE monarch, spoke powerfully to the Chinese during China's turbulent twentieth century. This title connects the story to the major traumas of the last century, exploring why such stories often remain sealed up within a culture, unknown to outsiders. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Foreword Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Goujian Story in Antiquity 2. The Burden of National Humiliation: Late Qing and Republican Years 3. The Plight of Chiang Kai-shek's Taiwan 4. Crisis and Response: The Woxin changdan Fever of the Early 1960s 5. Political Allegory in the 1980s: Xiao Jun and Bai Hua 6. The Goujian Story in a Privatizing China Conclusion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Notes Character List Bibliography Index ...
