Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past

Paul A. Cohen

"Every historian of China should read this book. For what Paul A. Cohen has done here is lay bare the hidden assumptions that have informed and skewed much American research on 19th- and 20th-century China. He shows that the questions most American historians have asked about the China past, and consequently the kind of histories they have written, have been determined as much by their own cultural biases as by the historical realities of China itself. . . . A consciousness-raising experience." — American Historical Review

Related Subjects

• Asian History

Series

• Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

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.

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