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Book SynopsisA Companion to Chinese History presents a collection of essays offering a comprehensive overview of the latest intellectual developments in the study of China s history from the ancient past up until the present day.
Table of ContentsNotes 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
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
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
