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Windows on the Chinese World

Reflections by Five Historians
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Each chapter of this collection addresses a problem in Chinese history that is both interesting and important, as well as offering new ideas and interpretations, plus a methodological example that might inspire other scholars. There is a wide temporal span among the chapters, which take in early, medieval, and late imperial China. There is also a broad range of topics covered, including gender, society, archaeology, historiography, demography, intellectual thought, art, science, and technology. One chapter introduces the use of a kind of data completely new to the field of Chinese studies and develops the combination of old and new methods required to make sense of them, and the findings offer new challenges to economic, social, and medical historians. Another chapter invites us to rethink the reasons why "the woman question" emerged so suddenly, and to ask how conditions changed after 1898 to so radically alter views of women's place. Yet another reconsiders the rapid industrialization of Europe in the nineteenth century in light of the slower but equally extraordinary rise of modern Chinese machine-driven industry after 1860. The collective nature of this volume and the variety of its approaches and topics, plus the high quality of each chapter, make it accessible to scholars in a wide range of intellectual fields who may use from one to all chapters.

Author Biography:

Clara Wing-chung Ho is a professor in the Department of History at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Release date Australia
December 16th, 2008
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Contributions by Benjamin A. Elman
  • Contributions by Edward L. Shaughnessy
  • Contributions by Josephine Fox
  • Contributions by Mark Elvin
  • Contributions by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
  • Contributions by Susan L. Mann
  • Edited by Clara Wing-Chung Ho
Pages
156
Dimensions
162x242x16
ISBN-13
9780739127698
Product ID
3232815

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