Speaking to History : The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China

作者：PaulA.Cohen

出版社：UniversityofCaliforniaPress

副标题：TheStoryofKingGoujianinTwentieth-CenturyChina

出版年：2008-11-3

页数：384

定价：USD50.00

装帧：Hardcover

ISBN：9780520255791

内容简介
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The ancient story of King Goujian, a psychologically complex fifth-century BCE monarch, spoke powerfully to the Chinese during China’s turbulent twentieth century. Yet most Americans—even students and specialists of this era—have never heard of Goujian. In Speaking to History, Paul A. Cohen opens this previously missing (to the West) chapter of China’s recent history. He connects the story to each of the major traumas of the last century, tracing its versatility as a source of inspiration and hope and elegantly exploring, on a more general level, why such stories often remain sealed up within a culture, unknown to outsiders. Labeling this phenomenon “insider cultural knowledge,” Cohen investigates the relationship between past story and present reality. He inquires why at certain moments in their collective lives peoples are especially drawn to narratives from the distant past that resonate strongly with their current circumstances, and why the Chinese have returned over and over to a story from twenty-five centuries ago. In this imaginative stitching of story to history, Cohen reveals how the shared narratives of a community help to define its culture and illuminate its history.

作者简介
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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.

目录
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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

评论 ······

对于历史记忆的主流言说已经是相当程式化了。关键地是作者处理的水平

想翻译。

當年關注Paul Cohen的時候讀的。但沒想到連這種書的書評都會被豆娘審查。

从研究方法上看，是《历史三调》最后一部分的充分发挥。虽然大致结论一看即知，但是依然具有很强的现实意义，毕竟现在历史的最大作用就是为现实“背书”。

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