The Wobbling Pivot, China Since 1800: China Since 1800: An Interpretive History - Rilegato

Crossley

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ISBN 10: 1405160799 ISBN 13: 9781405160797

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons, 2021

Riassunto

This comprehensive but concise narrative of China since the eighteenth century builds its story around the delicate relationship between central government and local communities.

• Rejects the traditional view of China as a wholly harmonious society based on principles of stability – the Unwobbling Pivot of Ezra Pound's translation of the Chinese classic Zhongyong
• Provides an original interpretation, arguing that developments can be explained through an understanding of China’s surprising swings between centralization and decentralization, between local initiative and central authoritarianism
• Serves as an introduction to the subject, while readers with a background in Chinese history will find the book offers a personal perspective and addresses long-standing interpretive issues
• Supported by a variety of timelines, maps, illustrations, and extensive notes for further reading
• Places China’s history within the context of global change

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Recensione:

"Pamela Crossley, a leading historian of the Qing Empire, has hitupon a genuinely novel and stylish way of telling the story ofChina′s modern transformations. She strikes a good balance betweenoffering up big arguments and supporting them with revealingdetails, and she excels at limning connections between collectiveactions and state responses to unrest two centuries ago andpatterns of protest and repression in the current era of Internetpetitions and text message mobilization. The result is trulyimpressive, a high–level work of synthesis that is informed by deepknowledge of the past yet speaks with immediacy to the concerns ofthe present."
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, University ofCalifornia–Irvine, author of China in the 21st Century: WhatEveryone Needs to Know

"Pamela Crossley′s book gives readers a new and originalperspective on modern Chinese history by moving its focus away fromthe politics of the centre to give us a greater understanding ofhow China′s regions and minorities have shaped this multi–voicedsociety in its transition from empire to nation–state."
Rana Mitter, University of Oxford

"Original, conceptually bold, and unusually engaging. Crossleyoffers her readers a broader and deeper meditation on the shape andsignificance of China s historical trajectory, one that mayindeed make Chinese history more meaningful in the context ofteaching undergraduates."
Bryna Goodman, University of Oregon

"The Wobbling Pivot is refreshingly ambitious in itsinterpretation of the whole scope of Chinese history since 1800.Its analysis of the often disastrous extremes of stateauthoritarianism and local implosion is told with a telling eye fordetail that will grip general readers and specialists alike."
Frank Dikotter, School of Oriental and AfricanStudies, University of London, and the University of Hong Kong

L'autore:

Pamela Kyle Crossley is Professor of Inner Asian, East Asian Intellectual and Chinese History at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Her publications include The Manchus (Blackwell, 1997); A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Ideology (1999); and What is Global History? (2008). She is a past Guggenheim Fellow and was awarded the Levenson Prize from the Association for Asian Studies in 2001. 

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• Editore: John Wiley & Sons
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• ISBN 10: 1405160799
• ISBN 13: 9781405160797
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 32