Remapping China. Fissures in Historical Terrain.
Stanford. Stanford University Press. 1996. Stock ID #137906 Collection of eighteen essays which trace the intellectual trajectory of the field of modern Chinese history over the past two decades. The essays in this volume reflect the efforts of a generation of China historians, focusing on three main themes: the historicising of the body, which followed from the inclusion of the first women and then of gender issues as appropriate topics for historical study; a shift in the significance of geographic, regional, and ethnic boundaries; and the reconfiguration of familiar signposts in mapping revolution that in effect declared independence from a 1949-centered axis. When referring to this item please quote stockid 137906.
xiii + 333pp, notes, paperback, very good copy.
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