The Resource History in three keys : the boxers as event, experience, and myth, Paul A. Cohen
History in three keys : the boxers as event, experience, and myth, Paul A. Cohen
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- Historical reconstruction is in constant tension with two other more pervasive and influential ways of "knowing" the past - experience and myth. In this long-awaited book, Paul Cohen uses the Boxer uprising of 1898-1900 - a major antiforeign explosion and watershed event in Chinese history - as a vehicle for the skillful illumination of these tensions
- History in Three Keys juxtaposes the accounts of historians with those of participants and witnesses and sets these perspectives against the range of popular myths that were fashioned about the Boxers. The first part of the book tells the story of the Boxer uprising as reconstructed by historians. Part Two explores the thought, feelings, and behavior of the direct participants in the Boxer experience, individuals who, without a preconceived idea of the entire event, understood what was happening to them in a manner fundamentally different from historians. Finally, in Part Three, Cohen examines the myths surrounding the uprising in twentieth-century China - and, to a lesser extent, the West - as symbolic representations designed less to elucidate the Boxer past than to draw energy from it in the present
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xviii, 428 pages
- Contents
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- The Boxer uprising : a narrative history
- Drought and the foreign presence
- Mass spirit possession
- Magic and female pollution
- Rumor and rumor panic
- Death
- The new culture movement and the Boxers
- Anti-imperialism and the recasting of the Boxer myth
- The cultural revolution and the Boxers
- Isbn
- 9780231106504
- Label
- History in three keys : the boxers as event, experience, and myth
- Title
- History in three keys
- Title remainder
- the boxers as event, experience, and myth
- Statement of responsibility
- Paul A. Cohen
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Historical reconstruction is in constant tension with two other more pervasive and influential ways of "knowing" the past - experience and myth. In this long-awaited book, Paul Cohen uses the Boxer uprising of 1898-1900 - a major antiforeign explosion and watershed event in Chinese history - as a vehicle for the skillful illumination of these tensions
- History in Three Keys juxtaposes the accounts of historians with those of participants and witnesses and sets these perspectives against the range of popular myths that were fashioned about the Boxers. The first part of the book tells the story of the Boxer uprising as reconstructed by historians. Part Two explores the thought, feelings, and behavior of the direct participants in the Boxer experience, individuals who, without a preconceived idea of the entire event, understood what was happening to them in a manner fundamentally different from historians. Finally, in Part Three, Cohen examines the myths surrounding the uprising in twentieth-century China - and, to a lesser extent, the West - as symbolic representations designed less to elucidate the Boxer past than to draw energy from it in the present
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cohen, Paul A
- Dewey number
- 951/.035
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DS771
- LC item number
- .C67 1997
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- China
- Label
- History in three keys : the boxers as event, experience, and myth, Paul A. Cohen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-413) and index
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The Boxer uprising : a narrative history -- Drought and the foreign presence -- Mass spirit possession -- Magic and female pollution -- Rumor and rumor panic -- Death -- The new culture movement and the Boxers -- Anti-imperialism and the recasting of the Boxer myth -- The cultural revolution and the Boxers
- Control code
- 35008163
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 428 pages
- Isbn
- 9780231106504
- Lccn
- 96027118
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- History in three keys : the boxers as event, experience, and myth, Paul A. Cohen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-413) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The Boxer uprising : a narrative history -- Drought and the foreign presence -- Mass spirit possession -- Magic and female pollution -- Rumor and rumor panic -- Death -- The new culture movement and the Boxers -- Anti-imperialism and the recasting of the Boxer myth -- The cultural revolution and the Boxers
- Control code
- 35008163
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 428 pages
- Isbn
- 9780231106504
- Lccn
- 96027118
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
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- illustrations
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