Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgments xv
1 Introduction 1Michael Szonyi
Part I States of the Field 9
2 How Do We Know What We Know about Chinese History? 11Endymion Wilkinson
3 Chinese History in China: The State of the Field (1980s–2010s) 28May-bo Ching
4 Chinese History in Japan: The State of the Field 44Shiba Yoshinobu
5 Chinese History in Europe: The State of the Field 53Harriet Zurndorfer
6 Chinese History in the Era of the China Dream 64Geremie R. Barmé and Michael Szonyi
7 Chinese History in World History 71Gregory Blue
Part II Chronologies 87
8 Early China in Eurasian History 89Michael Puett
9 Was Medieval China Medieval? (Post-Han to Mid-Tang) 106Charles Holcombe
10 A Tang–Song Turning Point 118Nicolas Tackett
11 Periods of Non-Han Rule 129Michal Biran
12 Song to Qing: Late Imperial or Early Modern? 143R. Kent Guy
13 Nineteenth-Century China: The Evolution of American Historical Approaches 154Paul A. Cohen
14 Republican History 168Janet Y. Chen
15 Rethinking the History of Maoist China 179S.A. Smith
16 The Reform Era as History 191Timothy Cheek
Part III Themes and Approaches 205
17 Women, Gender, the Family, and Sexuality 207Weijing Lu
18 History of Premodern Chinese Literature 221Graham Sanders
19 Modern Chinese Literature 235David Der-wei Wang
20 The Environmental History of China: Past, Present, and Future 252Peter C. Perdue
21 Science, Technology, and Medicine 265Carla Nappi
22 Legal History 277William P. Alford and Eric T. Schluessel
23 Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Identity in the Study of Modern China 290Thomas S. Mullaney
24 The Religious Core of Local Social Organization 304Barend J. ter Haar
25 Beyond the Great Divergence: Current Scholarship on the Economic History of Premodern China 315Richard von Glahn
26 Taiwan: Margin, Center, Node 327Shelley Rigger
27 Chinese Migrations 343Henry S.N. Yu
28 China in the World: Beyond the Tribute System 360John E. Wills, Jr.
Glossary of Selected Terms 372
References 378
Index 437