<i>Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past</i>, by Paul A. Cohen

Chen, Minsun

doi:10.3138/cjh.20.1.162

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“…(Liu [Ryū] 2000). For studies examining the fragmented, multiple, and multilayered forms of semicolonial domination that lacks institutionalized colonialism in most parts of China, showing the partial and limited power of imperialists in China, see Cohen (1984), Duara (1995, 224), andShih (2001). For Shanghai's cosmopolitanism as a consequence of semicolonial cultural conditions that go beyond the dictates of nationalism, see Bergère (1981) and Shih (2001).…”

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The Afterlives of An Chunggŭn in Republican China: From Sinocentric Appropriation to a Rupture in Nationalism

Han¹

2016

Cross-Currents

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This article examines Sino-Korean cultural relations in the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on representations of Korean anticolonial activist An Chunggŭn's assassination of Japanese prime minister Itō Hirobumi (1909). Two different junctures in particular are considered: the release of the film Patriotic Spirit by Chŏng Kitak in 1928 and the Wanbaoshan Incident in 1931. Patriotic Spirit, a transnational dramatization of An's story, was the first Chinese film directed by a Korean; the Wanbaoshan Incident was a violent conflict between Chinese and Koreans caused by the unofficial "discord-provoking policy" of the Japanese empire. The article tracks changes in Chinese responses to An's story before and after these two junctures, showing that Patriotic Spirit subtly communicated transnationalism while also catering to the Sinocentric taste of Chinese audiences. It also examines how Chinese print media in 1928 appropriated Patriotic Spirit for nationalist ends. Following the Wanbaoshan Incident, An's story resurfaced in China. Despite heightened anti-Korean sentiment in China at this time, An avoided Chinese condemnation because the Chinese unwittingly categorized him as Korean yet not Korean. Hence, while An's story became integrated into Chinese discourse, this study reveals, the sign of An Chunggŭn caused a rupture in the Han/non-Han divide embedded in Republican-era Chinese nationalism.

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The Afterlives of An Chunggŭn in Republican China: From Sinocentric Appropriation to a Rupture in Nationalism

Han¹

2016

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“…In the 1980s, Paul Cohen, a student of John Fairbank, attempted to go beyond Fairbank's "impact-response" paradigm and proposed a "China-centered approach" to the study of modern Chinese history (Cohen 1984). Daniel Bays adopted this China-centered approach to the study of Chinese Christianity and China's Christian universities, collecting valuable papers for his two books, Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present and China's Christian Colleges: Cross-cultural Connections 1900-1950(Bays 1996Bays and Widmer 2009).…”

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Reconceptualizing the Study of Christian Universities in the Republican Era in Today’s China

2024

Religions

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Why study China’s Christian universities in the Republican era today? Christian universities were brought by Western missionaries and evolved as an educational system in China at the beginning of the 20th century. They were eliminated during the restructuring of the Chinese higher education system in the early 1950s; however, Deng Xiaoping’s reform policies in the 1980s brought profound changes in China, encouraging Chinese scholars to bring back pre-1949 Christian higher education in China. Since then, new approaches and reconceptualizations have been developed, such as in the fields of Eastern–Western cultural exchange, interdisciplinary studies (from xixue to guoxue), and the adaptation of global and local perspectives. This paper is an attempt to report how the reconceptualizations of China’s Christian universities in the Republican era were brought about in the various processes of indigenization, contextualization, internationalization, Asianization, and Sinicization, with the subsequent development of a new legacy moving toward the Sinicization of Christian universities.

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“…Interestingly, these scholars also largely affirm the existence of various "Chinese versions of the public sphere," which, unsurprisingly, has sparked scrutiny and criticisms, such as from Kuhn (1992), Wakeman (1993) and Huang (1993). These critics, primarily adopting a postcolonial viewpoint (Cohen 1984), accuse their colleagues of retrofitting a celebrated, and perhaps morally desirable, Western theory to cherry-picking evidence from China, while overlooking the country's more pressing and concrete local problems, which can only be understood in the context of its unique historical trajectory. Nevertheless, for a broader readership, the works of Schoppa, Rowe, Rankin, and the like have received considerable praise, even if not everyone endorses their conclusions.…”

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Habermas Meets China: The Legacy of the Late Qing/Early Republican “Public Sphere” on the Modern Chinese Social Imaginary

2023

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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The debate over the existence of a “public sphere” in China’s Late Qing/Early Republican era began nearly three decades ago, but it has yet to generate a special socio-cultural review on the “Confucian social imaginary” of the Chinese people. The article builds on existing “economic-political approach” and “idea-communication approach” to argue decisive factors hindering the development of a Habermasian “public sphere.” These includes (1) people’s traditional-collectivist lifestyle, (2) lack of understanding of “universal equality,” (3) conservative self-positioning during social transition, (4) regionalist attitude toward outsiders, (5) lack of access to Enlightenment ideas, (6) disregard for parliamentary systems, and (7) ignorance of the rule of law.

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Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past, by Paul A. Cohen

Cited by 7 publications

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The Afterlives of An Chunggŭn in Republican China: From Sinocentric Appropriation to a Rupture in Nationalism

The Afterlives of An Chunggŭn in Republican China: From Sinocentric Appropriation to a Rupture in Nationalism

Reconceptualizing the Study of Christian Universities in the Republican Era in Today’s China

Habermas Meets China: The Legacy of the Late Qing/Early Republican “Public Sphere” on the Modern Chinese Social Imaginary

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