Speaking to History The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China

Name: Speaking to History The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China
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ISBN: 9780520265837

ISBN-10: 0520265831

ISBN-13: 9780520265837

Edition: 2010

Authors: Paul A. Cohen, John Gillis

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Book details

Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/11/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

John R. Gillis is the author of Islands of the Mind; A World of Their Own Making: Myth Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values; and Commemorations. A professor of history emeritus at Rutgers University, he now divides his time between two coasts: Northern California and Maine.



List of Illustrations


Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments



The Goujian Story in Antiquity



The Burden of National Humiliation: Late Qing and Republican Years



The Plight of Chiang Kai-shek's Taiwan



Crisis and Response: The Woxin changdan Fever of the Early 1960s



Political Allegory in the 1980s: Xiao Jun and Bai Hua



The Goujian Story in a Privatizing China


Conclusion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives


Notes


Character List


Bibliography


Index