History in Three Keys

The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-231-10651-1
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

A comprehensive look at the Boxer Rebellion of 1898-1900, a bloody uprising in north China against native Christians and foreign missionaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgments

PART I. THE BOXERS AS EVENT

Prologue: The Historically Reconstructed Past1. The Boxer Uprising: A Narrative History

PART 2: THE BOXERS AS EXPERIENCE

Prologue: The Experience Past2. Drought and the Foreign Presence3. Mass Spirit Possession 4. Magic and Female Pollution 5. Rumor and Rumor Panic6. Death

PART 3: THE BOXERS AS MYTH

Prologue: The Mythologized Past7. The New Culture Movement and the Boxers8. Anti-Imperialism and the Recasting of the Boxer Myth9. The Cultural Revolution and the Boxers

ConclusionAbbreciationsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Paul A. Cohen is Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies and History at Wellesley College and an associate at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University. His publications include the award-winning Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past (Columbia).