History In Three Keys [Hardcover]

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).A comprehensive look at the Boxer Rebellion of 1898-1900, a bloody uprising in north China against native Christians and foreign missionaries.The most adventurous writing on modern Chinese history currently available.An extraordinary book. It is breathtaking, bold in concept, innovative in methodology, provocative at times, and eminently readable.Cohen offers excellent insight into the idiosyncratics of the Boxer movement, including its ideas, origins, rituals, and development.... Highly recommended.List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. The Boxers as Event
Prologue: The Historically Reconstructed Past
1. The Boxer Uprising: A Narrative History
Part 2: The Boxers as Experience
Prologue: The Experience Past
2. Drought and the Foreign Presence
3. Mass Spirit Possession
4. Magic and Female Pollution
5. Rumor and Rumor Panic
6. Death
Part 3: The Boxers as Myth
Prologue: The Mythologized Past
7. The New Culture Movement and the Boxers
8. Anti-Imperialism and the Recasting of the Boxer Myth
9. The Cultural Revolution and the Boxers
Conclusion
Abbreciations
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index