History in Three Keys - by Paul Cohen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><P>A comprehensive look at the Boxer Rebellion of 1898-1900, a bloody uprising in north China against native Christians and foreign missionaries.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A comprehensive look at the Boxer Rebellion of 1898-1900, a bloody uprising in north China against native Christians and foreign missionaries.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Historical reconstruction is in constant tension with two other more pervasive and influential ways of "knowing" the past - experience and myth. In this long-awaited book, Paul Cohen uses the Boxer uprising of 1898-1900 - a major antiforeign explosion and watershed event in Chinese history - as a vehicle for the skillful illumination of these tensions. History in Three Keys juxtaposes the accounts of historians with those of participants and witnesses and sets these perspectives against the range of popular myths that were fashioned about the Boxers. The first part of the book tells the story of the Boxer uprising as reconstructed by historians. Part Two explores the thought, feelings, and behavior of the direct participants in the Boxer experience, individuals who, without a preconceived idea of the entire event, understood what was happening to them in a manner fundamentally different from historians. Finally, in Part Three, Cohen examines the myths surrounding the uprising in twentieth-century China - and, to a lesser extent, the West - as symbolic representations designed less to elucidate the Boxer past than to draw energy from it in the present.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Cohen offers excellent insight into the idiosyncratics of the Boxer movement, including its ideas, origins, rituals, and development.... Highly recommended.--Library Journal<br><br>The most adventurous writing on modern Chinese history currently available.--History<br><br>An extraordinary book. It is breathtaking, bold in concept, innovative in methodology, provocative at times, and eminently readable.--Edmund S. K. Fung "Asian Studies Review "<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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 <i>Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past</i> (Columbia).
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