A Path Twice Traveled: My Journey as a Historian of China by Cohen, Paul A. NEUF économies

Product Name: A Path Twice Traveled: My Journey as a Historian of China by Cohen, Paul A. NEUF économies
EAN：9780674237292 UPC：9780674237292 ISBN：9780674237292 économies MPN：N/A Format：Paperback, 316 pages
In this memoir, Paul A. Cohen, one of the Wests preeminent historians of China, traces the development of his work from its inception in the early 1960s to the present, offering fresh perspectives that consistently challenge us to think more deeply about China and the historical craft in general. A memoir, of course, is itself a form of history. But for a historian, writing a memoir on ones career is quite different from the creation of that career in the first place. This is what Cohen alludes to in the title A Path Twice Traveled. The title highlights the important disparity between the past as originally experienced and the past as later reconstructed, by which point both the historian and the world have undergone extensive change. This distinction, which conveys nicely the double meaning of the word history, is very much on Cohens mind throughout the book. He returns to it explicitly in the memoirs final chapter, appropriately titled "Then and Now: The Two Histories.".