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Author: Rebecca E. Karl
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780822363101
ISBN 10: 0822363100
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 03 March 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
An intelligent analysis of important historiographical issues in modern Chinese history. -- Margherita Zanasi * American Historical Review * A challenging and often compelling perspective on modern Chinese history. -- Terry Peach * The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought *
Given the importance and originality of Karl's core argument about the 'repetition' of the 1930s and 1980s/90s, <i>The Magic of Concepts </i>makes a much needed intellectual intervention in debating history and politics in China today. --Lin Chun, author of <i>China and Global Capitalism: Reflections on Marxism, History, and Contemporary Politics</i>
Since The Magic of Concepts came out, I have found myself constantly recommending it to friends and colleagues, and in particular to friends and colleagues who are not scholars of modern China. And not just because I assume all modern China specialists already pay attention to Rebecca Karl's work; rather, it is because she achieves in this book what historians often strive and fail to do, or at least fail to do well-to truly engage the global and the present from the specific geographical and chronological perspective of our chosen historical subjects. -- Fabio Lanza * Journal of Asian Studies * An intelligent analysis of important historiographical issues in modern Chinese history. -- Margherita Zanasi * American Historical Review * A challenging and often compelling perspective on modern Chinese history. -- Terry Peach * The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought *
Given the importance and originality of Karl's core argument about the 'repetition' of the 1930s and 1980s/90s, <i>The Magic of Concepts </i>makes a much needed intellectual intervention in debating history and politics in China today. --Lin Chun, author of China and Global Capitalism: Reflections on Marxism, History, and Contemporary Politics
Author Information
Rebecca E. Karl is Associate Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History and Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, and co-translator (with Xueping Zhong) of Cai Xiang's Revolution and Its Narratives: China’s Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966, all also published by Duke University Press. She co-translated and coedited (with Lydia H. Liu and Dorothy Ko) The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory.
