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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>

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

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 *

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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.

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