Mote, Frederick W.,

China and the vocation of history in the twentieth century: a personal memoir / Frederick W. Mote. - Princeton, N.J. : East Asian Library Journal In association with Princeton University Press, c2010. - xxxviii, 270 p., [48] p. of plates : 25 cm.

Preface / Foreword: The Nature of Chinese History -- Getting There -- The University Environment in Nanjing, 1947-1948 -- Intellectual Tumult, 1890s to 1940s -- The Field of Historical Studies at Midcentury: The Broad Spectrum of Intellectual Orientations -- Systematic Destruction of a Large Catholic Center by the Communists at Hsienhsien, Hopei Province, China -- Gu Jiegang and Liu Yizheng -- Translation of the Introduction to Gu Jiegang's Chinese History Studies in Our Time -- Cosmogonic Myths of Early China and Among Its Border Peoples in Later Times - Keys to the Origins of Culture -- Random Recollections of the Junior Sinologues Meeting, Leiden, Mid-September, 1955 -- China in 1950 and China in 1974: Some Superficial Observations on the Changes of a Quarter Century -- East Asian Studies at Princeton - View From the Beginnings. Michael Gasster -- Ch. I. Ch. II. Ch. III. Ch. IV. App. 1. App. 2. App. 3. Addendum 1. Addendum 2. Addendum 3. Addendum 4.

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