Quotes by Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past

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People who are not historians sometimes think of history as the facts about the past. Historians are supposed to know ot — Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Our outsideness, after all, is a major part of what makes us different from the direct participants in history and enabl — Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Is it really true... that our aim as historians is in some sense to recapture past reality, “to retrieve the truth about — Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Where the Depression years had aroused a deep sense of concern over how American wealth was distributed and American soc — Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Indebtedness among historians is a peculiar thing, however. We don’t simply, in mechanical fashion, inherit a body of kn — Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
I suggest that the Western impact, at least in nineteenth-century China, was overstated (and misstated) by an earlier ge — Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
It is a truism, easily forgotten, that the West, in its modern phase, has not stood still. Also easily forgotten is the — Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
As historians, our aim is to do our utmost to understand and elucidate past reality. At the same time, in pursuit of thi — Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past