Roger Des Forges
Biographic Data
| ID | 1261837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Des Forges |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger Des |
| FAMILY NAME | Forges |
| SIGNATURE | DES FORGES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Toward Another Tang or Zhou?
Tears from Iron
Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley, Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China, Foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda (2008), xxiii + 332 (University of California Press, Berkeley, $39.95...
Time, temporality, and imperial transition
Time is basic to human consciousness and action, yet paradoxically historians rarely ask how it is understood, manipulated, recorded, or lived. Cataclysmic events in particular disrupt and realign the dynamics of temporality among people. For historians, the temporal effects of such events on large polities such as empires—the power projections of which always involve the dictation of time—are especially significant. This important and intriguing…
China as a Non-Hegemonic Superpower? The Uses of History among the China Can Say No Writers and Their Critics
Since the advent of Deng Xiaoping's policies of reform and opening in the late 1970s, most observers have agreed that China is likely to recover its rightful place in the world as a great power in the twenty-first century. Disagreements have arisen principally over whether China will join the world as a normal nation state or will instead seek to restore its traditional hegemony in East Asia and even attempt to extend that predominance to the ent…
Li Tingsheng's A Record of Hardship
LI TINGSHENG'S A RECORD OF HARDSHIP: A RECENTLY DISCOVERED MANUSCRIPT REFLECTING LITERATI LIFE IN NORTH HENAN AT THE END OF THE MING, 1642-44* Li Xiaosheng, Wei Qianzhi, and Roger Des Forges In 1644 Li Tingsheng, a stipendiary student from Qi County in Kaifeng Prefecture, wrote an account of his travels in north Henan during the last two years of the Ming Dynasty. The manuscript was preserved by the author 's descendants for over three centuries.…
The Legend of Li Yen
Roger des Forges, The Legend of Li Yen: Its Origins and Implications for the Study of Ming-Ch'ing Transitions in 17th Century China, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1984), pp. 411-436
Tears from Iron
Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley, Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China, Foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda (2008), xxiii + 332 (University of California Press, Berkeley, $39.95...
The Legend of Li Yen
Roger des Forges, The Legend of Li Yen: Its Origins and Implications for the Study of Ming-Ch'ing Transitions in 17th Century China, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1984), pp. 411-436
Li Tingsheng's A Record of Hardship
LI TINGSHENG'S A RECORD OF HARDSHIP: A RECENTLY DISCOVERED MANUSCRIPT REFLECTING LITERATI LIFE IN NORTH HENAN AT THE END OF THE MING, 1642-44* Li Xiaosheng, Wei Qianzhi, and Roger Des Forges In 1644 Li Tingsheng, a stipendiary student from Qi County in Kaifeng Prefecture, wrote an account of his travels in north Henan during the last two years of the Ming Dynasty. The manuscript was preserved by the author 's descendants for over three centuries.…
China as a Non-Hegemonic Superpower? The Uses of History among the China Can Say No Writers and Their Critics
Since the advent of Deng Xiaoping's policies of reform and opening in the late 1970s, most observers have agreed that China is likely to recover its rightful place in the world as a great power in the twenty-first century. Disagreements have arisen principally over whether China will join the world as a normal nation state or will instead seek to restore its traditional hegemony in East Asia and even attempt to extend that predominance to the ent…
Time, temporality, and imperial transition
Time is basic to human consciousness and action, yet paradoxically historians rarely ask how it is understood, manipulated, recorded, or lived. Cataclysmic events in particular disrupt and realign the dynamics of temporality among people. For historians, the temporal effects of such events on large polities such as empires—the power projections of which always involve the dictation of time—are especially significant. This important and intriguing…
Tears from Iron
Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley, Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China, Foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda (2008), xxiii + 332 (University of California Press, Berkeley, $39.95...
Toward Another Tang or Zhou?
Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · History (6 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · China (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Asian studies (1 work)