Paul A Cohen

Biographic Data

ID384661
NAMEPaul A Cohen
GIVEN NAMESPaul A
FAMILY NAMECohen
SIGNATURECOHEN P A
AFFILIATIONSWellesley College
ORCID0000-0002-4860-9232
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS53
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT50
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1961
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX3

  • Discovering History in China: The Backstory

    Open AccessPaul A CohenCHAPTERA Path Twice Traveled2019

  • A Path Twice Traveled: My Journey as a Historian of China

    Open AccessPaul A Cohen, Paul Cohen et al.BOOKA Path Twice Traveled2019

  • The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power

    William P Alford, Peter Kees Bol et al.BOOKChina Questions2018

  • The Tenacity of Culture: Old Stories in the New China

    Open AccessPaul A CohenCHAPTERThe People's Republic of China at…2017

  • Between History and Memory: A Conversation with Paul A. Cohen

    Paul A Cohen, Hanchao LuARTICLEThe Chinese Historical Review2016

    In this delightful and thought-provoking interview, Paul Cohen shares his thoughts on numerous issues concerning history, memory, and the changes in research mythology and perspective over the past six decades and across generations of Chinese historians, as well as his own experiences as a historian of modern China during that period

  • History and Popular Memory: The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis

    Paul A CohenBOOKHistory And Popular Memory The…2014

    When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering. During World War II, the French took comfort in the story of Joan of Arc and her heroic efforts to rid France of foreign occupation. To bring the Joan narrative more into line with current circumstances, however, popular retellings modified the original story so that what p…

  • Huaiyin LI. Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing

    Paul A CohenARTICLEThe American Historical Review2013

    Journal Article Huaiyin Li. Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing. Get access Huaiyin Li. Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. 2013. Pp. xii, 338. $52.00. Paul A. Cohen Paul A. Cohen Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 1…

  • Peter Hessler: Teacher, Archaeologist, Anthropologist, Travel Writer, Master Storyteller

    Open AccessPaul A CohenARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies2013

    In the first decade of the present century, Peter Hessler published three acclaimed works on China, mostly (although not exclusively) dealing with the present period. Many of the parts of the second and third volumes, in particular, initially appeared as articles in the New Yorker and National Geographic, where the deftness of Hessler's writing and his superb skills as a storyteller attracted attention well beyond the academic world. Hessler's bo…

  • The Tenacity of Culture: Old Stories in the New China

    Open AccessPaul A CohenCHAPTERThe People's Republic of China at…2011

  • The Wobbling Pivot: China Since 1800 . Pamela Kyle Crossley

    Paul A CohenARTICLEThe China Journal2011

  • Happy Birthday Vincennes! The University of Paris-8 Turns Forty

    Paul A Cohen, P CohenARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2010

    Journal Article Happy Birthday Vincennes! The University of Paris-8 Turns Forty Get access Paul Cohen Paul Cohen Paul Cohen is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toronto and Maître de conférences at the Université Paris-8 (Vincennes-St Denis). He has published widely on French history, notably on the invention of French as a national language in early modern France. Having just completed a book manuscript entitled ‘Kingdom of Bab…

  • Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China

    Paul A CohenBOOKSpeaking to History2008

    The ancient story of King Goujian, a psychologically complex fifth-century bce monarch, spoke powerfully to the Chinese during China's turbulent twentieth century. Yet most Americans — even students and specialists of this era — have never heard of Goujian. This book opens this previously missing (to the West) chapter of China's recent history. It connects the story to each of the major traumas of the last century, tracing its versatility as a so…

  • Rulership in France, 15th-17th Centuries

    Paul A Cohen, Paul CohenARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2007

    Contents: Preface The French Estates and the Corpus Mysticum Regni When and why Hotman wrote the Francogallia The monarchomach triumvirs: Hotman, Beza, and Mornay 'Quod omnes tangit' - a post scriptum Medieval jurisprudence in Bodin's concept of sovereignty The presidents of Parlement at the royal funeral Rules of inheritance and strategies of mobility in prerevolutionary France State-building in early modern France: the role of royal officialdom…

  • Epilogue: Thoughts in Response

    Paul A CohenARTICLEThe Chinese Historical Review2007

  • The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity

    Open AccessPaul A Cohen, Paul CohenARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2004

    Fiona Somerset and Nicholas Watson, eds. The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. xiv + 277 pp. index, bibl. $55. ISBN: 0-271-02310-4. - Volume 57 Issue 4

  • China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past

    Paul A CohenBOOKChina Unbound2003

    This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of such key events in the recent history of China as the boxer rebellion, Mao's ascension to power in 1949, and the process of political and economic reform in the post-Mao era. Thi…

  • Remembering and Forgetting National Humiliation in Twentieth-Century China

    Paul A CohenARTICLETwentieth-Century China2002

    (2002). Remembering and Forgetting National Humiliation in Twentieth-Century China. Twentieth-Century China: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 1-39

  • Remembering and Forgetting National Humiliation in Twentieth-Century China

    Paul A CohenARTICLETwentieth-Century China2001

    Remembering and Forgetting National Humiliation in Twentieth-Century China* by PaulA. Cohen Patriotic Chinese in the twentieth century referred endlessly to the humiliations (guochi) their country had experienced at the hands of foreign imperialism beginning with the Opium War.1 Indeed, in the Republican era they even established days of national humiliation or shame (guochi ri) to mark the anniversaries of these painful episodes.2 Such days, alo…

  • Introduction: Politics, Myth, and the Real Past

    Paul A CohenARTICLETwentieth-Century China2001

  • Harriet T. Zurndorfer, China Bibliography: A Research Guide to Reference Works about China Past and Present (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995). iv + 380 pages. Appendices, indexes. Price: NLG 174./$99.00

    Paul A Cohen, Paul CohenARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…1997

    "HARRIET T. ZURNDORFER, China Bibliography: A Research Guide to Reference Works about China Past and Present (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995). iv + 380 pages. Appendices, indexes. Price: NLG 174./$99.00" published on 01 Jan 1997 by Brill

  • The Mao Years, 1949–1976. Written, produced and directed by Sue Williams. Boston: Ambrica Productions in association with WGBH Educational Foundation, 1994. VHS format. 117 minutes. $39.95 (to order c…

    Open AccessPaul A CohenARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies1995

    The Mao Years, 1949–1976. Written, produced and directed by Sue Williams. Boston: Ambrica Productions in association with WGBH Educational Foundation, 1994. VHS format. 117 minutes. $39.95 (to order call 1-800-255-9424). - Volume 54 Issue 1

  • The Discourse of Race in Modern China

    Paul A Cohen, Frank DikötterARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…1994

  • Lloyd E. Eastman (1929–1993)

    Open AccessParks M Coble, Paul A Cohen et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies1993

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  • Cultural China: Some Definitional Issues

    Paul A CohenARTICLEPhilosophy East and West1993

    Recent discussions of cultural (wenhua Zhongguo) raise a number of questions of definition. In particular I want to probe the ambiguous-the unfixed, unstable, and to some degree relative-quality that seems to me to inhere in two polarities that frequently inform these discussions: the polarity between center and periphery and that between internal and external. Doubtless it is my own multiple marginality that causes me to be particularly drawn to…

  • Fairbank Remembered

    Susan Naquin, Paul A Cohen et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1993