Paul A. Cohen is Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies and History Emeritus at Wellesley College and Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University is a post-graduate research center promoting the study of modern and contemporary China from a social science perspective. -History:...

, Harvard University

Harvard University

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. His research interests include 19th-20th century China; historical thought; American historiography on China.

Biography

Paul A. Cohen received his BA from the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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 and his doctorate degree from Harvard University

Harvard University

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, where he was a student of John King Fairbank and Benjamin I. Schwartz

Benjamin I. Schwartz

Benjamin Isadore Schwartz was an American academic, author and sinologist.-Educational background:Schwartz graduated from Harvard University in 1938 in modern languages, with an honors thesis on Pascal and the XVIIIth century "philosophes" and started a career in school teaching before studying...

. After completing his doctorate, he worked at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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from 1962 to 1965. Thereafter, he taught at Wellesley College till his retirement. He is currently an Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.

Publications

Cohen is the author of many influential books on modern Chinese history. His works have been translated into several languages including Chinese and Japanese.

• Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
• China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past. London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
• History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Winner of the 1997 John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History and the 1997 New England Historical Book Award.

• http://books.google.com/books?id=4uQ3FMG0_mMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Discovering+History+in+China:+American+Historical+Writing+on+the+Recent+Chinese+Past&source=bl&ots=5h_hoRNBOp&sig=LuxW1EH99M2Z1shFrnTTcFxkfY0&hl=en&ei=StJzTY-1FMKB8gaLj529Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=falseDiscovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past]. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.
• Between Tradition and Modernity: Wang T’ao and Reform in Late Ch’ing China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974.
• China and Christianity: The Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism, 1860-1870. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963.

External links

• Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies