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What China and India Once Were The Pasts That May Shape the Global Future

Elman Benjamin Pollock Sheldon
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780231184717
Publisert
2018-09-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Columbia University Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

Redaktør
Elman Benjamin
Pollock Sheldon

Om bidragsyterne

Benjamin Elman is Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies and professor of East Asian studies and history at Princeton University. His books include A Cultural History of Modern Science in China (2006) and Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China (2013).

Sheldon Pollock is the Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at Columbia University. His many publications include World Philology (2015) and A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics (Columbia, 2016). He is founding general editor of the Murty Classical Library of India.

What China and India Once Were The Pasts That May Shape the Global Future

Elman Benjamin Pollock Sheldon
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
Elman Benjamin Pollock Sheldon
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
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In one stroke, <i>What China and India Once Were</i> opens up a new realm of knowledge. This bold experiment in comparative history not only exposes many contemporary ideas and assumptions about India and China as parochial. It equips anyone interested in political economy, gender relations, religion, art, and literature with intellectual tools of remarkable subtlety and precision—the means to a profound and holistic understanding of two major countries that would decisively shape the world’s future.

- Pankaj Mishra, author of <i>From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia</i>,

Leading historians of early modern India and China come together in this volume to offer a series of wonderfully imaginative and sharply analytical studies of key aspects of these two large imperial formations. The result is a path-breaking volume which will be required reading for those interested in debates about ‘early modernity’ and their implications for understanding the origins of our own globalized world.

- Rosalind O'Hanlon, St. Cross College,

<i>What China and India Once Were </i>makes an admirably far-ranging effort to compare the thought, political creativity, and institutions and social practices of these two great civilizations, which are now reentering the ranks of global powers. This insightful book could not be more timely.

- Alexander Woodside, University of British Columbia,

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This fascinating volume is the indispensable starting point for long range India-China comparisons. It is methodologically sophisticated, unfailingly intelligent in the historical insights it provides, broad in its coverage and generous in the range of its cultural sympathies. The distinguished group of contributors are all in top form. They draw on deep reservoirs of scholarship but wear their learning lightly and accessibly. It is a measure of the success of the volume that not only will India and China specialists learn about each other's area of scholarship, they will also learn much that is new about their own. It is a comparative history that is both acutely self aware of the challenges of the genre, but also restores a sense of enchantment to the enterprise.

- Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Ashoka University,

A useful counter to the tendency to project from one case to the universal...Many readers, furthermore, will probably come to this book with a greater knowledge of one place than the other, the side-by-side analysis puts the lesser-known of the two countries in a more familiar context.

Asian Review of Books

This important scholarly contribution is much more than an introductory textbook. It is extremely valuable for the questions that it raises and the example that it sets.

Journal of the American Oriental Society

A delight.

China Report

An important contribution to the reorienting of early modern studies away from its Eurocentric legacy.

Sixteenth Century Journal

A significant and welcome addition to the scholarship of the field. Students of early modern and modern China and India will find it valuable.

Chinese Historical Review

This is an innovative, informative, and highly accessible comparative study, based on a commendable<br />fresh approach to academic collaboration. It can satisfy different audiences, providing inspiration<br />for professionals and serving as an engaging introductory text for students.

Journal of the American Oriental Society

In the early years of the twenty-first century, China and India have emerged as world powers. In many respects, this is a return to the historical norm for both countries. For much of the early modern period, China and India were global leaders in a variety of ways. In this book, prominent scholars seek to understand modern China and India through an unprecedented comparative analysis of their long histories.Using new sources, making new connections, and reexamining old assumptions, noted scholars of China and India pair up in each chapter to tackle major questions by combining their expertise. What China and India Once Were details how these two cultural giants arrived at their present state, considers their commonalities and divergences, assesses what is at stake in their comparison, and, more widely, questions whether European modernity provides useful contrasts. In jointly composed chapters, contributors explore ecology, polity, gender relations, religion, literature, science and technology, and more, to provide the richest comparative account ever offered of China and India before the modern era. What China and India Once Were establishes innovative frameworks for understanding the historical and cultural roots of East and South Asia in global context, drawing on the variety of Asian pasts to offer new ways of thinking about Asian presents.
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This book seek to understand modern China and India through an unprecedented comparative analysis of their long histories. Using new sources, making new connections, and reexamining old assumptions, noted scholars of China and India pair up in each chapter to tackle major questions by combining their expertise.
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PrefaceMapsIntroduction, by Benjamin Elman and Sheldon PollockPart I1. Life and Energy, by Kenneth Pomeranz and Sumit Guha2. Conquest, Rulership, and the State, by Pamela Crossley and Richard M. Eaton3. Gender Systems: The Exotic Asian and Other Fallacies, by Beverly Bossler and Ruby LalPart II4. Relating the Past: Writing (and Rewriting) History, by Cynthia Brokaw and Allison Busch5. Sorting Out Babel: Literature and Its Changing Languages, by Stephen Owen and Sheldon PollockPart III6. Big Science: Classicism and Conquest, by Benjamin Elman and Christopher Minkowski7. Pilgrims in Search of Religion, by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite and Richard H. Davis8. Art and Vision: Varieties of World Making, by Eugene Wang and Molly AitkenAfterword: The Act of Comparing (Both Sides, Now), by Haun Saussy and Dipesh ChakrabartyChronologyChinese and Indian TermsList of ContributorsIndex
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In one stroke, <i>What China and India Once Were</i> opens up a new realm of knowledge. This bold experiment in comparative history not only exposes many contemporary ideas and assumptions about India and China as parochial. It equips anyone interested in political economy, gender relations, religion, art, and literature with intellectual tools of remarkable subtlety and precision—the means to a profound and holistic understanding of two major countries that would decisively shape the world’s future.

- Pankaj Mishra, author of <i>From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia</i>,

Leading historians of early modern India and China come together in this volume to offer a series of wonderfully imaginative and sharply analytical studies of key aspects of these two large imperial formations. The result is a path-breaking volume which will be required reading for those interested in debates about ‘early modernity’ and their implications for understanding the origins of our own globalized world.

- Rosalind O'Hanlon, St. Cross College,

<i>What China and India Once Were </i>makes an admirably far-ranging effort to compare the thought, political creativity, and institutions and social practices of these two great civilizations, which are now reentering the ranks of global powers. This insightful book could not be more timely.

- Alexander Woodside, University of British Columbia,

Se alle

This fascinating volume is the indispensable starting point for long range India-China comparisons. It is methodologically sophisticated, unfailingly intelligent in the historical insights it provides, broad in its coverage and generous in the range of its cultural sympathies. The distinguished group of contributors are all in top form. They draw on deep reservoirs of scholarship but wear their learning lightly and accessibly. It is a measure of the success of the volume that not only will India and China specialists learn about each other's area of scholarship, they will also learn much that is new about their own. It is a comparative history that is both acutely self aware of the challenges of the genre, but also restores a sense of enchantment to the enterprise.

- Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Ashoka University,

A useful counter to the tendency to project from one case to the universal...Many readers, furthermore, will probably come to this book with a greater knowledge of one place than the other, the side-by-side analysis puts the lesser-known of the two countries in a more familiar context.

Asian Review of Books

This important scholarly contribution is much more than an introductory textbook. It is extremely valuable for the questions that it raises and the example that it sets.

Journal of the American Oriental Society

A delight.

China Report

An important contribution to the reorienting of early modern studies away from its Eurocentric legacy.

Sixteenth Century Journal

A significant and welcome addition to the scholarship of the field. Students of early modern and modern China and India will find it valuable.

Chinese Historical Review

This is an innovative, informative, and highly accessible comparative study, based on a commendable<br />fresh approach to academic collaboration. It can satisfy different audiences, providing inspiration<br />for professionals and serving as an engaging introductory text for students.

Journal of the American Oriental Society

In the early years of the twenty-first century, China and India have emerged as world powers. In many respects, this is a return to the historical norm for both countries. For much of the early modern period, China and India were global leaders in a variety of ways. In this book, prominent scholars seek to understand modern China and India through an unprecedented comparative analysis of their long histories.Using new sources, making new connections, and reexamining old assumptions, noted scholars of China and India pair up in each chapter to tackle major questions by combining their expertise. What China and India Once Were details how these two cultural giants arrived at their present state, considers their commonalities and divergences, assesses what is at stake in their comparison, and, more widely, questions whether European modernity provides useful contrasts. In jointly composed chapters, contributors explore ecology, polity, gender relations, religion, literature, science and technology, and more, to provide the richest comparative account ever offered of China and India before the modern era. What China and India Once Were establishes innovative frameworks for understanding the historical and cultural roots of East and South Asia in global context, drawing on the variety of Asian pasts to offer new ways of thinking about Asian presents.
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This book seek to understand modern China and India through an unprecedented comparative analysis of their long histories. Using new sources, making new connections, and reexamining old assumptions, noted scholars of China and India pair up in each chapter to tackle major questions by combining their expertise.
Les mer
PrefaceMapsIntroduction, by Benjamin Elman and Sheldon PollockPart I1. Life and Energy, by Kenneth Pomeranz and Sumit Guha2. Conquest, Rulership, and the State, by Pamela Crossley and Richard M. Eaton3. Gender Systems: The Exotic Asian and Other Fallacies, by Beverly Bossler and Ruby LalPart II4. Relating the Past: Writing (and Rewriting) History, by Cynthia Brokaw and Allison Busch5. Sorting Out Babel: Literature and Its Changing Languages, by Stephen Owen and Sheldon PollockPart III6. Big Science: Classicism and Conquest, by Benjamin Elman and Christopher Minkowski7. Pilgrims in Search of Religion, by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite and Richard H. Davis8. Art and Vision: Varieties of World Making, by Eugene Wang and Molly AitkenAfterword: The Act of Comparing (Both Sides, Now), by Haun Saussy and Dipesh ChakrabartyChronologyChinese and Indian TermsList of ContributorsIndex
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780231184717
Publisert
2018-09-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Columbia University Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

Redaktør
Elman Benjamin
Pollock Sheldon

Om bidragsyterne

Benjamin Elman is Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies and professor of East Asian studies and history at Princeton University. His books include A Cultural History of Modern Science in China (2006) and Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China (2013).

Sheldon Pollock is the Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at Columbia University. His many publications include World Philology (2015) and A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics (Columbia, 2016). He is founding general editor of the Murty Classical Library of India.

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