China: An Interpretive History, From the Beginnings to the Fall of Han
In the 1960s, Joseph R. Levenson (1920–1969) and Franz Schurmann (1926–2010) taught a course on Chinese history at the University of California, Berkeley, and the lecture notes on "Early China" were published after Levenson's death, in the book China: An Interpretive History, From the Beginnings to the Fall of Han.
Different from the general history of China, this book introduces the analysis of key concepts and frameworks in intellectual history chapter by chapter, in addition to narrating historical facts, and then makes a profound reflection on historical writing and research. In Levenson's view, Chinese history is not just a kind of simple succession based on dynastic changes, but a great diversity that reconstructs China into a unified whole again and again.
By Joseph R. Levenson and Franz Schurmann．Translated by Madeleine Y. Dong
2024-01-30
Publisher
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
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