Modern China, 1840–1972
An Introduction to Sources and Aids
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Nathan, Andrew J.
Language
EnglishAbstract
Graduate students have traditionally learned a good part of what they know about sources and research aids on modern China through hearsay and serendipity, in unsystematic and unreliable bits and pieces. The field has now developed to the point where this need not and ought not to be so. It is now possible for beginning researchers to start with some shared basic knowledge of research aids and documentary resources. This research guide is meant to provide that knowledge. The user of this guide is envisaged as an American graduate student in history or the social sciences who is already familiar with the major English-language secondary literature on modern China and is about to begin original research, either for a seminar paper or for a dissertation. Graduate students have traditionally learned a good part of what they know about sources and research aids on modern China through hearsay and serendipity, in unsystematic and unreliable bits and pieces. The field has now developed to the point where this need not and ought not to be so. It is now possible for beginning researchers to start with some shared basic knowledge of research aids and documentary resources. This research guide is meant to provide that knowledge. The user of this guide is envisaged as an American graduate student in history or the social sciences who is already familiar with the major English-language secondary literature on modern China and is about to begin original research, either for a seminar paper or for a dissertation.
Keywords
Society and social sciencesISBN
9780892640140, 9780472038268Publisher
University of Michigan PressPublisher website
http://www.press.umich.edu/Publication date and place
2020Imprint
U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIESSeries
Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies,Classification
Society & social sciences