Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History by Olivier Zunz

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1.	Chung-li Chang, The Chinese Gentry: Studies on their Role in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Society ( Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1955); Ping-ti Ho, Ilm Ladder of Suc- cess in Imperial China: Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911 ( New York: Columbia Uni- versity Press. 1962). Gilbert Rozman has recently called for a revival of this sort of quantitative historical analysis, arguing that much of the available data is suscepti- ble to testing for reliability; see his Population and Marketing Settlements in Ch'ing China ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982). A similar revival of empire-wide quantitative analysis has appeared in the work of Chinese historians, drawing data from newly opened sections of the Ming-Ch'ing Archives, Peking; see for exam- ple Liu Yung-ch'eng, "Chi'ing-tai ch'ien-ch'i te nung-yeh tsu-tien kuan-hsi" (Ten- ancy relations in the early Ch'ing), Ch'ing-shih lun-ts'ung ( Peking), no. 2 ( 1980): 56- 88.

2.	Jonathan Spence, The Death of Woman Wang ( New York: Viking Press, 1978). If we include in this genre oral histories of living individuals, we can add Ida Pruitt A Daughter of Han ( New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945), and Margery Wolf's The House of Lim ( New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968).

3.	Fei-ling Davis, Primitive Revolutionaries of China ( Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1977); R. Bin Wong, "Food Riots in the Qing Dynasty," Journal of Asian Studies 41 ( August 1982): 767-88.

4.	Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China ( New York: Columbia University Press, 1984). This important historiographic survey came to my attention too late to have substantially influenced the writing of this chapter, but it is obvious that Professor Cohen and I share many views on the development of the field.

5.	For representative recent studies in the area of demography, see the works listed in the bibliography by Averill, Barclay, Cartier, Lee, Perdue, and Will. On family history, see Lee and Eng, Wolf, and Huang, and Patricia Ebrey, ed., "Sympo- sium on Family Life in Late Traditional China," Modern China 10 ( October 1984): 379-459. On folk religion, see Wolf ( 1974), Overmyer, and a forthcoming confer- ence volume on orthodoxy and heterodoxy edited by Kwang-Ching Liu. On popular culture, see Rawski ( 1979), link, K. C. Chang, and the conference volume edited by David Johnson, Andrew J. Nathan, and Evelyn S. Rawsld, Popular Culture in Late Imperial China: Diversity and Integration ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985). Among numerous recent works on popular movements see those by Naquin , Perry, and David Strand and Richard Wiener, "Social Movements and Politi- cal Discourse in 1920s Peking: An Analysis of the Tramway Riot of October 27, 1929," in Political Leadership and Social Change at the Local Level in China from 1850 to the Present: Select Papers from the Center for Far Eastern Studies, ed. Susan Mann Jones ( Chi- cago: University of Chicago, 1978- 1979), 3:137-80.

6.	Max Weber, The Rdigion of China ( Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1951).

7.	A representative (and brilliant) example of modernization theory as applied to China is Marion.]. Levy Jr., "Contrasting Factors in the Modernization of Japan and China," Economic Development and Cultural Change 2 ( 1953): 161-97.

8.	See, for example, John K. Fairbank, China: The People's Middle Kingdom and the U.S.A. ( Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1967); Ssu-yu Teng and John K. Fairbank , China's Response to the West ( Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,

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Publication Information: Book Title: Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History. Contributors: Olivier Zunz - editor. Publisher: University of North Carolina Press. Place of Publication: Chapel Hill, NC. Publication Year: 1985. Page Number: 285.

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