Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xv 1 Introduction 1 Michael Szonyi Part I States of the Field 9 2 How Do We Know What We Know about Chinese History? 11 Endymion Wilkinson 3 Chinese History in China: The State of the Field (1980s-2010s) 28 MayÂ]bo Ching 4 Chinese History in Japan: The State of the Field 44 Shiba Yoshinobu 5 Chinese History in Europe: The State of the Field 53 Harriet Zurndorfer 6 Chinese History in the Era of the China Dream 64 Geremie R. Barmé and Michael Szonyi 7 Chinese History in World History 71 Gregory Blue Part II Chronologies 87 8 Early China in Eurasian History 89 Michael Puett 9 Was Medieval China Medieval? (PostÂ]Han to MidÂ]Tang) 106 Charles Holcombe 10 A Tang-Song Turning Point 118 Nicolas Tackett 11 Periods of Non-Han Rule 129 Michal Biran 12 Song to Qing: Late Imperial or Early Modern? 143 R. Kent Guy 13 NineteenthÂ]Century China: The Evolution of American Historical Approaches 154 Paul A. Cohen 14 Republican History 168 Janet Y. Chen 15 Rethinking the History of Maoist China 179 S.A. Smith 16 The Reform Era as History 191 Timothy Cheek Part III Themes and Approaches 205 17 Women, Gender, the Family, and Sexuality 207 Weijing Lu 18 History of Premodern Chinese Literature 221 Graham Sanders 19 Modern Chinese Literature 235 David DerÂ]wei Wang 20 The Environmental History of China: Past, Present, and Future 252 Peter C. Perdue 21 Science, Technology, and Medicine 265 Carla Nappi 22 Legal History 277 William P.

Alford and Eric T. Schluessel 23 Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Identity in the Study of Modern China 290 Thomas S. Mullaney 24 The Religious Core of Local Social Organization 304 Barend J. ter Haar 25 Beyond the Great Divergence: Current Scholarship on the Economic History of Premodern China 315 Richard von Glahn 26 Taiwan: Margin, Center, Node 327 Shelley Rigger 27 Chinese Migrations 343 Henry S.N. Yu 28 China in the World: Beyond the Tribute System 360 John E. Wills, Jr. Glossary of Selected Terms 372 References 378 Index 437.