Some time ago the Commonwealth and Overseas History Society of Cambridge University asked me to provide an overview of recent scholarship on modern Chinese history. What follows is a written version of this ‘public service’ lecture aimed at non-specialist historians. It discusses Western scholarship on China from the eighteenth until the twentieth century.
The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History. TIMOTHY CHEEK . Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxii + 370 pp. $39.99. ISBN 978-1-107-02141-9