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1961 · rif. 051759 — Cambridge Ma: Harvard University Press 1961. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. Xxv 287 Pp.Red Cloth Tape Spine Gray Covers Printed In Red As Issued. First Edition And First Printing 1961. A Monument Of Modern Bibliographic Historical Scholarship. No Corresponding Studies Of Other Countries' Contemporary Histories Thus There Is No Possibility Of Studying The Perversions Of Contemporary Histories In All Countries As A Phenomenon In Itself With Many Non-Country-Specific Characteristics A Characteristic Of Harvard Studies. Albert Feuerwerker 1927 -2013 Was A Historian Of Modern China One Of The Generation Of Cold War Scholars Who Established The Field Of Area Studies. At The University Of Michigan Feuerwerker Was A Key Organizer Of The Field Of Chinese Studies And Served As First Director Of The Center For Chinese Studies 1961-1967 And 1972 To 1983. Among His National Positions Was The Presidency Of The Association For Asian Studies 1991-1992. He Served As A Member Chair Or Co-Chair Of Many National Organizations Including The Joint Committee On Contemporary China Of The American Council Of Learned Societies And The Social Science Research Council 1966-1978 And 1980-1983; National Committee On United States-China Relations; Member And Later Vice Chairman Of The Committee On Scholarly Communication With The People's Republic Of China Of The National Academy Of Sciences The American Council Of Learned Societies And The Social Science Research Council 1971-1978 And 1981-1983. He Served On The Editorial Boards Of Major Academic Journals Including The American Historical Review Journal Of Asian Studies And China Quarterly. Feuerwerker's Doctoral Dissertation Was Published As The First Volume In The Harvard University Press East Asian Series China's Early Industrialization; Sheng Hsuan-Huai 1844-1916 And Mandarin Enterprise Harvard 1958 Which Explored The Difficulties Of A Confucian Government In Taking On The Tasks Of Modernization. He Continued This Theme In "Handicraft And Manufactured Cotton Textiles In China 1871-1910." 1970 Among Other Articles. Along With Fairbank Students Joseph Levenson And Mary C. Wright Feuerwerker Argues In These Works That Traditional Chinese Values Were A Barrier To Modernity And Would Have To Be Dismantled Before China Could Make Progress. Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History In China Critiques Feuerwerker's Point Of View. Feuerwerker Returned To This Theme In His Presidential Address To The Association For Asian Studies "Presidential Address: Questions About China's Early Modern Economic History That I Wish I Could Answer" His Criticisms And Analysis Of Marxist Historiography Of China Are Represented In Articles Such As "China's History In Marxian Dress" And "The Ideology Of Scholarship: China's New Historiography" With Harold A Kahn. In His Edited Volume Of Articles History In Communist China Originally Published In China Quarterly Scholars Critically Analyzed The Work Of Historians In The People's Republic Of China On A Wide Range Of Topics. He Was Editor Or Co-Editor Of A Number Of Volumes Including Albert Feuerwerker Rhoads Murphey And Mary Wright Eds. Approaches To Modern Chinese History. Berkeley: University Of California Press 1967 A Collection Of Essays By Fellow Students Of Fairbank And Volumes Of "The Cambridge History Of China" A Series In Which He Published Several Chapters. Harvard University Press paperback